Hackney
The east London borough of Hackney has seen 30 years of huge change – transforming Shoreditch and Hackney Wick’s warehouses and workshops into creative studios, galleries, cafes and clubs.
Kingsland Road, which follows a Roman route, splits the borough top to bottom. Head south from Stoke Newington and you’ll pass Dalston’s busy Ridley Road market, and end in Shoreditch – known for its furniture trade before it was known for its nightlife.
Hackney was once recognised for its open expanses, with Samuel Pepys noting the “good cherries” on a visit in 1664. But as the railways expanded in the 19th century, so did the area’s population and the need for housing.
Green spaces remain – London Fields, Clissold Park and Hackney Marshes – while Homerton has one of London’s last remaining Tudor homes, Sutton House, built in 1535.
More recently, Diane Abbott, the UK’s first Black woman MP, was elected in Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987.
Hackney Wick is home to many riverside bars and restaurants along the River Lea canal
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A bedroom inside Longbow House in Hoxton (pigment inkjet print)
Donald, Michael
2000-2004
A boy stroking a kitten at the animal market in Club Row (silver gelatin print)
Collins, Bob
C. 1948
A couple in bed at their house in Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A couple in bed watching television at their home on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A couple in the bedroom of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney; a man reads the newspaper while a woman stares out of the window (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A couple in the living room of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A couple lying on a bed at a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A group of friends by a make-shift fire outside a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A group of friends in a dimly-lit interior of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A half-empty room in Longbow House, Hoxton, during its redevelopment (pigment inkjet print)
Donald, Michael
2000-2004
A man and a woman by a disused fireplace at a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (photograph)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man and two children in a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man emerges from bed in a sun-lit room on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man in a sparse interior of a house in Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man in the interior of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
