February 1987

Dalston, London.

The police station

For Guess Where London. Victorian building on the junction with Morning Lane; the much more modern Barclay's Bank is next door on the right.

Freightliner class 66517 passes Hackney Central on 4M63 09:12 Felixstowe to Trafford Park Intermodal train.

London 2018

Nikon F

London Overground class 710123 arrives at Hackney Downs on the 10:39 Enfield Town service .

Hackney Road London

Hackney Play Association bus

www.hackneyplay.org/

Empress Coachworks, Hackney.

1/76 scale model of the now demolished London Transport bus garage in Well Street, Hackney.

Hackney grafitti, London E5

99tinygames came to Hackney.

Hackney Wicked Festival, London 2011

Sunday night

Lower Clapton Road

Hackney Marshes Local Nature Reserve, by the Upper Teign Estuary, Newton Abbot, Devon, England.

See where this picture was taken. [?]

Former Yorkshire Traction 663, an ECW bodied Leyland Olympian dating from 1984, is pictured on Millfields Road in its current guise as the Hackney Playbus

The Hackney Empire is a local treasure. After the 2009 Christmas pantomime it closed for ‘a period of reflection’. We knew it was on the brink of permanent closure. In early spring I bought tickets for a jazz concert scheduled in the Hackney Empire in June. I bought the tickets not from the theatre itself but from the Barbican, it was part of the Barbican International Residency of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. When I bought the tickets it was more in hope than in real expectation. Now it’s Sunday 28th June and here we are in the good old Hackney Empire. The simple announcement ‘we’re staying open’ brought the house down. Of course I’m talking metaphorically not literally, the curtain was up and the concert was great.

Whose?

Hackney Play Association bus

www.hackneyplay.org/

View from Hackney Wick station

February 1987

Taken at the mental Hackney Wicked Festival.

At the station, waiting for my train. It's just one stop to the closest Ikea.

M3367S-4507

July 1983

Hackney, London, Oct 2012

4 January 2013. Arriving at the Hackney Empire Theatre to see "Dick Whittington" their 2012/13 Pantomime

There should be something special and magical about the entrance to a theatre. Ideally, the atmosphere should be warm and welcoming, with lighting and fittings setting the scene with colours of dark rich browns and reds, gold, bronze, silver.

Hackney Empire does all this; continuing up its staircases and into the auditorium.

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§ Hackney Empire used to run tours of the building. But check to make sure before you turn up.

§ Aerial view of where I took this photo.

§ Website Hackney Empire theatre. [Link OK May 2020]

§ Wikipedia article on the British pantomime tradition. [Link checked OK May 2020]