Hackney Road
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Hackney Road is a London arterial route running from Shoreditch at Shoreditch Church to Cambridge Heath. It occupies a no mans land in between Bethnal Green and Haggerston. For half of its course it forms the boundary between the London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
It 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 such as Browns and The Olde Axe; (Clifton 2002); 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 City Farm is located at the junction of Goldsmith's Row on the northern (Hackney) side of the road.
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.
[edit] References
Clifton, L. (2002) Baby Oil and Ice: Striptease in East London. The Do-Not Press Limited: London.
