Clips from the 1970s Hackney Marsh Carnival and Festival through the streets and estates of Homerton and on Daubeney Fields.
Set to music by the Hackney Community Orchestra at yesterday’s Hackney History Festival in the Round Chapel.
The Hackney Marsh Festival ran for many years, attracting thousands of people and bringing together neighbourhood schools, nurseries, churches, pubs, clubs, and Chatsworth Road market.
Hundreds of bands, artists and circus acts performed - Sikh warriors, reggae, ska and punk bands, gospel choirs and jazz singers.
Glorious!
With thanks to the Chats Palace Archive.
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We’re getting Kingsmead Estate’s Memory Garden ready to welcome walkers for ‘What the River Wants’ on Saturday 23 May. The guided walk explores how community gardeners, local ecologists, and grassroots projects are restoring, rewilding, and reimagining the River Lea and our communities and neighbourhoods along it.
The event for London Rivers Week forms part of Manifold, an art project by Emma Smith with UCL MultiLab and local communities.
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Planting trees is one thing. Building thriving ecosystems around them is another.
We’ve partnered with the Tree Musketeers @tm_hackney to enhance the six tree biomes in Millfields park with ground flora to support pollinators. We’ve already had great success putting 5000 English bluebells into the native biome, which are now providing habitat for ground-nesting bees. This year we’re going to fill the other five.
We’re starting with the East Asian biome. Last week Hackney Buzzline volunteers went to the Tree Nursery on Hackney Marshes to plant 50 Japanese anemone roots - enough to fill a pallet full of pots.
Japanese anemones are a perennial plant native to China and cultivated for centuries in Japan. They naturalise well in woodland areas and are on the RHS ‘Perfect for Pollinators’ list.
We’ll plant them out in September and once they establish they should spread quickly, filling another biome with beautiful flowers in future years.
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Last week we posted about how the bluebells we planted in the native tree biome on Millfields are providing perfect nesting habitat for mining bees.
We’re pleased to let you know about another ecological success story. We recently delivered a nature recovery training day with @grow_n22 for Hackney Housing grounds staff in the Gascoyne Estate in Hackney Wick. As part of our habitat restoration we resurfaced the old Hackney Brook - a river hidden underground for over 150 years. We dug out small channels and lined them with sand and mud.
We now have lots of red mason bees quarrying the banks to collect material to make their nests. But these aren’t ground-nesting ‘mining bees’. They’re cavity nesting bees, the kind who commonly use bee hotels.
It shows how urban nature recovery is not just a thing for parks. It can also be done in housing estates and your own garden.
#hackneybuzzline #naturerecovery #bees #hackney #hiddenriver
🚨 JUST A FEW MORE HOURS TO GO 🚨
Our Earth Raise campaign closes at MIDDAY TOMORROW.
This is your last chance to have your donation doubled for Hackney’s pollinators.
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⏰ LAST 24 HOURS ⏰Our Earth Raise campaign closes at midday TOMORROW.
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There are many ways to connect with nature. Walking and singing are two good ones.
@wildcities_ Pollinator Pilgrimage from Walthamstow Wetlands to the Hackney Buzzline.
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Everyone deserves access to nature – especially in urban areas where green space is limited.
The Hackney Buzzline project showed us something incredible: over 170 pollinator species are already here, in our borough.
They just need the right habitats to thrive.That’s what your donation creates. Real habitats. Real skills. Real change.
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London’s Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy Mete Cohan MBE popped into the Nightingale Estate parklet today to talk about reimagining urban spaces for people and nature.
The Nightingale parklet reclaims space for nature from car parking bays. It was built by estate residents, supported by climate action charity Possible, and planted for pollinators as part of the Hackney Buzzline.
Our planting is low-maintenance but all projects need some ongoing care. GoodGym volunteers ran 2.5 km to the site today to carry out spring clearing. The event marked the launch of the charity’s Workout for the Future campaign. Over the next year GoodGym will host thousands of sessions across the UK to enable people to run and help the environment at the same time.
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