I love Hackney

I focused my presentation about the borough where I’ve been living since I arrived to London. This borough is located on the north east of London, it is called Hackney. On this borough there is different town, some of them more famous and well-known than the others one. Hackney Central, Shoreditch, Dalston, Stoke Newington, Clapton and Stamford Hill are most of the towns at borough of Hackney.
The borough was formed on 1965 during the post-war. Before that Hackney was composed only by Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington. At that time these towns had a rich story because during the Tudor Period most of the people were living there. But it was after the II World War when these towns started to grow up and became a big borough called Borough of Hackney. During the post war lot of buildings were build up either factory and different kinds of industries. These towns, which were having a rich background, have been turning into residential towns and towns were immigrants came for starting a new life in London.
Nowadays the population on the borough is 212 200 and is ethnically diverse. We find 44% of white british, 15% ethnic groups, 9,4% asian and asian british, 4% mixed and 3% east asia. About religions we find 44% Christian, 18% muslim, 4% jewish, 3% other religions and 31% without any religion. We can talk about a melting pot at this borough.
I’m going to explain more about some of the towns at the borough.
I’m going to start with Shoreditch. This town is located just at the north of City of London. Since the 90’s this town became a popular, bohemian, fashion, creative area. We can find lots of art galleries, boutiques, street markets, etc. and by night there is a huge variety of restaurants with food from all over the world either as fashion restaurants, and bars and nightclubs at the known Old Street, Kingsland Street , Curtain Road, and Shoreditch High Street.
Hackney, Hackney Central is the central town of this borough. It’s known because of Hackney Empire, which was a very famous theatre and where nowadays you can still going for spectacles and theatre representations.
Dalston is known for all the immigrants from the Carribbean who came for living there. Ridley Road Market is the famous market there. Dalston is a very common scenario for the soap opera EastEnders which takes place most of the time in this borough.
Stoke Newington is known nowadays because of Church Street. My favourite street in London where anyone can find somewhere to eat, bars, pubs and lots of interesting boutiques and vintage clothes. On sunday you can enjoy your morning there with young people and young families, and you can visit the Farmers Market.
Stamford Hill