Stephen Emms tracks down The Fields Beneath author whose writing on Kentish Town has informed a new generation of fans Gillian Tindall has lived in the same house in Kentish Town for fifty years. It ...

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 ...

Andy Macleod on the tragic tale of a Kentish Town band who didn't become rich or famous - but had a manager who did Back in the early nineties, I was the lead singer in an indie band called The Pointy ...

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, ...

Did you know that the law only goes back to the 1990s in the UK? But it all started in New York two decades earlier... One of many Camden Council stickers on lamp posts across the borough. Photo: ...

Along with the rest of the capital’s Heath walkers, both occasional and regular, I first encountered Funny Weather, NW5’s entirely delightful new coffee shop and bookstore, after a blustery circuit of ...

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 has a forgotten caff in Kentish Town got to do with a tale of a thwarted romance and the untimely death of a movie star? Michael Gothard in 1966. Photo: Britmovie.co.uk We were enthralled by a ...

If you walk up Highgate Road towards Hampstead Heath, behind the last railway bridge there is a small street. Turn down that, and then another short road, and on Mortimer Terrace you arrive at an ...

The writer and columnist on why she loves where she lives, lying about her driving test - and the TV shows that will probably never happen ‘I can get pretty anxious about life.’ Photo: PR A features ...

It’s many years since George Michael was arrested in the public toilets at South End Green, the busy little interjunction a cupcake’s hurl from Gospel Oak. So, we thought, isn’t it high time we, er, ...

What exactly is it? Probably the most famous sandwich shop in London, no less. Really? Yep, as its own website humbly proclaims, it “changed the sandwich.” Quite a claim, indeed, but if you need more ...