North London Food & Culture

Wednesday Picture

Art

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.

Art

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 …

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Where the hell is Kentish Town’s “village”?

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that they forgot the predictably cute villagey bit when they built our very urban postcode. Or to be more accurate, …

Art

Wednesday Picture: Top 5 Banksy locations in and around K-Town

So what is the connection between the world’s most famous street artist and north London?

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Is this the most tranquil spot in NW5?

Our advice? Simply take a pew and sit for a moment or two.

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: A personal history of a grocery chain in Kentish Town

Des Whynam can trace his Kentish Town ancestry back to 1844. Here’s his personal account of working at a now forgotten chain of grocery stores based in NW5

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Find Your House on the Kentish Town Poverty Map

Delve in to the social history behind the streets we live in and it doesn’t take long for the maps of Victorian philanthropist Charles Booth …

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Crown & Goose Doomed – it’s official

This one is quite a biggie. Anyone who knows and loves Camden Town, or who has lived or worked there in the last twenty years, …

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Murder on Brecknock Road

Yesterday’s handwritten Q&A was such a hit with you lot that we thought we’d experiment again today, and publish an original Victorian press cutting. And …

Food

Wednesday Picture: Marine Ices sold – the truth

The hysterical coverage and dismayed tweets to “save” it smack of people shouting not listening. Here’s what really happened when a local institution was sold

About Kentishtowner

The award-winning print and online title Kentishtowner was founded in 2010 and is part of London Belongs To Me, a citywide network of travel guides for locals. For more info on what we write about and why, see our About section.