October is “Kilburn month” at the Kingsgate Workshops. As part of a collaboration between the front-of-house volunteers at Camden Arts Centre and the Kingsgate Workshops Trust, Kingsgate Gallery’s exhibition project is focused on the artistic exploration of the Kilburn area … Continue reading →
Sadly, I couldn’t make the grand unveiling of the plaque to George Orwell last week, but mercifully (and appropriately), Danny from West End Lane Books could – and kindly penned a few words about it. “I’ve got something in common … Continue reading →
If you would like to see over 200 pictures of old Kilburn and Cricklewood, the History Press have just published a second edition of our book. Copies are available from the West End Lane Bookshop or online.
Continue reading →As the literary world turns its gaze on Kilburn in the light of Zadie Smith’s new book, Kilburn is also the focus of a short film by Mark James. Give it 10 minutes of your time. For a different cultural … Continue reading →
“I do not claim to know what happens in villages” Zadie Smith Zadie Smith is everywhere at the moment, and yet this media ubiquity also has a very firm geographic focal point: North-west London. No great surprise there, after all, … Continue reading →
An extra post for you from @NxNW6 (aka Mark, the Tommy Lee Jones of NW6) There are an unprecedented five outdoor screenings scheduled locally in September. I thought it would be worth quickly looking at all of them, and where … Continue reading →
If you’ve been reading the local film listings of late, you’ll have spotted that the Tricycle in Kilburn has been taken over for the Trinidad & Tobago cultural village. Fiona went along to see whether it had brought some Caribbean … Continue reading →
It was flattering to be asked by The Guardian to write an article for its travel website about my “perfect day out” in north-west London. This forms part of a series of similar pieces written by other London writers and … Continue reading →
I woke up on Wednesday and lazily checked Twitter only to find my timeline swamped by a deluge of tweets about Kilburn. A burst water main initially believed to be in Maygrove Road, but later believed to be in Christchurch … Continue reading →
Kilburn has amorphous borders. Estate agents will do anything to avoid labelling a street as being in Kilburn, so it’s rather refreshing that someone at the very top of their game, someone kids should look up to, someone who calls … Continue reading →
