Curious London
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  • Curious King's Cross
    • Extract: The Fairy Tale Estate
    • Extract: EGA Stays OK
  • Curious Camden Town
    • Extract: Revolution at the Roundhouse
  • Curious Kentish Town
    • Extract: Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe
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Curious Kentish Town
published by Five Leaves
"lays bare the stories behind landmarks we know so well" - Camden New Journal
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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!
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This map was designed by Nancy Edwards - http://www.nancyedwards.co.uk/
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


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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
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'Newspaper Kiosk' by Fermin Rocker
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  • About
  • Curious King's Cross
    • Extract: The Fairy Tale Estate
    • Extract: EGA Stays OK
  • Curious Camden Town
    • Extract: Revolution at the Roundhouse
  • Curious Kentish Town
    • Extract: Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe
  • Contact