Thursday, 3 December 2015

Camden's locals

THE LONDON borough of Camden has more than one hundred libraries.Those libraries contain certain writings of world renown that were put  on paper in that very borough, again Camden.
          How does that make me feel? Odd, like a bystander who finds himself  an extra in an Academy Award movie shot in his own neighbourhood.
          There are other examples of world fame being local to the Camden.
          The poet John Keats wrote poems in his garden near Hampstead Heath.
          Karl Marx struggled with his carbuncles and angry demands near Chalk Farm station and the Roundhouse music venue.

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The young Karl Marx, before he became a Camden local lad in middle age
          Opposite the local Belsize Library, Frank Richards prepared his schoolboy character Billy Bunter to stalk the pages of the Magnet story-paper.
          There are many more examples of the Camden famous living here and there and being mere mortals after all.

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