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Art

Why It Matters: Art in a Kentish Town Shed

The Free Space Gallery project is a toddler now; at two years old we feel ready to utter some of our first fully formed sentences. …

Art

Free Weekend? Explore Weighted Words at Zabludowicz

Here at Kentishtowner HQ we are more than partial – as you should by now have realized – to a bon mot or two. In …

History

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

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Les Toilettes at Guanabana

Regular readers may recall that Mrs Kentishtowner, on an evening out, is sometimes more stimulated by the lavs than the food itself. Not that we’re …

Books

Life Tips #5 – Maggie Gee, 63, Author

#1. It’s not about the carriage you go round the village in is it? In August 1983 my boyfriend Nick and I, after six months …

Sex & Dating

Why It Matters: Rio’s – Kentish Town’s great leveller?

My real name might be David but, using the nom de plume Jenbel (don’t ask), I got myself into a spot of bother with Mrs …

Fashion

Gabby Young on Day One of London Fashion Week

Music

Secret Camden: Proud Cabaret

Oh, the evening flapped by, the atmosphere as bawdy as an 18th Century mollhouse (well, nearly)

Design & Style

Ooh nice signage! Busby Place

Spotted this atmospheric sign on the upper eastern reaches of NW5?

Art

Why It Matters: The Parlour Gallery, Kentish Town

Other local galleries may be better known, sexier, or more on-trend but Queen’s Crescent’s Parlour Gallery is one that makes consistent effort to engage with …

About Kentishtowner

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