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Probably a bit too rich for a lot of us Hackney folk, but at least its an alternate to McJobs and Fastbucks for the media lot and the tourists that can afford it.

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Great little venue, and fantastic night@Mindie, well worth a visit! ;D

A vast complex of bars, warehouse spaces, design companies, reprobates, artists, fashionistas, haircuts, aromatic scents, hot hot women and much more. Cafe 1001 is an international meeting place and you are bound to have a friendly chat with someone from somewhere exciting. Rock on.

Site of renouned East end club 93 Feet East. Know for its live dj and gig nights, including the legendary arts and music club night Mindie. Links: www.mindie.co.uk

There are TWO bagel shops here, and which one is better is a popular topic of debate between East London dwellers. I recommend visiting both and making your own mind up! :o)

This is going to be probably the best football stadium in non-league football when completed and a final home for the nomadic former giants of the semi-professional game. Welcome home Stones.

Best name on the tube

This house is a must see for tourists. Dont miss out!!!

The most genius house in London!!!

Fixed: Now resized to cover the correct area of Columbia Road

History It is the grandest and most familiar survival of the architectural genre of banqueting house. Formerly part of the Palace of Whitehall, it was designed by Inigo Jones in 1619 and completed in 1622 with assistance from John Webb. In 1649 King Charles I of England was executed on a scaffold in front of the building. Inside the building there is a single two-story double-cube room which is decorated with paintings by Sir Peter Paul Rubens that were commissioned by Charles I in 1635 to fill the panelling of the ceiling. The Banqueting House introduced a refined Italianate Renaissance style that was unparalleled in Jacobean England, where Renaissance motives were still filtered through the engravings of Flemish Mannerist designers. The roof is all but flat and the roofline is a balustrade. On the street facade all the elements of two orders of engaged columns, Corinthian over Ionic, above a high rusticated basement, are locked together in a harmonious whole. The Banqueting House was planned as part of a grand new Palace of Whitehall, but the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War intervened. In 1685 the Banqueting House became the first building in England to use crown glass in its windows. Later, in the fire that destroyed the old Whitehall Palace the isolated position of the Banqueting Hall preserved it from the flames.

Used to have a fantastic art deco entrance hall which fortunately was saved when they changed (ruined) the interior in 1969 and was exhibited at the V&A museum in 2003 where I believe it is stored (not normally in public view). http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about/strand/strand_html.htm

They have tours around on the annual heritage London open day (think in September) - very interesting history about the docks and shipping as well as the customs part, though that's good too.

I use to go shopping here with my Grandparents when I was a kid from 1936 to 1951, they lived at 79 Pownall Road

it,s very nice and cheap hotel.all the staf is very friendly include maintenance ,chambermaid,housekepper.thank you for the service

But they've since changed their minds, now saying in the "GUIDE TO THE OLYMPIC, PARALYMPIC & LEGACY TRANSFORMATION PLANNING APPLICATIONS AND OLYMPIC VILLAGE (PART) AND LEGACY RESIDENTIAL PLANNING APPLICATION LOWER LEA VALLEY OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC MASTERPLAN & LOWER LEA VALLEY LEGACY MASTERPLAN FEBRUARY 2007": "Demolitions at Kings Yard will have a moderate adverse effect as will the loss of Bully Point Pond and some wasteland invertebrate habitats" No doubt the newts will be decanted.

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