Camden Miscellany XXXIII: Seventeenth-Century Parliamentary and Financial Papers: Seventeenth Century Parliamentary and Financial Papers v. 33 (Camden Fifth Series)
This morning I was officiating at the ordination of Tim Dalton, a new teaching elder in our Camden Town church plant. I spent half an hour wandering the streets looking for the pub where the church meets. I had not realised they had changed pubs since my visit a year ago. I think seven elders laid on hands and prayed for Tim. We were not all Presbyterians as his father took part and he is a retired...
Here are the reported incidents at 7:30 on 5 November for the Tube system: PICCADILLY LINE: Suspended between South Harrow and Uxbridge due to a signal failure at Rayners Lane. Minor delays are occurring between South Ruislip and Acton Town. NORTHERN LINE: Severe delays are occurring between Camden Town and Edgware due to an earlier faulty train [...]
A lucky shopper will scoop a £1,000 prize by shopping in Camden this Christmas - that’s the amazing cash reward Camden Council is offering visitors to the borough. We're doing this because we want to attract more day trippers, shoppers and tourists into Camden to buy presents from local independent businesses – so helping traders through the recession.The council’s Christmas...
Regular readers will know I have long had a bit of a man-crush on Boris Johnson, the delightfully unrestrained mayor of London. Today, we learn of his latest exploits : It seems he chased a bunch of tween-aged, hoodie-wearing girls down a road in Camden Town, wielding an iron bar one of the oiks (as he called them, shouting after them) had dropped whilst menacing an environmentalist filmmaker who...
You don't know a person until you've commuted with them. Oh, you may think you know them. But nothing illuminates a person's character like an arduous journey in conditions of adversity. This doesn't work for every act of commutation, and in some cities metro-boulot occurs with such choreographed serenity as to offer no insight at all. Where I live however, plenty of examples. For instance: How do...
In the first of a new series of urban walks, we take a look at the colours of the Regent's canal, beginning at Paddington Basin, through to Little Venice then on through Maida Vale, Regent's Park and finishing in Camden Town. An industrial era waterway tagged with a royal name, Regent's Canal still flows quietly through some of the busiest parts of London, its towpath improbably stringing together...
Here at Flux's we work really hard ensuring we give great customer service and one of our rewards from the management is our funded Work Outings! On this occasion we decided we wanted to do something different and with Halloween fast approaching we thought we would take a trip to the London Dungeons and scare ourselves half to death! The dungeons are made up of various different sections and each section...
Here's a first glimpse of plans to rebuild the Canal Market in Camden Town. Meh, looks OK. But is anyone else reminded of Jabba's sand barge from Return of the Jedi? The shabby but loveable congeries of booths, barrows and brickery was gutted by fire in February 2008, with Londonist first on the scene . Since then, a temporary market of sheds and motorbike-style seating has emerged that looks like...
Soundtracks! - The Best Movies Ever...without the talky bits! The first and third Saturday of EVERY month. The Monarch - Camden Town, London. November Dates: 07/11/09 and 21/11/09. Do you remember when you first saw that pack of brats pegging it round the halls in The Breakfast Club?
So after getting the good news that rather than having two weeks for my two bedroom carpets they could do it today, I was thinking all my good luck was used up. They were due to come from 12.00 onwards but at 09.30 I got a phone call- "Ullo, its plush carpets...we 'ave ad a cancellation and we are running about fortee minits early innit. You up fa dat?" Well I poured my first cup of coffee...
Interesting couple of weeks. Mainly just regearsing our newly crowned drummer Tim (dragon) Storey. He is a top fella and it's real pedal to the metal time with regards to FGH. Among other things we have made our radio debut on totalrock.com meeting the ever so lovely Tina and Sara. They made us feel so relaxed and so welcome. I can't wait to go back i had the best fun... We also made our debut in metal...
A real example of the prospects facing the country can be illustrated by the fate of the proposals for a Cross River Tram. The plan is to link Camden Town through Waterloo to Brixton and Peckham. (Let me declare an interest, as a Camden resident it would be very helpful when it rains to be [...]
Dazed & Confused Magazine invited me down to Selfridges for the launch of their T-Shirt collaboration with Edun , designed by Jo Ratcliffe for War Child . 15% of the sales from this limited edition collection will go to their current projects in the Congo ........hence Jo's hand drawn illustrations of a tiger, lion, zebra and snake emblazoned on the front. A little weird to think that whilst we...
Help me out here, I’m confused... Can this 'concerned Islington resident' be the very same person as Camden Belsize ward Lib Dem Cllr Arthur Graves, who said that despite living outside of the borough he was 100% committed to the residents of Belsize until 2010? In 2007, when it was revealed that he had moved from the borough , the local press reported that “Councillor Arthur Graves said...
in my last post I thought I'd give you a wee update as to what's up. Last week was sweet - my first review for Bearded Magazine went online with no major changes from the live editor so that was a good start. On Tuesday what was supposed to be a short night out to see Linda Harrison and Grainne O play at The Boileroom turned into a jaunt that finally put me in bed at 4am...I got up at 8am. Urrrrrgh!...
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