Camden Town Walking Tour - Pubs, Market, Venues, History (4K)

Camden Town Walking Tour - Pubs, Market, Venues, History in 4K.
Our walking tour of Camden Town starts on Haverstock Hill at the Sir Richard Steele pub then passes Chalk Farm Station. From here we see The Enterprise pub and the Camden Roundhouse, scene of the Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation in 1967. After a detour down Belmont Street we visit The Lock Tavern, and The Monarch/Barfly before heading into the recently refurbished Stables Market. From here we pass into Camden Lock Market and visit Black Gull bookshop where I buy a couple of Terry Pratchett books. We cross the Regent's Canal and look back to Dingwalls before heading down Camden High Street past the Electric Ballroom and the Good Mixer in Inverness Street. Over the road from Camden Station we have The World's End, formerly the Mother Redcap and the Underworld. Further along the High Street we pop in on The Camden's Head home of the brilliant Camden Comedy Club before making our way to Camden Palace, now Koko. We double back along the High Street to have a look at the Jewish Museum and then pay homage to Madness at The Dublin Castle. Our Camden Town walking tour concludes at Cecil Sharp House.
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[@glesgamail]

I once sat behind Ivor Cutler on a bus in Camden Town. I was chatting to my partner and didn't notice him until we got up to get off and he turned and said: "You have a wonderful accent." (I'm from north Lanarkshire). I recognised him, but couldn't get his name out, but replied: "You're, you're ...". To which he replied (in that lovely Cutleresque lilt): "I am."

[@howdymartin6258]

A genius of a man - always loved hearing him in John Peel's shows.

[@MrScipio72]

Lived in a share house just off Camden Parkway back in '93/94. BEST time of my life - World's End was our local. Great great times.

[@ruthbrierley1798]

I loved Camden Market in the mid-90s. Bootleg cassettes and second hand clothes. Went back a couple of years ago and it seemed to be mostly trendy street food. Thanks for this walk down memory lane!!!

[@WheelieMacBin]

Used to be 'Goth and Alternative central'. Today it is nothing like it used to be. At least Cyberdog are still there.

[@johnneville403]

@@WheelieMacBin It's now just a tourist trap, sadly. Even the resident 'punks' appear only to be there to charge for tourist photo opps.

[@trevorbarre5616]

Possibly the worse food I have ever eaten was bought from Camden Market. A rank 'soup' that was swimming in grease. Utterly revolting. (I am in no way a 'foodie', and will eat anything in reason. This, however, was beyond reason.)

[@tilerman]

@@johnneville403 'Plastic punks' or 'weekend punks' i call them. Was in Camden recently and there was a 'punk' with a sign, 'help a punk get drunk' (LOL). I'm old enough to remember real London punks and this 'punk' looked like that during the week he holds down a city job. I find it all quite sad really, like i do most of London, it all just seems so plastic, fake, and empty. The real characters have gone, replaced by hipsters, who think the are really different and individual, but in fact all look and sound the same. Dull, boring and uninteresting. I remember London in the late 70's and 80's and it felt raw, and dirty. Hippies, squatters, travellers, punks, rockers, all gone. Camden market really is a pile of shit now.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

@@tilerman sounds like london went the same way as NYC. new york is absolutely nothing like it used to be. The real new Yorkers are gone. Rich hipster trust fund kids took over bc normal ppl can't afford it anymore and most of the classic old locally owned joints are gone. So many storefronts empty. It's just a tourist trap and playground for the mega rich now.

[@angelajones9129]

Hello John l was glad to hear you give Walden books some well deserved publicity it's a great shop thank you for a very interesting and nostalgic for me .video

[@estherdoyle8175]

My parents came over from Ireland in the 1950s and settled in Camden Town. I was born into a house in Harmood Street. In the intervening 60+ years I have done everything from cajun dancing in Cecil Sharp House to dancing/drinking/carousing in most of those pubs in all their incarnations, and taking acid on the banks of the canal in the middle of the night. I was down there only today in the new epicentre of Camden Town, ALDIs on the High Street. One place you missed on your travels was the Rowten House on Arlington Rd. A hostel for the working (and non-working) person and often the first port of call for the incoming Irish back in the day - Camden Town for the great lie-down was the saying. Still going strong today and a refuge for those who don't have much, God bless them.

[@ronaldm8235]

My dad moved into the big house in 1947. Came from Ireland and stayed for 50 years. I now live in Kentish Town and also was in Aldi today! It’s not bad really is it!

[@estherdoyle8175]

@@ronaldm8235 My aul fella had spells in the Rowten House too. If the newly landed Irish had no relatives it was either there or down to the Irish Centre in Murray Street to see if the priest could get them a home and the start. And we're spoiled for choice with the German supermarkets these days!!!

[@tinkhefferon9934]

@@estherdoyle8175 my father came from Mayo started off in Liverpool then Birmingham headed to Peterborough where his brother stayed he moved on to Newport Pagnell where he then met my mother to be and had 6 boys , and set up home until his passing at a young age of 57 , I suppose I followed in his footsteps went to London and worked on the Brent Cross shopping centre met some great Irish men working there used to go to Camden, Harlesden, Cricklewood, Willesden, drinking, the Rising Sun, the Spotted Dog, Mean fiddler, just a few to mention great memories and great times

[@ThePoushal]

I take London for granted. Thanks for reminding how great a place it is!

[@paulwhite6626]

I came to Camden in 88 and although I sometimes move away, somehow I always find myself pulled back. The Camden Falcon that as you quite rightly pointed out, was a great gig venue, but sadly closed quite some time ago...20 odd years back. It is now flats. I was walking up Kentish Town Road 5 years ago and was astonished to see the pub sign for The Camden Falcon in the window of Oxfam so went in and bought it for £5. Bargain! And a real bit of Camden history as well it now hangs on my bedroom door. When I first arrived in Camden I got a job at Dingwalls simply by approaching the manager and just like Yosser Hughes said "Gisser job!" and amazingly got one, so got to see Lemmy coming in to play his favourite fruit machine. I REALLY miss Compendium, and the Camaervon Castle.......a part of what made Camden special died the day Compendium closed. Still Walden is a fine bookshop so I make the effort to continue being a patron, but Waterstones closed maybe a year or so ago because so many now buy their books through the behemoth that is Amazon. It is terrible seeing pub after pub closing down to become flats and it would be a tragedy if bookshops went the same way. For those in the area with a radical bent who miss Compendium, take a trip to Kings Cross and take a look at Housmans Books at the Scala end of Caledonian Road....it isn't Compendium, but we should cherrish the bookstores we still have.

[@ralphwinter6421]

Thanks John, brought back some great memories of being totally off my head on Acid and Magic Mushrooms- Camden Palace on a Friday in the early 90's on E and Acid,.. Good Times..

[@LouiseHaRrIs76]

Nice one Ralph!😜👍🏻🍄🍄🍄

[@ralphwinter6421]

@@LouiseHaRrIs76 Do you remember The Supernatural ? Spaced Out Baby !

[@kevinpowell7948]

Mental, mental..... Green laser, the twins, nuthouse Crowland rd after, Lennie McLean, calli, purple omms. 😜

[@LouiseHaRrIs76]

@@ralphwinter6421 yes Ralph.. salvia sessions...Ahh those were the days! 🍄👍🏻

[@trevorbarre5616]

Oh Christ, give me a break. My trips and my e-breaks. Ffs, grow up.

[@hereiskinder]

Lovely walk! Perhaps a more recent memory of Camden from me - myself and my friends would get the train up to Camden Town from Kingston upon Thames most weekends in the mid-2000's so we could lark about the markets buying weird novelty t-shirts and lighters. It was a completely different world to the side of London we grew up in, with all the futuristic shop fronts and street food. I have a fond memory of buying what I thought was ecstasy (while dressed in a named guantanamo bay one piece) only to get home to find I had a bag of Smints.

[@stue9391]

This was 1 of the last things that I sat down with me mam to watch. She loved Camden, and this video too

[@marialooksaround]

I‘ve only been to London twice for 5 days total and on one of the visits I managed to get to Camden Town. It was 2015 I think, O found it amazing! The Camden Lock Market convinced me I want to someday live in London for at least a couple months. It is a bit of a hipster place, for sure, but it breathes history and I can only imagine how cool it was 30 years ago. Thank you for this tour!

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Glad you enjoyed it Maria - London is an amazing place to live even if just for a few months

[@russellsprout2223]

Fantastic tour which I reckon could *easily* have been extended into a mini-series. Brought back so many happy memories of my misspent youth. Atb.

[@ulricvoncatalyst1507]

Delighted to see you're finally taking a comprehensive tour of my old London stamping grounds. Just pouring myself a beer and sitting down to enjoy this, ready to get all misty-eyed as the sun sets over old Glasgow toun.

[@lesliegprice6652]

Hey John Great to see you walking again , Camden, what can I say, two places, Roundhouse 69 to 72, so much music and bands, virtually every Sunday, I saw PinkFloyd there, Soft Machine, Hawkwind, also folk and poetry, it was a steam locomotive shed with a turntable in the middle, also Primrose Hill was a favourite, lots of squats and mad times in that area, also the original market and the Alternative Book shop, it was because of a book I found in there John Michell New Atlantis that started my love affair with Glastonbury, Camden High Street and also Regents Park, a great area with an amazing history, thanks John,take care mate ♥☮️☯️🌈

[@zigowl1193]

You've inspired me. Heading there tomorrow for a walk around. Thanks. 😁

[@alanpitts6326]

Great video John. My memories are some years earlier and maybe more Hampstead but one of my favourite venues in the late 60’s early 70’s was The Country Club, Haverstock Hill. Saw John Mayall, Pink Floyd, The Nice, The Taste, Spooky Tooth, Fairport Covention and many others. Others who played there were Hendrix, Bowie and even Roland Kirk, the blind jazz multi instrumentalist!

[@maria8399]

Camden is always in my memory as the place where many of my Cypriot family lived and worked. My mum got a job on the high street when she came to the UK in 1962! Camden used to be more of a mix between the everyday shops and the bohemian ones - your lovely film shows how much the alternative/tourist vibe kind of took over. My dad used to go shopping on Inverness Street for fruit and veg, I used to buy records from Out on the Floor and sweets from Woolworths! There was a cool material shop called 'Ruby in the Dust' I think. Plus the delicious and hugely missed Olympic bakery. Always had a great vibe did Camden.

[@jansammut9557]

I was born in Albert Street, way back in the 50's. I have nice memories of Camden Town back then. It has changed a lot since the 50's /60's but I am still fond of it.

[@rbrowne2998]

A regular tramp, a grime encrusted small man, used to sleep under the statue (for depositing orphans) of St Pancras in Parkway near the park gate. I commuted that way at the time and very early morning would see him clear out from his shelter.

[@jeffmason3785]

Great walk in a part of London we wanted to get to, but didn't. Watching this makes me put in high on the list for our next visit to the UK. Hope you enjoyed your voyage into the wonderful world of Sir Terry. I began with "Guards, Guards!" and worked outward from there in both directions. Everyone develops their own strategy for the Disc series.

[@djlewis5149]

Glad your leg is better John. Had visions of a tour around your back garden this week😄

[@djlewis5149]

One of Sharp’s main collaborators was Ralph Vaughan Williams whose music was heavily influenced by English folk. The Norfolk rhapsodies are a good atmospheric starting point

[@suecondon1685]

Black Gull book shop, oh joy! I went in there in 2011 and there was a book on the shelf literally calling out to me. "In Camden Town" by David Thomson. Absolutely fabulous book, part autobiography, part history of Camden. It was the best £2 I ever spent. A truly wonderful book, if you're not aware of it, please give it a go. It's what got me into psychogeography. Dublin Castle... 🥰... Has the dubious honour of having the stinkiest pub loo I've ever been in, but that was years ago... Spent many a night in all these pubs.

[@smacker2182]

Great memories John. I worked in Somers Town in the early 80's and was a regular visitor to Camden Town and the market at weekends which was more of a flea market then with crafty type stuff and some dodgy fashion things of the time like the Ian Curtis type raincoat - more like Frank Spencer on me. I was also in a band that did a couple of gigs at Dingwalls and with stage that had a pole in the near middle of it - those who played there will remember it. Madness were everywhere. Arlington House from their song "one better day" is just off Inverness Street which was a fruit and veg market. Also about 1981 I saw a pre Eurythmics post Tourists Annie Lennox walking past the Electric Ballroom. Saw countless gigs at the Music Machine notably Iggy Pop and Slade. Such great memories all exciting for a young man in his early 20's.....now in my mid 60's.

[@paulfish5074]

What a find! Great video and such a knowledgable guy and very humble and easy to listen to. Thanks.John

[@munozmontenegro]

Cada vez que viajo a West Worthing a visitar a unos amigos ingleses, paso a Londres por una semana, es un ritual para mi dar una vuelta a Camden Town. Gracias John por comentar este lugar. Desde Chile, América del Sur

[@kerryannestevenson6099]

I used to love Compendium,I was heartbroken and bereft when it closed.I remember being chatted up by Desmond Dekker in Dingwalls.And before I moved to live in Camden,coming up from Stockwell with a gang to the Roundhouse to see Siouxie and the Banshees and Poly Styrene.

[@rbrowne2998]

I think that shop sailed close to the wind. They sold "Class War" (of Ian Bone fame) and some Anarchist stuff as far as I remember. The police were always raiding them. Once the Conservatives got in I guess their days were numbered. I don't see any government putting up with them today, either.

[@VisionsofChina]

@@rbrowne2998 My buddy (a communist) had an "alternative bookshop" in Bridgwater Somerset when Tom King was Minister of Defence and MP for Bridgwater. He sold various stuff Palestinian pamphlets, Sinn Feins newspaper An_Phoblacht, the usual stuff and so on. It regularly got broken into and nothing was ever stolen. The clue was the big men sat in black Range Rovers parked around Bridgwater.

[@JTTW1455]

I’m learning so much about London watching your videos John. Thanks for the eventful walk.

[@mandylovett3980]

Thanks for a lovely tour, I have fond memories of 'clubbing' at Camden Palace in the 80's as the music was more indi unlike the usual dance music played in Ritzi or Eltons in Tottenham, I remember all the bar staff had mohican hair do's , we had to get the night bus N29 home back to Enfield

[@juliaoak452]

Opposite Chalk Farm station was a great ice cream parlour, I wonder if it is still there, happy Sunday afternoons.

[@mostlyindica]

Its relocated down towards lock now, or was before the lockdown. its under the wisteria tree

[@estherdoyle8175]

\Marine Ices it was called. Had about a drillion different flavours. I seem to remember getting a cucumber ice once. It was just as thrilling as it sounds. Never been in the new parlour though.

[@irampotter]

Marine ices, I had a mate that said it was called that because all the ice cream was made with fish oil so he wouldn't go there.

[@goesjem]

I was born and raised in Willesden in 1974 John. Camden is my life as a human and musician. Now I have lived in Austria since 2013. Your video was great man! Cheers!

[@GreyGhost.]

brilliant half hour from the master.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks very much Paul

[@GreyGhost.]

@@JohnRogersWalks True story, regards from sunny Cornwall.

[@JagBetty]

What an excellent episode John, The Mission, 2000AD, street food & bookshops, great stuff😎😎👍👍

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Jag! Hope you’re well

[@Winniedex]

Popped into the book shop when I stayed a few days across the road from it in Harmood Street. Was there for Camden Rocks weekend. Harmood Street was really quiet & just a walk away from the hussle & bussle! Lovely walk with history, thank you ..

[@incrediblefruit]

Really enjoyed this walk around my favourite part of London 😃

[@troymphoto]

Excellent walk John, brings back all the memories of my teenage years going to gigs and spending my early 20s there as well.

[@LondonTownWalk]

I never lived in Camden Town proper but it has been one of my main spheres of activities for more than 30 years, and I have a lot of good memories. Thank you very much.

[@TrevRaynsford]

I used to go to Camden Town every Sunday when I lived in London. Went round the market and had a pint or two in The Worlds End. My favourite part of London and just 35 minutes on the Tube from Tooting Broadway near where I used to live.

[@paula7696]

Too many memories there ❤... it was a pleasure to watch this video 😊

[@wozzer36]

YEEESSS excellent, love Camden...i've also just spotted your Norton Folgate film....brilliant, cheers John

[@athoshadjiantoni6403]

The great wonder of Camden Town, so many colourful and bright places.

[@CaroleCollins-e3k]

I only visited Camden when visiting my son in East Finchley but was captivated by the stories of the stables and the coal moving from the canal, similar to Kings Cross with the railway. He loved the music, I loved walking on the wooden boards in the market where the horses were stabled at night. You can imagine it after they had finished their work tied up, fed and watered to rest for the night. Evocative.

[@chrisrute9627]

Fantastic walk around of one of London's gems!

[@timballard27]

I spent many a sunday afternoon at the Roundhouse in the late 60s-early 70s. Best memory is The Who headlining a gig at Christmas 1970. I got myself to the front of the stage right next to Pete's PA. I was deaf for a week. great fun!

[@marcocoppelo6543]

From Finland i lived in London for experience in my 20's I remember you could still get onto the double deckers from the back. Just grab the hand rail and pull yourself in. And my rental had milk bottles delivered. I loved it. Blockbuster movie and take away food Fridays.

[@philipreddaway6410]

Thanks John. My first job in London was in Greater London house at Mornington Cresent in 1978, and we lived in a studio flat in Albert street off Parkway ( shared bathrooms - cant believe it!!) when this part of London was mainly owned by Greek Cypriot landlords and was almost completely ungentrified- My second job was pulling pints in the Spread Eagle at the end of our street - then a mostly Irish boozer though not as hardcore as The Dublin Castle. Fond memories of the early days of the market, gigs at the Roundhouse ( Roxy music etc) , the Odeon on Parkway when it was a single gigantic screen, and bumping into Alan Bennet at the great deli Delancy stores on a Sunday morning!

[@katevalentine7075]

Superb Vlogs John ! Camden Town was also home to Bob Crachet .Just heard you mention that Dickens drank here just as I'm writing this 🤪🤟Much Appreciared 😎

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks for that info Kate

[@glynstimpson]

Very good video I have not been to London in 40 years. Like the way you explore the shop s thanks will watch you again

[@stevenmccart5455]

Camden Town!!! One of my favorite places in the city but ,I say that about nearly everywhere I go in the city. Definitely my favorite for shopping.

[@1966babysnakes]

How did i miss this one? Fantastic! ❣

[@robertcollins1583]

Great video, John. I have great memories of many Gilles Peterson nights at Dingwalls :). A great video would be a few stops up the Northern Line starting in Highgate, stroll around there and down famous North Hill then an amble back up the hill and then down along Holloway Road

[@dambrooks7578]

I very much appreciate you using the name of Camden Palace, I cannot abide the name of Kokos, it is another venue that I have seen loads of bands in.

[@ronaldm8235]

I think it was called the music machine before? Well I did get beaten up by the bouncers once!

[@dambrooks7578]

@@ronaldm8235 I don't recall it being Music Machine particularly, or maybe we always just called it Camden Palley or something...

[@markbushy]

@@ronaldm8235 wow much respect! That goes back some ways!

[@SpicyJohn69]

For a short time, before it was the Music Machine, it was called "Nero's" (mid 1970's).

[@lionelmarytravels6003]

What an interesting place. So much to see, with pubs, markets and all kinds of shops. Amazing to think all those big name entertainers played in those places.

[@erj145jet]

Nice stroll through Camden as a frothy tourist destination living off the glory days of the late 70's and 80's. I was born there in the 50;s and my memories are of dark dilapidated, industrial buildings surrounded by dilapidated Victorian terraces converted into rooming houses. It was deeply working class in the industrial sense of Northern steel towns. My great grandparents were rural immigrants in the mid 19th century who worked the railways and Gilbey's Gin as manual labour, living in parts of Camden now buried under council flats, but described at the time as the pit of depravity. I remember the market on Inverness Street where fresh chickens were gutted in the street to order and the fruit and veg stalls. The meths drinkers huddled in little groups, which were replaced by Tennents lager drinkers and I suppose by drug addicts more recently. The further away from the Canal the better things got, the big Co-Op and Bowmans were nods towards a normal London village. Its lovely to see people using Camden Town as a tourist spot, but a bit of a shame that its hard edged past has been forgotten.

[@antispindr8613]

Sorry to go a little off-topic, but does not this contain shades of Notting Hill - years before Notting Hill (the film)? Then again, how many people are interested in dirt poor people or race riots?

[@erj145jet]

@@antispindr8613 I think you have a point. I used to get taken to the Notting Hill market when it was mainly fruit & veg, which became bric a brac, then antiques. It became an immigrant area quite early and was more deprived than Camden, whereas Camden felt more working poor, although a popular destination for Irish immigrants as well. I don't think the race riots of NH have been forgotten at all, there was a successful drama on TV set around them quite recently. The plight of the Irish, though, is rarely mentioned, although it was indirectly referenced in Call the Midwife with itinerant characters working in the rebuilding of the east End in the 60's. The tragedy of modern London is that the Inner parts got gentrified and the poor just got moved out to the outskirts. Places like Enfield which were quite genteel are now like war zones!

[@antispindr8613]

But the media always been a little hostile towards the poor. For why would the press call people forced out of London "Over-spill"?

[@danivloger]

I moved into London in 1990 and being an old hippy I have come to live in Camden I am still here !

[@2H80vids]

I started watching this half-hour episode about four hours ago John. One of the things I love about these videos is the rabbit holes and there were plenty in this one. I always chart our progress on RailMapsOnline, nothing new there, but google was getting hammered too this time. One of my main interests is railway history and Camden is knee-deep in the stuff. You cover places in a very different way to Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazard (not better, not worse, just different) and often visit similar areas, for different reasons. By watching all three of you, I tend to get a more varied/balanced view of these places. The rabbit holes crop up frequently on all three channels and are just by-products of fascinating channels, an occupational hazard. Thanks for taking me along once more. Cheers for now,🍻 Dougie.

[@rumirill]

All gone now, but Rock On, Ted Carrolls shop was just round the corner from the station, have fond bygone memories of this and many another Camden attraction… cheers n thanks for an enjoyable stroll thru it’s history

[@selbino]

Fabulous video as always John. Those pubs and streets could tell some stories.

[@christinegraham8311]

This was great. I visited London from Canada but missed Camden town, Your tour makes me want to go back.

[@bryanmartin295]

Watching too many of these videos. My grandchildren come for lunch each day and as they leave I say”See you tomorrow for lunch…… whatever that may be!

[@Carolitoh]

I always associate Camden Town with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Bob Cratchit lived in Camden Town.

[@sofiacat8070]

Enjoy your various walks John. Do a walk or two each week. Will have to add this one to my list.

[@johncubbidge2237]

Congratulations on buying some Terry Pratchett John, it takes one away from reality into a world of cleverly presented silliness. He made an impact on me when he made a TV program to check out assisted dying in Zurich as he was not comfortable with losing his glorious mind to a form of dementia. He followed through shortly after.

[@2Sugarbears]

That was so wonderful. So many places I recognized and so many I didn't. Thanks for that John.

[@oc2phish07]

Brought back many happy memories. I used to drink in The Elephant''s Head myself years ago, with my publisher and other writers of early computer adventure games. Great days.

[@garygarry]

A fascinating video once again,.thanks John! As you walked past The Roundhouse I was surprised to see the road/pavement passing so close, mainly because I seem to remember that there used to be a sloping path that diverged from the pavement and wrapped itself around the front of the building, rising gently as it did so. But this was way back in the late 70s when Camel were playing there. I could be completely wrong about this... would love to know if anyone can help

[@FrenchRiviera4K]

Such a wonderful walk !!! Greetings from France !!! 🧡💛

[@TheEst41]

In 89/90 the electric ballroom had a secondhand/vintage Market to die for...I loved the world's end pub..had my heart broken there🤣 dumped..... and not forgetting the soul to soul shop...remember going in on a Saturday morning and jazzy b was serving ..such a great memorie.. Thanks for the walk❤

[@MrJCIRELAND]

Another good vid from John Rogers. Eloquent and well presented tour around Camden, fair few changes of course since the early 70's. I was in the electric ballroom when it was The Buffalo, Irish dance hall.

[@rosieHolliday5887]

I always feel very mixed emotions whenever I see videos about places that had a very specific place in my past & are stuck in my memory still looking like they did in the 90's & so when you talk about Desmond Dekker, punks, The Clash, Black Books, Spaced they all feel very familiar....but what I'm looking at on my screen looks very different. I haven't been back to Camden for maybe 30 years & it's one of those places I'd be scared to go cos I think I'd probably get lost & feel lost. Thank you for sharing this. I should go back & try & embrace the changes

[@SuperDancingdevil]

Thank you for that blast of nostalgia, I’ve some great memories wrapped up in that place, Two in particular The Mother Red Cap sadly no more and the Electric Ballroom Two of my favourite places oh and The Oxford Arms too, Thanks for the memories. 👍🏻

[@howdymartin6258]

John - The Roundhouse is where I saw Slash of G'n'R play a guest slot at an awards show.... but highlight of that night was meeting the legendary Roy Wood. When you spoke of Mornington Crescent I was waiting with baited breath for you to mention the famous "game without any discernible rules" played on I am sorry I haven't a clue (R4) ..... maybe some other time. Another splendid video!

[@mikebarton]

Ready? Here we go....it's all changed since my day. 😉 In 1987 my friend said, of the market area, it was all changing and there was money to be made. Did we? Of course we didn't. *sigh* There's the Bucks Head where I had my 30th. It got messy. Nostalgia, nostalgia. Thank you John.

[@anaisbeninger5997]

Thank you John for the incredible walk! I moved here from Singapore and your video makes me feel like I should explore it loads more! One of my favorite spots is The Hawley Arms which was Amy Winehouse’s local pub :)

[@waynedrayton]

Great walk with memories for many different ages. For me 89/90 two very important shops for a b-boy....4 Star General and the Soul II Soul shop with the baddest sound system.

[@brendanforsythe2233]

An excellent film & brilliant guide to Camden. Well done as always John.

[@harbourdogNL]

Thanks for this, now I know I can give Camden a miss next time I visit London!

[@mariannehawes9609]

Loved this video...both my other half and I have so many memories of Camden.....going to gigs and drinking in pubs...being shocked at the prices in the sir Richard steele when we went there before seeing killing joke at the roundhouse...oh and enjoy your terry pratchett books....he is brilliant

[@alisonedwards8810]

I have many memories of shopping in Camden Town market. Thanks for the video!

[@videocurios]

Loved it ,Thankyou John for reminding me of my homeland as a King's Cross and Camden Town kid who moved to the Eastend in 1996.

[@andywells7525]

Wonderful tour !! thank you .

[@margaretdrew2844]

Two years ago my husband and i came to london to see cher at the o2 the next day we caught the bus to camden . Love it ,it is so diverse loved the walk and all the things you knew about the groups that had performed in the different venues. It must have been so enjoyable watching them all i ,would have been so happy to look back on those times , thank you for that john.

[@marklife.ox4]

Brilliant video. I go to Camden at least twice a year from Oxford since the '90s. Loved the Hawley arms, good mixer and the elephant. Saw many bands from blur to madness. Great times and memories. Hopefully back there in the summer!

[@MrCherryJuice]

Thank you for this. Filming on a rather dreich day reveals the reality of the place, which is fine by me. Another great thing about Camden is that one can walk to it by strolling along the canal from the newly rejuvenated King's Cross (Central St. Martins, Coal Drops Yard etc.). Then, after having a look in the market, continue up the road to Kentish Town, all the way to Hampstead. There is much to be discovered time and again through visiting these places. The fire at Koko was terrible news, though I see it is back up and active, with many notable improvements making it even more suitable for a 21st century music venue.

[@frederickletch5679]

Excellent video John. My partner works in Crowndole Centre across from Mornington Crescent. I used to meet her before Covid. Used to go to Dublin Castle to wait for her. My son played bass for Cross Wires. They played in The Dublin Castle, The Monarch and The Barfly. Before Covid we used to spend a lot of time in The Stablles and Camden Market. Hopefully when it is over we will do again. Love your videos.

[@martinpettit7302]

Nice vid, dont regret swimming in Camden lock on a hot day in 1990 lovely walks to zoo and back to tufnell park via kentish town etc ❤️

[@jamesjohnmoss8130]

You did it again! Fantastic, keep filming, I will keep watching. Thank you.

[@nomadicsapien4224]

Woww amazing...😍 Great virtual tour my friend....☺️ Keep up the hardwork👌✌️ Stay connected✌️

[@councellingthecouncillors]

1988 1993 I was at Air TV and then Air Studios so Camden & Hampstead so this reminds of so many stories, some unrepeatable lol.

[@broken6747]

Great vid, thanks for the memories...!

[@patjackson8649]

Oh, I'm so homesick! Thank you for this wonderful walk. Can't wait to get back there to have a pint in the Dublin Castle or the Good Mixer with London friends

[@clairerabson9983]

I enjoy your walks very much.

[@geourgiou]

What an amazing video, thanks for posting it, I kinda did a similar walk, the journey started from belsize park to kings cross station, going via Somers town, behind euston station.

[@suecondon1685]

Love Camden Town! This popped up and I'm on a bus! Can't wait to watch it later. 😊

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Hope you enjoy it Sue

[@Ben_Mdws]

Saw my first gig at the Electric Ballroom. Great memories.

[@sahu]

Love Camden Town...Lived there for 2 years...My dog and I miss the walks to regents park and walks along the canal. Thanks for yet another great video.

[@dornierdo2172]

Totally agree with you on Black Books great comedy 👍

[@scarlettkhan9667]

Very informative video, thank you. We were going to visit London Zoo and get there from Camden Town but a little afraid as I don't know the area or where the buses are. This video is reassuring.

[@RonRicho]

Thanks, John. Really great and personal tour of Camden. Isn't Camden Town where Bob Cratchit lived? Did he really run home after work on Christmas Eve "as hard as he could pelt?" That'd be a long run. Twenty five minutes by car.

[@seanmurphy5770]

Thanks John, i was born in the old St. Pancreas ward,now part of Camden. I remember we shared a pint together back in the 1990's in Islington, long time ago.

[@Jim17735]

Mega City One bought back some memories ! Saturday afternoons going through the huge boxes of 2000ADs at the back of the shop , 20p each , was shouting what about the Jazz Cafe when you were down Parkway 😂 another very enjoyable tour

[@mamnisel4815]

Superb walk round Camden John and you covered Alot of ground.Very interesting as usual and I will have to pay a visit myself again soon.