The Downs, Downs Road, Hackney
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The Downs, Downs Road, Hackney
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 5 Feb 2011
Now flats, it was built in 1863 as The Downs Hotel. It closed in 2007. The Pickwick Bicycle Club, the oldest surviving cycling club in the world, first met here on 22nd June 1870 and it was their first headquarters.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.555742
Longitude
-0.059151