Take the Overground to Upper Holloway, or tube to Archway or Highgate. Starters from £8, mains from £15, The Crown, 86 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

‘This is me being photobombed by Marie, With my Dad’s lorry outside the house on 64 Allcroft Rd,’ says Stan Tear.

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 ...

It’s no secret that Camden’s LGBTQ+ scene has been hit particularly hard over the last decade, with legendary venue The Black Cap and newer space Her Upstairs facing particularly public closures in ...

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 ...

Let’s pop back to Camden in the 1980s. Alex Green, an 18-year-old Yorkshire lad donning a mop of bleach blonde hair, a big bag o’ homo-feelings, and a desire to find his way in London, steps foot in ...

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, ...

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 ...