Ridley Road Market – Hackney Citizen

‘Masterpiece’: Praise for bold new mural that celebrates joy and diversity of Ridley Road

By Marion Weaver | Friday 1 September 2023 at 14:22

Artist Carl Cozier ‘flattered’ after traders picked his colourful lettering to adorn a market wall

‘Never seen anything like it’: Ridley Road Market brought to a standstill for popular trader’s funeral procession

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 6 June 2023 at 15:03

Friends and customers line up to pay tribute to Steven Clark, who died last month aged 57

‘Wise old owl’: Tributes paid to beloved Ridley Road trader Steven Clark after his death at the age of 57

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 1 June 2023 at 19:32

Market set to come to a standstill on 6 June when Clark’s funeral procession passes through

‘It’s like I’m on The Apprentice’: Hackney students sell school-grown produce at Ridley Road Market for charity initiative

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 July 2022 at 14:22

Pupils from across the borough took part in charity project Know Your Onions

Future Hackney collective returns with more stories and photographs from Ridley Road

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 24 September 2021 at 11:09

Ridley Road Stories Part 2 goes on public display today under Hackney Central bridge on Mare Street

‘Gentrification in action’: Town Hall defends Dalston Plan as campaigners let rip

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 17 August 2021 at 14:52

Morning Lane and Ridley Road activists call for social rent homes amid fears the proposals will drive people out

Town Hall lays out plans for Dalston with promises to protect Curve Garden and Ridley Road

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 20 May 2021 at 14:52

Proposals heed calls from the community for a strategy on building heights in the area

Rose Vouchers for people on low incomes now accepted by all Ridley Road traders

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 April 2020 at 17:12

More than 3,000 redeemed in the space of 10 days

Ridley Road resistance continues as community plan mooted for shopping village

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 5 December 2019 at 18:59

Council responds to trader unrest over change in regulations as campaigns from across London join forces

Ridley Road Market, Tamara Stoll, book review: ‘Eight-year labour of love that captures the soul of a Hackney institution’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 27 August 2019 at 16:35

This book-in-the-making by photographer Tamara Stoll tells the story of the market, in aid of the Save Ridley Road campaign

Residents urge Town Hall to seize opportunity to end ‘mistrust’ with community conversation

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 28 November 2018 at 23:37

Mayor canvasses locals’ vision for Dalston’s future as London Renters Union slams proliferation of ‘massive new developer-led flats’

We need to talk about Dalston: Town Hall launches major listening exercise for locals

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 September 2018 at 16:26

The Dalston Conversation will ‘put residents’ priorities at the heart of the council’s work’

Kollier din-Bangura interview: ‘society is not ready for a black guy to be in a gallery or to own a gallery’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 7 June 2018 at 16:34

“What we’re looking at is retention of what exists”: Kollier din-Bangura outside 16 Dalston Lane earlier this year

We met with the sculptor and longstanding Dalston cultural entrepreneur, for a discussion covering black enterprise, gentrification and the loss of creative communities

Concerns over future of Hackney’s markets amid ‘challenging’ landscape

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 28 March 2018 at 14:27

Traders push for more promotion as their fears about dwindling numbers are revealed in a council survey

Ridley Road Market: Council survey sparks fears over gentrification

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 25 October 2017 at 11:57

Town Hall says questionnaires about its local markets are about ‘improvements’ and none are ‘under threat’

Lucinda Rogers to exhibit drawings of a changing Ridley Road Market

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 October 2017 at 16:51

'There's a lot more here to see': Lucinda Rogers' Fruit mountain at the entrance to Ridley Road. © Lucinda Rogers

The London artist and campaigner took to the streets to depict scenes many fear will be lost to gentrification, the overarching topic of the exhibition

East End exhibitions – five of the best for July

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 June 2017 at 17:58

Detail from Russian in Venice I, 2005, Monotype, (c) Stephen Chambers, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month

Get checked: Prostate Cancer Roadshow for African and Caribbean men to arrive in Dalston on Monday

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 May 2017 at 16:08

Having a ball: a recent Prostate Cancer Roadshow in Newham. Photograph: Spink Health

Charities Orchid and Cancer Black Care will be at Ridley Road Market from 9am – 4pm

New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 10:32

"Magical": the splash screen of a hackney autobiography's website, with illustrations by Joanna Layla

a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’

Dalston in the 80s by Andrew Holligan, book review: “bursting with culture and steeped in challenge”

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 11:29

“Two older lads on the razz”: detail from Dalston in the 80s. Photograph: Andrew Holligan.

This collection of black and white photography nonetheless depicts “life in its many colours” with a personal, diary-like feel