New squares and parks in Camden
The recent blogs on the Camden Guides website have been about squares, often the favourite of the author of the blog. Well, I am being greedy as I am talking
The recent blogs on the Camden Guides website have been about squares, often the favourite of the author of the blog. Well, I am being greedy as I am talking
Bloomsbury. What image does that word conjure up for you? For me it is squares. Bloomsbury has many garden squares, some are private, but many are open to the public,
Where are the women? Well, first of all, there are some statues of Women in Camden Squares! Which, given the national statistics from the Public Monuments and Sculptures Association (PMSA),
On the northern edge of Bloomsbury, not far from the Euston Road and Euston station, you will find Cartwright Gardens. This is a lovely little crescent-shaped development, comprising early nineteenth
Introduction Welcome to this brief summary of some of the history, human and architectural, of Lincoln’s Inn. Let’s start with the basics. Where, what and when Lincoln’s Inn refers to
Although starting life arranged symmetrically either side of what was, at the time, the Foundling Hospital, these two squares are rather different today as the central garden of only one,
Medicine and Camden This post lists the blogs that have been created on the Camden Guides blog site under the Medicine and Camden theme, divided between ‘people’ and ‘institutions’. Medical
London today has 35,000 acres of public green space equivalent to 40 per cent of its surface area. But if you walk north of Chalk Farm today you will see
On becoming editor of these blogs, I inherited the foregoing title and no-one to write it. At first I thought it was probably a null set, because, unlike other squares
Today there are few people who haven’t heard of the world renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for children. Just off Queen Square in Bloomsbury, the hospital treats thousands of children
Here’s an attention grabbing title, and in a roundabout way of maintaining the theme of Medicine in Camden, this blog is all about paying tribute to all the nurses, the
On the south-western edge of the borough of Camden on the border between Fitzrovia and Marylebone stands a historic building which served the poor and infirm of Central London for