Bicycle Tag of bike

You can see it in the distance on Streetview from the South.

Ironically, knowing it's not on street view makes it easy to find.

So why were you hanging around the bushes along the canals of Kings Cross?

Ah bugger, too late. :)

Now where are mashton's great pictures of the Canal Museum?

Here's one of the interior.

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Woah I hadn’t considered the Caledonian Road ice well might be a red herring! Nice. At least it was nearby.

Yes Will, my link was Magnum = ice cream. Sorry about that.

Hah mad coincidence you had your wedding celebrations there! My tag-buddy!

On a note about Gatti: he ended up owning theatres and stuff, me & my belovéd started wondering if the whole tradition of ice-cream during theatre/cinema intervals is connected to ice-cream & theatres being companion businesses as it were.

Wahey

OLD: a pub, corner of Grafton Terrace and Maida Park Villas. Couldn't work out the connection with previous tags.

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NEW: don't think it's been done before. His pal has been. It would be capital if someone could get it quickly.

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A very strong feeling of 'lockdown, what lockdown?' in that area today.

This was used to stand in for Notting Hill in Mangrove. Need some London in the 70s shabbiness? Come to Gospel Oak!

The pub itself is a pretty well preserved boozer - now a hostel. I though it mostly served builders but you get the odd bemused pair of Italian tourists emerging with their pull along suitcases. It counts Karl Marx among its former customers - he used to live at the bottom of the road

https://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2015/02/19/inside-pubs-1-lord-southampton-grafton-terrace-nw5/

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Well, the connections just get better. I had thought of tagging where Marx used to live but it's been knocked down. By the Germans!

This was used to stand in for Notting Hill in Mangrove.

I watched the first half of this last night and recognised it from this thread (I didn't know the connection).

(Also odd seeing a mate's dad in the film [character, not actor].)

Ah nice, I recognised a few NW5 spots in the film but missed that! My buddy who has a cafe on Grafton Road caught them filming it. Interesting about old Marx.

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Maida Park Villas

Maitland Park Villas, actually. Also Southampton Road.

Such a shame that's not a pub any more. I do wonder what's going to happen post-pandemic; is there going to be an increased appetite for going to the pub again?

It's odd that StreetView has so many gaps in that area.

Bloody Germans.

The Marx Brothers were American.

Is that MAP cafe?

I think it is a pub of sorts but there have been various attempts to close it and redevelop the whole building. The interior looks to be amazing but the area seems to struggle to support pubs (though that is true and understandable more generally). Kentish Town is full of the ghosts of old pubs- around Grafton Road there are loads of streets and former pubs with names related to the Crimean War: Inkerman, Grafton, Willes- one, now flats with no name, that was called the Mamelon Tower.

Yes that's the one!

That place is amazing - went for the first time in ages just before lockdown.

I’m spending a lot of time pacing the streets of Kentish Town / Gospel Oak / Belsize Park at the moment, so brace yourselves for some hyper-local tagging when I get the chance

Excellent, yea MAP is great, recording studio in the back and cool space upstairs. He used to own the printers on top of Kentish Town tube and his brother owns the antiques store on Queens Crescent. NW5 for life although I'm now in NW11 ;)