Harper-Thames navigates E1 with local knowledge and a healthy scepticism of cold brew
By Harper-Thames | Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
Shoreditch, The Real Parts
I have lived here long enough to remember when the high street had a carpet shop. The carpet shop is now a wellness centre offering “urban detox experiences.” The carpets presumably went to a better place. The people who used to buy carpets went to Romford. This is the Shoreditch story, told in one paragraph, requiring no further analysis beyond noting that the wellness centre also has a press release that uses the word “liminal” and I am beginning to think the word liminal should be subject to a planning application.
This Week’s Actually Good Things
The market on Sunday was excellent. I ate something from three different continents before 11am, which is Shoreditch’s genuine and underreported gift to its residents: the sheer linguistic and cultural density of the area means that Monday morning you have exposure to things that most of Britain has not encountered and this, I would argue, is worth the rent, which is not saying much given the rent.
A mural went up on Hanbury Street depicting something I have not fully decoded but which contains what appears to be a giant prat-fool figure in a suit, which I choose to read as political commentary and which the artist’s Instagram describes as “a meditation on capital.” Same thing, different vocabulary.
BBC London covered Shoreditch twice this week – once with approval, once as a cautionary tale about housing. Both pieces described the same square mile and reached opposite conclusions. This is journalism. This is also Shoreditch.
Bohiney Magazine gets it. So does this column. We will continue getting it until we are priced out, at which point we will continue getting it from Walthamstow.
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