Artist Turns Dalston Estate Into A “Mythical Kingdom”
In its final days, the 60-year old Kingsland Estate gets a curious makeover.
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A Tour Of The New East London Line
This spring, the route formerly known as the East London line will make a bold return, now co-opted into the orange livery of London Overground, and extending past its original, curtailed route to the giddy northern heights of Dalston and the southern climes of Croydon. …
Urban Sightseeing: #1 Gasometers
Ah, the strange beauty of gasometers. These metal giants grace our landscapes with their brooding magnificence, either full, rusty and textural, or with their open lattice-work skeletons making tartan patterns against the sky. A BBC article from January 1999 foretold that Transco intended to dismantle …
Cash Shortfall Shakes East London Line
A giant hole has appeared along the route of the East London Line extension. Not a physical crevice, mind, but a fiscal one – the spur from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction, set to be constructed once the existing Dalston – Crystal Palace line is …
The Bird Lady Of Haggerston
The year was 1959, and in an often overlooked corner of Hackney, one of the world’s most recognisable Hollywood beauties was bringing just a touch of Californian colour to a peculiarly English affair: a budgie show. Jayne Mansfield, living in London while making the film …
