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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Transport
Jean Jacyna

Bus Route 24

What could be a more appropriate subject for a Camden Guides blog post about ‘passengers’ but that internationally recognisable icon – the London bus!  Luckily, Camden is well-served by buses,

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Transport
Paula Pickin

The London Cab Trade: Part 2

I hope you enjoyed the first part of the blog which covered the background of the Taxi trade in London. In this second part we are going to look at

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Transport
Paula Pickin

The London Cab Trade

As we are focusing on transport within the borough of Camden we must include the world famous Iconic London taxi trade, although the taxi trade is not limited to Camden

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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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Transport
Lynette Denzey

Camden Tube Stations

If there is one thing I took away from my Camden Guiding Course, (actually there were lots of things, but I am thinking Transport-related here) it is to look at

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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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