Post Tagged with: "Islington"

• London’s bookshops: Housmans, a radical bookseller

  Just round the corner from King’s Cross station, technically on the Camden and Islington border but in reality in the nether space that exists around large stations, lies Housmans bookshop.   Housmans was founded in 1945 as a mail order book club for pacifists. As the fire of world war […]

   

• Tasteful Encounters?

  If ever there was a place for a tasteful encounter… this may not be it.

   

• Writing on the wall in Islington

  Whenever a small business shuts down someone should simply write their thoughts on it. They don’t have to be earth shattering, in fact the simpler the better. Every small business grave should be marked in some way.

   

• Good on Godfrey’s of Islington

  Godfrey’s butchers in Islington consistently put out warning to drivers of the super  sized puddle (flood) outside their shop so pedestrians don’t get splashed. If the council wont do anything about it a little community action can always help. Good on them! Click pictures to enlarge.

   

• Saturday London Links

  Scars and stripes has some delightful pics of Camden – with graphics added. While we have some graph action on the Ken vs Boris show at Liberal Conspiracy. Snipe says we should tear up the tube map and start again. Has Downing St scuppered Boris Island? Londonist Road cc points […]

   

• Wednesday’s London Links

  Islington People has a report on reclaiming squats. Facebook people! Why not like Bookswaps for London? Lenin’s Tomb is concerned about Nazi drinking games at LSE. Talking of the LSE our beloved police commissioner was there last night. Follow the twitter debate here. Road.cc has spotted two new cycle surgery shops in […]

   

• The Weekend’s London Links: what the papers say

  Hope you’re having a good weekend. Here’s a few  links we spotted out and about that you might find interesting or useful; The Hackney Citizen asks you to use your spare room for good. The Islington Tribune is bigging up the green volunteers. The Camden New Journal hosts Big Smoke […]

   

• The six best bits of London’s 2011

  So 2011 is over, half of London’s population seems to have lurgy of some form or another and all the media predictions for 2012 are so down beat they are making us hope that Mayan prophecies of the apocalypse were right. However, it’s traditional to take a look back at the year […]

   

• London Advent (23rd)
   

• A year in the life of Islington Living Streets

  Islington Living Streets has had a year of great achievements all on the back of persistent, hard work