Post Tagged with: "Camden"

• Smile: you’re in Camden

  It’s the little things that make something rubbish into something lovely. Enjoy.

   

• Camden UKUncut protest in pictures

  Today UKUncut protesters took part in a national action involving over forty Starbucks demanding that they end the practice of using front companies in Switzerland and Ireland to outsource their profits in order not to pay corporation tax despite making large amounts of money from UK outlets. In Camden Lock […]

   

• Camden Restrain The Train Fun Day – 22nd September

  1.00pm-5.00pm ST JAMES’ GARDENS (between Cardington Street and Hampstead Road) Euston Against HS2 is organising this event to bring our communities together to: enjoy a fun day out with friends and family provide information and highlight issues and concerns related to the rail proposals We’ve got a lot of great things planned […]

   

• Snap by-election called for Hampstead Town, Camden

  A snap by-election has been called in Hampstead Town, Camden, for the 27th September. The ward, which had two Tory and one Lib Dem councillor is likely to be hotly contested and will be an interesting barometer of the state of play in the Coalition parties (2010 results for ward). Conservative Councillor […]

   

• Barbed wire washing line

  I may be alone in this but I find the mixture of washing line and barbed wire a powerful image. Although I’m in danger of stereotyping here, or poverty porn, (after all having a washing line is hardly a sign of extreme poverty, nor is having a low balcony in […]

   

• Video: Camden Trader speaks out against Olympic copyright rules

  Incredible leaflet issued by Camden Council to local traders.

   

• Review: Leon Rosselson at The Cellar Upstairs

  The Cellar Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms near Euston hosts a regular season of folk clubs (restarting in September, it’s not a summer sport) with some of the top names in today’s folk scene as well as talented locals who just like to get up and have a go. There’s […]

   

• Video: Bassett Street Community Garden

  Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]

   

• Video: Rhyl Primary School growing project

  We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of the The Urban Kitchen Gardener and teacher, about the growing project that he helps run at Rhyl Primary School. It was good to see a primary school taking such a committed approach to teaching young kids. Many school have projects around gardening but […]

   

• It’s nice to know the feelings are mutual

  People may remember the quite possibly mis-spelled graffiti in Camden a little while ago professing love for Amy More. Well, not far from the scene another little note has a appeared… ah. Sweet.