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At the Heart of since 1967 2011 THE HACKNEY SOCIETY SPACENews and views about Hackney’s built Senvironment Issue 31/32 Winter/Spring 2011 The Barn and Eco Garden at the Eastern Curve contents 01 The Eastern Curve 02 Where shall we all live? 02 Chatsworth Road Neighbourhood Plan 03 Building Watch: The George 03 Building Watch: 03 Love Local Landmarks 04 Entertainment in Hackney 06 Noticeboard 06 News 06 Publications 07 Hackney Design Awards 08 Hackney Society events

Once an overgrown strip of MUF Art/Architecture. In 2009 EXYZT Judges of the Hackney Designs Awards abandoned railway land, the constructed and occupied a five-story commented: ‘The barn structure was Eastern Curve is now a tranquil scaffold windmill and bread oven alongside simple and yet very attractive. Its five urban garden. The transformation, a wheat field installation by Agnes Denes separate but open spaces were clearly carried out by MUF Art/ – this was curated by the Barbican and being used in a variety of ways during visited by 12,000 over three weeks. Architecture, landscape architect our visit. Other groups of people were J&L Gibbons and architect From there the Barn evolved as an open- scattered throughout the garden, drinking tea and enjoying the sunshine. The Barn collective EXYZT, was one of the sided structure. Built using recycled and Eco Garden is an excellent example winners of the Hackney Designs materials, it provides protection from the rain and offers flexibility of use. The scheme of how an abandoned piece of land can Awards 2010 (see p07). features a rainwater collection system and be affordably transformed into an asset The Eastern Curve was identified as one furniture made in community workshops that enhances the locality and benefit the of 76 micro-projects in the ‘Making Space onsite. The garden includes growing community. Every inch has a strong sense in ’ project by J&L Gibbons and patches as well as a meadow and trees. of community spirit.’ Where shall we all live?

By Vincent Stops The demographers tell us births in are outstripping deaths, net need and to adopt a more centralist role in migration from inside and outside the UK will continue and household promoting house building. size is decreasing. Add to that the existing un-met need for housing Essentially the purpose of the planning and you arrive at a figure of 33,380 homes that need to be built across process is to provide the framework for housing, social and economic infrastructure London per year up to and beyond various planning horizons, the pre- whilst reducing the impact on the eminent plan being Mayor Johnson’s replacement London Plan now environment. We have choices around approaching adoption. the liveability of our cities, but much of that will be political choices outside the The previous Mayor, Livingstone, and locations are either on rail corridors or in planning process. now Mayor Johnson have committed to town centres with good public transport, plan for these homes within London’s built- allowing a low reliance on private transport. In my view the planners are right. We up areas and to reduce the impact on There will, of course, be numerous other should be building in the most sustainable the environment. development sites not associated with locations and at high densities. We may not all be able to have as much private The strategic planners’ solution is to these areas – windfall as the planners amenity space as we would wish for, promote housing on available ‘brownfield describe them. given the constraints on space and the sites’ – often ex-industrial land – at very Hackney has seen house building at this nature of the sites, but we should not high densities, close to town centres and level for a number of years now and is compromise on design quality, space public transport. doing particularly well, meeting its targets standards and liveability. Finding space for Much of this development will happen in and securing family-sized accommodation. social infrastructure is important, but not east London. Tower Hamlets, Newham Hackney delivered the second highest insurmountable. and Greenwich are pencilled in for the number of affordable homes in London Our approach to transport and the private greatest numbers. Hackney comes a after Tower Hamlets in 2008-09. car is a key consideration. Private transport third down the table in absolute numbers, Nationally, over the longer term the UK is a large consumer of land and has a but high up for a geographically small has failed to build enough housing to meet huge impact on our local and global London borough. the need. The new Government says it environment. If we want to live in one of In Hackney this means 1160 units a year wants to devolve planning to local people, the most densely populated urban areas for the next 20 years with a focus on which, experience suggests, will reduce the in the UK and we want to meet our other Dalston, , , numbers of planning permissions granted aspirations for liveability and sustainability, Manor House and several of Hackney’s in the short term. In the medium term, the logic is that we have to be prepared own housing estates, most notably however, the Government is likely to have to compromise on universal access to our Woodberry Down. The logic is that these to return to responding to the evidence of own private cars.

Chatsworth Road Neighbourhood Plan

Chatsworth Road has recently been described as the ‘last of the real prioritising local businesses, encouraging a high streets’. Yet Chatsworth Road – along with the surrounding diversity of people and uses, and ensuring the area is accessible to all modes of neighbourhood – is changing at an unprecedented rate. New people transport. have been moving into the area, new shops have been opening and the re-introduction of the market is well on its way. Some see this as a new approach to community involvement in the planning However, despite all the benefits that (CRTRA), working with urban designer process. Euan Mills says: ‘For the first these changes bring, local residents Euan Mills, has embarked on an ambitious time the community is taking a proactive worry that what attracted them to the task of creating a Chatsworth Road approach to establishing a vision for area in the first place will gradually be Neighbourhood Plan. the area before development pressure undermined. Property prices have becomes overwhelming’. The plan, which will be developed in already escalated, family houses are being partnership with the local community over Over the next few months local traders converted into one-bedroom flats and the next few months, will set out how and residents will see how the plan landlords are expecting higher rents from local residents would like their area to develops and the extent to which they their shops. change in the long-term future, and set might be witnessing an exemplar of local Many residents witnessed what happened out clear principles of how this change empowerment. to the not-so-distant Broadway Market should happen. If you would like to know more about the a few years ago, and the pitfalls that At a presentation on 19 January, the plan, email [email protected] gentrification can bring. CRTRA launched the study and suggested or follow the progress on the CRTRA In response to this, the Chatsworth some emerging ideas of what these website (www.chatsworthroade5.co.uk/) or Road Traders and Residents Association aspirations could be. They included through twitter @chatsworthroad.

02 Building Watch

The George Local residents are currently campaigning The proposed redevelopment would see against the redevelopment of The George the pub converted into nine self-contained on the corner of Glyn and Glenarm flats, spelling an end to 130 or more years Roads in Lower Clapton. Although it has as a pub and venue. Several councillors not been operating as a pub for several have voiced their support for retaining the years, the previous occupants regularly building as a pub or community resource ran well-attended weekly folk and jazz and an online petition has raised over 1000 nights and other community activities. It signatures. The consultation period ended is one of the last remaining pub buildings on 26 January. Supporters hope the public in the neighbourhood that has not been campaign will convince the Council to demolished or converted in the past few reject the change of use for the building. years. The pub retains many original To get in touch or sign the petition visit features including the horseshoe bar. http://thegeorgepube5.blogspot.com/

Clissold Park and House Restoration Project The biggest transformation of Clissold Park been removed. Internally, work in more than a century is moving ahead is underway on pipes for central heating following the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and water supplies and on electrical and Big Lottery Fund’s (BLF) £4.46m grant. services, including computer cabling. An The project includes: restoring the Grade internal lift will allow visitors access to the II listed Clissold House; restoring a section whole building. of the ; extensive maintenance to Work, due for completion in spring 2011, the two park lakes; renovating the animal continues on a new deer enclosure and enclosure; creating a new play and wheels a new sports zone and natural play area. park area; and other improvements to The deer enclosure will provide: additional enhance the overall appearance of space; purpose-built secure fencing; a the park. quiet, secure shelter for the deer; and a Repairs to Clissold House have included a new, improved planting scheme to give new roof, renewal of rainwater pipes and the deer better natural foraging. Two gutters, and repairs to the stone window pedestrian bridges are planned for the surrounds. Exterior scaffolding has now newly expanded river in the park.

By Lisa Rigg Local listing lets people know which Environmental significance – makes a buildings are of value to the local area and special contribution to the environment of a They say that beauty is in the eye of the gives them a special status. These buildings street or locality. beholder. Why not wear your heart on your are also given due care and consideration sleeve and declare your love for a local Aesthetic or artistic merit – this could by the Council when making decisions that building? It could be one that is showing affect their future. include a building, mural or shop sign that its age a bit, a young heart stopper, or ‘arrests the eye’. that unique one-off that only you can A building, or feature like an artwork or The Local List has not been reviewed since understand. So, to all you lonely hearts… monument, should only be nominated if it fulfils one of the following criteria: 1991 and at present there are a number of Is there a building in Hackney that makes significant 20th-century buildings that are you go weak at the knees? A building Historical interest – has an association with not included. that you love, but that goes unnoticed by a well-known personality or event, and/or To nominate a building, log on to www. everyone else? Hackney Council and the demonstrates the Borough’s history. hackneybuildings.org.uk/contribution Hackney Society are currently reviewing Architectural interest – portrays a good Hackney’s Local List and looking for special example of a particular style or period, or is The project has been part-funded by buildings to add to the register. designed by a well-known architect. English Heritage and Discover Hackney.

03 Entertainment in Hackney Part I

A History of the Rio Cinema

By Alex Munden

In 1909, Russian émigrée Clara Ludski, who showing general release owned an auction room at 105 Kingsland films at weekends, High Street, recognised the potential of surviving until 1975, moving pictures and commissioned cinema when it briefly became architect W E Trent to convert her shop into the Dalston Classic again a 175-seat ‘electric picture house’. It was before the Classic Group called the Kingsland Palace and was one of decided to close it down the first full-time cinemas in London. Such in 1976. was its success that the adjacent premises Paul Theodorou were acquired to build a proper cinema. approached Classic with In July 1913 Adams & Coles of Hackney Council for a Lottery grant. This was a proposal to take over the cinema and it submitted plans for a building that more approved in 1998 and architects Burrell, re-opened in April 1976 with a new name closely resembled a theatre than a cinema. Foley, Fischer undertook the redesign, Seating 956 in fair discomfort and allowing – the Rio. Unfortunately, he was unable to which retained Bromige’s original Art Deco another 174 to stand, it opened in 1915 as make a success of the venture and agreed vision in the auditorium. Work began in early the Kingsland Empire. In 1920 a pipe organ to sell the sub-lease to a group who 1999 and the cinema reopened in August was installed, followed in 1929 by sound wanted to run the building as a community of that year. Improvements included an equipment. arts centre. enlarged foyer, better acoustics and the redesign of the café, as well as new seats, Despite successes, the Empire changed In March 1977, the Rio Cinema Working air conditioning and a Dolby Digital™ sound hands several times and by the mid-1930s Party approached the Arts Council, the system. During the refurbishment English it belonged to London and Southern Super GLC, the BFI and Hackney Council, for Heritage expressed concern about the Cinemas, later bought out by the Classic funds to buy the building. The GLC and extent of the work but eventually approved Group. In 1936 London County Council Hackney agreed to finance the purchase the changes and the building was awarded inspected the building and decided it of the sub-lease, and made the Working Grade II listed status. was insufficiently ventilated and that the Party managers of the building in March waiting area was inadequate. In July 1937, 1979. The plans for an arts centre were In 2007, thanks to funding from UK Film’s F E Bromige of Westminster resolved the over-ambitious and the Working Party was digital initiative, the Rio took delivery of a problem by retaining the external walls but replaced by a Management Committee, 2K digital projector. This enables the Rio rebuilding the interior. The auditorium seated who decided to concentrate on film, video to screen a much wider range of material, just 561 people, with another 110 standing. and photography. The Rio became a not including the latest film releases being It opened on 18 December 1937 as the for profit company limited by guarantee, offered in digital format as well as projects Classic and was advertised as a super- and a registered charity. Elected Committee made by local organisations and filmmakers. cinema in miniature. members became directors of the company The Rio has evolved into an independent and trustees of the charity and this The advent of television in the 1950s led to cinema that is responsive to sections of the management structure continues, although a decline in audiences. The Dalston Classic community often ignored by the mainstream. the Management Committee is now the became the Classic Cartoon Cinema, the While all other cinemas in Hackney have Board of Directors. Classic Continental Cinema and then the been demolished or become snooker halls, Classic. It re-launched as the Tatler Cinema By 1995, the Rio was badly in need of warehouses or even, in one case, a mosque, Club in May 1970 and in 1971 returned to refurbishment and applied to the Arts the Rio continues to survive.

Hackney Picturehouse

The Ocean music venue in Mare Street is to become the Hackney Picturehouse. Created from the Methodist Hall and the former Hackney Central Library at a cost of £23 million, Ocean opened in 2001 and closed in 2004. The cinema operator City Screen plans to transform Ocean into a venue with four screens and three licensed cafés, due to open in autumn 2011.

Arcola Theatre

Dalston’s Arcola Theatre has moved from Arcola Street to a new base in the Colourworks building in Ashwin Street. The new premises have a main theatre for 200 people, a 100-seat studio theatre and two spaces for Arcola’s youth and community work. 044 Entertainment in Hackney Part I

Clapton Arts Trust and the Clapton Summer Festival

By Julia Lafferty

On 4 October 2010 the Clapton Arts Trust II listed mission hall at and was launched at the Tram Depot on Upper the 100-year-old Clapton Cinematograph Clapton Road. The Tram Depot, which for Theatre on Lower Clapton Road, making over two decades has provided affordable them accessible to everyone by the studio and workshop space for local artists creation of cultural spaces, training and and craftspeople, is now threatened with activities for all sections of the community. redevelopment, and the Trust has been In addition, a Clapton Summer Festival formed by local residents and Clapton’s is planned to take place during the artistic community, supported by local weekend of 11/12 June this year, with councillors, to establish a cultural hub for the objective of celebrating Clapton and the area. The Trust’s main objective is to its diversity, creativity and enterprise. CAT Chair Ian Rathbone with Jennette create studio, exhibition and performance The Festival will be focused around the Arnold and Guy Nicholson at the launch. space for artists, craftspeople and those Lea Bridge Roundabout, Clapton Pond, in the performing arts in regenerated Lower Clapton Road and Clapton Square. heritage buildings where their work and involving existing and pop-up venues. A programme of events is being worked skills can be made accessible to the local out in consultation with local community The Festival is being organised with community. Jennette Arnold of the GLA and representatives and it is planned to include the Clapton Conference as a joint Guy Nicholson, Hackney Council’s Cabinet a film festival, live folk music in Clapton community event through the Clapton member with responsibility for Regeneration Square featuring Cut A Shine, a concert Pond Neighbourhood Action Group and the Olympics, attended the launch of in St John-at-Hackney Church, exhibitions and the Clapton Square Users Group. the Trust to add their support. of art and crafts, a Clapton heritage walk The programme of events is still being This exciting development, driven by local and a photographic project with local developed, so if you would like to people, aims to bring new life to Clapton schoolchildren. Local businesses are being take part and contribute ideas, email and Hackney through the regeneration of invited to join in the fun, with the emphasis [email protected] or telephone the former horse tram depot, the Grade on food and fashion from around the world, Louise on 07949 247 920.

The Clowns Church

By Mary Sewell

On the first Sunday in February, clowns was deconsecrated after a fire in 1959 from around the world meet at Holy Trinity and is now offices. Feeling that clowns Church, Beechwood Road, Dalston, for would make a positive contribution to Clowns International’s annual Joseph a depressed area, in stepped Revd Bill Grimaldi Memorial Service. Clowns Sargent, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church. International, founded in 1946 as the The warm relationship continues with the International Clowns Club, is now the oldest present vicar, Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, established clowns organisation in the world. who is also vicar of All Saints , Grimaldi (1778–1837), whose father Chaplain to the Speaker in the House of Giuseppe ‘Ironlegs’ had been Court Commons and to HM Queen Elizabeth II. The clowns are now firmly established, Dentist in France, made his first public Hole entertainment centre near Wells with a Joe Grimaldi memorial window, performances in the Theatre Royal, Drury in Somerset. Lane and Sadler’s Wells. He continued donated by Gerry Cottle, in the north-west to work in these two theatres all his life, corner of the church, next to a door which Clowns have their serious side. In running across the fields from one to the leads to a small memorial garden, currently the 1960s clowns visited schools to other to take curtain calls. His debut was being cultivated, where clowns’ ashes may demonstrate road safety and Clowns at the age of two, in a monkey skin, swung be scattered. Gallery Curator, Mattie Faint, Clown of the Year in 1994, visits hospitals as a ‘Clown on the end of a rope. His career could have The Clowns Gallery in the church gives Doctor’ to give ‘laughter therapy’ as part of been short, as one day the rope broke, but a potted history of clowning through the Theodora Trust scheme that originated fortunately Joe landed in somebody’s lap. photographs, video, costumes and a in Switzerland. A clown for 45 years, he retired in 1828 portion of the famous Egg Collection due to ill health. which depicts the facial make-up of clown Currently, the Clowns Gallery is open, free In his memory, all clowns are called club members. The main exhibition, of charge, on the first Friday in the month, ‘Joeys’. His memorial service was originally with many more costumes and comedy 12.00-17.00. Visits at other times, for held in St James’s Church, Pentonville props previously housed in different which there is a charge, can be arranged Road, where he is buried. You can see his temporary venues in Hackney, is now through Mattie Faint (020 7608 0312, grave in the churchyard, but the church accommodated at Gerry Cottle’s Wookey [email protected]). 05 Publications Hackney Society News The Well-Connected Gardener by Sue poets reflecting on the meaning of Minter is a biography of Alicia Amherst, ‘re-enchantment’, in reference to an actual, Lisa Rigg, who has worked on a a Victorian and Edwardian horticulturist particular place or region as they see it. It number of projects for the Hackney who wrote the first history of gardening includes essays by Hackney writers Iain Society since 2007, has a new part- in . Her family gained their wealth Sinclair (on Springfield Park) and time job. She has been employed from the ancient estates of Hackney – Ken Worpole (on ). Publisher: by Lambeth Council to develop an hence the road names Amherst Road and Artevents, £9.99. education and access programme Foulden Road, which come from their for inner London¹s only surviving Hackney History, Volume 16 edited by Norfolk country house. Publisher: Book windmill. Isobel Watson contains articles on coinage, Guild, £16.99. Pond House, Bishop How, Hall and She will continue to carry out a Towards Re-Enchantment: Place Broadway Market. Publisher: Friends of number of projects for the Society, and Its Meanings edited by Di Robson Hackney Archives, £4.00. including Love Local Landmarks, and Gareth Evans features writers and and an audio walk for Hackney Wick and Marsh. The Hackney Society would like to thank her Noticeboard for her excellent work, especially on the projects From Fever to Consumption: the Story of Chatsworth Road Street Market Farm:shop Healthcare in Hackney, the Planning The Chatsworth Road Traders & Residents Farm:shop is a new venture in Dalston Sub-group and the book Hackney- Association (CRTRA) held three trial market Lane. Eco-designers Something & Son Modern, Restored, Forgotten, days at the end of 2010 with 25 traders have transformed a derelict shop into Ignored. taking part. Visitors to the trial markets an urban food hub, café and arts venue. completed almost 200 questionnaires. Fresh produce that is grown throughout Most wanted to see the market take place the building is served in the café. The shop weekly or fortnightly with the preferred includes mini ‘aquaponic’ fish farms and has day being Sunday. On 19 January, some a chicken coop on the roof. 140 traders and residents met at Chats Volunteering Palace to discuss the trial. There was RoWCA award opportunities overwhelming support for the market to go RoWCA (Rosemary Works Residents ahead. At the meeting, Euan Mills presented Community Association) has been highly a neighbourhood plan for Chatsworth Road commended for its canal-side planting The Hackney Society is looking for and its surrounding area (see p02). project by Hackney in Bloom 2010. five young volunteers (aged 16-25 years) and three older people with a flair for photography. In March/ April 2011 the Society would like to start photographing a selection of Hackney’s most important locally listed buildings (see Love Local Landmarks p03). It will be a unique opportunity for young people, who demonstrate a passion for photography, to work with the internationally acclaimed architectural photographer, Grant Smith. Grant is a Hackney resident, whose body of work includes some of the world’s most iconic structures: the Pont de Normandie, the second Severn Crossing, the Sydney Harbour tunnel, the Millennium Dome and the Gherkin in London. We are also looking for volunteers to help to add the results of our locally listed building survey to a new online catalogue. Training will be provided. If you are interested in either of these roles, please contact lisa@ hackneysociety.org or telephone 020 8806 4003.

06 2010 Hackney Design Awards

Run by Hackney Council every two years, surrounds and makes direct reference to the architects have not been distracted the Hackney Design Awards promote and the nearby buildings.’ They considered the by current design fads but have simply celebrate high quality design within the scheme to be: ‘exceptional – the density, added to the original school in a quiet built environment. In 2010, 55 nominations excellent composition, the quality of design and understated manner. The result is were received and 20 schemes were and its finish’. outstanding.’ shortlisted. There are six winners and five The existing campus buildings on site are commendations. Bridge Academy between 35 and 100 years old; two are The winning schemes are the Barn and Designed by BDP Architects and sponsored listed, one locally and one statutorily. New Eco Garden at the Eastern Curve (see by UBS Investments Bank, the Bridge build elements – which include the provision front page), 22-24 Bateman’s Row, Bridge Academy is situated on a brownfield site of a sixth form centre, assembly hall and Academy, City Academy, Clapton Girls’ along the Regents Canal. By building dining hall – aim to respect and draw Technology College and upwards and creating a ‘vertical’ school, inspiration from the historic architecture, Town Hall. Commendations went to 30 external space has been maximised. while interpreting the existing buildings in a Crown Place, Hoxton Overground Station, The school buildings are split into three contemporary way. Mare Street Road Improvements, 39 elements: the ‘sound shell’ wraps teaching Parkholme Road and Well Street Surgery. spaces around the social heart of the Stoke Newington Town Hall school; the sports hall is set underground; A new People’s Choice Award voted for and the music box provides teaching by Hackney residents was won by Clapton space which transforms into a 450-seater Girl’s Technology College, which received auditorium. 215 of the 865 votes cast. Judges described the school as ‘a thrilling The Judging Panel was made up of building, enticing and crucially - very grown professionals in architecture, urban design, up’. They added, ‘It’s thick with references, development and regeneration. Among like walking into a vast modernist library or them was Lisa Rigg of the Hackney Society. the foyer of a concert hall in Berlin.’ 22-24 Bateman’s Row For more on the Bridge Academy, see Spaces 22.

City Academy Hackney Society members will be familiar City Academy, designed by Studio E with Stoke Newington Town Hall and Architects and sponsored by City of London Assembly Hall, where we held our 2010 Corporation and KPMG, is an educational AGM. This Grade II listed public building, facility with an integrated sustainable designed by J Reginald Truelove, has had strategy. It has achieved an A rated energy major areas restored and refurbished by performance certificate. Internally the the architects Hawkins\Brown. Originally school’s transparent classroom walls are separated by an alleyway, a new reception designed to maximise daylight. The judges was created to unite the municipal offices noted that these ‘walls open up classrooms and assembly hall, thereby providing a Bateman’s Row is a contemporary to corridors and students can be seen defined entrance. The removal of parking six-storey building that maximises and feel safely supervised wherever they and the installation of extensive new accommodation for both commercial and are’. Multi-coloured cladding provides an landscaping and lighting enable open and residential units and makes the most of effective acoustic screen and has openings safe accessibility into the complex and a confined site in . Designed for ventilation. by and for Theis and Khan Architects, reconnection to the street. For more on the City Academy, see the building provides an art gallery on the Spaces 25/27. Stoke Newington Town Hall was built in ground floor and in the basement, first floor the 1930s to a high quality that reflected offices for the architects, several residential Clapton Girls’ Technology College the civic pride of the time. The judges units and a family home at the top. Planted The redevelopment of Clapton Girls’ considered it to have been restored with roof terraces look out over the city. The Technology College involved refurbishing ‘sensitivity and panache’, and commented: scheme maximises space and light by the majority of the existing buildings to ‘Many original features are brought back climbing vertically in distinct phases over modern-day standards and creating two to life, including the Australian walnut five floors. An internally exposed concrete cutting-edge new buildings to provide new timber panelling, beautiful plaster-domed structure acts as a thermal store, combined facilities. Funded by the Building Schools ceilings, ornamental gold cornicing, bronze with a highly insulated envelope and natural for the Future programme, the work was balustrades, and the sprung Canadian ventilation. Solar panels supplement hot carried out by the architects Jestico + maple dance floor in the Assembly Hall, water provision. Whiles. The judging panel praised the from which also hangs a spectacular mirror The Judging Panel commented: ‘The college for creating a ‘teaching environment ball.’ They were particularly impressed by building sits comfortably within its industrial of immense quality’, and said, ‘Here the redesigned external space.

07 Hackney Society Events* The Planning Sub-group

Mythical Watercourses and Real Rivers Dalston Churches We have been established for a year and Saturday 19 March 2011, 11am Saturday 21 May 2011, 2pm a half and are always interested in hearing Walk with Lisa Rigg Walk with Fabian Watkinson, The from possible new volunteers. The aim of An easy half-day hike from the north of Victorian Society the borough to the south. Learn about the An afternoon walk focusing on four Dalston the group is to comment on large-scale watermen, rowers, industries and wildlife of churches. The ‘huge Teulonesque central planning applications, built environment the riverside as we walk through Clissold tower’ of Ewan Christian’s Holy Trinity and heritage policy documents, local Park, Springfield Park, (1879) ‘broods over the sanctuary’ whilst consultations and planning applications and Victoria Park. We will walk beside the the enormous St Mark’s (1866) by Chester associated with listed buildings outside of New River, , the , Cheston Junior has been described as conservation areas, within the Borough of the Canal and Regent’s the ‘wildest piece of Rogue Gothic ever Hackney. Canal. The route will follow part of Walk conceived’. Charles Reilly said of his London’s 13-mile Walk. Bring a St Barnabas (1910), which echoes the If you can spare one evening a month picnic lunch. sublime spaces of Westminster Cathedral, and have a keen interest in the local built Meet Manor House Underground Station that it was ‘the building I should like to be environment, we would be interested in FREE to all remembered by’ whilst St Matthias (1853) having you as a member. is one of William Butterfield’s most powerful If you would like to find out more, or A Journey through Dalston and original compositions. put yourself forward, please email us Saturday 16 April 2011, 2pm Meet outside Dalston Kingsland Station at [email protected] Walk with Susan Doe (London Overground North London Line) The trendiest place in the universe? FREE to members, £5.00 non-members Thanks to Kopykat for sponsoring this issue Dalston is so much more than the spread of Shoreditch ‘cool’ and the origins of A Radical Ramble Kopykat Printing Limited a popular BBC soap opera. This walk Saturday 18 June 2011, 11am 76 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY will highlight the history of Dalston (since Walk with Hannah Parham Tel: 020 7739 2451 Fax: 020 7729 5925 Roman times) and how it is changing Hackney is known nationally for being www.kopykat.co.uk rapidly before our eyes. The new confrontational, non-conformist, radical, Kopykat based in Shoreditch specialises in overground line, Tony Blair, Oswald Mosley, political and culturally diverse. This walk company stationery and high quality marketing clowns and Marie Lloyd will all feature on will start at the heart of dissension in Stoke material, we cover onsite litho printing, digital this journey through Dalston. Newington and wind its way to Shoreditch printing, copying and direct mail, environmentally Meet Dalston Junction Overground via the anti-fascist protests in Clissold Park, we have recently been awarded Green Mark FREE to all riots in Ridley Road, communists visiting De accreditation and we print using vegetable Beauvoir and Christian reformers in Hoxton. based inks, without the use of alcohol and deliver in an LPG vehicle. Bateman’s Row The walk will include visits to the old town Thursday 12 May 2011, 7pm halls of Stoke Newington and Shoreditch. kopykat Tour Bring a picnic lunch. Designed by and for Theis and Khan, Meet outside Stoke Newington Town Hall Design and Print Bateman’s Row maximises accommodation FREE to all for both commercial and residential units at a tight site in Shoreditch. It provides From Rags-to-Riches Spaces is published by the Hackney Society. Views expressed in the articles are not several lettable units, making the scheme Saturday 16 July 2011, 11am necessarily those of the Society. viable, and includes an architects’ office Walk with Lisa Rigg and Dr Ann Robey Edited by: Monica Blake and family home. The building has received A long walk from the busy heart of the City Layout by: [email protected] the following awards: RIBA London Award of London to the calm of Hackney Marshes. Contributors: Monica Blake, Julia Lafferty, 2010, RIBA London Building of the Year Following a route through Shoreditch, Euan Mills, Alex Munden, Lisa Rigg, Mary Award 2010 and Hackney Design Award Haggerston, Victoria Park, , Sewell and Vincent Stops 2010. Bateman’s Row was shortlisted for Lower Clapton to Millfields, ending at the Photos: Monica Blake, Hackney Council, Nick the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010. Lea Valley nature reserve. Discover many Kane, Sean Pollock Meet at 22 Bateman’s Row, London E2 aspects of Hackney including silk weavers, The Hackney Society FREE to members, £5.00 to non-members workhouses, asylums, and see how the The Round Chapel, borough grew up from the City. Bring a 1d Glenarm Road, London E5 0LY Highlights of Haggerston picnic lunch. T: 020 8806 4003 Sunday 15 May 2011, 2.30pm Meet outside Street Station, E: [email protected] Walk with John Finn Bishopsgate W: www.hackneysociety.org FREE to all The Hackney Society is a registered Charity (No 107459) Architectural and historical walk through and Company limited by guarantee (No 04574188) Haggerston, taking in Ernö Goldfinger’s Haggerston School and Haggerston Baths by Alfred Cross as well as recent Please check our website for up-to-date information and additional buildings like Adelaide Wharf and the * events that are organised throughout the year. Most of our events are free Bridge Academy. to Hackney Society members and £5 to non-members. For special and Meet outside the entrance to the Geffrye joint events there may be a charge for members. To avoid disappointment Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, E2 please book a place as some events have a limited number of places. To FREE to all book email [email protected] or phone 07771 225183.