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The former Gainsborough film studios site on Poole Street in Hoxton

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Alfred Hitchcock learned to make films in a converted railway power station on Poole Street in Hoxton, and The Lady Vanishes was shot there in 1938

Dalston Square and its towers in Dalston, east London

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A plaque to Newton Dunbar and the Four Aces, the Dalston club where Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff played, is due to go up on Collins Tower, facing the site of the club that was knocked down in 2007

Tower blocks on the Stratford skyline in east London

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18th Floor, a rooftop restaurant and bar on top of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, opens for dinner on Thursday 29 October, with steaks for sharing, Scottish lobster and DJs at weekends

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Christobel Amelia Hastings

Third year English undergraduate and aspiring features journalist living in the heart of the capital city. Young wordsmith with an old soul.

A signpost in Shoreditch, London, pointing to key destinations like Old Street Station, Hoxton Market, and Liverpool Street Station.

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