Celebrating Hackney’s past, shaping its future – since 1967
Celebrating Hackney’s past, shaping its future – since 1967
Spaces is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Hackney Society. Members get copies to their door each quarter. Back issues can be found below, 3 months after publishing date.
Spaces covers planning and historic building issues in the borough. It also covers topical issues, forthcoming events, building watch and updates on Hackney Society projects and events.
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Summer 25: The Black and White Building, Dalston terrace saved?, Grant for Hackney Museum
Spring 25: Hackney Design Awards, Grade II listed Colvestone Primary School building
Summer 24: Frampton Park Estate, Benyon Estate, Historic buildings and climate change
Autumn 22: Yorkton Workshops, Clapton Portico, Alexander Baron’s memoirs, Hackney Revealed festival
Summer 22: Windrush Sculptures, Britannia Project, Stamford Hill Area Action Plan revisited, Hackney Central Plan
Spring 22: Hackney Bridge, Stamford Hill Area Action Plan, Vincent Stops – Planning Committee, Holborn Studios revisited, The Peace Mural
Summer 21: St Mary’s Centre; Christchurch Estate; The Laburnum Mosaics and the Legacy of Freeform Arts in Hackney; CAAC Volunteers Wanted
Spring 21: Three Rooms Under a New Roof; Morning Lane People’s Space; 96, 98 and 98a Clapton Common; Beecholme Estate; Hackney Design Awards 2020; Women from Hackney’s History
Winter 21: 6 Broadway Market Mews; Buildings at Risk: 98 Clapton Common; Phase 3 Woodberry Down; Central and South Hackney CAAC
Autumn 20: PEER Gallery; Buildings at Risk: The Clapton Portico; Statue of Sir Robert Geffrye
Summer 20: Wrong House; Buildings at Risk: St James the Great; Holborn Studios; Openness and its Collective Value; East London Line
Spring 20: Pitwell Mews; Mind the Gap; Buildings at Risk: The Tin Tabernacle; Book Review
Winter 20: Kings Crescent Estate; Buildings at Risk: St Columba Church; St John at Hackney
Autumn 19: De Beauvoir Block; New Gravel Pit Burial Ground; London’s Anatomy; Bohemia Place
Summer 19: 146A Rushmore Road; Buildings at Risk: 195 Mare Street; Hackney Disinfecting Station; Green Spaces Walks
Spring 19: Hackney Town Hall; Hackney Design Awards 2018; Holborn Studios; Talks at the Tower; Pitcairn House
Winter 19: Black Stone House; Building Watch – St John’s Churchyard, Boris Building
Autumn 18: Garden House; Hackney Characterisation Study; Picture from a Portrait: Broad Street Nocturne; Toynbee Hall
Summer 18: Hackney Wick Station; Hackney Wick; Picture from a Portrait: Demonstrators calling for an inquiry into the death of Colin Roach
Spring 18: Woodberry Wetlands; 50 Years of SPACE; Small Sites; Picture from a Portrait: Stoke Newington West Reservoir
Winter 18: Vex; Holborn Studios; Picture from a Portrait: Bums Poster; Lower Clapton
Autumn 17: Grange Hall; Whither Shoreditch? Picture from a Portrait: Hackney Wick Stadium
Spring 17: The Makers House; A Tale of Two Basements; When is Reproduction Good Conservation?; Champion for Hackney Heritage
Winter 17: The Cube Building; Hackney Central Masterplan; Hackney Design Awards 2016
Autumn 16: Barretts Grove; Amhurst Road Rescue Home; Hackney Design Awards 2016; 200 Years of Methodism in Stoke Newington; People’s History of Lower Clapton
Summer 16: Corten Extension London Fields; Building Watch – Hackney Fashion Hub, 195 Mare St, All a Façade, Former Hackney Police Station; Derek Baker 1936-2016
Spring 16: Blackbox: Building Watch – Hackney Pubs, Bishopsgate Goodsyard; Lower Clapton’s Heritage, Castle Cinema; Hackney CAACs
Winter 16: Passivhaus; Building Watch – A Tale of Two City Buildings, Holborn Studios; Hackney’s Pillories
Autumn 15: St Mary of Eton; 197 Mare Street; Hindle House War Memorial Project; The Boundary
Summer 15: Church Walk; Building Watch – Haggerston Baths; Amhurst Road: Gibbons Department Store
Spring 15: Writer’s Shed; Building Watch: Old Street/City Road, Old Schoolhouse; Dalston Conservation Area
Winter 15: Clonbrock Road; Building Watch: Dalston Lane, Wilmer Place, 195 Mare Street; Sponsored Walk; Hackney Design Awards; Review of ‘The Hackney Scout Song Book’
Autumn 14: Curtain Road; Building Watch – Dalston Lane, Bishopsgate Goodsyard, Chesham Arms, Leyton Marsh; Hindle House War Memorial Project
Summer 14: Pond House; Hackney Design Awards; Building Watch – Saving Dalston Lane, Wilmer Place, Northchurch Road
Spring 14: The Urswick School; Building Watch – An authorised vandalism?, Wilmer Place, 195 Mare Street; Rarely Seen Hackney Murals.
Winter 14: The Gingerbread House; Poor Hackney Central; Regeneration and Planning in Dalston; Building Watch – 195 Mare St, Haggerston Baths.
Autumn 13: Bridport House; Building Watch – QECH, 195 Mare Street, Old Schoolhouse, Wilmer Place; Trustees for HHBT
Summer 13: Woodberry Down; Chats Palace; Building Watch – Geffrye Museum, Dalston Development, Chesham Arms
Spring 13: Tramshed; Building Watch – St Mary’s Lodge, St-John-at-Hackney; Pickwick Bicycle Club; Abney Park Cemetery
Winter 13: Haggerston School Refurbishment; Love Local Landmarks; 2012 Hackney Design Awards; Building Watch – Chesham Arms, Holborn Studios, Dalston Development, Pond House
Autumn 12: Matchmakers Wharf Studios; Building Watch – Developing Hackney, A Building Worth Fighting For (Queen Elizabeth Children’s Hospital); Harold Pinter Plaque; Review of ‘The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State’; Haggerston Routes; Open Letter to Hackney Society Members
Summer 12: Telling the Truth through False Teeth; Building Watch – Leyton Marsh, 86-100 Mare Street, Queen Elizabeth Hospital; Review of ‘Acquired for Development By … A Hackney Anthology’
Spring 12: Clapton Girls’ Academy; Building Watch – Corsham Street, Clapton Cinematograph Theatre, London Fields; Lea Bridge River Heritage Centre
Winter 12: Hackney Service Centre; Building Watch – Churches at Risk, Wenlock Arms, Pembury Estate; Love Local Landmarks
Autumn 11: 39 Parkholme Road; Building Watch – The Lee Valley, Upper Clapton United Reformed Church
Summer 11: Bateman’s Row; Building Watch – Pond House, Haggerston Baths; Entertainment in Hackney – Hackney Empire
Winter – Spring 11: Eastern Curve; Where shall we all live?; Chatsworth Road Neighbourhood Plan; Building Watch – The George, Clissold Park; Love Local Landmarks; Entertainment in Hackney – Rio Cinema, Hackney Picturehouse, Arcola Theatre, Clapton Arts Trust, Clowns Church; 2010 Hackney Design Awards
Summer – Autumn 11: Shoreditch Rooms; Tea Building and White Swan; From Dalston to Shoreditch; New Lansdowne Club; Hackney Design Awards; Ship Aground; LBH Training Centre; Review of ‘The Green Guide for Historic Buildings’
Spring 10: Lauriston Primary School; Building Watch – LBH Training Centre for Adults, Ship Aground PH; Anna Barbauld
Summer 09 – Winter 10: The City Academy; From Fever to Consumption; St Leonard’s Hospital; The Mothers’ Hospital; Ivy House; Hackney Hospital; John Scott Health Centre; New Lansdowne Club
Spring 09: Shoreditch Prototype House; Manor Garden Allotments; Building Watch – Clapton Square, Haggerston Baths, Pond House
Winter 09: Adelaide Wharf; Restoration of Clapton Library; Boundary; Hackney Design Awards; Building Watch – Light Bar, Clapton Cinematograph Theatre, St Mary’s Lodge, Clarence Mews
Autumn 08: Bridge Academy; From Fever to Consumption; West Hackney Recreation Ground; London Fields Lido; St Augustine’s Tower; Building Watch – Tram Depot
Summer 2008: Clapton Cinematograph; Woodberry Down Estate; CLR James Library; Discover Hackney’s Heritage; Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored; Building Watch – Dalston Lane
Spring 2008: M-hotel; Urban Design and Conservation News; Park Buildings; Healthcare in Hackney; Tree Watch – Planners versus Trees
Winter 2008: Rivington Place, Swimming in Hackney, Buried by the Blitz, Children’s Centres, Building Watch – Clapton
Spring 06: Greenwood Road, Discovering Loddiges, Shoreditch Town Hall, Building watch – Central and South Hackney
Winter 2003: Bishopsgate Goodsyard, St. John-at-Hackney Gardens, Waste and Recycling, Member of Staff Leaves
Autumn 2002: Action for Hackney Heritage, New Tower on the Horizon, Newcomers to the Society, and Crumbling Hackney?
Summer 2002: Shoreditch Church, Old Fire Station, Haggerston Pool Update, and River Lea Development
Winter 2002: Libraries Not For Sale, Culture House, Action for Hackney Heritage, and Living Streets
Autumn 2001: Clissold Leisure Centre, London Open House, Stoke Newington Reservoir, and Community Gardens
Spring 2001: Parks Under Threat, Shoreditch Town Hall, Albion Square, and Cycling in Hackney
Winter 2001: Lennox House Listed, Planning Crisis Action on Litter, and Hackney’s Empty Homes
Autumn 2000: London Open House, St John at Hackney, Action on Empty Houses, A Load of Old Rubbish?
Spring 2000: Winning Designs, Stoke Newington Town Hall, Haggerston Pool Victory, Celebrating Diversity
Winter 2000: St John at Hackney Gardens, New Deal Update, Conservation Award, Protecting Hackney’s Trees
Spring 1999: Welcome to Spaces, Linscott Portico, Young People and Planning, Town Hall Square, Woodberry Down
