Fassett Square

Fassett Square

Fassett Square is a small residential square in the London Borough of Hackney between central Hackney and Dalston, just to the north of Graham Road.

It was built in the early 1860s on land owned by the Graham family. [ [http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/scrapbook/fassettsquare/index-page13.html Fassett Square website] ] The north west part of the square contains the bauhaus influenced new extension to the German Hospital which was built in 1935 and closed in 1987. To the north is the stretch of railway track that carries the North London Line.

The square is unremarkable but for the fact that is was used in the design of the fictional Albert Square in the long-running BBC TV soap "EastEnders". When the creators of the soap were thinking of the design of the square in the early 1980s, they needed a group of typical East London former merchants houses all facing a well-kept square giving a sense of community. [ [http://www.myvillage.com/hackney/community-fassetsquare.htm Fassett Square on MyVillage.com] ] There were plans to actually film the series in the square but the hospital was difficult to insert in the script.

References

External links

* [http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/scrapbook/fassettsquare/index.html Fassett Square website]
* [http://www.hackney.gov.uk/x-film-squares-fassett.htm Photographs on Hackney Council website]


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