Matchbox cars – Hackney Citizen

“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 13:06

"We’ll be unemployed after ten years here": Franco Aviette, the proprietor of Griddlers' Café

Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life

Matchbox memories: the toy car factory that dominated Hackney’s industrial landscape

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 7 September 2016 at 12:10

Lesney factory

Lesney Products used to be the biggest employer in Hackney, producing miniature cars that were toy box staples