Wednesday Picture
The secret history of Parliament Hill bandstand
Stories about the Hampstead Heath landmark go back decades
The story of the Camden Coffee Shop on Delancey Street
Stepping through the door is a rare moment of authenticity in a world of the salvaged, restyled and re-purposed
Wednesday Picture: Carreras Art Deco Cigarette Factory, Mornington Crescent
The chequered history of the huge Egyptian-themed building that wiped out much-loved communal gardens
Wednesday Picture(s): New Year’s Day 2013
What did you do after that rainy New Year’s Eve (and how was that, by the way?) We, inevitably, were up at the crack of …
Wednesday Picture: Flaxon Ptootch Murals Old and New – Which do you prefer?
How was your Christmas? Ours was fine, thanks, although the skies were steely, the rain incessant. We thought you might be turkeyed out by this …
In Pictures: Christmas Day Swimming on Hampstead Heath
It takes a certain type of person to want to participate in this bracing ritual. Go on, dive in
Heard about the novel set in 1940s Kentish Town?
And what’s more it’s packed with near-incest, murder, home abortions and prostitutes (on Leverton Street, if you please!)
What was the Creature Shop of Camden Lock?
It played a major role in building movie monsters of all kinds – despite the advances of the virtual ones, says Tom Kihl
Wednesday Picture: What has Jack The Ripper got to do with Kentish Canteen?
Like the Kentishtowner, the Canteen is also celebrating its second birthday this autumn; furthermore, it was the subject of my first ever Kentishtowner post – …
Kentish Town Road – Birthplace of the Laptop
Was the laptop really born above a dry cleaner’s on Kentish Town Road?
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