The Drovers’ Route to Urban Chic
London Fields — a village green in the heart of Hackney, home of London’s only Olympic-size Lido. Follow the drovers’ route through the market, across the canal, to Hackney City Farm. Hear how East London — once renowned for its fresh air and fine gardens — has been transformed to middle class suburb, then industrial squalor and now regenerated to a desirable, multicultural, artistic, vibrant community. Learn how philanthropists, government and some of Britain’s finest architects have provided social housing for more than a century.
