The Hackney and Newham History Social Club

S2, EP 04 | That Was Good Money

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Taking Care of Business, Episode 04:

Meet George who left advertising in the Seventies to sell fraco at the market and run parties in Hackney. Elsewhere, another entrepreneur was also in business, before opening a Forest Gate institution in Newham. Sue is reminded of the people and places that mark everyday moments in her home city.

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Enterprise. Family. Attitude. Sue Elliott-Nicholls takes us from N16 to E6 with people who’ve made our boroughs what they are today. We celebrate a shop, a common, a cemetery and an approach to life, to find a place in the family of things.  

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The Hackney and Newham History Social Club, alongside our sister project Voices of Change, is saving stories that will be preserved in Hackney Museum and Archives and Newham's Borough Archives for future generations. 

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