Hackney – Be careful what you wish for

Living in Hackney, East London

I used to live on the Hackney/Lower Clapton border a few years ago, before gentrification. Even back then, I used to think it was rough although I used to take a kind of sadistic pleasure in informing any out of town friends visiting that we were driving down the North London murder mile while on […]

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Hackney – Be careful what you wish for…

Living in Hackney, East London

I used to live on the Hackney/Lower Clapton border a few years ago, before gentrification. Even back then, I used to think it was rough. Although I used to take a kind of sadistic pleasure in informing any out of town friends visiting, that we were driving down the North London murder mile while on […]

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Crime Statistics for Shoreditch, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, 2024

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The London Borough of Hackney – the ******** of London

Living in Hackney, London

The London Borough of Hackney has always been regarded by Londoners as an utter dump, or in cockney vernacular “a ********”. In the last ten years , the media has been obsessed with the borough – claiming it has been “gentrifiied”. Of course “gentrification” was nothing more than a scheme for estate agents to charge […]

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