Camden Town Excess

The area called Camden Town is in north of London and exists since the end of the XVIII century. What it was a vastness of green fields, crossed by Regent's Canal, today is one of the most exciting regions of the town, specially at the weekends.

Stall of products near the Regent´s Canal bridge

Over there lived people like the writers Charles Dickens and George Orwell and, more recently the Oasis Liam Gallagher. But if those walked around the neighbourhood in other times, anonymous and discreet, today, what is not missing, is people willing to call attention - even with that blasé look of "I got ready in 5 minutes". In Camden there isn't much bashfulness concerning the subject style, hair colour, height of the heel, number of piercings and tattoos. The most important is to make the look something singular.. To see or to be seen, to sell products, to have fun.

The Camden's fame is to concentrate a big percentage of eccentricity by square meter . On the streets, in the pubs and night-clubs - like the Electric Ballroom which also works as a second-hand - in the stores and in the uncountable market stands that make the look of the region yet, more diverse.

Besides the conventional commerce of Camden High Street, between the underground stations of Camden Town and Chalk Farm the options are very varied and the emotions intense . From second-hands to boot stores Dr. Marteens, from souvenirs to esoteric products, from Brazilian music to heavy rock, the offers are for all tribes. And, at the best of Camden - the markets - what can be seen is an unbelievable concentration of options.

Starting from the most interesting: the Stables Market was built in 1834 to shelter horses. Today, its installations make a labyrinthine agglomerate of stands, second-hand clothes stalls, dark stores with fluorescent clothes, designers and more the hall of food from several places of the world. It is a creative mess full of life with seduction for all styles. Every weekend appears new expositors, others go away and some products are the kind of "now or never!"

Stables Market Entrance.	Katak stores in clubber atmosphere - Stables Market - Unit 10A.

Besides it, the Camden Lock Market concentrates artcraft from several parts of the world, second-hand book stores and antiques, besides the famous pub Ted Dingwalls. The Camden Canal Market - At the same level of Regent's Canal - also makes the style " a bit of everything", worn and new and even second-hand bicycles can be found, at the entrance by Castlehaven Road. Yet, the Camden Market, the market on the right of the tube station, concentrates street wear clothes, very fashionable and accessories for all tastes. Do you want more? There still has the Inverness Street Market, flower, fruit and vegetable market.

Camden Market Entrance, fashion profusion.	At the entrance of Stables Market, the arrow shows the direction to Camden Lock Market.

Some of the stores of Camden Town work during all the week.. But, most of the stands in the markets open their doors only from Friday afternoon and work on Saturdays and Sundays, until down. Despite of being very crowded in these days, it is an obligatory program: the sensation "if I wasn't in Camden, I wasn't in London", can be irreversible...