Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

it was a new low for hackney council, the way they treated him

 

iirc - it was more your manor than mine, so you were around more - although I did manage some housing nearby for a while

 

Legendary vegan Rasta chef and MC Jah Spirit dies age 71

 

^ his 9 night is this evening in wood green.. I think everyone who remembers him is welcome? (i got an email saying so via solution sound).
also Click here to support JAH SPIRIT organised by Rebecca Grant

 

Feeling a bit sorry for Hackney's Orthodox Jewish community today with this weather, it's their Purim celebration when the kids wear fancy dress and the young guys ride around playing Kletzmer music.

 

Yeah it's their one day to properly cut loose

Still a few fezzes and stuff about, but it's not the same.

Also I feel sorry for this swan
Stoke Newington swan rescued after getting stuck in snow

 

Not holding out much hope it'll make any difference but will probably fill this in anyway.

Hackney buses: Council takes on TfL over cuts to frequency and routes – and wants to know what you think

 

Have done - I only have a couple of gripes tbf - 254 changing drivers at Stamford Hill, I don't see why they can't change drivers at either end - Whitechapel or Finsbury Park . And more 393s, it has never,ime, been a regular service.

 

I think of it as very regular, each time I've needed a 393 the service has been shit

 

Church Street / 1990 photo survey by Derek Baker

Photos of Stoke Newington Church Street from 1990 . I started coming to the area in 1992 when I met Mrs21, the street sure has changed

 

Great to see. I wished Chris Dorley Brown would publish some of his great pics of Hackney from the 80s/90s (he's put out a few more niche picture books) because they really evoke how I most remember the area.

 

No nazis in Stamford Hill!

 

Nice little dig at laf

 

Was discussed at the time, Ska, and some posters were there?

 

I was innocently walking in my manor when Nazis appeared

 

Not sure ska invita saw the date of the article.

 

sorry, saw in facebook feed on way home after a couple

 

(Sorry for the Standard link.)

'Since 2008 the cost of renting a two-bed home in the east London borough [Hackney] has surged by nearly two-thirds to £1,755 per month, according to Rightmove.'

Revealed: Hackney sees UK's fastest rent rise over past decade

 

Fucking ridiculous prices

 

I'm not surprised, property prices in Hackney have practically doubled in the over the past 10 years too - it's crazy!

 

Charlie Collins: Reggae pioneer and founder of Dalston’s legendary Four Aces Club dies aged 81

 

rip

 

RIP Charlie.

 

I wouldn't be able to afford to rent here

 

nor would i

 

Quite a few of my friends -- the ones renting privately basically -- have moved out of the borough over the last five years due to rocketing rents. It's disgusting.

 

used to know lots of people who lived in hackney, but so many have moved out... tbh the places they're moving to are gaining whereas so many yuppies and hipsters move into hackney, all over the shop, the borough's almost unrecognisable. yeh you knew shit was happening in e.g. shoreditch and up the kingsland road but all along the canal - and estates ripped down to make way for yuppies...

 

Same - pretty much all the people I used to go to the pub with who are in their 30s are now in south London or Kent or wherever.

 

The Workers’ Circle – fighting anti-semitism in Hackney

 

Local newspaper BEEF!