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12 November 2007 - this is the tail end of a massive industrial fire in Hackney Wick, a mile or so from my house. Taken from the 15th floor of the Healthcare Commission in Moorgate.
A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or automobile for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise.
I'm sure Ken will be forth coming with history. I took this as the shop units that nestled against the building on Graham Road have been removed since I lived in this part of Hackney.
Seperate Male & Female entrances to Haggerston Baths in Whiston Road, hopefully the swimming pool will one day be restored and resurrected.
Opened 1904, Grade 2 listed 1988, closed since Feb 2000.
Read about it in 'Great Lengths: the historic indoor swimming pools of Britain' and 'Hackney: Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored'
A wooden bird looks at a prospective nesting site on the Olympic Stadium. Hackney WickED. Hackney, London. Sunday 31 July 2011
From “The Camden-Town Railway”, The Illustrated London News, Nov 15th 1851, page 603.
We have now arrived at the Hackney Station. On the right, from the midst of roofs of houses and the thickly-planted trees in the churchyard and adjacent gardens, rises the picturesque tower of the old church; and to the right, the pyramidal tower of the new church. Looking leftward, we were somewhat puzzled at the appearance of several long ditches, or rather trenches, filled with running water, nearly covered with what we took to be weeds; but, upon inquiry, we found this was one of the artificial streams for the continual growth of watercresses for the London market, which affords a living to a great number of poor men, women, and children.