Hackney Road

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Hackney Road is a London arterial route running from Shoreditch to Cambridge Heath. It occupies a no mans land in between Bethnal Green and Haggerston and has yet to experience the gentrification of nearby Columbia Road or Broadway Market. This is possibly due to the unappealing architecture: a mixture of derelict buildings,striptease venues (like Browns), bingo halls and building sites. The derelict buildings include many defunct pubs - such as the curiously named 'Flying Scud' - and the empty Children's Hospital. However, there is a city farm, which brings a touch of the pastoral to this particularly urban area.

Hackney Road is served by the 55, 48 and 26 buses.

On 21 July 2005 at 13:30 BST a small explosion occurred on the Number 26 bus travelling from Waterloo to Hackney Wick, on Hackney Road at the corner with Columbia Road. There were no fatalities in the explosion.

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