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What's quite interesting is that this is an "outlet mall" in a public street, whereas they are usually bland private parks.
How awful to paint buildings black.
There were many buildings black with soot in the 1950's and it was lovely after the clean air act to see buildings return to lighter shades.
The current expansion plans include the council buying the site of Tesco, and a smaller supermarket being built (alongside more other shops that aren't designer outlets, and "affordable" homes).

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/..
Though this one is maybe more interesting:

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2017/...
Is this possibly an indication of one of the first B's of the next Bust?

I'm proud not to have any idea who this Anya Hindmarch person is - although that applies to most 'famous' people nowadays, I'm firmly in the 'who is this Gazza' camp.
A bizarre mix of one of the poorest areas in London...population wise with high end premium brands. Hackney is a bizarre place.
I've decided anywhere call 'trendy' is usually and undesirable area peppered with high end shops here and there.
I was vaguely amused to see that Burberry, the choice of many a chav in times gone by, has found a home in Chatham (Place).
*sigh* gentrification - the downside (at least for me it is) of improved transport links. Would any of this happened if the Overground hadn't been created?
@John

I think that the idea behind painting the building black, was taken by people who are far to young to remember; the soot covered buildings of the 1950's.
Marc: the Burberry outlet was once attached to a factory. The factory closed but the shop remained and became the impetus for all this development.
The Burberry outlet in Chatham PLace has been there much longer than a decade. I bought a Burberry trenchcoat there in 1984, soon after I got a job at the GLC, and could thereby afford it. As Marc says above, in those days it was a rather scruffy building attached to the factory next door
Hackney never had underground and little overground rail because the snooty well off that lived there objected - and very effectively so. The fact that they missed the boat as a consequence is pure irony. Now the place gets its own 'overpriced tat' mall so that the new residents can pretend they're better than they are is also pure irony. I was always amazed at the east enders' addiction to 'labels' - even for their sick spewing sprogs. I guess its only a short hop from Westfield and that's what Hackney thinks will regenerate their shopping areas. Free convenient parking would accomplish that with less of this brand BS.
I hope there is irony in your post DG because I fair near spewed with the architect/planner marketing speak..."envelope" an' all.
I thought the whole point of a designer outlet centre is to have a criticial mass of shops and restaurants to make a day trip of it. Bicester has over 130 units and the one in Wembley has over 100. Hackney Walk is not big enough.
Aquascutum went bankrupt in 2012 and has been Chinese owned since. The UK factory wasn't wanted so I'm fairly certain the clothes are now all made in the Far East.
http://www.hackneywalk.com/find-us

"Bus Routes along Morning Lane
254, 38, 106, 48 and 55"

Hmmm......
Ah! buildings black with soot brings back memories. Most still in that state in the 1960s and 70s.Perhaps the few that remain need to be protected as a reminder of the past. The north side of St Nicholas Cole Abbey on Queen Victoria Street is a good example.
I was going to add, that I remember all the famous landmarks were still soot-blackened in the 1970s, and Downing Street still appears to be!

I was also going to Google "Anya Hindmarch" but couldn't be bothered to spend 2 minutes of my life finding out!
Shall definitely be giving Hackney Walk a wide berth then!
Plenty of glass; though no shutters in sight. Hackney must be on the "up 'n' up"
I expect the shops will all be trashed the next time there are inner city riots in London.
I thought the shutters in the top photo were quite obvious.
I remember my shock when The Wellington on the corner of Chatham Place and Morning Lane closed down and became, um, the Pringle "outlet".
I spent many a drunken evening in the Welly, and even played mandolin in a (gratis) wedding band there once!
The landlord/lady had moved there from the excellent Floorfield when that closed down to make way for the new library, a decade earlier, so perhaps they were just unlucky...










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