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A Hackney Autobiography / Home

This is a project to record the history of Centerprise - a Dalston radical institution set up in opposition to mainstream bookshops, cafes, education and so on.  There are interesting links to many projects they did before they closed in 2012. Reading the archive it seems very 2017. A Hackney Autobiography / Home

Tales of the old East End - The Tribe

Memoires from London at war Tales of the old East End - The Tribe

Haggerston Park History

Haggerston Park was carved out of industrial buildings after World War 2. haggerston-history-leaflet.pdf

London - early electrical generation

This is a good article on the subject, http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008/01/15/early-electricity-supplies-in-london/ and also Shoreditch Electricity Station : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London