A forthcoming must-do date for your calendars is Sunday 20th July 2025, as Rossella’s alfresco dining event returns, a ...

This week, Boris Johnson has been considering a decision that will affect the future of London’s most famous nightclub. If the Mayor grants planning permission for a huge development of flats opposite ...

What really happened in the cemetery all those years ago? Were you intrigued by the war that raged underneath our article on the Highgate Vampire? Well, the man at the centre of it, David Farrant, ...

Most readers will have, at some time, visited Highgate Cemetery, the world class high-Gothic nature reserve on the steep incline up to N6. Dating back to 1839, it contains 170,000 corpses – that’s ...

But no-one – at least for Kentishtowner – has yet written about their first-ever visit. Recently refurbished after a fire ravaged its facilities in 2016, the underground retreat now boasts three steam ...

“We’re very excited to be opening our sixth pub-and-rooms in Kentish Town (formerly the Lady Hamilton),” said managing director Mitch Tillman. “We will be reverting back to the pub’s original name ...

For years I lived on Grafton Terrace, where West Kentish Town blurs into Gospel Oak on the cusp of swanky old NW3. In fact, I remember, back in the noughties, one estate agent even trying to sell me ...

What was so great about the area at that time? I was born in 1954 and Kentish Town was absolutely fantastic back then: growing up in Islip Street, the Saturday morning pictures at the ABC cost ...

Back in the early nineties, I was the lead singer in an indie band called The Pointy Birds. Yep, that’s me in the middle, when I had hair – and lots of it. Like everyone else at the time, we played ...

I n 1961, at the age of 27, my father, Jonathan Miller, was in a comedy show called Beyond the Fringe with Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. With its success my father took a pile of reviews ...

Seven long years ago, we wrote a paean to the watery arrival of London Shell Co, a floating seafood restaurant at Paddington Basin helmed by a brother-sister duo, Harry and Leah Lobek (read the ...