Posts Tagged ‘Ridley Road Market’
Literacy on the high seas: Hackney Pirates looks back on an incredible six years
Pioneering afterschool club’s founder Catriona Maclay looks back on its successes thus far
Read MoreScoffing offal – a Hackney history
Once considered a cheap dish fit only for the poor, offal is in fact a delicacy in its own right
Read MoreCrossrail 2 plans to demolish Dalston homes blasted by Hackney Council
Cabinet member calls for ‘fundamental rethink’ on rail proposals
Read MoreLeader – Ridley Road Market is the soul of Hackney
It’s chaotic, noisy, sometimes smelly – but it would be a tragedy to see it die
Read MoreIs this the end of Ridley Road Market as we know it?
Fee hikes, Crossrail 2 and a changing community are making it difficult for traders to continue
Read MoreRidley Road Market traders ‘might not be able to carry on’ as fee hike looms
Chair of traders’ association says stall holders will struggle to cope with proposed increases
Read MoreRidley Road Market awnings bring mixed blessings for traders
‘Leaky’ canopies criticised amid calls for cheaper parking
Read MoreYour home, only bigger and better
Cutting-edge Hackney architects offer up some free advice on how to improve your home
Read MoreTemple of Doom
Ridley Road is getting its arts in gear with the opening of the new Doomed Gallery
Read MoreRidley Road Market row – is eating cane rat really any different to eating zebra?
Cane rat meat isn’t the problem – we should be more concerned about regulation
Read More‘Let them eat rat’ says diversity expert over Ridley Road Market bushmeat row
Lester Holloway calls for “cultural awareness” in Dalston rat meat scare
Read MoreApp-etising: a Taste of Hackney heritage for your phone
The Taste of Hackney app explores the history of immigration and the food trade in Ridley Road market
Read MoreKen Livingstone visits Ridley Road Market
As the London mayoral race heats up, Labour candidate Ken Livingstone makes his voice heard in the crowded marketplace of Dalston’s Ridley Road
Read MoreDisappearing Dalston
A new photographic exhibition celebrates lost places in a changing neighbourhood
Read MoreHackney Council advises Dalston traders to shut up shop as riot fears hit businesses hard
Shopkeepers and stallholders tell the Citizen how concerns over more civil unrest is affecting them
Read MoreTwenty arrested in Dalston immigration and drugs swoop
A joint operation by Hackney Police, Hackney Council and the UK Border Agency cracks down on Class A drug dealing and immigration offences in Ridley Road and at Dalston Junction
Read MoreStreet markets on the up
Council to take steps to remedy its ‘haphazard and uncoordinated’ approach
Read MoreHackney goes to Nollywood
The Hackney Citizen asked the little guy with the big DVD stall in Ridley Road Market for the four best-selling Nollywood films that are keeping Hackney’s Nigerian community glued to their sofas. Patrick Pringle and Josh Loeb review these Lagos epics
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