Tag: Hackney Magazine
From cinema to mosque
The story of one building’s remarkable century-long transformation 117 Stoke Newington Road stands proudly as the site of Aziziye Mosque, one of the largest Turkish-speaking...
Gladstone’s Library: Sleep with books
By Yasemin Cusack After a four-hour long car trip, I ended up in a lovely village called Hawarden in Flintshire, located on the North Wales...
Istanbul: two continents in two days
It’s a city with an 8000-year history, charting a story from Byzantium to Constantinople before assuming its present name, Istanbul. As a vast metropolis...
7 Days Of Fitness
Never miss a chance to keep fit each week with a range of Hackney fitness options! With its amazing parks, canals, jogging tracks and top...
Hackney Colliery Band announced summer live dates
The nine-piece east London band Hackney Colliery announced summer live dates alongside news of their next album, 'Collaborations: Volume One'. Set for release on June...
These places teach you how to make your own food &...
We all know how good Hackney’s restaurant scene is, but there’s also a thriving community of places to make your own delicious food too....
‘Hackney has an edgy, go-getting vibe’
Anne Currell, CEO of family-run estate agent Currell’s, talks about Hackney’s vibrancy and the options that exist for households to move into the area –...
Great tastes of America this side of Atlantic
Hackney is home to a fantastic range of restaurants with cuisines from all over the world, but for some quality comfort food, it’s worth...
Singing with nightingales: Sam Lee
Mercury Prize Nominated Folk Singer, Founder of The Nest Collective, The Song Collectors Collective Sam Lee: "My mentor was a Scottish traveller called Stanley Robertson, who...