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 ...

‘This is me being photobombed by Marie, With my Dad’s lorry outside the house on 64 Allcroft Rd,’ says Stan Tear.

Stephen Emms tracks down The Fields Beneath author whose writing on Kentish Town has informed a new generation of fans Gillian Tindall has lived in the same house in Kentish Town for fifty years. It ...

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 ...

The Bull & Last was first mentioned in court documents in 1721 and was originally licensed as ‘Ye Last’. It was rebuilt in 1883 after a fire burned down the original building (a coaching inn). You can ...

n 1961, at the age of 27, my father, Jonathan Miller, was in a comedy show called Beyond the Fringe with Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. With its success my father took a pile of reviews ...

Let’s pop back to Camden in the 1980s. Alex Green, an 18-year-old Yorkshire lad donning a mop of bleach blonde hair, a big bag o’ homo-feelings, and a desire to find his way in London, steps foot in ...

The landmark Kentish Town Road pub shut its doors in late March, but here’s the good news: this week it’s finally back in biz, with a cute ‘Tavern’ added to its moniker. As we reported a few weeks ...

For years, we’ve stared at the late Victorian plaque at the top of this building and wondered why no-one considered its original moniker during its many recent incarnations. Until this week, that is, ...

For 18 months Stephen Emms wrote a Time Out column on the singular tales behind park benches. We republish The Times Magazine feature that kicked it off In their celebration of life and transience, ...

There are three locations in West Kentish Town with stories to tell about our most famous inhabitant. And no, we don’t mean her from 80s girl band Bananarama. This inviting red door is 46 Grafton ...

Seven long years ago, we wrote a paean to the watery arrival of London Shell Co, a floating seafood restaurant at Paddington Basin helmed by a brother-sister duo, Harry and Leah Lobek (read the ...