E9
October 2014
E9 stories: exotic pets and doodlebugs What’s on: Halloween and half term
Recipe: dark chocolate brownies Q&A: model maker Andy Gent
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Dear neighbours Halloween has grown into a huge event over the years, and is all about pumpkins and trick or treating US-style, rather than the duck apple, snap apple and toffee apples of my childhood, (basically, it was all about apples in those days). You have to admit, it’s much more colourful and fun now. But love it or hate it, you certainly can’t ignore it, and during half term there’s a Halloween event around every corner, from pumpkin-making to the ghouls and ghost walk in Victoria Park (calendar, p18). There’s fun for the grown-ups, too, with a Beetlejuice Halloween Special at Sutton House (p24).
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Q&A: Andy Gent, model maker
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Feature: try some triathlon
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Hackney stories: Doreen’s pets
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What’s on in October
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Noticeboard
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What to do with the kids
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Feature: community food
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October calendar
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What to eat: chocolate brownies from the Hackney Chef
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Gardening: autumn chores
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What’s on in October
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Fundraising for Hackney’s homeless
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Post-holiday fitness
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A dog’s life: to spay or not to spay
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Review: The Laundry
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Index of advertisers
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This month’s Q&A is with Andy Gent, who is an amazing model maker and stop-motion expert. If you’ve seen Fantastic Mr Fox or Frankenweenie, you’ll recognise his work (p4). We also have autumn gardening (p22), fitness (p6 and 26) and Sonia Lambert interviews Doreen Barclay (p8), who looks back at E9 over the years.
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My Hackney What drew you to E9? Working on The Corpse Bride introduced me to East London and I moved here. I quickly realised that it was the only place I’d lived in London where I knew all my neighbours. I’d never known that in other parts of London.
Andy with models from the movie Frankenweenie
Q&A with local model maker Andy Gent Andy grew up in the Peak District and came to London in 1991. The son of a cabinet maker, he had access to a workshop from an early age and was always encouraged to make things. He started making puppets – and eventually a short film – which got him his first job as a runner in Soho. He began creating stop-frame animation and worked in commercials for several years. His first feature film was Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, made at 3 Mills Studio in Bow. He was chief puppet maker on Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and worked with the director again on Grand Hotel Budapest. Some of his work on another of Tim Burton’s films, Frankenweenie, is shown in photos here. He continues to make commercials, as well as mechanical window displays and sculptures, using the effects he created in his films. Andy’s work base is South London but he’s looking for a giant railway arch near his home in Hackney Wick so he doesn’t ever have to leave. He talked to Julie Daniels about work and his passion for Hackney. 4 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
What do you love about where you live? The friendliness is paramount. Also, here in Hackney Wick, it’s a bit like a swan. It’s very calm, but there are a million things going on under the surface. All sorts of vibrant little areas – markets, a huge art community, someone making cloth, brewing, printing. Yet at night I can hear crickets from the Olympic Park. I can walk out to the Lea Valley for miles in greenery, yet I’m so close to the City. It just doesn’t add up and I can’t think of anywhere else in London that’s like it. Lots of different stratas. In my building there are bankers, doctors, designers, people working on costumes. All packed together in a small area. Does the area influence your work? It is very connected to it. You can’t live in isolation from it all. You’re surrounded by street art, theatre, the festival that’s here, and they keep you switched on to things. You might see a design somewhere and think “that would be brilliant for something I’m working on”. Even where we are now (The Muff Café) – a café that’s doing custom motorcycles – only in Hackney! How does E9 compare to other areas? Kingston, where I first lived when I came to London, was different to here. I’ve lived in Stockwell – well I only really knew the people I was living with. Moving to this area there was an instant sense of integration. The park’s on the doorstep and having a dog (see Charlie on p28), you do get to know a lot of people very quickly. Lots of people you meet are artists, designers, sculptors, connected to a creative field. What makes you most proud? If you can be proud of what you’ve done and enjoy it, life’s a very different experience. A film outlives the process of making it tenfold and 20 years on people will still remember it; that’s a nice feeling. It’s great to work with fantastic people and still be friends with them. We had a great time with Bill Murray, who did voiceover on Fantastic Mr Fox.
My Hackney We ended up in the Palm Tree and other crazy late-night drinking establishments. It was the most surreal thing standing in a pub with Bill Murray and Wes Anderson and you’re wondering to yourself “is this really happening?”
Is there anything you would change? I’d like to stop things from changing. I don’t want it to get too different from how it is now. Change is good as long as you don’t lose some of things that have made an area what it is.
What are you working on? Several commercials, a few feature films that we’re being invited to be involved in with some people we’ve worked with before on Fantastic Mr Fox. I’ve just made giant pistachios for Graze and thousands of rubber ducks for an Oxo commercial.
Hackney’s best-kept secret? Hackney is its own best-kept secret. Remember those “Keep Hackney Crap” badges? Don’t tell them the truth.
Best coffee in these parts? First coffee of the day (because coffee-drinking comes in three parts for me) from The Counter, then Loafing for round two; Brick Lane for my third.
If Hackney were human? A man for all seasons. There’s everything here if you care to look. Hackney in a word? Fluid.
What do you do at the weekend? A lot of walking, for sure. Lots of time will be spent finding somewhere really nice for breakfast, and keeping the caffeine topped up. If I can lose three hours walking in the Lea Valley, that won’t be a bad weekend. If I can manage to get a workshop here it’s more or less guaranteed that I’ll get a boat and then it’ll be all the fun of the fair. Where do you eat out? The Hemingway. There’s no better Sunday roast in the area. Crate Brewery do great pizzas and nothing beats the Pavilion breakfast. The best thing about where you live? The people. The place has that openness you don’t get in other parts of London. Photo: Leah Gallo
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Swim, cycle, run Advertorial
If you like swimming, cycling and running and are looking for a whole-body workout, then Capital Tri could be for you, says Laura Turner
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apital Tri is an E9-based triathlon club and sports events organiser for people of all athletic ability, run by three people who have different attitudes to sport, but who all love to keep fit, and busy. We are: Rohan, an accomplished Iron Man who represented Australia at the World Championships; Chris, a general sports fanatic, who loves to race when he can, and myself, a new mum who loves to keep fit, but couldn’t care less about her PB! Our different approaches to sport means we’re able to run events that attract all sorts of people.
So what do we do? You’ll find us running all kinds of races and training sessions around Hackney and East 6 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
London – primarily geared towards triathlon. So there’s something for everyone, whether you’re a seasoned triathlete or brand new to the sport. Throughout the spring and summer we spend a lot of time at Stoke Newington’s West Reservoir, where we hold open water swimming races, aquathlons (swim and run) and weekly open water training sessions. The beautiful setting and fantastic facilities often come as a surprise to newcomers – many of whom live locally but who previously had no idea about the beautiful open water venue on their doorstep. As we head into autumn, you’ll find us at the Lea Valley Velo Park at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. The one-mile road circuit is
Swim, cycle, run Advertorial the perfect setting for regular duathlon events. A duathlon consists of a short run, then cycling, then another short run to finish. These short races are great training sessions if you’re preparing for a big event or a brilliant introduction to racing for those who are new to this kind of thing.
Why triathlon? It’s a simple way to keep fit that uses three of the most basic forms of exercise – swimming, cycling and running. The mixture of disciplines means it’s always interesting, and you get a good workout for the whole body. Being a fairly new sport it attracts sociable, enthusiastic types of all backgrounds.
The GOTRI Duathlon series • Every second Monday at the Lee Valley Velo Park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park • Cheap, short races – 2-mile run / 10-mile bike / 2-mile run, or 1-mile run / 5-mile bike / 1-mile run • You need a bike, a helmet and a pair of running shoes
Capital Tri races and sessions are already inexpensive, but for E9 Magazine readers race entry is half price in October and November. Sign up for a race or training session using the code “E9”. Sign up at www.capitaltri.com
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E9 stories
Doreen Barclay talks to Sonia Lambert about a colourful life surrounded by exotic animals, and shares her fond memories of Hackney
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wning a pet shop was an eventful business, according to Doreen Barclay, who has lived in E9 all of her life. “One of the American wrestlers used to come over – Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts – and he’d use our python in shows all over London,” she says. Doreen always loved animals, even as a little girl. “I was down Brick Lane every Sunday morning. Mum didn’t know what I’d come back with. It could be a mouse or something, up my jumper. ‘What have you got there?,’ she’d ask. ‘Nothing mum. Honest!,’ I’d say”. Doreen has lived in Cassland Road since she was four. “Now I’m 77. I don’t feel it. Not in my mind,” she says.
We had a shelter down the bottom of the garden.” There was a network of underground air raid shelters on Well Street Common on the Cassland Road side. “You can still see where it’s dipped a bit. I played in them as a child, after the war was finished,” says Doreen. It sounds like a happy East End childhood. “I loved the hop picking. We couldn’t afford a holiday, so every September we used to fill up this big old van, and go to the hop fields, and stay in big tin huts. We used to fill up a mattress with straw. All
In those early days, living conditions were rather different. “We were the only ones along here that had a bath,” she remembers. “The others went to public baths. We had a bath and a big Ascot geyser – beautiful hot water – but we only had an outside toilet with a wooden seat. My Nan used to cut up newspapers, and hang them on a string.” She can also recall wartime in E9. “I remember standing outside in the garden. I was watching all the planes coming over, and I could see one with fire coming out – doodlebugs, they were called. 8 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
Doreen (top left) during the hop-picking season
E9 stories the kids – my Mum had five sisters and a brother – we all used to go, like a gang. When I was a bit older, we’d go up town, dancing. Saturday night was the night to go out. We stayed near
top class, and Goray skirts, very fashionable. There was a trouser factory where Burberry’s is now. My Mum and all her sisters worked there.” Later on, she had the chance to open up a shop. “It started off as a DIY shop, but when that didn’t work, we changed to a pet shop, because I loved animals. We had one in Victoria Park Road, and then in Morning Lane.” “As a little girl, I had a phobia about snakes, but we got the python. I had a pot-bellied pig, Porky, too, with a squashed face, which made the shop very famous. She was on telly and everything. There was a chap and he knew I couldn’t resist animals. This was in the days when you could bring them back from abroad.”
Doreen (bottom row, left) and other machinists
It was a busy life, running “Doreen’s Pets”. “I had
Goudhurst in Kent. It was brilliant. There were no girls dancing around naked like they do now! I would never go out scruffy.” Like everyone else from the area, she has fond memories of Victoria Park (which does sound similar to the park we know today). “The flower gardens were beautiful, and there were three different ponds. One had boats you could row around; there was a paddling one, and one for the little model boats. There was a huge glass cafeteria; we used to sit there and feed the ducks. Behind was the bands, and we’d do roller skating, and dancing. We used to go across the bridge to the Chinese pagoda, which was really old. It was lovely. We could play out free and easy. We had the deer, too.” Doreen got into trouble for taking her animals to school. “I went to Orchard Road first, then to South Hackney Central, over the road. I had a Cocker Spaniel – he used to get over into the rounders games, and chase the balls. The teachers would say, ‘Doreen Barclay, could you come and get your dog’. Kitchener he was called; jet black.” Doreen worked as a machinist when she left school. “You could walk from one job to another in those days. There were lots of factories, you see. I was a trouser machinist. It was Grandee trousers,
Doreen with one of her larger pets the two shops, always working, never still.” As the business expanded, they took over an old scrap metal dealer’s shop on Morning Lane, and built stables. “We had a Palomino mare, Shetland ponies, we had everything. We had a horse box. We used to do shows, too. I had pink poodles (I Continued on p10 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014 9
E9 stories used to dye them), two monkeys, and a St Bernard – loads of animals. I had Chihuahuas before they became famous; pugs as well. I loaned one of the pugs to a theatre group, and she stayed in a hotel for a week!” When her landlord sold up to Tesco’s in 1996, the Morning Lane business (which by then took up a small parade, numbers 33-37), came to an abrupt end. “It made me really ill. The pressure – if you don’t sign, you’ll get nothing. They don’t care. Personally, I don’t use Tesco’s.” Doreen’s daughter still has a pet shop in Amhurst Road. It’s still called Doreen’s, even though she doesn’t work there any more. She’s known the area her whole life. “It went downhill, now it’s come up,” she says with satisfaction. “Victoria Park Village, where I had the shop. That’s lovely now.”
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What’s on in October Newtons Cottage
Wednesday, 1 October to end of November. Pop-up art sculpture 1 commissioned for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Named after C Newton, the last lock keeper of Carpenters Road Lock (situated in the centre of the park), it celebrates the history and heritage of London’s waterways. Workshops and talks throughout October and November. See more details at www. queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/whats-on/events
Community Choir
Friday, 3 October to Friday, 5 December. Hackney Empire’s Community Choir return with a ten-week autumn run. Infectious, energetic and joyous. A must-see show. Donations £3-£5. www.hackneyempire.co.uk
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Vinyl Record Market
Saturday, 4 October, 11am-4pm at the Hackney Empire (Empire 2). All-day vinyl record market. Bring along your old records to sell or exchange or just come and chat.
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virtuosic chamber ensemble. What more? Wind chimes and musical boxes. Music-sensitive visuals. LimeWharf, Vyner St, London E2 9DJ. £10 / £8 advance – no booking fee; £12 on the door. www.wegottickets.com/projectinstrumental
Life on the Moon
Friday, 17 October. Cal McCrystal, the comedy director behind the National Theatre’s smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors, directs this witty new production of Life on the Moon (Il Mondo della Luna), one of the most popular of Haydn’s many operas. Hackney Empire. More details at: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
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Hollywood Spring
Hackney’s newest cinema club is a great opportunity to catch up on some classic movies in a very Hackneyesque venue (warehouse, obvs). On Friday, 17 October, come along for a screening of Grey Gardens to launch the inaugural London Fields Free Film Festival. Venue: Hollywood Spring, 6 Well Street, E9 7PX. Ticket availability will be announced via the website: www.hollywoodspring.com
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Reggae, reggae
Saturday, 4 October, 10pm-2am. For one night only, Hackney Empire 4 will morph into the late and great Four Aces reggae club. There will be a vintage selection of the hottest ska, the coolest rocksteady, the roughest reggae, the toughest roots and the hardest dubwise rhythms to get your heart pumping and your feet moving. www.hackneyempire.co.uk
Junior Wildlife Club
Saturday, 4 October from 10.30am12:30pm. Join the Community Park 4 Rangers and explore the wonders of Victoria Park’s nature. Under 12s must be accompanied by an adult. Meet at the V&A Building, Victoria Park.
Ottone
Saturday, 18 October. Returning to the area of repertoire for which the Olivier Award-winning English Touring Opera have found such an enthusiastic audience and critical acclaim – Handel’s Ottone is a romantic tragedy which was written for the greatest singers of the day, and regarded by many as Handel’s most beautiful music. Hackney Empire. More details at: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
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The Big Draw
Saturday, 18 October, 11am-3pm. This year’s theme is “It’s Our World”, so come and join in some creative fun for all ages. Meet at The V&A Building, Victoria Park.
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Project Instrumental
Thursday, 9 October, 7.30pm. Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, E2 9DJ. Sound Emergents: London. Three world premieres. Ethereal Montague, tantalising Stravinsky, poignant Shostakovich. A
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What’s on continued on p24
Noticeboard Alternative cinema
Hollywood Spring is an independent alternative cinema screening the best in left field, underground and classic movies. The speakeasy bar welcomes you into the warehouse cinema at the Mare Street end of Well Street. From Italian crime to British folk-horror, from old-school Hollywood to extreme experimental, this is London’s very best far-out film club.
A new take on classical
Brilliant young chamber orchestra, Project Instrumental, continues their residency at creative hub Lime Wharf, in Vyner Street, E2. Sound Emergents: London will be performed on Thursday 9 October. Why not go along and enjoy a new approach to classical music? They’re stripping back the peripherals with a straightforward, contemporary approach. The concert opens with Stravinsky’s Concerto in D. Shostakovich’s autobiographical lament, the Chamber Symphony Op.110a, provides a powerful and moving finale.
On Friday, 17 October, they’re holding a screening of Grey Gardens to launch the inaugural London Fields Free Film Festival. For more details and to book your free place, go to www.hollywoodspring.com
The Food Assembly
A new opportunity to buy local was launched at the end of September. The Victoria Park Food Assembly meets every Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm at the Royal Inn on the Park and you’ll find great products, direct from quality farms. Vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, dairy products and much more. Go and meet the producers and enjoy a new way to eat fresh products, while supporting local agriculture, and partake of some light refreshment in the pub when you’re done!
Project Instrumental
Tickets : £10/£8 advance (no booking fee), £12 on the door. www.wegottickets.com/ projectinstrumental
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WHAT TO DO Theatre
Hackney Children’s Theatre is Hackney’s newest theatre space for young audiences. Situated in the 700-year-old St John at Hackney church, the theatre hosts monthly performances for children and their families.The theatre’s aim is to be affordable and fun, showing new and exciting theatre made for children. Find out more at: www.facebook.com/hackneychildrenstheatre
Cycling
Cycling Club Hackney run Saturday morning coaching sessions for their 8-13-year-old members.There’s also a group for 13+ development riders. Meet 10am at the club HQ, 6 Olympus Square, Nightingale Estate, E5. Cost £2. CCH are also offering coaching to 6-8-yearolds on Saturday mornings. Note: there are limited spaces and parents must stay with their child. For membership details, go to the website: www.cyclingclubhackney.co.uk
Art
Artist Katherine Tulloh runs an art club for children in her home ─ or at nearby Well Street Common if the weather is fine. Classes take place after school in term time only. Sessions for 5-7-year olds are on Tuesdays, 4pm-5pm, and for 8-11-year-olds, on Mondays, 4pm-5.30pm. Call Katherine on 07909 961 877 or email her at katherine@herechickychicky.com
Children’s Centers
The three in E9 are Wentworth on Cassland Road (www.wentworth.hackney.sch.uk), Gainsborough on Berkshire Road (www.gainsborough.hackney. sch.uk/childrens-centre), and Morningside on Chatham Place (www.morningside.hackney.sch. uk/childrens-centre), but there are many others nearby. All of them run drop-in play sessions, and a range of activities and support for families.
Reading
There’s still time to see The Museum of Childhood exhibition “The Story of Jacqueline Wilson”, a must-see for Tracy Beaker fans. Until November. Don’t forget the libraries. Find out what’s on at www.hackney.gov.uk/libraries-whats-on.htm 14 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
Kickboxing
Monday afternoon Kickboxing for 3-5 and 6-11-year-olds at the Hackney Forge. Call Maria for details on 07872 188 655.
Farms
At city farms (in South Hackney, or further afield in Stepney, Spitalfields and Mudchute) you can introduce your kids to the pongs and pleasures of real farm animals. Stepney City Farm has a great café, as well as a farmers’ market every Saturday from 10am-3pm. www.stepneycityfarm.org, www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk, www.mudchute.org www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org,
Dancing
Sunday, 26 October. Disco baby! To celebrate the Family Arts Festival, Empire 2 (behind Hackney Empire) will be transformed into the hottest disco in Hackney. The coolest tunes to get you and your under 5s throwing shapes together. No unaccompanied adults or children. www.hackneyempire.co.uk There’s ballet for children at the Hackney Forge on Tuesdays from 4pm-4.45pm. Call Malfalda on 07550 722 693 for details. Also at the Hackney Forge you’ll find Saturday Street Dance and Musical Theatre classes. 12 noon-1pm, 1.15pm-2.15pm and 2.30-3.30pm Call Lisa on 07985 945 335 for details.
Music
Piccolo music for babies and toddlers runs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the V&A building in Victoria Park. The toddler class is at 10am and the baby class at 11am ─ just drop in. For more info call Stefanie on 07708 451 314. Suzuki Hub runs music lessons for kids (violin, viola, cello or flute). Suzuki Hub, 116 Weymouth Terrace, E2 8LR. www.suzukihub.com. Tiny Tempo, music classes for babies and toddlers, is at the Royal Inn on the Park, every Wednesday at 1.30pm.
WITH THE KIDS Tennis
What could be simpler way to keep the kids busy? £2 for an hour of tennis at the Victoria Park tennis courts. Just drop in, all abilities welcome and equipment provided. No booking required. Mondays, 4pm for 5-8-year-olds, and 5pm for 9-12-year-olds.
Acting
If you’re looking for something a little different to do with your pre-school-age child, try Hackney Forge on a Wednesday morning. Cbeebies actress Samantha Seager runs acting classes for little tots. www.actingbugs.co.uk
Cinema
Every Saturday morning the Hackney Picturehouse hosts a family-only matinee of a specially chosen children’s film, plus fun activities.
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Kids’ Club is for children aged 3-12 years. Membership is £4 a year, including the first visit free. Tickets for members and accompanying adults are £1.50 each. No adult unaccompanied by a child will be admitted. Also at the Picturehouse, there’s Toddler Time, a great way to introduce pre-school children to the big screen. The programme features 30-minute shows for kids and their parents/carers. Admission is just £3 per child and accompanying adults are free when they become members of Toddler Time (free to join – ask at the Box Office or call 0871 902 5747).
For more Halloween and half term activities, see calendar, p18.
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Growing Communities
A Hackney-based social enterprise that provides organic fruit and veg – delivered by Maisie the milk float. What’s not to love about that? Rhowena MacCuish investigates
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etting access to well-sourced food is something that has become important to many of us, with increasing concerns about the way our food is produced and how it is processed. The trend for organic food has never been more popular and continues to grow, with issues such as health and the environment sitting high on our list of priorities, alongside conflicting restraints on family budgets.
Growing Communities run three urban market gardens, a patchwork farm (a series of small plots of land), and a 24-acre starter farm in Dagenham, with the help of apprentice growers and volunteers, to provide organically certified produce for the fruit and vegetable box scheme. While oranges come from co-operatives in Spain and Italy, only their fair trade organic bananas come from outside Europe.
Addressing these issues is a growing army of local community-driven schemes, such as Growing Communities, based in Hackney. Indeed, North and East London have become thriving hubs for urban gardens and farmers’ markets.
Maisie (pictured, right), an upcycled milk float, delivers the pre-ordered produce to various collection points, including N1, N4, N16, E2, E8, E9 and E5, where locals can collect their bags.
Over the past 20 years, Growing Communities has brought the local community together to provide affordable and sustainable healthy produce that offers a real alternative to the current, often damaging, food system. Working closely with 25 small-scale sustainable organic farms, and specialising in growing award-winning organic salad leaves, they provide produce for local residents through a fruit and vegetable box scheme and Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market. 16 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
There is no waste at Growing Communities either. Any leftover produce that has not been collected goes to the homeless, while damaged fruit and vegetables are offered to customers to take away for free. Any produce which is not fit for consumption goes to compost for the farms. For more information about Growing Communities and to start ordering your own fruit and vegetable box, head to their website, below. You can also find out about volunteering opportunities there.
Growing Communities Growing Communities is celebrating local organic food with a series of tasting events. The E9 event will be held at St John of Jerusalem Church, Lauriston Road, E9 7DH, on Thursday 2 October, 3.30-7.30pm. www.growingcommunities.org Photos: Rhowena MacCuish www.scrumptiousfoodphotography.com
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Knitting workshop with St John at Hackney. Book through Hackney Central Library, 020 8356 4358. 11am-1pm
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Life on the Moon: opera at the Hackney Empire (p12)
Ottone: opera at the Hackney Empire (p12)
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The Big Draw at Victoria Park (p12)
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Gruesome Ghouls and Wicked Witches.Sutton House (p24)
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The hottest disco in town for the under 5s. Hackney Empire (p24)
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What to eat
Matthew Casey, otherwise known as @hackneychef, serves up a delicious chocolatey treat for the whole family
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’ve been cooking in East London for over two years now. Before that I was cooking at the stoves of a number of prestigious London and European restaurants and hotels. However, having the privilege of working in London’s East End has been exceptional. I have had the chance to use everything I’ve learnt during 20 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
my career to now be able to produce simple tasty food, which I love to eat and cook, but also that suits the East London food scene. I’ve built a close relationship with my food suppliers over the years, all of whom are Britishbased and who share my passion for good quality British ingredients. Having this experience means
What to eat that I know what’s good in the markets, and that lets me tweak my menus daily, according to what great produce is available.
Cook for 30 minutes. Take out to cool, and then cut into chocolate-bar sizes for the whole family to enjoy together.
Having been a head chef in two open kitchens, The Lime Wharf kitchen and This Bright Field, has also been wonderful experience that has enabled me and the kitchen staff to interactive with the community, engaging in conversations whether about food, wine or just local topics. I will be taking a side step away from East London for a year to do some cooking in the Far East, but look forward to getting back to Hackney. Here’s a recipe to share that is simply a crowd pleaser, and goes down a storm. I think it will be perfect for Halloween.
The Hackney Chef’s dark chocolate brownie – serves the whole family Method Pre-heat the oven to 165C°. First, melt the dark chocolate and butter in a bowl over simmering water (bain-marie). While that’s doing its thing, whisk the sugar, eggs, and vanilla bean extract together until well mixed and airy. Now it’s time to mix together stage one and stage two. Just make sure that the chocolate mixture doesn’t get hotter then 40C° or it will scramble the egg mixture. Now fold in the flour. Do this with care because you don’t want to lose any airy goodness from the egg mixture. Now add the orange liqueur, macadamia nuts and hazelnuts. Pour the mixture into the tray bake tin (lined with baking paper).
Matthew Casey @hackneychef
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Gardening
Invest some time in the garden now and you’ll reap the rewards next year, says Tom Marsden
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s the summer closes and thoughts of crimson trees, dark nights and woolly hats replace the memories of long al fresco evenings, it is all too tempting to close the back door and forget about the garden. However, your garden is going to be the answer to your winter blues for it is NOW that you should action plans for next year. This month, there are three important tasks to add colour and health to your outdoor space.
are our most recognisable sign of spring and come in hundreds of varieties. They don’t signify the start of spring as the tabloids say though! Plant Narcissus “February gold” to brighten your garden in the darkest month of the year. For summer, the versatile Allium “purple sensation” can be either planted regimental in a formal garden or randomly to add height in a cottage scheme.
1. Plant bulbs for all the seasons
Give it a vigorous rake with a metal tine fan rake to scratch out all the moss and thatch (the build up of lateral growing swords of grass). Better still, use a scarifying machine to really rip into it. Once you’ve raked it to within an inch of its life and collected the debris, spike through it with a fork to allow air pockets to form as the roots of plants don’t grow
It is possible to achieve colour and interest all year round from just a few hours of bulb planting. Winter Aconites (Eranthis hyemalis) come out as early as December for a low level burst of yellow, preceding the much-loved winter colours of Snowdrops (Galanthus) and Crocus. Daffodils 22 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
2. Renovate your lawn
Gardening in, soil they grow in the gaps between. Top dress with blended loam topsoil and sow fresh grass seed (for more heavily-used lawns, or those in shade, buy a seed mix with high rye content) .
3. Clear up leaves Now, I know (from 10 years’ experience) just how laborious this task is. The temptation to wait until all the trees are bare to collect the leaves seems logical, yes, but it creates a detrimental environment underneath. Rotting leaves allow fungal infections to leach back into the soil and continue into the following season. The final drips of light in autumn are vital for plants and lawns if they are to survive the winter, and being under leaves prevents them storing the last of the sun’s energy, causing poor displays next year, or even death. However, some delicate herbaceous plants that the warmth of the city allows us to grow do require protection over winter, so finding a corner of the garden to let the leaves rot down into a good mulch will provide useful nutrition in a couple of months’ time.
Tom’s Garden Management 020 8986 3339 or 07846 432744 www.tomsgardenmanagement.com
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What’s on in October Fungi Foray
Sunday, 19 October, 10.30am12:30pm. Join the Park Rangers for 19 some fungi foraging. Limited spaces – to book call 020 7364 4504/ 5393 or email joelle.copeland@towerhamlets.gov.uk/ samantha.brewster@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Brahms Requiem
Saturday, 25 October, 7.30pm. Hackney Singers, the 150-strong choir, present one of the world’s great choral works, Brahms’s epic masterpiece Ein Deutsches Requiem, sung in German. The concert opens in dramatic style with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. This is set to be an evening of inspiring music in the Georgian splendour of St John at Hackney, Lower Clapton Road, E5 0PD. Buy tickets at: www. hackneysingers.org.uk
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Make your Mark
Saturday, 25 October, 11am-2pm. Join the Park Rangers to help carry 25 out some practical conservation in the park. Meet at the Outdoor Classroom, near St Agnes Gate. For more details, contact 0207 364 4504 or email joelle.copeland@ towerhamlets.gov.uk
Disco baby!
Sunday, 26 October. Empire 2 (behind Hackney Empire). The hottest disco in town is open for you and your under 5s. An afternoon that’s bound to be the talk of the playground with surprise guests and games galore. Details at: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
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Great Big Gig
Sunday, 26 October. Kids of all ages can join in with CBeebies’ Katy Ashworth and a 12-piece soul band of top musicians playing hits from James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone as well as songs such as The Batman theme. www. hackneyempire.co.uk
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Pumpkin Carving
Monday, 27 October 12noon-3pm It’s half term and time to get your scare on. Get into Halloween this year by making your own petrifying pumpkin. Meet at The Hub, Victoria Park
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Revolution
Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 October. See leading international cycling stars and cheer on TeamGB as they return to the Velodrome. The afternoon and evening sessions will see stars such as Laura Trott, Ed Clancy, Ben Swift and Marianne Vos return to the iconic venue of London 2012. More details at: www. queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/whats-on/events
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Ghouls and Witches
Sundays, 26 and 30 October, 12noon-4pm. Free Family Day Halloween House! Come along dressed up. Brew your own potions, customise your costume and enjoy some gruesome tales told by a professional storyteller. Information: Gemma Bending, 020 8525 9066, gemma.bending@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Tuesday, 28 October, 12noon-3pm. Scary spiders, blood-curdling bats, ghastly ghosts. Get creative with the park staff. The Hub, Victoria Park.
Parks after Dark
Friday 31 October, 5pm-8pm. The highlight of “Halloweek” is a truly terrifying night-time tour of the park. Come along on a horrific history stroll, meeting ghosts and ghouls along the way. Meet at V&A Building. Places must be booked in advance. Not suitable for under 5s. To book, call 020 7364 4504/5393 or email joelle.copeland@ towerhamlets.gov.uk/samantha.brewster@ towerhamlets.gov.uk
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Beetlejuice Special
Friday, 31 October, 7pm-11.45pm. Sutton House. Amy Grimehouse presents a Beetlejuice Halloween special. Pre-show spectacular before an extra-sensory trick or treat screening. Jump in the Harry Belafonte Line disco til late. Dressing up encouraged.Tickets £20. To book: https://billetto.co.uk/beetlejuice-halloween-special
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Hackney Winter Night Shelter
Stand-up stars help Hackney’s homeless. Yusif Farah reports
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hat could entice Daniel Kitson, Stewart Lee, Ava Vidal, Nish Kumar, Sean Hughes and Felicity Ward to share the stage at the Hackney Empire? No, it’s not a joke. These top comedians are joining forces on 30 October for the second sell-out Belter for the Shelter in aid of local charity, Hackney Winter Night Shelter (HWNS). The night is a major fundraising effort for the shelter, which provides a warm bed and a hot meal seven nights a week for people who find themselves without a home during the coldest months of the year. It also raises much-needed awareness of the work of the volunteer-run shelter and the ways the community can get involved. The season runs from the start of November to the end of March each year, when homeless people are accommodated in a different church hall in a different part of Hackney each night. Right now, the shelter is recruiting volunteers to cook meals, greet the homeless guests, stay overnight at the shelters, and help turn them back into church halls by 8am the next morning.
Daniel Kitson on stage at the Hackney Empire for the first Belter in 2013. Photo: Greg Storrar
marathons are in the mix. In June this year, 23 HWNS volunteers participated in the first ever Run Hackney Half Marathon, raising more than £7,000, and fundraisers are hoping to recruit a bigger team for the event next year.
The work continues year-round, supporting guests into more permanent housing, and raising money to cover the costs of the winter months. Everything from stalls at street fairs to bicycle rides and
If you are interested in volunteering or giving money, please visit the Hackney Winter Night Shelter website at www.hwns.org.uk. For those who missed out on tickets to the Belter for the Shelter on 30 October, follow us @HackneyWNS on Twitter for a chance to win a pair of tickets.
Volunteer Tom Curtis prepares a meal for guests at the shelter. Photo: Nick Riley
Some of the team who finished the Run Hackney half marathon. Photo: Coralie Datta
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Fitness
It’s time to get rid of that post-holiday sluggishness. Roger Love, personal trainer and co-owner of London Fields Fitness Studio, shows you how
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ctober is an important month in the fitness calendar. You have come back from holiday wishing you had felt fitter in every sense, and the countdown to the Christmas party season has begun.
stronger and fitter, you can run more and walk less. It’s all great for weight loss, aerobic fitness, and for nice legs.
The good news is that there is still time to make a difference. So how to get started? Here are five exercises to get you going.
On your run, why not stop and do these four exercises? You will be able to find form guides online and in previous editions of E9 Magazine (www.nutshellpublications.co.uk) or just pop by and ask at our studio.
1. Walk and run
2. Press-ups
Get out into the parks of Hackney and get moving. Start by walking. Then try some “intervals” – walking then running, and so on. As you get
Great for your chest, arms and shoulders. Keep it slow and controlled and keep your stomach muscles tight. Start with two sets of as many
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Fitness press-ups as you can. Aim for two sets of 10 – and then two sets of 20.
3. Squats They work every muscle in your legs, as well as your bum and abs. They can also help with balance, flexibility, mobility and fat burning. Aim for two sets of 10 – and then two sets of 20.
muscles to raise your head and shoulders until your elbows touch your knees, then return to the starting position. Great for your stomach. Aim for two sets of 10 – and then two sets of 20. It is a simple, quick routine, but it will get you going on the path to fitness and Christmas hotness.
4. Dorsal raises A new exercise for E9 readers. Lie face down with your feet together and your hands at the side of your head. Raise your head and shoulders off the floor in a slow, controlled motion, then lower to the floor. Keep your feet on the floor. Great for a strong, flexible back. Aim for two sets of 10 – and then two sets of 20.
5. An old-fashioned sit-up Lie flat on your back with your chin on your chest and your knees at 90 degrees. Place your hands at the side of your head. Use your stomach
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A dog’s life
To spay or not to spay – that is the question. Dog trainer Kamal Fernandez looks at the options
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he conversation about your little furry friend’s nether regions is as sensitive a conversation as talking about your grandmother’s, but nonetheless, it’s an absolute necessity for any responsible dog owner. Most people who own dog will at some point face a dilemma – whether or not to have their dog spayed or neutered. This will normally coincide with a hormone surge or “season”, at around six to twelve months. So what factors should you think about to make you decide whether to book that trip to the vet? Firstly, why do you want to keep your male or female dog “entire”? Do you want to have a litter? Do you feel guilty over castration? Is it the cost? Do you want to show him/her? As a professional dog trainer and someone who has owned dogs for 25 years, I have had experience with male and female dogs, neutered and unneutered. Each dog has been treated individually, and the decision has always been based on what is best for the dog, as well as for my lifestyle.
Here are some points to think about: • Hormones can induce changes in character similar to humans. Male dogs can be prone to aggression at a time when there is a spike in the levels of testosterone in their system. This acts like a radar for all other male dogs, who 28 E9 magazine OCTOBER 2014
Charlie the chocolate lab. Photo: Andy Gent either are a target for your dog’s attention, or a victim of their aggressive advances. Having your male dog castrated can stem this. • Females are liable to receive attention from suitors near and far, and this can result in unwanted pregnancy if you’re not vigilant. If she’s spayed, this isn’t an issue, obviously. • Leaving a dog or bitch entire can result in illness such as womb infections, phantom pregnancies, cancers, etc. • Do you truly understand the implications of breeding? Do you have homes for all the pups? Depending on size of the breed, litters can vary. Do you have ample homes? Have you done all the relevant health tests? Have you done your research on a suitable mate? Having puppies is a nice Disney idea, but in reality a lot of hard work and risk. If you are going to do it, make sure you go into it with your eyes wide open. There are enough unwanted dogs in this world. Make sure you’re not adding to the problem.
A dog’s life • Clinics and charities offer discounts for neutering dogs, so it’s worth doing your homework if you’re going to struggle with the fees. Rescue centres offer reasonably priced options, so it’s worth asking. • While your dog has to be entire if competing in “Breed”, all the working activities that can be done with your dog do not require this. There are many dogs and bitches who do not need spaying or neutering due to their temperament, but often the owners have them done anyway due to the long-term health risks. Having kept a mixture of male and female dogs at the same time, my opinion would be to have the females spayed after their first season. If not, it can affect the balance in the household – causing the male dogs to pine and not eat during the time they are ready to be mated.
Although, making a decision to neuter your dog is a personal one, often the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. There is a variety of options for surgery for spaying, and injections for male dogs, prior to committing to castration, where you can observe the affects of reduced hormones. Always speak to your vet and be guided by their advice.
Kamal Fernandez www.eastlondondogtraining.co.uk
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Hackney bites This month's great place to eat…
The Laundry venture, as he is 6’5’’. Comfort, craftsmanship and care has been put into the interior and furnishings, giving the place a relaxed refinement that we’re not so used to around here. The building stands out, but the location is a little off the beaten track, so it does feel local. You could come here and not realise what’s going on in the spaces around you, but I did get a sense that I was in an expensive departure lounge en route somewhere, but somewhat more contentedly than Tom Hanks in The Terminal. The Laundry does welcome the whole local community, seemingly even your pet dog! Whenever I’ve been, there’s been a little pooch or two hanging out with their owners; all beautifully groomed (owners and dogs). So if yours is like ours, you might want to visit Molly and George the nearby pet parlour for a blow dry first. No dog? No worries. Take the kids – they’re welcome, too.
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omething a bit different from the norm has happened around here. The old industrial laundry building near the railway arches in Mentmore Terrace has been redeveloped into “The Laundry” (see what they did there?), and adapted into studios for the creative industries and a basement space for exhibitions, plays, films, music and club nights.
This permanent, easy-like-Sunday-morning vibe, I like. The service is friendly and it’s a place to pop into or hang out in, going from coffee and brunch, to cocktails and dinner, and it works whether you turn up with friends, family, or just on your own. I’ve done all three here and taken along colleagues from work. It’s just easy and nice, which makes it great for my community needs.
They say it’s for the creative community and the local community. Well in order to feed these communities the Canteen & Bar is on the ground floor, with the same big ambitions. When I say big, I mean cavernous.
The menu is equally straight forward, whatever your hunger level. Personally, I’m a bit of a fan of the creamy tarragon mushrooms on sourdough toast; to me it’s absolutely delicious. I also like the warm tuna Niçoise salad with its yellow fin tuna, perfect egg and piquant dressing, should I want a change. The kedgeree with smoked haddock, curry-spiced rice and, again, a perfect poached
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Hackney bites egg, is also very good. Friends I’ve been with have wolfed down with gusto the Huevos rancheros, the full English, which will give you an opportunity to try the creamy mushrooms without too much commitment, and they’ve also eaten the Angus beef burger in a brioche bun. Finally, I just want to just give a quick note about the coffee. It’s very good. They serve it what I consider to be the best way – black, with a small jug of hot milk on the side. Like I said this place is just a bit different from the usual around here. Lunch and brunch prices range from £2.50 to £9.50.
Susan Birtwistle
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