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This article is about the district of London. For the Cumbrian village, see Dalston, Cumbria. Dalston is a village in Cumbria, England. It is situated on the B5299 road about four miles (6 km south-south-west of Carlisle city centre and approximately
Dalston, Hackney
Dalston (Greater London)
Dalston

Dalston, Hackney shown within Greater London
OS grid reference TQ345845
London borough Hackney
Ceremonial county Greater London
Region London
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LONDON
Postcode district E8
Dialling code 020
Police Metropolitan
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Coordinates: 51°32′36″N 0°03′34″W / 51.543307, -0.059486

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Modern Dalston is often seen as the area surrounding both sides of Kingsland High Street, even though some of the west side is within the London Borough of Islington. The London Borough of Islington ( is a London borough in North and Inner London. As such, it bestrides the main route north from the City of London. For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically

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History

The village was one of four small villages within the Parish of Hackney, Dalston, Newington, Shacklewell, and Kingsland that were all grouped for assessment purposes, together having only as many houses as the village of Hackney. Hackney was a Parish in the ancient county of Middlesex. The parish church of St John-at-Hackney, was built in 1789 replacing the nearby former 16th century Newington Green is an open space in Islington, London that gives its name to the surrounding area Shacklewell is a district within the London Borough of Hackney, roughly North-east of modern-day Dalston, (which historically was due South of Shacklewell Kingsland was a small road-side settlement centred on Kingsland High Street, on the Old North Road (the present A10 Middlesex. Hackney Central is the central district of the London Borough of Hackney in East London. The village of Kingsland was around the crossroads at Dalston Junction, and the centre of the small village of Dalston was further to the east, along Dalston Lane. By 1849, it was described as a recently increased suburban village, with some handsome old houses, and by 1859 the village had exceeded its neighbour and with the railways and continuous building, the village of Kingsland disappeared. [1]

Redevelopment and future

While any investment in an area is generally a good thing, the gentrification of an area only two miles north of the City has led to a rapid increase in the price of property. This has caused resentment from residents priced out of the area in which they had been raised. The process of change has been accelerated since the East London Line extension (to be renamed the East London Railway on completion) and the reopening of Dalston Junction Station was confirmed in the run-up to London's successful bid to hold the 2012 Olympics. The East London Line was a line of the London Underground, coloured orange on the Tube map. Dalston Junction was originally a railway station in the London Borough of Hackney, now being redeveloped enabling it to re-open to train services

Entertainment

The Dalston Culture House now houses the Vortex Jazz Club. (October 2005)
The Dalston Culture House now houses the Vortex Jazz Club. (October 2005)

Dalston has always been an important transport nexus and shopping centre. It was also, at one time, an important entertainment centre, with four or five cinemas within a radius of half a kilometre, and the Dalston Theatre, a former hippodrome and music hall that later became the Four Aces blues club and the Labyrinth nightclub. A Hippodrome (Gr from hippos, horse and dromos, race course was a course provided by the Greeks for Horse racing and Chariot racing Music hall is a form of British theatrical Entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960 The Dalston Theatre was demolished in February 2007, despite an active local campaign to save it. [2]

The Dalston Rio. One of the few cinemas left in East London. (October 2005)
The Dalston Rio. One of the few cinemas left in East London. East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. (October 2005)

The last survivor of Dalston's 20th-century entertainment boom is the justly celebrated Rio Cinema, one of the very few cinemas left in East London and, indeed, one of the few independent cinemas left in London. Besides its regular programmes of popular and art movies, the Rio also features film festivals and children's matinees.

Arcola Theatre in Arcola Street produces some of London's best quality fringe theatre and is a centre for a number of theatre-related community activities such as its theatre writers' programme, youth theatre and 60+ drama. Arcola Theatre is a studio theatre in Dalston, in the London Borough of Hackney.

Dalston once sported some excellent 1970s-1980s pub rock venues but these are largely defunct. However the new Dalston Culture House, the first wing of which has opened on Gillett Square, hosts the renowned Vortex Jazz Club, recently moved from Stoke Newington. The Vortex Jazz Club is a London venue that primarily features live contemporary Jazz. Note For an area with a similar name see Newington, in the London Borough of Southwark.

Also worthy of note is Centerprise, a long-established BME community bookshop where regular events take place in the coffee bar. And Fassett Square in Dalston was the inspiration for the fictional location of the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Albert Square, cementing its relationship with the entertainment industry. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985

Shopping

Dalston's Ridley Road market, October 2005.
Dalston's Ridley Road market, October 2005.

Dalston is not a glamorous shopping centre but it has become legendary in northeast London, mostly thanks to its excellent Ridley Road street market. The keyphrase here is 'value for money' and for food shopping it is hard to better this area. Fruit and vegetables, some fairly exotic, are available at low prices, and the local halal butchers, clustered around the high street end of the market, are hard to beat in terms of price. Halal (حلال ḥalāl, halaal) is an Arabic term meaning permissible. Ridley Road market is reputedly the basis for the one found in BBC's Eastenders. The Kingsland Shopping Centre mall (formerly Dalston Cross) is a useful, if drab, supplement to the main market street. It has recently been extended to house a Matalan budget clothes store over the car park. Matalan is a clothing and homeware store in the United Kingdom.

The ancient shopping street of Broadway Market, to the South East of the district, boasts a wide selection of 'up and coming' boutiques, pubs and cafes. Broadway Market is a street running from London Fields to the Regent's Canal in Haggerston in the London Borough of Hackney, East London Thanks to these, and the successful Saturday Farmer's Market, this area immediately adjacent to London Fields is regarded as thriving. London Fields is both a park and the name of an area of London, situated in the London Borough of Hackney, East London.

Area profile

Dalston, looking south towards The City. A major traffic nexus, but not always quite so clogged up—temporary roadworks are underway here. (October 2005)
Dalston, looking south towards The City. For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically A major traffic nexus, but not always quite so clogged up—temporary roadworks are underway here. (October 2005)

Contemporary Dalston is a lively neighbourhood with an ethnically varied population. Architecturally it is a mixture of 18th and 19th century terraced houses and 20th century council estates. In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development It is currently undergoing rapid gentrification, partly because of the planned construction of a new railway station at Dalston Junction, part of the extension of the East London Line due to be completed in 2010 and partly due to the revitalisation of large parts of East London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics (Hackney is one of the four host boroughs of the Games). Gentrification, or urban gentrification, is the change in an Urban area associated with the movement of more affluent individuals into a lower-class |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains Dalston Junction was originally a railway station in the London Borough of Hackney, now being redeveloped enabling it to re-open to train services The East London Line was a line of the London Underground, coloured orange on the Tube map. For the film see 2010 The Year We Make Contact. For the book see 2010 Odyssey Two. East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. The London Borough of Hackney ( is a London borough in North-East London and forms part of Inner London. A borough is an Administrative division of various countries In principle the term borough designates a self-governing Township although in practice

Dalston has attracted new immigrants to the UK for over one hundred years; at the turn of the century it was a popular Jewish area for the newly arrived from central Europe. In the fifties and sixties, as the Jewish community became more affluent, they were replaced by a large Caribbean community in Dalston, which is reflected by the wide choice of Caribbean foods available in Ridley Road. As the Caribbean community slowly drifted out of Dalston it then became popular with the Turkish, as well as the Vietnamese. Recent émigrés to the community are the Polish community judging by the numbers of Polish delicatessens now appearing and other stores catering to Polish tastes.

Fassett Square was the inspiration for the BBC Soap EastEnders. Fassett Square is a small residential square in the London Borough of Hackney between central Hackney and Dalston, just to the north of EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 Originally, there were plans to film the series there, on location. However, Fassett Square (Albert Square) and Ridley Road Market (Walford Market) were rebuilt on the set in Elstree, Borehamwood to have a more controlled filming environment. Albert Square is the fictional location of the popular BBC Soap opera EastEnders. The origin of the area of Walford was from Walford Road and many of the houses on the show use the same exterior design. Both Barbara Windsor and Tony Holland, one of the original creators of the show, lived at different times on the street. Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE (born Barbara Ann Deeks on 6 August 1937) is an English actress. Tony Holland ( 18 January 1940 &ndash 28 November 2007) was an English television writer best known as a writer and co-creator of

That is not the only connection with entertainment industry. Around the corner, music hall artiste Marie Lloyd (1870–1922) used to reside on Graham Road, and the house has a Blue Plaque. Music hall is a form of British theatrical Entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960 Matilda Alice Victoria Wood ( 12 February 1870 &ndash 7 October 1922) was an English Music-hall Singer,

Pop-Culture References

Education

For details of education in Dalston see the Hackney article

Transport and locale

Nearest places

Nearest railway stations

References

  1. ^ Hackney: Dalston and Kingsland Road, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney (1995), pp. 28-33 accessed: 07 December 2007
  2. ^ Open Dalston campaign accessed 27 May 2008

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