Comments on: Camden Town, Verlaine and Rimbaud, a toilet, Sid Sods Off and the McAlpine Fusiliers

By: Aidan McManus

Aidan McManus — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:53:05 +0000

Hi
It might be nice if you gave a credit to Ann Scanlon’s “Rock N Roll Guide to Camden” which you’ve quoted from pretty extensively in this article

By: Lionel Avery

Lionel Avery — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:47:20 +0000

I was 11 and my sister was 7 and we watched the riot from our bedroom opposite in 1964!there were often fights outside but it was the only time i saw a policeman ride into the club on a horse!

By: Camden Town, London | Urban Travel Blog

Camden Town, London | Urban Travel Blog — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:32:33 +0000

[...] was in Camden’s Electric Ballroom venue that Sid Vicious gave his now infamous “Sid Sods Off” concert to raise money for his and Nancy’s flights to the US, although that’s not the only [...]

By: Jimmy N

Jimmy N — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:51:30 +0000

Re————Wimpy = We Import a Million Paddys Every Year
On the sites they used to say, “We injure a million Paddys every year.”

By: John

John — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:53:51 +0000

London has always been a great place to be Irish with a lot of fun and friendship and a good welcome from Londoners in general . A good place to work and earn a few bob then return home. I feel very sorry though for those that did loose the run of themselves and ended up left behind. Often the money they sent back home was what kept their extended families going in the fifties and sixties. Their pals have now long returned to Ireland or married and settled down in the suburbs. It’s a lonely way to end up.

Wimpy = We Import a Million Paddys Every Year.

By: George hasson

George hasson — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:37:03 +0000

I was the trumpet player with rhe resident band in the bufflalo in 1964 and witnessed the jim reeves riiot it was quite a sight, the band had to escape through
a small window at the back of the bandroom.

George Hasson

By: Steve Finbow

Steve Finbow — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:58:00 +0000

The Caernarvon Castle – by the lock…

By: Biche

Biche — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:24:00 +0000

A jolly good read as per usual! One little fact which you may like to know (or actually I may have read on this blog in which case please excuse me, but be proud that it has entered into my pop facts! of the year…albeit lacking a little in accurate detail)
At one point there were lots of immigrants from all over Britain working in Camden on the burgeoning railways, and being somewhat tribal, poor and fond of the drink, they all liked to fight like billeyo. To solve this problem they opened up pubs for each country’s workers – The Edinburgh Castle for the Scottish, the Dublin Castle for the Irish and the Windsor Castle for the English. I think. Not sure what the welsh did! Ax