Beating the Bounds of the Games in Hackney Wick

Industry on the Lee Navigation Canal

© Hackney Archives

Carless Capel and Leonard

© Hackney Archives

A new history project

"Yes, this was Hackney Wick, my dears,
this was Hackney Wick,
Do the rounds and beat the bounds
and make the memories stick!"

In the last 12 months we have been funded by the Discover Hackney's Heritage Partnership to pilot a series of walks for children, families and adults in Hackney Wick and the area that borders the Olympic Games site.

In 2009 the Society in collaboration with Hackney Archives published an illustrated storywalk for children and their families. Using poetry and local history this fun and colourful walk takes you through historic Hackney Wick – a place where inventors, industrialists and sportsmen came and excelled.

Poems by Ralph Rochester. Illustrations by Zara Slattery.

For a free copy please send a SAE (size DL) to Lisa Rigg, The Round Chapel, 1d Glenarm Road, London E5 0LY, or for further information email lisa@hackneysociety.org

In 2010 and 2011 we will be publishing podcasts on Hackney Wick and Hackney Marshes. We are also raising money for a publication about the history of the area.

Watch this space...