Yesterday I took some pictures in my old area of South Hackney (especially Kingshold Estate) as part of my research into #Hackney post-war estates.

Here's me and my friends on the corner of Well Street back in 2003 and here's me in the same spot in 2020.

Here's an image of the New Kingshold Estate way back in 1990 and the image below is the exact same spot yesterday. As you can see the estate was completely demolished.

Here's two split images of Balcorne Street and Primose Square. A lot has changed around the Kingshold Estate over the last 30 years...

Here's an image near Ainsworth Road, I went Primary School about one minute away from here and still have memories of the dramatic changes during the 1990s.

Here's another image near Lauriston Road - however the original photo was taken in the 1970s courtesy of @CoLA_Southwark. I have so many memories here...

and here's a final photo of @hackneycouncil offices in the late 1990s. Now replaced by the new @CardinalPoleRC school - I went to the original school near Cassland Road

Enjoy the photographs, please share and retweet! I will be taking similar photographs in other areas of Hackney over the next few months!

Also credit to @chrisdb1 for some of the original images and who has been hugely influential in my interest in the history of Hackney.

As mentioned in the pinned tweet, please also fill out my survey on The Regeneration of Hackney's post-war housing estates as I continue my research in the area https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehmxzKVpIckezJ3CInZQYcDEYnUNSZqR9RXX1pRf1T1EZjYQ/viewform

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