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Article: The high-rise hostas of Hackney
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 29, 1996
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Satellite dishes sprout thickly from the balconies and roofs of
the Kingsland Estate in Hackney, east London, but you are hard
pressed to find a flower. The greenest thing here is the buddleia
that sprouts, irrepressible, from a railway viaduct, a grubby brick
structure housing the secret burrows of French polishers, car
breakers and trade finishers.
So the sight of roses and greenery bobbing four floors up at
Clifford Lawton House is more than usually cheering in this
landscape of tarmac, brick and concrete. Gill Moore, warden of a
sheltered housing scheme here, is the person you've got to thank if
you too should find yourself mooching down the Whiston Road,
parched for want of plants.
Her ...