On Monday I got another chance to lead a Good Gym mission, this time on my own turf in Hackney where I lead my walking/running/cycling tours. With 12 volunteers we headed north from Bethnal Green and up to N16
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Happy Christmas from Hackney Tours!
Happy Christmas one and all, in London and abroad. Hope to see you all for a tour in Olympic borough Hackney in 2012!
When is a window not a window…(part 2)?
Here’s looking at you, kids. …when it’s part of an art project on a 1930s housing estate undertaking a long slow regeneration. The portraits of residents – the buildings look like they might be abandoned but are not – seek to provoke thought about how we use urban space, what we see; and how to…
When is a window not a window…(part 1)?
…when it’s Hackney street art on semi-abandoned housing block Hebden Court, in Haggerston.
Abney Park: Stoke Newington’s Dead Centre of Dissent
“There’s no point complaining,” says Dave, any time you ask him how he is. And indeed, he doesn’t complain; though he has been known to have the occasional rant about the state of the country or the management of this or that. But like the other volunteers, slashing steadily at the undergrowth that has been…
Dalston: Send in the Clowns
Every February, not far from the high street in Dalston, a highly unusual church service takes place. It’s a memorial service, but rather than dressing in black, this congregation sport every colour in the rainbow – this is the annual Joseph Grimaldi Memorial Service. During mass this most famous of clowns, whose actual grave is…
The Black Helicopters of Hackney
It’s an unmistakeable sound – the deep thukka-thukka of giant counter-rotating blades missing each other by milliseconds at a rate that blows the non-mechanical mind. Silhouetted against a winter Clapton sky the Chinooks – heavy-lift double-rotored helicopters that often swing by here on an afternoon (always north to south, usually in pairs) work their way…
Hackney Tours: East LDN Creative Exploration 