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Removal Services
Camden:
Movers, Moving House, Man
and Van Camden Removals Self Storage Company, Moving Company Camden
N1, N6, N7, N19, NW1, NW2, NW3, NW5, NW6, NW8
Removals Camden
– Pick & Move are London based house removal and office removals company
specializing in all aspects of house removals, Self storage for residents and
businesses in Camden and surrounding areas
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Overview of the area.
Welcome to Camden Town,
location of a famous seasonal story of an impoverished clerk with a sickly
son—and subject of a grisly painting that some say proves the artist was Jack
the Ripper.
Camden Town.
Camden Town is only 200 years old, and is close to Kent.
Camden Town
didn't exist until the 1790s, when Charles Pratt, the Earl of Camden, leased out
land for building 1,400 houses. He was titled Earl of Camden after the family
seat of Camden Place in Chislehurst, Kent.
Famous French poets lived in
Camden Town
The great French poets and lovers, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine stayed in
Royal College Street, Camden Town, in 1873. Later that year, in Brussels,
Verlaine injured Rimbaud with a revolver shot and they never met again.
Mother of Frankenstein started
life in Camden Town and
Mary
Shelley, author of the Gothic horror story Frankenstein and the wife of poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley, was born in Camden Town. Also
Dickens and Orwell were Camden
Town residents
Charles
Dickens' family moved to Camden when he was 10. South Camden featured in Oliver
Twist, and in A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit's family live in Camden Town.
George Orwell, journalist and author of 1984 and Animal Farm, lived in Camden in
the 1930s.
Camden Town has a serious rock
'n' roll heritage
Camden has been a centre for rock 'n' roll fans since 1966, when Pink Floyd
appeared in front of 2,000 people. Camden Town was the birthplace of Britpop,
with bands such as Blur, Pulp, and Oasis all having links there.
Camden Lock Market is the
largest street market in the UK
Camden Lock Market, which opened in 1972, is now the largest street market in
the UK, attracting some 500,000 visitors a week. The market sits on Regents
Canal, which opened in 1820. Until 1971 it was the site of TE Dingwall's Timber
Yard, which took wood from larger river boats and distributed it around the
country on the canals.
Top music venue is former
train turntable
The Grade II listed Roundhouse was originally built in 1846 as a steam engine
turntable, but after only two decades it became too small for the growing size
of locomotives.
The Ripper of Camden Town?
Between 1905 and 1913 in Camden Town, Walter Sickert painted his famous series
of female nudes, including The Camden Town Murder, which shocked the British art
establishment with its bleak subject matter. Its one reason some have claimed
that Sickert was actually Jack the Ripper.
Camden Town was once awash
with gin
After Walter and Alfred Gilbey established themselves as London wine merchants
in 1851, they built a gin distillery in Camden Town.
London Borough of
Camden





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