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Dec 9, 2021 · Talacre Road, 1974. Today’s green space is much praised, but plenty was lost in its creation “I took these pictures without the knowledge that this place – any place – is continually shifting,” says Jeremy Ross, the photographer behind these images that capture the changing face of Kentish Town in the mid-70s.

Jan 11, 2016 · Queen’s Crescent Market in 1975. Photo courtesy of Des Whynam R ose remembers the area as “real working class, with so many families, so many children”. Many of the places that helped to shape their life in the community are still solidly part of the landscape today.

Jan 2, 2025 · The Vine: Kentish Town Panorama. The longest roll shows the east side from Swain’s Lane following Highgate Road through Kentish Town Road to St Pancras Way (and St Pancras Old Church); the second depicts the west side from what is now Camden Town tube and back up to Swains Lane.

Jan 21, 2025 · A s you’ll know if you live in the area, Highgate Road is the ancient pub-lined thoroughfare that – in 2025 at least – is where the urban buzz of Kentish Town starts to give way to the leafy streets of Dartmouth Park and, beyond, the steep inclines of Highgate Village.. It’s here that you’ll find a new development, The Tipton, …

Jul 25, 2024 · Originally known as the Star & Garter, in 1885 the pub was rebuilt into its present form with striking Victorian red brick exterior. Rechristened The Old Farm House, it enjoyed a reign of a century or so before being renamed O’Reilly’s at the turn of the millennium (with a short stint in the 1990s as Dolly Fossetts).

Mar 13, 2021 · The construction of the main rail lines turned early Victorian Camden Town upside down carving a huge swathe through the area. Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son, published in the second half of the 1840s, took as one of its themes the intrusion of the railways into a part of London he knew well.

Welcome to Kentishtowner (yup, all one word), north London’s award-winning and longest-running cultural guide . It’s one of four London titles published by London Belongs To Me.. E stablished in 2010 by broadsheet writer Stephen Emms, we are a good news title (not the “local paper”) and leave the hard stuff to other titles.. Instead, we cover food & drink, lifestyle, the arts, travel ...

Nov 22, 2024 · F or years, we’ve stared at the plaque at the top of this landmark Kentish Town Road building and wondered why no-one considered using its original Victorian moniker during its many recent incarnations.. And now, having undergone six month’s refurb, this has finally happened. The Old Farmhouse is the latest project from the First Restaurant Group, who run Hampstead’s Oak & Poppy (as well ...

Jan 17, 2025 · N early one hundred and twety-five years ago, the local authority – then St Pancras – poured money into a state-of-the-art public facility for the residents of Kentish Town. Comprising of a wash house, public hall and baths, the deep red brick and terracotta edifice was a sight to behold, but one that withered in its visual and social impact as the decades rolled by.