The Hackney Mixer

Castleforge are in talks with Hackney Council to back out from - or adapt - the 2017 agreement.

Haggerston Baths is sinking into ruin — and locals fear it won't be saved The Grade-II listed pool has been shuttered for 25 years. But with a private-equity-funded redevelopment falling through and a cash-strapped council, will it ever reopen, wonders Peter Carlyon.

New piece in @londonermag.bsky.social this morning on the current status of Haggerston Baths!

The private equity scheme to restore the building... is not going so well. Still derelict after 8 years, and Hackney Council now spends over £200,000 p/a on security

www.the-londoner.co.uk/haggerston-b...

How Hackney Marshes became wild again Local ecologists and volunteers have brought back voles, mice and kestrels to the marshland

After years of population decline, wildlife is on the up at Hackney Marshes.

@petercarlyon.bsky.social spoke to ecologists at ReNature London and the Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston to find out how they did it.

lovely stuff!

When Peter visited a few weeks back, water was leaking down the walls and bare electrical wiring had been exposed for over two years. It looks like things have only got worse.

Yet more flooding to the tower over the weekend. This time residents coming home to a few centimetres of water in the main lobby

He dug a 20-metre hole under his London townhouse. Who was he? The curious case of the Hackney Mole Man

re-reading this wonderful piece from last year on the Hackney Mole Man. If Iain Sinclair painted him as a colourful eccentric seeking revenge against the British, here Lyttle comes across far more aimless and troubled

Is Fellows Court Hackney's most neglected tower block? Residents speak out.

For the past few years, residents of Fellows Court in Shoreditch have watched as the council-owned block has crumbled around them.

Peter visited to hear more about the leaks, fires and flooding that residents have put up with.