We Make Camden Stories

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Journey to making your own garments

Journey to making your own garments 2560 1707 Charlotte Matthews

Joana Monteiro is a Camden resident and PhD student at the London College of Fashion. She runs Journey to making…

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Highgate Black Women’s Wellness Group

Highgate Black Women’s Wellness Group 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Highgate Black Women’s Wellness Group was formed in March as a way of recovering from the COVID-19 lockdowns. Founder Zia…

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Double Threat Skates: Arch artisans

Double Threat Skates: Arch artisans 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Few high streets can claim to have the grandeur and contrast of Midland road, flanking St Pancras Station. The centuries-old…

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Roti King

Roti King 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Tucked down a small stairwell on a quiet street alongside Euston Station, commuters, university students and locals patiently queue for…

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Fair-Well

Fair-Well 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Between the quiet back doubles of NW5 you may have caught sight of what looks to be an antiquated scene,…

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Vibe’n’Go

Vibe’n’Go 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

An integral part of any healthy community are those “third places”, not the workplace or the home, but somewhere public,…

Finding the way out

Finding the way out 1920 2560 WeMakeCamden

There is an expression used throughout the literary world called ‘Finding your Voice;’ It is steeped in the concept of…

Different skin colour fabric dolls sitting in a row

Thimble & Doll: Different Strokes

Thimble & Doll: Different Strokes 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Camden is one of the most diverse places in Britain, indeed, one of the most diverse places in the world.…

The inside of a magic shop

International Magic: “A wonderful, wonderful life”

International Magic: “A wonderful, wonderful life” 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

The International Magic Shop, on Clerkenwell road, south Camden, is pulled straight out of a fantasy novel. The shop’s mysterious…

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Roger’s Kitchen: Eclectic Caribbean Cooking

Roger’s Kitchen: Eclectic Caribbean Cooking 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Camden’s high streets draw on culinary traditions from every corner of the globe, almost every high street will have a…

London green cycles

London green cycles 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

Nestled on a small stretch of highstreets adjacent to Regents Park sits London Green Cycles, a specialist cargo bike shop,…

People’s Museum Somers Town

People’s Museum Somers Town 2560 1707 Karishma Puri

A space for us: Reformers Radicals and Un-common people  For the hundreds of thousands of commuters, students, and tourists that…

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