With the media flurry about our enviable local ale drinking options continuing apace, the Kentishtowner couldn’t resist a trip under the railway arches to see the area’s very own brewery in action. Spanning out beneath Kentish Town West station amid sacks of wheat and stacks of kegs, the Camden Brewery team are working flat out [...]
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The Bible of Kentish Town
It’s been out a while, but I’m finally devouring the reissue of The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall, subtitled a “history of one London village” (Kentish Town – for the uninitiated). Tindall, who has lived in the area for 35 years, traces our manor’s roots and explores how Kentish Town’s identity crisis and social mix [...]
Gallery Watch: Leighton Space, Liminal & Guts For Garters
Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a [...]
Queen’s Crescent Market
There’s nowhere else in the area like it. Some say it’s rundown and depressing, others that it’s unpretentious and one of the last pockets of real London. Go decide for yourself tomorrow (or every Thursday/Saturday), when the street market (one of the oldest in the capital) runs from 9am -3pm. If you arrive from Chalk [...]
Torriano
Never heard of Torriano? Sounds a bit ‘foreign’, doesn’t it. Actually, it’s a bohemian-ish area east of Kentish Town. Poetry and folk nights still take place at the Torriano Meeting House, there’s a nearby vibrant road of independent shops like this one, and a great local boozer, the Torriano (71-73 Torriano avenue) complete with mixed [...]
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For the wrecking ball? Historic pub, home to the legendary Flowerpot (and Verge, and Castle)
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Why It Matters: Busting the delayed motherhood myth
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Wednesday Picture: Spies in Kentish Town?
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Pinboard: Amy singsong, art along the PoW – and a letter from Jay Gatsby?
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Big Review: Tufnell Park Tavern – a pub, farmers’ market and gallery rolled into one
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Big Review: Tufnell Park Tavern – a pub, farmers’ market and gallery rolled into one
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Free Weekend? Hike the 16 mile borough boundary
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For the wrecking ball? Historic pub, home to the legendary Flowerpot (and Verge, and Castle)
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Pinboard: Amy singsong, art along the PoW – and a letter from Jay Gatsby?
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The story behind Sian Pattenden’s Kentishtowner Cultural Map prints
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Tom Storr: There is a band on at the bandstand on Hampstead H...
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Alison: Anonanon has a great point - what hope is there if...
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Lara May Jakob: All true, it's a good pub but the farmers market ...
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turbulentsilverfox: What day are people doing it??...