Comments on: The Modest Wonders Of Hackney Wick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Emma Duveen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1629940 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:40:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1629940 Hi, I am the Great – Grandaughter of Bernard Birnbaum and researching our family history. Are these buildings stillstanding? How would I find out more? Thank you

]]> By: Vanda Human https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1086782 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:03:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1086782 Such beautiful old buildings that have been destroyed with graffitti. Why must people deface property that does not belong to them.

]]> By: James https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1086388 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 01:09:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1086388 @Capital Walker Old fashioned sweets are such a memory trigger. I too was plunged back into my childhood by the Clarnico name. There are more photographs of the Clarnico factory (and of their brass band and fire engine) here
http://thetreborstory.com/page3.html
and here
http://www.wickcuriosityshop.net/collection/clarnico.sweets
Sad that there are so few enterprises now with even a trace of the commitment to their local community that these paternalistic Victorian businesses had.

]]> By: Annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1085419 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:29:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1085419 have signed.

I wonder if you have come across the London Centre for Book Arts, set up by the lovely Simon Goode. Continuing the print tradition in Fish Island and keeping old presses maintained and put to good use…

http://www.londonbookarts.org

]]> By: Capital Walker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1085376 Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:17:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1085376 For me Clarnico didn’t mean chocolate, but the best peppermint creams. White discs with a thick (pre-decimal) penny with a crisp sugar crust. First thing I looked for in my Christmas stocking! Thank you for highlighting the threat to these buildings

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1085062 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:08:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1085062 Good luck to Tom Ridge, hope his petition will be successful. Valerie

]]> By: Natalie Koch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1085042 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:09:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1085042 Signed the petition. I went to Hackney Wick once to listen to poetry under the A12 flyover, it was a magical experience. I love these atmospheric industrial neighbourhoods, they tell us something about our history and who we are, they give us something those bland commercial redevelopments never could. Good luck on the campaign.

]]> By: Doreen Fletcher https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1085028 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 07:09:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1085028 So pleased to see Tom Ridge still going strong and fighting to preserve East End heritage. I first came across him on blustery hot August day in 1986. He was sifting through rubble near Limehouse Cut and in danger of serious sunburn! I and my partner fell into conversation with him and he was telling us all about his fight to create the Ragged School Museum, which he was successful with. A wonderful character and lovely person.

]]> By: Robert Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/10/the-modest-wonders-of-hackney-wick/#comment-1085007 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:18:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144735#comment-1085007 Over the Easter weekend, I myself along with my partner did exactly this walk, we also took lots and lots of photos of all the same buildings. I have walked this area at least once or twice a week for over 50 years since I was a young boy and, although many of these historic buildings are still being used in some way, I can remember the days when this area was a hive of manufacturing employing literally tens of thousands of people. Now with the demolition of many existing buildings already underway as part of the grand ‘regeneration’ ? scheme, it is now set to become the location for tens of thousands of ‘luxury’ ? ? flats – ‘regeneration’ ? ? Stretching slightly further off this route is the new Olympic Park that is laid out across the area where Carpenters Rd and Waterden Rd used to be, areas that provided thousands upon thousands of jobs for local people now gone and replaced with thousands upon thousands upon thousands of blades of GRASS. Yes it all looks much cleaner now, indeed almost clinically clean in fact but ‘regeneration’ ? ? I suppose the only thing I have to admit is that I suppose it will at least provide a pleasant backdrop for the people who are going to inhabit the soon to be built ‘ticky tacky little boxes’ (or to give them their official status ‘luxury flats’) that will be built on what’s left of Fish Island so they can spend their days looking out of their little boxes across the sterile wasteland laid out before them while they ponder what to do with the rest of their lives. Still at least the authorities are ‘regenerating’ ? ? this area of one-time mass employment and making it look nicer, HOW MARVELLOUS.

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