Of all the couples around me, Homer and Marge seemed the safest bet, but ratings have encouraged talk. And now as I trudge the streets I am tortured by references to happier days:
- Springfield Park
- Homerton
- The 1907 Butter and Marge Act was in no small measure due to thieving Hackney tradesmen (excepting Jack “Tesco” Cohen in Well Street, obviously): In 1901, “pure butter” analyzed in Hackney consisted of 94 per cent “foreign fat” (principally cotton-seed oil). In the following year a Pimlico firm’s butter was found to be 83 per cent foreign fat and three Hackney grocers were convicted for selling butter which was over 90 per cent margarine.
- Parish (church) of St Bart, Stamford Hill
- Lisa Star Nails, Stamford Hill (sorry, that’s just over the Scottish border)
- St Maggie’s at St Saviour’s
- Flanders Way
- Turkish nuclear power grill Ocakbasi on the Lower Clapton Road
Any more? Remember, hipsters aren’t krusties.
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