Is Kentish Town Really Changing?
The ‘up and coming’ status of an area is not without its detractors who, rightly or wrongly, believe their more ‘real’ experience of the area is now being corroded
Kentish Town History
Wednesday Picture: Who links Rochester Terrace to Brighton West Pier?
Stretching northwest from Camden Road, Rochester Terrace Gardens and its surrounding streets form an unusually calm and peaceful patch of south Kentish Town. In fact, as far back as 1898 the area was recorded in Charles Booth’s poverty map as a ‘a wonderful quiet neighbourhood.’ Rochester Road is blocked off at the Kentish Town Road …
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Wednesday Picture: Mary Shelley’s ‘Odious Swamp’
Why did Frankenstein author Mary Shelley call Kentish Town an ‘odious swamp?’ (If it makes you feel any better, local readers, Naples was a ‘paradise inhabited by devils’, her villa on the Italian Riviera a ‘dungeon’). In 1824 Shelley moved to Bartholomew Place, a rather lovely terrace built with ‘unobstructed views over Holloway and Islington’; …
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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?
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
