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Life Tips #8: Kirstin, Toy Shop Owner, Gospel Oak

By on March 13, 2012 in Life Tips, Shopping

1. Constant change is wretched. My window display hasn’t altered since the 70s. People are thrilled to see that. I had one grown woman gasp when she brought her boyfriend here. She said, ‘I didn’t know if you were real or a dream, but it’s exactly the same!‘ 2. It’s good to have your eggs [...]

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Call yourself a Kentishtowner? Then walk the Borough Boundary…

By on April 21, 2011 in Camden, Community, Health & Exercise, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Walks

A couple of years ago I had a short-lived monthly series in Time Out on walking the borough boundaries in London. It was axed when the magazine decided to, um, reinvent itself. But here, from the archives, is an epic 16 mile hike around the borough of Camden – which – if you have nothing [...]

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The next Broadway Market?

By on December 6, 2010 in Culture, Market, Queen's Crescent, Shopping, West Kentish Town

OK, so the picture makes it look deserted (Mrs Kentishtowner preferring to do her shopping at the crack of dawn) but a vibrant Italian market, which attracted a nice metropolitan mix of locals, descended on Queen’s Crescent on Saturday. Fondling the huge selection of breads, olive oils, cheeses and pastries, several Irish ladies, who had [...]

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Queen’s Crescent Market

By on November 26, 2010 in Art, Chalk Farm, Coffee, Culture, Food, Gospel Oak, History, Kentishtowner Recommends, Queen's Crescent, Walks, West Kentish Town

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 [...]

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Torriano

By on November 10, 2010 in Culture, Drink, Hidden Gem, Literary, Music, 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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