Grace Poulter has worked at Fortess Road interiors shop Future & Found since July, helping with its day-to-day running and product development. Brought up in Tufnell Park, she attended Parliament Hill school before a hiatus south of the river studying Graphic Design at The London College of Communication. Since university she has also worked as [...]
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
So it’s a sunny late spring morning, the Heath looks inviting, but you want an adventure. Ever thought about the 393 bus? Probably not (and I really don’t blame you). A Kentishtowner doesn’t need to venture deeper into North London, but let’s give Stoke Newington N16, the destination of the 393, a go. After all, [...]
Big Review: Colonel Fawcett, Camden Town
A new chef at the acclaimed backstreet food pub. But is he any cop? In early Jan last year, we published one of our first reviews to create a genuine stir online. We gave a newly taken over boozer 9/10 for their cooking. With a 21 year old Head Chef, Dorian Kirk, and a dazzling [...]
Fan of Kentish Town graffiti legend Mr P? See his new mural on Crown Place
This week reader Mat Shreeve dropped us a line to say local graffiti legend Mr P has just finished an impressive new mural in Crown Place, off Kentish Town Road. “As residents and owners of Crown Place, there’s been a seven year long dispute about who owns the lane and should clear the bin store [...]
Wednesday Picture: Let’s make a K-Town cinema or arts space actually happen!
A cinema? Arts hub? Ideas store? Now is the time to act. With the Bull & Gate no longer a live music venue, and the recent announcement of the Pizza Express closure, we are now seriously thinking it’s time to do something. After all, we are fortunate to have thousands of readers all passionate about [...]
Bench Tales – back now as a regular series
Readers may remember my scribblings on the stories behind memorial park benches over the years. There was the Free Weekend piece encouraging people to contemplate the inscriptions; the tale behind the Postmen’s Bench outside Kentish Town Delivery Office; and one of London’s finest inscriptions – the Memorial to the Unknown Husband on the South Bank. [...]
Free Weekend? Explore Bristol – a beginner’s guide
Graffiti, sharing plates – and one spectacular bridge: Stephen Emms heads to the waterside city for just 24 hours We’re standing by an empty building next to the derelict, Grade II-listed Carriage Works on Stokes Croft, the street known as Bristol’s creative epicentre. Alongside the hipster coffee bars, graffiti is everywhere, as you might expect [...]
Wednesday Picture: Tracking Bambi Street Artist
Despite our urban surrounds, Kentishtowner is never short of a good animal in the starring role. And previously, on the Wednesday Picture alone, we’ve pursued elephants, mourned a goose, followed a herd of cows and encountered two generations of giant black cats. But today? We’re out hunting for Bambi. Of course, this little deer has [...]
Music: 20 years of Mario’s Cafe by Saint Etienne
In 1993 Kelly Street’s tiny Mario’s Café was immortalised in song by electronica outfit Saint Etienne. But as Bob Stanley from the group explains, the paean is, in fact, about a wider local love affair. In January 1990 I moved into a basement flat on Dartmouth Park Road with my best friend, Pete Wiggs. This [...]
How did we take this unusual view?
How’s this for a fine view of Kentish Town on a sunny May morning? Bus-choked street, queue outside Bean About Town, sun bouncing off icing cake turrets, and the shriek and roar of trains and sirens below. We snapped the image (‘scuse the slightly dirty lens) after clambering up the aluminium ladder on the roof [...]
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Wednesday Picture: Let’s make a K-Town cinema or arts space actually happen!
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Why It Matters: Busting the delayed motherhood myth
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Pinboard: a date set for Kentish Town Carnival – and other spring festivals
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Ben Osborne, DJ and Arctic Monkeys biographer
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Grace Poulter, 24, Future & Found
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Why It Matters: Busting the delayed motherhood myth
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Why It Matters: Kids Club Kampala
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Newsflash: two cinema chains seeking a K-Town venue
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
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Sinead: Well put charlotte and agree wholeheartedly. i ha...
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Mavis Pilbeam: Sian may be interested in the exhibition at the We...
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Neil: Is this is a particularly KT problem?...
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Stephen Whitehead: For a lot of people I know, they've put off havin...
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Cat: I am so pleased someone has finally said this publ...