Everything Quote by Jay Blades

I felt proud of Hackney before but now even more so with the history. Some of the history is dark, but you still understand,…

— Jay Blades

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

A lot of the people that I spoke to, we are all stars in Hackney, and when it is our time to shine, it…

— Jay Blades

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always…

— Iain Sinclair

I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then you're a…

— Jay Blades

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

— Sarah Pinborough

I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution…

— Ben Schott

As Restoration Man, I am pretty obsessed by history, and the more people know about London's history the more they'll appreciate the place and…

— George Clarke

I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.

— Zawe Ashton

House of Hackney is one of my favourite stores ever.

— Angela Scanlon

Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the…

— David Lammy

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

— Lily Allen