The showing of our film Spirit! at Camden Council Local Studies and Archive Centre was online. We’ve taken to the lockdown with online events – virtual walks, a pub quiz and the film.

For distraction, we have posted about the old St Pancras People’s theatre on as part of the BBC’s #museumsfromhome tag – join us on Twitter and add your favourite memory of Somers Town – use #museumsfromhome and we are #HistoryTown.

Stuck at home? Start preparing for our planned Spring Fair (online) – we are planning a Saturday afternoon fair with music, performance, online art gallery and stories. Please contact us with if you want to take part – whether it is to add to our online ‘gallery’ or tell a story. Theme: ‘Journeys’ Folk Starting […]

Our virtual walk on Saturday went over, around and on the Sidney Street estate to see the finials and lunettes – many sadly missing. A participant sent us this from the book Miller’s Collectables Handbook & Price Guide – which tells the story. Shocking they sell for so much when they should adorn Somers Town […]

Our first virtual walk ‘Radical Lives ..’ was a great success online with 3D mapping street view, cuts to old film clips, instagram video and images of George Padmore, Wollstonecraft and Jellicoe – it was a whistlestop tour through place, centuries and radical thinkers here in Somers Town – from the comfort of our living […]