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Lost in the South East: Welcome to Nunhead

Lost in the South East: Welcome to Nunhead

Jonathan Galton, MA Social Anthropology Initially, all I knew about Nunhead was that it was somewhere in South East London and that it was a bedfellow to unlikely-sounding places like Brockley and Hither Green. Since I moved to Peckham a few months ago, however, Nunhead has leapt off the map

Neighbourhood Review: Kentish Town

Neighbourhood Review: Kentish Town

Lucy Warden, MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies With its pastel coloured buildings, grand Victorian pubs and leafy streets, it certainly looks like a neater, better kempt version of Camden. Some could be seduced into thinking that Kentish Town is just another area of North London succumbed to gentrification. However

Wrong Side of the River: Canning Town

Wrong Side of the River: Canning Town

Carolynn Look, BA Chinese & Development Studies An increasingly predictable conversation takes place each time I tell people where I live. Oh wow, Kennington? No no, it’s Canning Town. You know, just beyond Canary Wharf? At this point I receive either a judgemental look because ‘I’m one of