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The Secret History of East London documents a shared history of Hackney and beyond, showing glimpses of previous lives, temporary spaces and urban landscapes. So far pinned are Manor Gardens Allotment, now bulldozed and underneath the Olympic Park, warehouse raves across the borough, art installations and pop-up restaurants.
Via Dazed Digital.
The pot hole gardener: the green antidote to the lumps and bumps in our roads. East London cyclist Steve Wheen featured in the Metro this week, planting flowers in potholes as a protest to the state of roads. His website the pothole gardener has had 25,000 hits in its first month. People are happily suggesting new locations for these mini - and often very temporary - gardens. ‘I am following up some suggestions. One is that I try and turn Edgware Road into Kew Gardens,’ he said, somewhat ambitiously, ‘Now I can’t stop looking at potholes wherever I go.’
