More Hackney on the Web

Ever wondered how the outside world sees Hackney? Returning to YouTube to trawl through the best videos featuring our borough, webmaster Alex Ogle presents the next installment of our two part series, imaginatively titled "Hackney on YouTube."


1. Hoxton Square, try-hard fashionistas, playground magazine offices, wide boys with weird haircuts rolling about on silly little bikes... It can only be razorsharp C4 series Nathan Barley satirising the side of Hackney where irony dies and idiots rule.


2. Ever cursed those crack-ridden estates? Ever dreamt of the high-rises crumbling to earth? If so, enjoy this spectacle of Hackney regeneration.


3. Races and generations come together in Hackney to play the British Empire's greatest gift to the world: cricket.

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Hackney: Did You Know...?

Every week, we reveal some lesser-known facts about Hackney.

There are 1,300 listed buildings in Hackney, including the Grade I medieval St Augustine's Tower and Grade II Hackney Empire, both in Hackney Central.

London's first theatre was built in Shoreditch, circa. 1575.

Eastenders’ Albert Square is based on Fassett Square near Dalston Junction. The Victorian square gave producers Tony Holland and Julia Smith the inspiration for BBC1's first soap opera.

The word ‘hackneyed’ comes from the Hackney horses that were so widely available and common by the 18th century that the term became an adjective meaning stale, unoriginal or trite.

There are 150 different nationalities in the borough.

Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, Michael Caine (below), and playwright Harold Pinter were all educated in Hackney.

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Controversial video on website

Type in 'Hackney' on YouTube and you may be surprised with how much you find. Webmaster Chris Green separated the wheat from the chaff.

THE HACKNEY OC

The one which started it all off, not without controversy.

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