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 man reading by the window of a room on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man sitting by the window of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man sitting in the interior of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney, gazing out of the window (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man smoking by the window of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man smoking in a downstairs bedroom of a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man with his music equipment at a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A man with his music equipment at a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
A mother and toddler at Longbow House in Hoxton (pigment inkjet print)
Donald, Michael
2000-2004
A partly demolished room in Longbow House, Hoxton (pigment inkjet print)
Donald, Michael
2000-2004
A room containing a desk, chair, jackets, bags and laundry at a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
