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Posts Tagged ‘Lower Clapton’

Hackney primary school scoops up prestigious award for ‘inspiring’ music programme

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 25 February 2026 at 12:38
Dafydd Williams

Rushmore Primary School in Lower Clapton won the Outstanding School Music Department at the Music and Drama Education Awards 2026 last week

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Woman, 42, shot dead in Hackney as police launch murder inquiry

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 6 December 2023 at 08:49
Police tape

A 20-year-old man and a boy, 16, are in hospital with gunshot wounds following incident in Lower Clapton

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Lele’s, Lower Clapton, food review: ‘A cheery vegan oasis’

By Lizzie Deane | Monday 12 August 2019 at 12:40

The ‘sheer joy’ on offer at chef-owner Valentina Fois’ cafe has proved such a hit that she’s opened a second spot in Dalston this month

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The Lower Clapton Tales, Carolyn Clark, book review: plus ça change…

By Adam Barnett | Wednesday 22 November 2017 at 10:36
Jubilee: Glyn Road girls celebrate the Queen's 25th year on the throne in this image from The Lower Clapton Tales. Photograph: Pat Hornsby

Think you know ‘Clop Ton’? We wager you’ll glean something new from this “charming book of memories, photographs and historical artefacts”

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Pages of Hackney lines up Charles Saumarez Smith and talks on climate change and Brexit in July events programme

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 June 2017 at 12:06
Talking shop: Pages of Hackney on Lower Clapton Road. Photograph: Pages of Hackney

The cultural historian and museum director pitches up at the Lower Clapton Road bookshop on 17 July, following talks earlier in the month featuring Client Earth and political journalist Ian Dunt

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Les Nénettes, Clapton, restaurant review – ‘classic southern French’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 14:58
Très bien: the exterior of Les Nénettes. Images: Les Nénettes

This new French restaurant on La rue de Lower Clapton offers fine fare from apéritifs to main course

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Memories to be brought to life at Lower Clapton history event at Round Chapel

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 October 2016 at 11:45
The Round Chapel. Photograph: Tarquin Binary (Creative Commons)

Exhibition, storytelling and film screenings to take place next month as part of Lower Clapton Heritage Project

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Chatsworth Road takeaway boss wiped CCTV and destroyed evidence to cover up double stabbing

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 26 July 2016 at 12:31
Sameer Hussain

Fast food worker handed 21-month suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice

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My Neighbours the Dumplings – restaurant review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 15 April 2016 at 13:30

Food fanatics are flocking to sample Clapton’s newest dim sum parlour

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Rootdown, Lower Clapton – review: California dreaminess

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 18 November 2015 at 10:00

Cosy family-run restaurant offering ‘Californian cuisine’ boasts an inventive menu of seasonal, small-scale dishes

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Free school reveals plans for derelict Hackney Central Police Station

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 6 October 2015 at 13:54

The Olive School proposes to refurbish the Grade II listed police station and construct a three-storey block in the back yard

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Verden – restaurant review: a sign of how far Clapton has come?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 April 2015 at 10:00

There’s an impressive selection of food and wine at Verden in Lower Clapton, though not much of a local feel

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Squatters take over building in Grade II listed Mothers Square

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 February 2015 at 14:18

Squatters say they want to open up the building and ‘collaborate with the local community’

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Third man charged with murder of student Joseph Burke-Monerville

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 December 2014 at 11:29

19 year-old London Met student was shot in the head as he sat in a parked car in Lower Clapton

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Lower Clapton residents debate future of Chatsworth Road

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 6 April 2013 at 10:14

Chatsworth Road Neighbourhood Forum workshops inspire lively debate about future of the area

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Word Up: screen prints exhibition by Mr Gresty

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 11 December 2011 at 10:42
If Anything Can Go Rong It Will

Mr Gresty’s Word Up exhibition of typographic screen prints is on show at Biddle Bros until 21 January 2012

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Chatsworth Road Market on its way

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 August 2010 at 11:42

Lower Clapton set to host monthly Sunday street stalls as campaign succeeds

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