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Ah, Pitfield Street, home of one of the early craft brewers and their marvellous (and award-winning) 'Dark Star'.
PS That historic-uk.com site seems to be a mix of popular myths, half-baked research and a reliance on bollox. I wouldn't trust anything it says.
Martin'O'Holcombe | 06.11.21 - 7:37 a.m. | #
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Great read. As a former resident I say bring forth the B102.
Kevin | 06.11.21 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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I lived just off the B102 so actually quite looking forward to it. Incredible level of gentrification in that area.
David | 06.11.21 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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This post feels distinctively different from the previous, individual street specific ones, so I can't say my hopes to the B102 has been managed well.
Patrickov | 06.11.21 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Please DO keep on with this road series. They're really interesting - all your London Flaneur reports are :)
Agent X | 06.11.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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"... all you need to succeed in modern Hoxton is three centuries of compound interest".
Just a few words, but conveys so much, thanks DG.
Will | 06.11.21 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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My paternal family were Hoxtonites - moving in from nearby Shoreditch when the new streets were built during the completion of the canal, and there they stayed for the next 100 years.
Records indicate that after the sudden death of my Great grandfather, my 3 year old Nan and her siblings moved into a flat in New North Road briefly while they found their feet again.
Cornish Cockney | 06.11.21 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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Wonderful - as far as I'm concerned you can take this as over-seriously as you like! It's meat and drink for many of us - especially if it involves amazing elaborate door lintels.
cau1khead | 06.11.21 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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This series may never explore the northerly and often wind swept B6308, fascinating though it is. But along with the B500 in the City of London, recently walked by DG, these two roads provide the answers to a perfect pair of pub quiz questions.
Rod | 06.11.21 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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Drably Green. What a marvellous name for a fictitious village!
Ben | 06.11.21 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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Well I’m enjoying this ‘tedious new feature’. So - thank you. Hope you enjoy it too.
Herbof | 06.11.21 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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What a lot of people seem to notice most of all when walking up this road is the sign outside an off licence: CHEAP BOOZE in huge letters.
More seriously, I was pleased to see the cinema alive and kicking. I first became aware of the building from Paul Talling's first Derelict London book in 2008. The plans to reopen it as a cinema, after years of use as a cold store, were being questioned at the time as a recently opened picture house nearby (Lux in Hoxton Square) had closed due to poor attendances.
MartinL | 06.11.21 - 8:56 p.m. | #
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As if to prove a point, the blog has seen fewer visitors today than on any day in the last two years.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.11.21 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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I can't believe you'll let statistics swerve your editorial judgement.
ap | 07.11.21 - 12:08 a.m. | #
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You write it, I'll read it! Great stuff.
Might even be the odd C-road knocking about, somewhere in Greater London, or nearby.
Joel | 07.11.21 - 2:55 p.m. | #
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If you follow DG's walks on Google street view (as I do since I'm in the US) just before reaching the Courtyard Theatre you see a fellow on the right in black with a Yellow hoodie underneath and he's giving the Google van an indication of his displeasure with them. Always love the street view.
Steven | 08.11.21 - 8:15 p.m. | #
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I work just off the B101 and it has been strange watching which of the businesses survived the lockdown and which didn't. To be honest I wouldn't have bet on the milner or the art bookshop over Cyclelab, but then Cyclelab shut it's cafe section pre-lockdown from memory, so it's possible they were already in difficulty.
One of the off-licenses (can't remember if it's "Cheap Booze" or not) has a massive photo of a bloke with a pitbull on one of the windows; it's drum-n-bass DJ, DJ Hype, who's a mate of the owner.
Matt | 11.11.21 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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great posts. love the B road series - incisive, lots of details, and brings the area to life from the perspectives of both past and present. well done
ben | 29.05.22 - 10:01 p.m. | #
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