Editing Homerton (section)

===In modern times===
[[File:hackney hospital.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Hackney Hospital, August 2005. [[Marc Bolan]] (born, Mark Feld), and [[Anthony Newley]] were both born here.]]
1970s [[glam rock]] singer [[Marc Bolan]] and actor [[Ray Winstone]]<ref>[http://www.copperlily.com/AboutRayWinstone/RWbiog.htm Ray Winston Biography] accessed 10 May 2007.</ref> were born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street. The hospital, originally built in 1841 as the Hackney Union [[Poor law|workhouse]], finally closed in 1995. The old hospital was refurbished in 2006 and reopened to serve the mental health trust.

Homerton's links with popular music continued with the arrival of [[Toe Rag Studios]], relocated from [[Shoreditch]] to the [[Lower Clapton]]/Homerton border, an [[8-track tape|eight-track]] recording studio which uses reclaimed 1960s analogue equipment, where the [[White Stripes]]' acclaimed 2003 album ''[[Elephant (album)|Elephant]]'' was produced. More recently,{{when|date=July 2024}} Sound Savers studios was also established in Homerton, and Gun Factory Studios relocated to the area from [[Stoke Newington]]. [[UK drill]] artist [[Unknown T]] is from Homerton.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

[[File:Homerton university hospital 1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Homerton University Hospital main entrance. (February 2006)]]
Homerton is also home to Chats Palace arts centre, named after the nearby Chatsworth Road. Chats Palace has presented and encouraged a wide variety of music, comedy, theatre, photography, carnival, disability arts, dance and transgressive performance, including [[Clifford Jarvis]], [[Tom Hunter]], [[Miniscule of Sound]], [[Red Saunders (photographer)|Red Saunders]], [[Asian Dub Foundation]] and [[Graeae Theatre Company]].{{cn|date=July 2024}} The building itself was originally established as a [[Carnegie library]], built in 1912–13 for the betterment of the people of the [[East End of London|East End]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=OLD LIBRARY BUILDING, Non Civil Parish - 1235655 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1235655 |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> The council closed the library in 1976 but members of the local community reclaimed the building.<ref>[http://www.chatspalace.com/ Chats Palace] official website</ref> In October 2014, historic pub the [[Chesham Arms]] on Mehetabel Road became Hackney's first [[Asset of Community Value]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Asset of Community Value saved from illegal development - The Chesham Arms Public Inquiry|url=https://news.hackney.gov.uk/an-asset-of-community-value-saved-from-illegal-development---the-chesham-arms-public-inquiry/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=An Asset of Community Value saved from illegal development - The Chesham Arms Public Inquiry|language=en}}</ref>

Homerton is home to the [[Castle Cinema, Hackney|Castle Cinema]], which re-opened following a successful [[Kickstarter]] campaign raised £57,000 to support its renovation in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Powell |first=Tom |date=2017-02-26 |title=Abandoned cinema reopens 60 years after showing last film |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/abandoned-hackney-cinema-reopens-60-years-after-showing-last-film-a3475566.html |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref>