This week, Boris Johnson has been considering a decision that will affect the future of London’s most famous nightclub. If the Mayor grants planning permission for a huge development of flats opposite ...

A popular Facebook group is a fascinating resource of memories, anecdotes and pictures from a forgotten era ...

For years I lived on Grafton Terrace, where West Kentish Town blurs into Gospel Oak on the cusp of swanky old NW3. In fact, I remember, back in the noughties, one estate agent even trying to sell me ...

“We’re very excited to be opening our sixth pub-and-rooms in Kentish Town (formerly the Lady Hamilton),” said managing director Mitch Tillman. “We will be reverting back to the pub’s original name ...

It’s fair to say we were overwhelmed with the outpouring of emotion after last Friday’s feature on Lost London Nightclubs – not to mention the hundreds of thousands of views. It only confirms the huge ...

And so the prospect of the Alma Street Festival had our First Lady coming out in a cold sweat, despite its proximity to Kentishtowner Towers. “But what about the toilets?” she insisted, more than once ...

The Primrose Hill Odette’s site was chosen as the first site for the fine dining concept – with the idea being to scale to other cities with significant homeless communities in the UK and ...

Inside Dirty Burger: Kentish Town in full flight. Photo: Anna Chapman Word reaches us that Kentish Town’s Dirty Burger – the original location for Soho House Group’s now international burger brand – ...

Ten years ago this summer, an unassuming ice cream parlour – or so it looked to the passer-by – opened on the scruffy lower reaches of Kentish Town Road. Locals soon realised that the ambitions of ...

This project has been a labour of love – and a hard slog. Five years ago, I had the dream of building a new community teaching kitchen at Rhyl Primary School, near Queen’s Crescent. The vision was to ...

Back in the early nineties, I was the lead singer in an indie band called The Pointy Birds. Yep, that’s me in the middle, when I had hair – and lots of it. Like everyone else at the time, we played ...

Dissatisfied and missing the romance of my life on the pampas, I became an art agent for the naïve painter, Ivan Rabuzin. It was my association with this Croatian artist that led to my becoming a film ...