Research Catalog

Title

Camden Town : dreams of another London / Tom Bolton.

Author

Bolton, Tom (Research consultant)

Publication

London : British Library, 2017.

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Description

192 pages : illustrations, map; 19 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Camden (London, England) > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. From Camden's Origins to its Darkest Places -- 2. From Canal Town to Smoke Town, Gin Town, Piano Town and Market Town -- 3. From Immigration to Desperation, from Gang War to Revolution -- 4. From Artists and Outsiders to Bohemians and Gentrification -- 5. From Underground to Overground.

ISBN

• 9780712356947
• 0712356940

OCLC

1006305889

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library