If the story of Holly Street were a book, it would be a Dickensian novel of redemption in the face of deprivation. Fans of Victorian literature will be pleased to note that it covers a suitably long timeframe: it started back in the eighties, when the Holly Street estate in east London was at the heart of Hackney's Murder Mile. At that time, as many as 80% of the estate's residents said they did not want to live there.
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