Posts Tagged as ‘Hackney’

May 10, 2008

Geff Geffty-Geffrye

Hope y’all appreciate the Izzard reference. Has anyone seen him recently? Is he still funny? I still heart him lots but Bill Bailey has been my comedy hero for some time now, especially after I managed to persuade his agent to get him to do this.
Anyway! I was going to say a little bit about [...]

April 15, 2008

Anarchy in Victoria Park

Victoria Park cropped up briefly a few posts ago, as the site of plentiful suffragette protests and the violent police smackdowns that inevitably accompanied them.
The green “lung” of North East London, Victoria Park was opened in the 1840s amid rising concern about the health of the East End working class, with the aim of providing [...]