iylshowcase: Sunday Read - ‘A Faded Suburb with a Jaunty Air’Photos of Dalston 1979-1984In March 197
iylshowcase: Sunday Read - ‘A Faded Suburb with a Jaunty Air’Photos of Dalston 1979-1984In March 1972, a journalist called Geoffrey Wansell wrote in the Times about Dalston. The headline wasThe Fading Suburb with a Jaunty Air and Wansell placed the downtrodden London district as west of ‘now fashionable Canonbury’, east of Hackney and its marshes, and north of Hoxton Market, “known for more than a century as the thieves’ den of London”… -- source link