Category: Camden

Arts
Lynette Denzey

Art in the Underground

Frank Pick’s legacy This will be my third Blog based on Camden’s tube stations and I do feel I am becoming extremely familiar with, and rather fond of, all 17

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Arts
Amber The American Tour Guide

P L Travers and Mary Poppins

Tourists to London often flock to visit locations they have seen in films. With some of the most iconic landmarks on the planet, rich historic locations are used to make

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Arts
Sylvia McNamara

Doris Lessing

A life in books I first read the Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1919- 2013 ) in my twenties, when I was working in Tanzania, East Africa  as a Volunteer

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Arts
Elena Paolini

The Pre-Raphaelites

Bloomsbury’s brothers-in-art Back in my university days, next to the posters of rock stars, prints of ethereal Ophelia and raven-haired Proserpine held a place of honour on my wall. Pre-Raphaelite

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Camden
Lynette Denzey

Disused Tube Stations in Camden

In August I wrote a Blog about four of Camden’s tube stations, designed by Leslie Green and now Grade II Listed.  I fear I might be becoming a bit of

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Camden Town
Paula Pickin

Horsepower

                                       Up until the 20th century Camden, London and in fact the

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Camden Town
Chris Wilkins-Molloy

Engine House to Arthouse: the Roundhouse

Chris Wilkins Molloy An industrial monument Standing on Regent’s Park Road, on the bridge approach, looking north-east towards Chalk Farm, you will see an industrial conical roof rising above the

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Bloomsbury
Brian Turner

The New Road

A momentous new road In the 1750s a group of worthies in Georgian London were concerned about traffic congestion in the metropolis, and pressed for a bypass to be built

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Somers Town
Paul Guest

Euston Station

Tried, Tested, Trailblazing Euston Station’s history is intriguing. It has been involved in controversies over issues ranging from its original location to its role as London’s HS2 terminus. It has

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Kings Cross
Sylvia McNamara

St Pancras Railway Station

St Pancras station never ceases to amaze and inspire me, even in the doldrum 1970 years, and today it has risen, phoenix from the ashes, into a beauty of a

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