Hackney Houses: A Guide to Improvement, Conservation and Maintenance - Softcover

Peacock, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0950655848 ISBN 13: 9780950655840

Publisher: The Hackney Society, 1987

Synopsis

'Hackney Houses' was first pu blished in 1982. This edition is a reprint with only minor revisions to ensure that the information section shows current addresses. However if the book is the same as before the housing market has changed dramatically in the last six years, both in terms of the value of property, and in the considerable involvement of housing developers in addition to house owners. Although wholesale redevelopment and the tower block are no longer altering Hackney in the way they did, Hackney is still changing. One of the most significant changes could be as the people living in the Borough maintain and improve their houses. The purpose of the book remains the same, to remind people that the character of Hackney is made up of many individual houses, and the neigh bourhoods that they form. Each house or street has its own character and if modernised without thought this can easily be destroyed. This is not a do-it-yourself manual, nor is it a history book, though it does say something about the historical background of Hackney's houses. It suggests that there are ways of altering a house which contribute to the street rather than harm it. Not everyone may agree with the opinions expressed but it is hoped that this book will help you to decide, for what happens to the ordinary houses of Hackney is just as important in shaping the Borough as what happens to its well known historic buildings.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Hackney Society
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0950655848
• ISBN 13: 9780950655840
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Day Marilyn
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 36