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Posts Tagged ‘hoxton’

Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 May 2018 at 10:28

Make Hoxton Press your new home in one of these sought after apartments overlooking Shoreditch Park, and enjoy all the area has to offer

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Open Geffrye: Museum of the Home pauses closure for Chelsea Fringe and cheese events

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 12 April 2018 at 15:09
Garden variety: events of both a horticultural and gastronomical nature will be held at the immaculate Geffrye gardens in May. Photograph: Geffrye Museum

While the museum itself remains closed, Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye and The London Cheese Project both touch down in the front gardens next month

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Britannia Leisure Centre: Campaigners accuse council of ‘painting rosy picture’ after new images unveiled

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 27 February 2018 at 14:30

Town Hall reveals details of new secondary school

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Holborn Studios granted reprieve as High Court rules Hackney Council decision ‘unlawful’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 November 2017 at 13:05
Holborn Studios

Hoxton venue hails ‘turning point’ in three-year battle against demolition plans

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A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 28 June 2017 at 11:38
A.S. Jasper, who spent his childhood in "Dickensian" poverty in Hoxton. Image: Spitalfields Life Books

A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”

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Ministry of Stories volunteers bring schoolchildren’s visions to life in 17 new Penguin picture books

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 June 2017 at 10:45
Picture perfect: the young authors pose with their creations at Shoreditch Library. Images: Penguin Random House UK

The Hoxton non-profit gave children full creative control over the stories, which feature the likes of job-seeking toucans and magical football boots

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Idris Elba open casting in Haggerston ‘shut down’ after huge crowds turn up

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 00:35
Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

Police called after hundreds gathered outside Whitmore Community Centre last night to audition for upcoming film set in Hackney

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Brain injury survivors to run pop-up art shop in Hoxton

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 3 May 2017 at 10:04
Billy Mann

Five-day project led by Headway East London to feature events, talks and exhibitions

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The big unlock: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s development plans

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 19:04
Geffrye Director Sonia Solicari in her office. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

Director Sonia Solicari chatted to the Citizen about the Museum of the Home’s upcoming new basement level, reading rooms, learning pavilion and more

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Brick and mortar-board: Hackney Community College’s Brickwork courses building a plumb reputation

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 February 2017 at 16:03
Building bricks: HCC workshop technician Mandi measures up.

HCC’s Paul Reed and James Bragg on the how, what and why of studying this most crucial of trades

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Do Ho Suh, Passage/s @ Victoria Miro Gallery review – ‘unquestionably masterful technique’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 6 February 2017 at 10:59
Do Ho Suh’s Entrance, Unit G5, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7SB, UK, 2016. Courtesy the Artist, STPI and Victoria Miro, London

The show evokes both the transience of an artist’s nomadic life and the intimacy of domestic calm

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Hoxton’s growing taller: yet another residential tower set to sprout near Colville Estate

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 December 2016 at 13:56
Colville Estate

Hackney Council’s planning committee unanimously approves scheme which will contain 50 per cent affordable housing but which critics say will block light

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‘Lobbying’ twist in Holborn Studios saga after demolition plans given go-ahead

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 September 2016 at 12:13
Holborn Studios

Photography studio boss claims councillors have not followed their own official procedures in giving green light to development

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Brave New Hoxton – Hackney children curate Museum of the Future at the Hundred Years Gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 28 July 2016 at 12:11
Some exhibits from the Museum of the Future. Photograph: Ministry of Stories

Kids’ efforts in futurology to be shown in temporary exhibition, open to the public on 30 – 31st July

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Moon landing – Out of Nowhere, PEER gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 25 July 2016 at 14:53

Paintings and drawings by influential 1960s abstract painter Jeremy Moon are making a rare appearance in public

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Moon landing – Out of Nowhere, PEER gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 25 July 2016 at 14:51
Jeremy Moon's 'Out of Nowhere' exhibition at the Peer Gallery

Paintings and drawings by influential 1960s abstract painter Jeremy Moon are making a rare appearance in public

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Chriskitch, Hoxton, restaurant review – ‘weird and wonderful delights’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 21 July 2016 at 12:31
Mushroom dish at Chriskitch

A well-travelled chef is serving up some surprising combinations of food at new Hoxton restaurant Chriskitch

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Holborn Studios: ‘act of betrayal’ leads campaigners to call for judicial review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 19 July 2016 at 16:29
Holborn Studios

‘We’re massively disappointed with the decision’

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Geffrye Museum expansion plans given green light by council

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 July 2016 at 15:07
Geffrye Museum development

Redevelopment approved three years after council threw out original plans

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‘A massive slap in the face’: residents slam council’s plans to build high rise towers on top of schools

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 29 June 2016 at 12:20
Artist’s impression of the Tiger Way development on Hackney Downs

Campaigners fume at ‘lack of transparency’ in planning process ahead of vital meeting over high-rise developments in Hoxton and Hackney Downs

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