History
Wednesday Picture: Kentish Town Chapel’s last 600 years
The tale behind today’s Wednesday Picture begins as far back as 1449, when a small chapel was built alongside the local dirt track to St …
How is Princess Diana linked to Highgate Studios?
While royal destiny played itself out, the wallpaper factory suffered its own ups and downs
The tale of the cafe at Brookfield Mansions
Seen the striking ghost signs just off the Heath at the foot of Highgate West Hill? Course you have…
Wednesday Picture: Kentish Town Panorama – and the old Assembly House
Regular readers will know that our manor is proper ancient – dating back to 1206 – and has many claims to fame. But did you …
Where did Karl Marx actually live in Kentish Town?
Here’s where to find the domiciles of NW5’s most famous resident
The story of Prince of Wales Baths (Kentish Town Sports Centre, if you must)
‘In the wash house, scary, tattooed women went about mangling the family smalls’
The turbulent past of a sleepy Kentish Town cul-de-sac
Navvies, quarrels, dead chickens, bomb casualties and refugees. Who knew the colourful secrets of Maud Wilkes Close?
Which street connects Soul II Soul with Jeremy Beadle?
For one eager young hack, Rochester Place in the 1990s was briefly the epicentre of a media era
Wednesday Picture: Where the hell is the Gospel Oak?
It’s question we’ve all asked, as we weave through the estates, pass under the dank viaducts on the way to Parliament Hill Fields, or pop …
Did you know there was a false teeth factory on Anglers Lane?
Claudius Ash made dentures from precious metals when the alternative was using the teeth of corpses
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