Homerton

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Template:Infobox London place Image:Hackney hospital.jpg Image:Chats palace 1.jpg Homerton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. Original location of Homerton College, once a Dissenting Academy; which became a teacher training institution, and which is now a full college of the University of Cambridge offering nearly all subjects.

Seventies Glam rock singer Marc Bolan was born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street. The hospital, originally built in 1841 as a workhouse, finally closed in 1995, its poor reputation contrasting with that of the new Homerton University Hospital which opened in 1987 on a site nearby.

Homerton's links with popular music continued with the arrival of Toerag, an eight track recording studio which uses reclaimed 1960s analogue equipment, where notably the White Stripes' acclaimed 2003 album Elephant was produced.

Although this has been, in recent years, a rather depressed area of Hackney, itself a poor borough, Homerton's prospects are brightening. The arrival of the Channel Link at nearby Stratford, coupled with the London Summer Olympics, which will take place nearby in 2012, may well spell a revival in its fortunes.

The oldest residential building in east London is Sutton House on Homerton High Street. It was built in 1535 and is owned and run by the National Trust.

Homerton is served by the Homerton University Hospital, an NHS foundation trust hospital.

Nearest places:

• Hackney Central
• Hackney Marshes
• Hackney Wick
• Leyton
• Stratford
• Dalston
• Haggerston
• Bethnal Green

Nearest railway station:

• Homerton railway station

External links

• Chats Palace Arts Centre
• Homerton University Hospital
• Toerag Studios
• History of Homerton (at British History Online)