Belsize House was, according to historical accounts, a notorious entertainment venue. Just two years after it opened as a pleasure garden in what is now Belsize Park, a 1722 satirical ballad described the “scandalous, Lew’d House” where in amongst rioting and gaming visitors could eat, drink and dance, […]
Take a trip to the World’s End pub on a Saturday night and the place is often packed. It’s a sprawling, barn-like drinking establishment, with a vast island bar in the main room, yet it can still be hard to find a spot to stand as locals and […]
The Green Rooms arts hotel seems quite out of place for the centre of Wood Green. As soon as you step out of the Tube station you encounter a bustling high street of chain stores, but then turn the corner to enter this building and you feel like […]
Past In The Present 