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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: this article contains adult themes and sexual language. Some things are reliable in life. The Wizard of Oz at Christmas never fails to make me tearful. Cat videos on Instagram always raise a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The reinvention of urban spaces is a fascinating thing. Over the last decade the area has seen a fair few, from disused railway arches becoming breweries to abandoned tube stations repurposed as ...

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: ...

Back in 2013, author Gillian Tindall, who died last week, invited me to her “Kentish Town hideaway”. It was an honour as she was the brains behind one of my favourite books, The Fields Beneath, an ...

Is the bit where NW5 rubs up against N7 and N19 having something of a moment? To celebrate, we unearthed as much trivia as we could Harrington & Squires’ original Kentishtowner artwork commissioned ...