Camden Town perfectly embodies the cultural mix for which London is
famed. Alongside the buzzing Lock market, the pubs and music venues and
the eclectic shops, there is another Camden - impossible crowds,
shameful poverty, bad housing, gang fights, murders...This book takes
five landmarks as the starting point for a series of journeys into the
layers of history and culture that make Camden Town. The World's End pub
existed in various forms before Camden began.
The Regent's
Canal Bridge is where today's crowds flock to the locks and market,
while Arlington House, just a block away, belongs to a parallel Camden
of immigration and new beginnings, poverty and homelessness. No. 8 Royal
College Street represents how, even with the first buildings of
nineteenth-century Camden Town, social outsiders were attracted to the
area.
Meanwhile the Roundhouse, an engineering curiosity, was to become the revered centre of Camden's cultural scene.
Camden Town : Dreams of Another London - Tom Bolton
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