Camden's Civic Society has launched its electronic newsletter. The first edition includes a very positive review of our latest pamphlet: Dartmouth Park Local Conservation Area Statements generally include an interesting historical and architectural appraisal as well as essential conserveation guidelines. Dartmouth Park CAAC went one better and produced “Living and Building in Victorian Dartmouth Park”, by Professor Michael Port, well before their Statement appeared. Based on the decennial censuses, his essay complements the Camden History Society’s admirable “Streets of Kentish Town”, and with both historical and contemporary photos, brings the area to life, and with both historical and contemporary photos brings the area to life and epitomises a range of problems within a small part of Camden (then St Pancras) in the Victorian era. Copies (18 pages and an 1880s map) @ £5 |