Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick itself is indeed a very odd place, desolate even, bordered by Eastway cycle centre, New Spitalfields market, Stratford marshalling yards and various industrial estates, there's nowt much there is there? Does anyone live there?

i don't know the wick well AT ALL: like gandalf, "to the east i go not"

hackney has the highest birth rate in europe!

hackney wick is the bushwick of london

so what is the east end, then, if hackney isn't part of it? islongtong?

Oh AND!! My piece about the Hackney Empire is up!

iTunes link: http://bit.ly/ej1r

site: http://www.hackneypodcast.co.uk

limehouse, whitechapel, etc?

Bow to Barking.

So Hackney's too far north, basically?

yeah, if there were NE postcodes it would have one

argh iTunes still hasn't updated with the new ep. Working on it..

Is there another big fire somewhere nearby? Massive cloud of smoke overhead and everywhere smells of it.

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in answer to that 10 month old question iirc the east end is east of aldgate to mile end, south to the river (obv) and as far north as bethnal green, hackney is a thing in itself

and on fire

A lot of fire engines going up through Victoria Park just now.

some references to a fire in Hackney Wick but yesterday
http://twitter.com/#!/search/hackney%20wick

yeah, if there were NE postcodes it would have one

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:29

there were NE postcodes - and can still be seen in a number of streets in Hackney

i know dude i meant today

in answer to that 10 month old question iirc the east end is east of aldgate to mile end

isn't it as far east as the river lea - to include bow, bromley, poplar and isle of dogs etc?

they're are bit far away for the days pre-mass transit

not sure where exactly I was, but the sudden transition from umm whatever urban park it was into the middle-of-nowhere seeming canal into the even more middle-of-nowhere seeming expanse of Hackney Marshes is pretty startling.

Anyway I'm moving to Hackney / Lower Clapton (not quite sure where the boundaries are, but it's off Lower Clapton Road) next month, plz everyone tell me good stuff to see and do.

The Hackney Pearl and the Counter Cafe in the Wick, and the Railroad Cafe and Chatsworth Road Market in E5.

I'd say just wander. There's an impossible film shop down at the bottom of lower Clapton road. You'll know what I mean.

But that's not Hackney Wick!

Impossible film shop? Innnnnnteresting. It did seem like it was good for random wandering, possibility of getting completely and fatally lost in the Marshes aside.

i've ended up in the railroad cafe a few times but i'd say it was functional rather than actively nice. the basement, where they put on some events, is ridiculously humid.

went to this homerton pub for the first time for a friend's bday recently, it was nice http://www.kentonpub.co.uk/

the counter cafe is nice, tho i feel a bit overpriced. i think "the posh fry up" is a mountain which few places can scale competently. hawksmoor and bills my two best versions (only been to bills in brighton tho)

lex I live less than 30 seconds from the Kenton! it is very nice, always good beers, the owner is a v friendly Norwegian w/good taste in music. and there's a back garden with a) couches b) blankets for chilly nights

i like the kenton a lot, introduced to it by tracer, was there for second time last weekend.

the kenton is in the strange bermuda triangle of well street - not homerton, not clapton, not dalston, not "the village"

has anyone been to the yard theatre btw...yet?

i haven't yet but i'm gonna

not sure where exactly I was, but the sudden transition from umm whatever urban park it was into the middle-of-nowhere seeming canal into the even more middle-of-nowhere seeming expanse of Hackney Marshes is pretty startling.

This totally sounds like what happens when you get to the bottom of springfield park

used to go there as a kid :D

having a look through google streetview, that seems right! i had kind of thought i was heading south from lower clapton road to get there. i guess it'll take me a while to have any idea of where i'm going.

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sun was already well on its way to risen when i was coming home from the club so i took a long and lovely detour thruogh hackney marshes:

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also got the most exercise i've had in fuck knows how long after i helped a couple of women catch their naughty runaway puppy.

Post-club meandering in the morning sun is the greatest.

London realness right there