#Hackney

Otto Saumarez Smith

OSaumarezSmith

Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor &

Aimee Dawson

amldawson

Having helped aggregate some of the Twitter reactions to this new public sculpture in London "honouring" the 18th-century English philosopher and womens' rights advocate #MaryWollstonecraft, I can reveal the top

Alan Russell

soxgnasher

Hackney Cowkeepers who had no land suffered from increasingly stringent safeguards for public health. Eighty-three cowsheds and 65 slaughterhouses were inspected in 1876 and 81 cowsheds and 47 slaughterhouses were

Chris Kenyon

BoxbikeLondon

Hackney trip, 14th Feb. 4 degrees Celsius. This car is parked. Just how low can you wear a pair of trousers?

David

liminalhackney

One area of Hackney that intrigues me is Haggerston Park, former site of the Gas Light & Coke company & criss-crossed with paths that echo lost streets. With some help

Luke Akehurst

lukeakehurst

I'm enjoying the hundreds of replies claiming I don't know anything about what voters on social housing estates think. I grew up on one. That's why I'm Labour - because

Cllr Jon Burke

jonburkeUK

1/ O.k, so after the #ClimateDebate you'll be hearing a lot about ambitious proposals for #treeplanting as means of sucking - sequestrating - carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help

Sarah 🍓

SarahJ_Berry

To all of those who say “the research isn’t in” on the effectiveness of low traffic neighbourhoods…I present, a thread:(DM me anything I miss!) Low Traffic Neighbourhoods reduce road traffic

Louis

Louis_Allday

In 1978, school kids in Hackney formed SKAN (School Kids against the Nazis) to oppose the National Front. I can't stop listening to the way the first kid says SKAN

Chris Kenyon

BoxbikeLondon

This is really poor journalism from @TheTimes. The article alleges that LTNs push traffic onto the roads where poorer people live. A couple of anecdotal quotes linked to some

DrZaf

sportsdrzaf

'South Asians can't play football' Clearing out cupboards and found these...Blast from the past. 20 years ago my friends, who I played 5 A Side footy with, won the UK

@HackneyDownsLTN

hackneydownsltn

THREAD How do you design a Low Traffic Neighbourhood? At ground level, it might look like random roads have been closed to cars – especially when you come across one

Alex Raha

Rahario

Loving the new Queensbridge road cycle lanes in Hackney. Bravo @jonburkeUK @hackneycouncil & @hackney_cycling for campaigning for them. Stepped track also great. Combined with modal filters, tiger crossings and continuous

Clare Stevens

silverlawn

Great that @guardian is taking this story seriously but this follow-up story starts with some misconceptions - the whole point of cathedral choristerships is that they are NOT just for

Emma Cooke

PetiteBlondine

Thread: places to eat/drink in london with *heaters* for people like me who want to see friends but HATE THE COLD. Hope this helps! Places with (F) next to them

Gareth Hollands

GJHollands

THREADExciting that details have finally been announced for a new @hackneycouncil #LowTrafficNeighbourhood in London Fields from 7th September. It’s especially notable that this will affect a neighbourhood with large amounts

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