Category: 60 Years of Camden

Looking back – and stepping in to 2026… As we close the year, we’ve been reflecting on what a special one it has been for Camden. In 2025, the borough

As Camden’s 60th year comes to a close, we thought this week’s blog deserved a festive theme… Just as Billy Mack sang ‘Christmas is all around’ on Love Actually.  In

Today we take fresh, clean drinking water for granted, but it wasn’t always so. Camden’s memorial fountains and wells are reminders of a time when safe water was precious, and

What links Peter Pan and the suffragette movement? Bloomsbury – and the Marchmont Association, who champion the community and highlight its extraordinary past. This week, Camden Guide Julie Conway shines

This week as part of our series celebrating 60 years of the Borough of Camden, one of our Camden Guide’s tells the story behind the borough’s distinctive Coat of Arms.

This week Camden Guide Jane V is shining a light on one of Camden’s best kept secrets and a little reminder if we don’t use it, we could lose it.

By Camden Guide, Chris Everett  This week, as we continue to celebrate 60 years of the Borough of Camden, having just commemorated Armistice Day, it feels apt to dive into

This week Camden Guide, Lynette Denzey, continues exploring Camden’s Leslie Green stations. CAMDEN’S GREEN STATIONS Leslie William Green (Wikipedia) In 1903 Leslie Green was appointed architect for the Underground Electric

This week, Camden Guide Dave Brown uncovers the story of one of Camden’s most fascinating historical figures, Sir Flinders Petrie. Best known as the father of modern archaeology, Petrie transformed

This week our Camden 60 blog is by Camden Guide Jane V. During our training to become a Camden Guide, we explore the borough through a mix of classroom lessons

This week, Camden guide Lynette Denzey kicks off a seven-part series on Leslie Green, the architect behind 11 of Camden’s Tube stations. First stop: Goodge Street, with its iconic oxblood