78 years of time travel: 1946 – 2024
Hackney Now & Then (1946–2024)
Explore nearly 80 years of Hackney’s streets, buildings, and communities in this 314-page hardback. With over 1,000 photographs, the book captures the borough’s past and present, offering a unique glimpse into how it has changed over the decades.
Written and compiled by Hackney native, author Peter Kurton, the book uncovers this ever evolving east end community – its buildings, its people and the lives that are lived there.
And there’s more!
Alongside Hackney Now & Then, Peter Kurton’s shop offers a range of carefully crafted titles. These include a newly republished edition of Arthur Harding’s – My Apprenticeship to Crime, introduced with a new foreword by Peter. Arthur Harding was a notorious, and reformed, east end criminal mind. As well as a focus on the east end, Peter as his original novel The Promised Land – Escape from Lithuania and a graphic novel of the same name. Explore all the titles below.
