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Shazia Hussain on delivering Phase 3 for the Queen Elizabeth OlympicPark
The CEO of London Legacy Development Corporation is The Wick’s latest guest editor
Autumn ’25, issue 18
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The Wick is your local collaborative media platform.
We use print and digital storytelling to unite the creative, business and residential communities in Hackney Wick & Fish Island plus the other neighbourhoods in and around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The CEO of London Legacy Development Corporation is The Wick’s latest guest editor
A digest including loads of things to do, local announcements, special offers on #WickWednesdays, gossip and other info from the neighbourhood
The Wick presents a guide to the many opportunities that now exist in East London if you’re looking for work or training in the creative sector
What first possessed you to get into the laborious world of stop motion animation? Growing up in Derbyshire there wasn’t that much around, so you
In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, University of East London’s Tracie Trimmer helped engage younger locals by asking their hopes for the future. Here she reconnects with them, a decade later, to see how they are getting on
For some years, scaffolding boards and other ‘waste’ materials from the Olympic Park were used for mezzanine-building, warehouse modifications and much more in Hackney Wick.
It’s said that the celebrated photographer David Bailey’s grandmother collected glasses there and was paid in gin. Certainly printers, mechanics, scrap metal merchants and more
Even five years ago, opening a Sainsbury’s on Wallis Road would have been, at best, a poor business idea. Like many things in Hackney Wick,
In his early years, Bobby Kasanga was a talented footballer who had represented his county and played at a high level of the semi-professional game.
Just off the River Lea Navigation at the former sweet factory site Clarnico Quay, stands the new Hackney Bridge; a cluster of businesses, restaurants, start-ups,
The chair of the Legacy Youth Board, reflects on HWFI’s identity coming out of the pandemic and why it’s time to celebrate
Entitled ‘We need each other more than ever’, download the research document into the impact of Covid locally
