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...“A lot of us who are now decorating houses grew up in the Laura Ashley era,” she says, “although now it’s definitely a more pared back, more tailored version.”...
...Now as then, the setting is Hackney and the fictional Summerhouse estate, home to a cast of characters still led by aspirant gangsters Dushane and Sully, played by Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson....
...“You can only do this in person at Tube, London overground and TfL stations, some National Rail ticket offices, Oyster Ticket Stops, and at official visitor centres,” say FT readers Gareth Owen and Ashley...
...Mr Ashley controls 55 per cent. And it is his own money....
...Hence the success of Frenchman Eric Narioo with Terroirs in Charing Cross, Brawn in Hackney, Soif in Battersea and The Green Man and French Horn in theatreland....
...London design group House of Hackney is also finding success with a playful range of wallpapers, textiles and lighting....
...Just as The Wire was consumed with, and by, Baltimore, so during the four episodes of Top Boy, Hackney became as much a metaphor and a state of mind as a place in east London....
...“Once again I am not welcome,” she writes, as she returns to the laptop in Hackney....
...Of the Ugly Sisters, David Ashley’s Lucinda is not quite as repellent as Michael Kirk’s Lavinia....
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