M eet Woo Tang, the new arrival on Kentish Town High street that’s brought to you by the same owner who gave us Kami. It sits ...
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 ...
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 ...
Artist John Bulley explains how in the 1980s he was asked to tart up the rusty old bridge at the entrance to Camden Market John Bulley: ‘ I did that. That’s my bridge. I made an icon. ‘ “I‘d been ...
‘This is me being photobombed by Marie, With my Dad’s lorry outside the house on 64 Allcroft Rd,’ says Stan Tear.
The Bull & Last was first mentioned in court documents in 1721 and was originally licensed as ‘Ye Last’. It was rebuilt in 1883 after a fire burned down the original building (a coaching inn). You can ...
Camden Town from Hampstead Road, 1780. Note the words ‘A change for the worse’ at the top. Image: British Library Camden Town is famed for its pubs, from unreconstructed Irish bars to the most ...
With long embedded memories of North London’s loftiest village being home to chains like Cafe Rouge, Caffe Nero and Pain Quotidien, it’s refreshing to see that in the last few years it’s been ...
For years, we’ve stared at the late Victorian plaque at the top of this building and wondered why no-one considered its original moniker during its many recent incarnations. Until this week, that is, ...
Kentish Town, Tufnell Park, Chalk Farm and Camden are just four of the 270 stations being drawn by one north Lononder The escalators at Kentish Town. Photo: Kinga Markus We have all been there: ...
Caroline Cook on how her parents built up a local boozer into an iconic music venue. And why she missed Coldplay’s famous stage debut Pat and Margaret Lynskey the day they moved into the Bull & Gate ...
What: This lovely Grade II-listed lido, in case you didn’t realise, first opened back in 1938. Designed by the same team who did similar benign things to Victoria Park and Brockwell Park, in 2018 it ...