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For one night only, and to celebrate the final weekend of Rudy’s Rare Records, Hackney Empire morphed into the late and great Four Aces reggae club. Featuring legendary DJ Newton Dunbar (founding manager of the Four Aces), and Tighten Up Crew selector Mistah Brown and MC Champian.
By Katherine Green
'Everybody who comes here to do volunteering, they don’t want to leave. It’s so nice here!’ – Margaret
Margaret and Marian, St Anne’s
© Katherine Green/National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 project
A "bendybus" on Route 38 - bound for Clapton Pond - passes the unusual Hackney Central railway station sign.
Hackney Wick, London E9, is a run-down industrial area on the borders of the London Boroughs of Hackney,Tower Hamlets and Newham; which was once little-known outside the immediate vicinity and rarely visited by outsiders. However it lies just a stone's throw from the Olympic Park and now being revitalised by artists and creative enterprises.