De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

I used to drink in there, before it was shit.
And the Sussex before it became the Scolts fucking Head
And The Talbot before it became overrun with cunts and I started a riot with 8 of them and all the bar staff

I don't how this has turned into a general free-for-all on Hackney and the changes that have happened over the last few years, but for what it's worth, yeah, it grates a bit that it's gotten a bit Notting Hill, but would you rather see Hackney as it was 20 odd years ago, when 1 shop in 4 in Church Street was boarded up, when the area between Dalston & the City was completely deserted, or as it is now, with money coming into the area, & actual new decent housing replacing the shit hole that was Holly Street, Queensbridge etc?

I miss the Hackney squat scene at it was, but the reason there isn't a squat scene in Hackney any more is because the housing stock in the borough is in a much, much better state than it was in the 80s.