hackneytoday Circulated to 108,000 homes and businesses by Hackney Council Issue 419 29 January 2018 Have times inside 3 changed? Out and about 5 n o s n arti M New ‘living rent’ eil N o: 11 ot h P Neil Martinson’s exhibition at Stour Space captures Hackney during the 1970s; nurses on the picket line at Bethnal Green Hospital in 1982 (above) PHOTOGRAPHER Neil Called ‘Another Time his photographs, in what is and 80s’. It includes a picture Road, which was mostly Martinson’s new exhibition Another Place’, the show described as ‘possibly the of nurses striking for a fair demolished in the 90s, except transports visitors to at Stour Space in Hackney largest collection of unseen wage outside Bethnal Green for a listed administrative Hackney during the 1970s. Wick resurrects over 60 of Hackney images from the 70s Hospital on Cambridge Heath building. See pages 6-7. Listings pull-out CHILD REFUGEE RELIEF 14 WIN Craft beer THE Council has been shortage of foster carers from It will also be used to support many cultures and ethnicities, and festival tickets awarded £250,000 to communities that reflect their children in care, and those who this funding will allow us to draw better support the needs home country. have left care, by providing on this diversity to offer these of refugee children who The Council will use the money better education opportunities, young people the support they arrive in the UK alone. to recruit and train additional increasing involvement in their need, and help them to rebuild 15 The Government funding foster carers and people who communities, reducing social their lives after the trauma and will be used to improve support can offer supported lodgings – a isolation, and providing practical violence they have often already for unaccompanied asylum- flexible option for young people support such as help in using experienced in their early years.” seeking children, who often who still require support but public transport and registering arrive in the UK after escaping are relatively self-sufficient – with a GP. MORE INFO violence or persecution. from communities that reflect Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Young citizens Residents interested in fostering There are currently 31 the three countries that Deputy Mayor of Hackney, said: or providing supported lodgings unaccompanied asylum-seeking unaccompanied asylum- “We’re incredibly proud of the children living in Hackney, most seeking children in Hackney borough’s history of offering should visit: www.hackney.gov. 17 uk/fostering; or call: 0800 0730 418 of whom live in semi-independent predominately originate from: a safe haven to those in need. to speak to a social worker accommodation because of a Eritrea, Vietnam and Albania. “Hackney is home to a great Hackney health www.hackney.gov.uk 2 29 January 2018 hackneynews Hackney Today is produced by the Communications & Consultation team at London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Town Hall E8 1EA. E-mail: htnews@ hackney.gov.uk Editor: Jane Young y Tel: 020 8356 3275 E: [email protected] Sub-editor & designer: a Sappho Lauder Tel: 020 8356 2342 E: [email protected] k c o Hackney Today is published oll d P by the London Borough of n a e Hackney. It has a print run S of 108,000 copies and is o: ot delivered free to every home h P and business in the borough. o The Council uses it to Abney Park is one step closer to securing around £5million in lottery funding for a major restoration project; the Gothic splendour of Abney Park chapel re-opened on 3 August after having extensive structural repairs to its roof and stonework; William Booth is buried at the cemetery communicate public service information to residents. Magnificent Abney It is published fortnightly in order to carry statutory advertising, such as planning t and traffic notices, which is cheaper for the taxpayer than using another local y paper. The law does not ABNEY Park, cemetery, once a landscaped Daring Young Man on the showman who kept his allow for statutory notices to one of London’s masterwork, now a much- Flying Trapeze’. giraffes in nearby Yoakley be published solely online or ‘Magnificent loved wilderness in the Once parkland owned Road, to the war memorial in a less frequent publication. Seven’ cemeteries, heart of urban London. by the Abney family, the which commemorates the The paper’s official, door- is one step closer to Among the graves are 32-acre graveyard was civilian dead of the Second e to-door delivery is 91,665 securing nearly £5million some of the affectionately- created in 1840 by the World War. copies per issue, Audit in lottery funding for a titled ‘heroes of Abney’ Abney Park Cemetery The Council asked park Bureau of Circulations (ABC) major restoration project. including General William Company and designed users for their thoughts on Situated in Stamford Booth, founder of the by William Hoskins, a what improvements they Paid for advertising is carried n Hill, the park contains Salvation Army; William professor of architecture at would like to see as part in the paper to keep costs to a minimum. We reserve the the oldest surviving non- Pennington, survivor of the King’s College London. of the project. Proposals right to refuse advertising. denominational chapel in Charge of the Light Brigade; The park became include further restoration The products and services Europe. This was reopened and Victorian music known as one of London’s work to the chapel; making advertised in this paper do last August after extensive hall performer George Magnificent Seven entrance gates more k not carry the endorsement structural repairs to its roof Leybourne, who sang ‘The cemeteries, which also accessible; creating space of Hackney Today or London and stonework. iinclude Highgate, for an on-site masonry Borough of Hackney Now, the Council BBrompton and Kensal and woodworking studio; Printed by Trinity Mirror and partners Abney GGreen. They were set up and restoring the park’s Park Trust and Abney iin the mid-19th century lodges to create space for c Distributed by London Park User Group have tto alleviate dangerous educational projects, a cafe Letterbox Marketing been successful in the oovercrowding in the and forest school. If you do not receive first round of bidding ccapital’s churchyards. If successful with a Hackney Today call: 020 a for Heritage Lottery Indeed, visitors to second round application, 8356 3275; or e-mail: Fund and Big Lottery AAbney can tour more further restorative work to [email protected] Fund money to improve tthan 25,000 statues and the chapel will allow the the park, cemetery and mmonoliths peppered building to be used Hackney Today is chapel. This means aaround the site, from for community events printed on 100 per h cent recycled paper. the project will receive tthe marble sleeping such as music concerts and nearly £315,000 to help llion (pictured above), theatre productions. Please make sure develop a round two bid. wwhich guards the grave The Council now has you recycle it after reading, so the paper Some 200,000 souls oof Frank Bostock, until June next year to can be used again are laid to rest in the aa travelling animal further develop the bid. www.hackney.gov.uk 3 29 January 2018 More local news and events at: KEEP UP facebook.com/DestinationHackney; TO DATE or: twitter.com/LoveHackney News in brief Obituary of ex-councillor and campaigner Cam Matheson CAMPBELL Robertson McKay Matheson – or ‘Cam’ as he became known to his countless friends in Hackney – was born in Penicuik, a Scottish town dominated by its paper mill and coal mining industry. Cam left school at 15, eventually hitch-hiking to London, and found work as a chambermaid. He was soon leading a protest over the poor food served to staff in the hotel. Bedroom to Aged 29 and without qualifications, Cam applied to study politics at the University of Sussex, where he was not only accepted, but appointed president of the student union. An affronted Daily Telegraph reported at the time that a battleground communist had been elected to the role. It was a fruitful appointment. Cam was instrumental in the establishment of the Mandela Scholarship scheme for black South African students, still run by the University today. But Cam was not to finish his studies. Offered a job with the Association of Scientific, Technical The artworks on display have been created by members of Project Indigo, a local LGBTQI+ youth group; images from last year’s launch of the and Managerial Staffs, he abandoned his degree and Council’s Hackney Pride 365 festival (right) at Hackney Museum went to work for the white-collar union in Camden. It proved a good choice, as it was here that he met his wife, FOR the first time who fought so hard for the Julia. The couple set up home in Hackney, where Cam in over a decade, I’m pleased together we’ve freedoms we now enjoy.” became a passionate advocate for the rights of political refugees fleeing Turkey, helping many to set up home in Hackney Museum started to capture and The Council will also the borough. He also fought to rescue the dilapidated shell will host an LGBT host a LGBT History celebrate the experiences of of Sutton House, now a National Trust property. History Month exhibition Month closing event on 28 Hackney’s LGBTQI+ residents In the 1990s, while serving as first a Labour and then an celebrating the borough’s February. The evening will independent councillor, Cam found yet another cause: the historic, diverse and celebrate the achievements state of Hackney’s streets. His tireless work brought about boundary-breaking – delivered with the help of the introduction LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, wellbeing charity. The trained, and a number of the borough’s LGBTQI+ of more litter Gay, Bisexual, ‘Out and About’ display is artefacts donated. community – of the bins, new Transgender, Queer, a collaborative wallpaper Mayor of Hackney, Council’s Hackney Pride road-sweeping Intersex plus) community. design project between Philip Glanville, said: 365 festival last year, and machines and From 1 February until artist Angela Groundwater “I’m excited we’re hosting announce further plans for better recycling 8 May visitors can view and Out and About, an this exhibition; when we this year. facilities across the two displays that make LGBTQI+ over 50s group. relaunched LGBT History up the exhibition ‘From The exhibition was month last year we asked MORE INFO the borough. Cam leaves Bedroom to Battleground’ developed in tandem with a residents to get involved For more info, follow: behind his wife, and ‘Out and About’. year-long drive by Hackney and tell us their stories. www.facebook.com/ two children ‘From Bedroom to Museum to collect historical I’m pleased that together HackneyPride365 and two Battleground’ has been material from the borough’s we’ve started to capture and To donate LGBTQI+ granddaughters, created by Project Indigo, LGBTQI+ community. celebrate the experiences artefacts to Hackney as well as a a local LGBTQI+ youth To date, this has resulted of Hackney’s LGBTQI+ Museum, visit: www. cleaner, fairer, group run by Off Centre, in 13 oral histories being residents, especially giving hackney.gov.uk/museum more just society. a mental health and collected, 10 volunteers voice to older residents Changes to Hackney’s Council Tax benefit scheme approved THE Council Tax Reduction just £8.6million from the received about 150 responses amount that working age adults Scheme is set to change from Government, despite it formerly to the consultation. These will have to pay is now 17 per April, with the minimum being a national benefit fully understandably raised concerns cent of their total bill. This two contribution a working age funded by central Government. about the impact of the increase, per cent increase will cover the household would have to Mayor of Hackney, Philip and while we share those £500,000 increase in providing pay increasing from Glanville, said: “The Council concerns, none of the decisions the scheme next year. 15 to 17 per cent. consulted on increasing we have to take around the “We will also increase The means tested benefit helps the minimum contribution Council’s budget are easy. awareness of the CTRS hardship over 27,000 residents to pay a working age household “However, we have listened fund to further support those their Council Tax. Hackney would have to pay from 15 and that’s why we changed the who still face difficulties, and currently invests over £25million to 20 per cent. 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Shoreditch has experienced phenomenal growth over the past 30 years, becoming one the world’s fastest growing £10,000 arts, fashion, media and technology-led areas. It is also home to thousands of residents and the demand for space is intense, which is continuing to push up workspace and residential rents. a year Cllr Guy Nicholson, Cabinet Member for Planning, Business and Investment, said: “Shoreditch has a unique heritage and it’s a highly desirable place to live and to base a business. It is very important that future growth is sensitively managed for this very special place.” Consultation drop-in sessions at the Shoreditch Opportunity Hub, Bowling Green Walk, will be held on 1 and 7 February, from 6pm to 8pm. To view the plan and have your say, visit: www.hackney.gov.uk/future-shoreditch The first ‘living rent’ homes are due to be part of the Bridge House scheme in Homerton High Street (CGI above) LOCAL people hand to find a genuinely struggling with affordable place to live.” These homes for living rent record rents and To apply, residents must will help those struggling to house prices are set be renting or working in to benefit from modern stay in Hackney or save for Hackney, have a household new homes at a genuinely their first home income of less than £60,000 affordable living rent and be unable to buy a under Council plans. home in their local area. The The new homes could see The Council will let all households – with rents homes will not be available Premises licence revoked eligible renters save nearly and manage the homes – rocketing 36 per cent since to buy. £10,000 a year on the through a separate, not-for- 2011 and letting agents Due to Government after illegal tobacco haul average two-bedroom flat, profit company – meaning charging an average of £400 restrictions – which don’t helping them to build up a that as well as a discounted in fees per tenancy. allow the Council to directly A HOXTON store had its premises licence revoked after a deposit to buy a first home. rent, tenants won’t face Philip Glanville, Mayor own homes for living rent – stash of illegal tobacco was found hidden behind a till. Under plans approved by unwarranted fees or of Hackney, said: “Too it will set up a not-for-profit The haul, made up of nearly four kilos of loose tobacco the Council on 22 January, excessive rent increases. many people in Hackney, company to do so. and 428 individual cigarettes, was found by the Council’s living rents would be set Building homes for living especially young renters, Any surplus income trading standards officers at Hoxton Supermarket, in at a third of average local rent is part of the Council’s work hard and save hard, generated will be reinvested Hoxton Street, after a tip-off from a member of the public. incomes, which could #BetterRenting campaign but are struggling to make in house building. This In addition to the 3.7kg of illegal tobacco behind the till, be around £1,000 per to improve standards and ends meet because of company will not build open cigarette packets were also discovered, indicating month for a two-bedroom affordability for private rocketing rents in the homes itself, but will acquire the shop could have been selling single cigarettes, which property. The average renters in Hackney. private sector. homes that are being built make it cheaper for children to start smoking. equivalent market rent in Successes so far include “These homes for through the Council’s The tobacco did not have health warnings on the packet – Hackney is around £1,800 pressuring the Government living rent will help those regeneration programme, a legal requirement – nor were they in plain packaging. per month. into banning letting fees struggling to stay in that would otherwise have In a separate trading standards operation, Hoxton and introducing Hackney’s Hackney, or save for their been for outright sale or Supermarket was also found to have sold alcohol to own voluntary ban, as well first home, putting an extra shared ownership. children under the age of 18. as a consultation on £800 on average in their Discounted rents will be Residents concerned about a shop near them stocking extending property pocket every month to save subsidised by letting some iillegal tobacco, Living rent criteria: licensing to towards a deposit. of the properties at market oor selling tackle rogue “We’re building rates, with all homes let on aalcohol to • Rent or work in landlords. thousands of new Council longer tenancies than the cchildren, should Hackney More than homes for those most in average home in the private vvisit: www. • Have a maximum 34,000 homes need, and I’m proud that sector in order to provide hhackney.gov. are privately our living rent will expand stability for tenants. uuk/trading- household income of rented in our offer to help those who More details are set to sstandards; £60,000 Hackney – aren’t eligible for social be published in the next oor call: 020 • Be unable to buy a around a third of housing but still need a few months. 88356 4929. home in Hackney 6 29 January 2018 feature Rachel Point (left) “I lived in Rachel Point with my parents when I was 16. It was so modern at the time, it seemed to be the future. My dad had become pretty much incapacitated by a heart attack. The theory was, he could use the lift in this brand-new block of flats. In fact, the lift kept breaking down. Many people just got stranded. The heating broke down too. I had this idea to take photos of everyone in the block. I have just six to eight surviving pictures, but it’s the décor I find fascinating now. That, and the fact that many people look very happy to be there. They had come from far worse housing. But the blocks were knocked down about 25 years later, because they weren’t built to last.” Lew Lesson the Barber (below) “This was taken in 1974. Mr Lesson, the barber, was a really lovely man who worked in Shacklewell Lane. People had been coming to him for years and years, and in some cases had very little hair to cut. But he would still pay huge attention to how he did it. He was very proud of what he did, a very gentle and kind man. He would go and visit his older or disabled customers, cut their hair at home and not charge them. He was very fastidious, too, spotlessly clean. Hackney Museum now has his barber’s chair on display.” Another time, another place Neil Martinson’s exhibition at Stour Space captures Hackney during the 1970s B ROKEN down toy. The resulting photos and bombed might be rougher than those The odd car in a street was a out houses produced by the mature sight to behold and we provided endless photographer, and which adventures,” says would swoon in admiration now hang in hallowed photographer Neil spaces like the National Martinson, describing Portrait Gallery. the Hackney of his in what the gallery is my council flat.” But today, they exert a 1970s childhood. describing as ‘possibly the He took a Saturday job ghostly power to transport Adding: “Rag and largest collection of unseen at Woolworths on Stoke you back to Hackney as bone men would tour the Hackney images from Newington High Street in it was when, Martinson streets on a horse and cart, the 70s and 80s’. Now a order to save for his first says: “Down and outs ringing a bell with their renowned photographer, ever camera. would try and sell their own indecipherable cry. The odd Martinson first picked up Martinson recalls: “Each tatty, shredded clothes and car in a street was a sight a camera while a boy at week I would look in awe crowds would throng round to behold and we would Hackney Downs School. at the window of North stalls selling food well past swoon in admiration.” He says: “I was inspired London Cameras and its use by date.” Hackney may have by my trips to Stoke the wondrous display of Another Time Another changed a good deal since, Newington Library. It cameras. The best I could Place is at Stour Space from but a new exhibition of was a forbidding place manage on my meagre 1 to 23 February. It is open Martinson’s work is set to with fierce librarians saving was a Russian daily from 9am to 5pm and conjure those days back whose glance could kill made Zenith E. But it was entrance is free. to life. Called ‘Another if the slightest noise was everything that a boy could MORE INFO Time Another Place’, the made. But hidden on the want from a camera.” show at Stour Space in shelves were photographic Lens in hand, he began For more information Hackney Wick resurrects books of an exciting world to roam the streets visit: www. over 60 of his photographs, beyond the confines of experimenting with his new stourspace.co.uk www.hackney.gov.uk 7 29 January 2018 Bethnal Green Road (below) “This is one of the first pictures I ever took in my life. Back then, I was often attracted to markets because they’re such bustling, public places. I love the clothing people are wearing in this, but actually it could be quite a sad place, people would come just to sell their own clothes. There’s been some sentimentalisation about the way the East End used to be and I think a lot of it is misplaced: in that period of time, there was a lot more poverty, the living conditions were pretty grim.” Homeless (left) “This was taken in 1981, when families from Hackney were being rehoused in these really appalling bed and breakfast hotels in Finsbury Park. I went in and took photos and they were published in a booklet called ‘Homeless in Hackney’, along with a list of policy recommendations. Not least among them was that they should stop using these overcrowded, dangerous hotels. We presented it to the Council, and it changed its policy Hackney Town Hall protest (above) “This was taken during one of the rent-capping demonstrations, when the Town Hall was effectively Lesney’s Matchbox occupied. The people stormed Factory (below) in, whilst there was a debate “In the 70s and 80s Hackney still by councillors about whether had a manufacturing base. The or not they should set a rate. largest by far was Lesney’s on In the late 70s the Council the River Lea, where hundreds of was still very remote from mostly women made Matchbox what was going on in the cars. Their shifts were arranged borough. Suddenly, people so they could fit in their childcare began to take action and needs and a fleet of double-decker speak up. The Council had buses would transport them to and to take notice of them, and it from work.” changed things.” Stoke Newington School (left) “What I love about this picture is that they both look so self-assured and in charge of what they’re doing. It was common to see children playing on the streets in the 1970s. The lack of traffic, and very different attitudes, gave children a freedom that seems quite remote now. My own memory as a child was of ‘going out to play’ all day long and my parents having no idea of where I was or what I was doing.” 8 29 January 2018 IS IT ARE YOU A BETTER TO GIVER GIVE OR TO OR A RECEIVE? 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A: Hackney’s recycling gets sorted at two material recovery facilities in Edmonton and Bow, along with six other London boroughs. These facilities send almost all their plastics to UK reprocessors, so the Chinese Have your say on a consultation to help reduce pollution by banning high emission vehicles in two zones in Shoreditch restrictions are not expected to affect Hackney’s plastic Low-emission streets recycling. The most important thing is to make sure you only put plastic bottles, tubs and HACKNEY and from work and school. trays in the Islington councils The streets around Shoreditch “Our ultimate goal is to recycling. are consulting reclaim the streets from Some other suffer from some of the on a scheme polluting motor vehicles: plastics, worst air quality in London which could see all but this ground breaking including the cleanest vehicles scheme is the first step plastic banned from two zones towards doing that.” film, bags in Shoreditch. well as pedestrians and it easier and safer to walk Residents and businesses and wraps The scheme would mean cyclists, will be allowed. and cycle and improve the in the streets affected cannot be that petrol, diesel and older Cllr Feryal Demirci, character of the area for all would still be able to use recycled. hybrid vehicles would not Cabinet Member for residents and businesses. their cars. be allowed to enter nine Neighbourhoods, “To start with we’re The consultation closes MORE INFO streets during the peak Transport and Parks, proposing to ban petrol on 14 February. commuter periods of 7am said: “The streets around and diesel vehicles in the To ask the Genie a question, e-mail: recycling to 10am and 4pm to 7pm, Shoreditch suffer from morning and evening rush MORE INFO @hackney.gov.uk, or write to: Green Genie, Monday to Friday. some of the worst air hours to reduce people’s Communications, Hackney Town Hall, Mare For more info, and Ultra low emission quality in London. Ultra exposure to dangerous Street, E8 1EA. For more information on recycling in to have your say, vehicles like electric cars, low emission streets will fumes and make the streets the borough call: 020 8356 6688, or visit: visit: consultation. e-bikes, the newest hybrids have reduced levels of air safer when people are www.hackney.gov.uk/recycling hackney.gov.uk and hydrogen vehicles, as and noise pollution, make walking and cycling to and Reduce carbon emissions with a renewable energy website HOW many times a day do One Hackney businessman can create emissions until I need a vast amount of energy you type a word into Google, is waging war on that mention it to them.” to keep them online, but most or click send on an e-mail? pollution. Dalston resident As a result, last year he are still powered by fossil fuels. Each time we use the Ben Clifford spent a founded Erjjio a web-design In fact, these data centres internet we are generating decade working at a major business. 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