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...Karl Manning, of estate agent Savills, contrasts north-east Essex with the area further south that was traditionally the heart of the county’s commuter belt....
...His pictures, captured in the books Hackney Wick (2005) and Hackney Flowers (2007), serve as striking mementoes of the time, full of wit and vibrancy. But change was about to happen....
...Recently, I got a quite good single-origin espresso from a cart while visiting Karl Marx’s grave. This wasn’t always the case....
...Horgan’s infancy was spent in Hackney, east London, which is where she now lives with her own family, though the area has been gentrified beyond recognition in the intervening decades....
...And Rachel Whiteread’s “Demolished” series of pictures shows the demolition of Hackney housing estates, beautiful like all explosions, explosive in their condemnation of modern housing conditions....
...Sam Aldenton, his Hackney-born co-founder, had wider experience and contacts in that world....
...As I’ve just moved into my house in Hackney, it’s pretty empty. White walls, a bit of carpet on the stairs, that’s about it....
...As Diane Abbott, a the British Labour MP for Hackney in London, who is of Jamaican origin, puts it: “The crop has a hold over the imagination out of proportion to its economic importance.”...
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