Lower Clapton 1937 BROOKES the former Clarence cinema on left Russian shop and on right next Spokes -ken jacobs

Mare Street Chapel, Hackney 1904

hackney station Amhurst road Railway tavern c1904

View of front elevations of houses at 337-355 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green.

Located at 538-540 Kingsland Road, Dalston. E8. This opened as the Kingsland Imperial Picture Theatre in 1912, and had 500 seats. It was enlarged to 900 seats in 1933, and re-opened as the Plaza Cinema. Closed on 19th December 1959. The original facade was later removed and the building became a snooker club upstairs, with a shop downstairs (for many years an Oxfam shop). It was demolished in April/May 2009 as part of the Dalston Junction redevelopment. cinematreasures.org/theater/14883/

May Day Poppin and Mr. Gene Kennedy for the Kennedy Pony Farm of Taylorville, IL. 1974.

Today’s blog post is all about how you can re-create your own designer lampshade for a fraction of the price; let’s call it the House of hackney Hack! Even though it’s bound to get on House of hackney’s wick. Hackney… wick.. get it  (sorry, but I couldn’t help myself… taxi for Cotton). But as Oscar Wilde once said ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’, and if you learn anything from this post, it should be the knowledge that lamp covering isn’t that difficult and if I can do it, you certainly can.  So, let’s get started.

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