Griff Rhys Jones, left, with members of the Save Museum Street campaign group outside under-threat Selkirk House in Bloomsbury A DEMOLITION project to flatten a 1960s tower block in Bloomsbury should be a test case as to whether councils are applying their own net-zero policies, campaigners said this week. Broadcaster …
Read More »Artist David Gentleman joins objectors to Ferris wheel at Camden Lock
How the attraction by the canal could look HIS art has come to symbolise London – and Camden Town in particular. But illustrator David Gentleman – whose work has included murals at tube stations and Royal Mail stamps – is less than impressed with a new vision for his home …
Read More »Postal workers go on strike in dispute over pay
POSTIES who were hailed as heroes after working through the pandemic walked out on strike yesterday (Wednesday) over a pay rise dispute. Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket lines were in place outside depots in Hampstead, Kentish Town, Camden Town, Kilburn and St John’s Wood. Royal Mail’s top bosses claim they …
Read More »Use it or lose it concerns for Camden’s ‘best-kept secret’
The top of the Post Building A ST Giles artist has urged people to make the most of a free little-known public garden nine floors up on top of a block in Holborn, calling it “Camden’s Shard”. Frances Kells called the Post Building, once the site of a Royal Mail …
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