Curious Kentish Town
published by Five Leaves
"lays bare the stories behind landmarks we know so well" - Camden New Journal
published by Five Leaves
"lays bare the stories behind landmarks we know so well" - Camden New Journal
Curious Kentish Town - 92pp, £9.99 and available from Owl in Kentish Town Road and other local bookshops and on Amazon: a local bestseller, now on its third printing!
Which Kentish Town rent strike inspired a Peggy Seeger song? Where does the long lost Fleet river break cover? Have you visited the 'craziest' of London's parish churches? Or followed, quite literally, in the tracks of the piano industry?
Do you know about the horse tunnels at Camden Lock ... the ghost sign advertising maids' caps and aprons in Dartmouth Park ... the African revolutionary who made his home near Tufnell Park?
Curious Kentish Town explores more than thirty locations across this part of North London - the map below shows where, and there's a list of contents - and brings to life the remarkable stories attached to them.
And here's an extract - "Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe" - about the 1960 rent strike - enjoy!
Which Kentish Town rent strike inspired a Peggy Seeger song? Where does the long lost Fleet river break cover? Have you visited the 'craziest' of London's parish churches? Or followed, quite literally, in the tracks of the piano industry?
Do you know about the horse tunnels at Camden Lock ... the ghost sign advertising maids' caps and aprons in Dartmouth Park ... the African revolutionary who made his home near Tufnell Park?
Curious Kentish Town explores more than thirty locations across this part of North London - the map below shows where, and there's a list of contents - and brings to life the remarkable stories attached to them.
And here's an extract - "Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe" - about the 1960 rent strike - enjoy!
This map was designed by Nancy Edwards - http://www.nancyedwards.co.uk/
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1 Dust-up in Islip Street
2 'Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe' 3 The Caversham Road Shul 4 A Country Cottage 5 The Poets'Meeting House 6 Rocker's Newspaper Kiosk 7 A Celtic Saint 8 The Smiling Sun of Hargrave Park 9 'Catering for Beanfeasts' 10 Borough Control 11 The Drapers' Ghost 12 The River in a Rusting Pipe 13 Ghana's Revolutionary President 14 The Great War in College Lane 15 St Martin's - still crazy 16 At Home with Karl Marx 17 Horse Tunnels at Camden Lock 18 The Artist Colony in Primrose Hill 19 Ready Money Drinking Fountain 20 Matilda the Absurd 21 A Bridge over Nothing 22 The Antidote to Blue Plaques 23 The Strangest of Poets 24 Two South African Revolutionaries 25 The Elephant House 26 When Baths were Baths 27 Find HOPE 28 Pianos for all the World 29 Protect and Survive 30 The Crimea Commemorated 31 Boris the Cat |
'Newspaper Kiosk' by Fermin Rocker