{"id":103096,"date":"2019-01-18T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-somers-town-one-of-londons-best-kept-secrets\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:03:12","slug":"lets-move-to-somers-town-one-of-londons-best-kept-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-somers-town-one-of-londons-best-kept-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Somers Town: one of London\u2019s best-kept secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s ripe with history and character, from magnificent social housing to spooky churchesWhat\u2019s going for it? We shan\u2019t mention HS2 and the new Euston station (well, OK, just once more). But \u2019twas ever thus. Apart from a brief fancy period in the early 19th century when Charles Dickens and Mary Wollstonecraft lived here, Somers Town has always been on its uppers, easy prey for grands projets. When London ended at Euston Road in the 18th century, it was famous for being where the city chucked its rubbish in mountainous landfills. By the mid-19th century, London\u2019s most notorious slums were here. In the name of \u201cimprovement\u201d and slum clearance, railway companies saw nothing wrong in charging through the neighbourhood with new lines, plonking their stations here, rather than posher Bloomsbury to the south. There\u2019s no escape from the railways. That said, the commuters mostly dart down holes in the ground, leaving Somers Town, these days, one of London\u2019s best-kept secrets, ripe with history and character, like the magnificent 1920s Ossulston Estate social housing, Drummond Street\u2019s Indian cafes, and the spooky St Pancras Old Church, one of the oldest sites of worship in London, in whose churchyard the Hardy Tree grows among gravestones moved by the young Thomas Hardy (when he was an architect) to make way for St Pancras station; railways even bothering the dead.The case against The disruption of HS2 construction for years to come. Gruff around the edges. Euston Road is choked with traffic and pollution 24\/7. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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