@HarrietGriffey@London_W4 Hackney was home to the Loddiges Nursery in the late 18th/early 19th C. They grew palm trees & other exotic plants for that time for places such as Kew. The @HackneySociety published a book about #Loddiges.
🌳'A slice of 1970s Babylon restored'
@RowanMoore in The Observer on the green renovation of the Grade II listed Mountbatten / Gateway House (Arup Associates and James Russell, 1974-76) - more popularly known as the 'Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke'.
https://t.co/zZ8vC81rjm
Edward Mann was a millinery brand that produced high fashion hats. The factory was in 137-141 Stoke Newington Church St, where Nando’s is now (the original factory building was demolished). Edward Mann Designed the hats for iconic 60s television character Emma Peel of The Avengers.
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex - we need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated, neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Here's how: https://t.co/4lPdtDMf1E
#EastAnglia
📷M Clements
16th December – Plumstead Fire Station Lantern, Greenwich 🚒
On a cold winter night, you can almost feel the warm glow of this restored fire station lantern.
https://t.co/h26P2lDm0w
🙅♀️Do not pass go: Don't let Network Rail and the City play Monopoly with Liverpool Street Station
🚨SAVE & the Liverpool Street Station Campaign raise serious concerns about harmful plans to overshadow the station with a new tower block.
🔗Read more: https://t.co/nfIWOjqm35
Thursday 5 December is #internationalvolunteerday and we’ve plenty of things we need help with to get Sands End Arts & Community Centre ready for the #christmas season. Fancy a bit of #gardening? Or putting up some decorations? Drop in any time between 9am & 5pm. #IVD2024
🔊"Campaigners rip into Acme’s new Liverpool Street station plans"
👀@BDonline cover The Liverpool Street Station Campaign's response to new proposals, read the story: https://t.co/rULUGc41KB
Up for rent, the 2019 Canó Lasso designed ex Second Home London Fields. Before that it had been The Trampery & Look Mum No Hands, before that, educational purposes for decades (inc Hackney Community College) and behind, there is still the 1879 Morley Hall. #architecture#hackney
Hello!
I'm currently writing the final chapter of my book "From Hackney, With Love," which will finally be out next year!
It would be great to hear any final stories about people's experiences with class relations pre and post gentrified Hackney over the last few decades.
The Hackney Society will be at the Round Chapel #christmas#market on Friday 29 November. Come and see us to find out more about the Society and we’ll also have our publications for sale; excellent presents for #architecture & local #history fans. #hackneysociety#hackney