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GORILLA KINGDOM, LONDON ZOO
CAMDEN MARKET
Camden Town.
www.camdenlock.net
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Most stalls open daily 9.30am-5.30pm.
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For all its tourist popularity, Camden Market (in actual fact, a conglomeration of markets)
remains a genuinely offbeat place. The tiny crafts market, which began in the 1970s in the
cobbled courtyard by
Camden Lock
, has since mushroomed out of all proportion, with
everyone trying to grab a piece of the action on both sides of Camden High Street and Chalk
Farm Road. More than 100,000 shoppers turn up here each weekend, and some stalls now
stay open all week long, alongside a crop of shops, cafés and bistros. The overabundance of
cheap leather goods, hats, trainers, incense and naff jewellery is compensated for by the
sheer variety of what's on offer: everything from bootleg tapes to furniture and mountain
bikes, alongside a mass of clubwear and street-fashion stalls. And there are plenty of
takeaway food outlets ready to fuel hungry shoppers with wok-fried noodles, bowls of
paella, burgers, kebabs, cakes and smoothies.
JEWISH MUSEUM
129 Albert St Camden Town 020 7284 7384,
www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
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Mon-Thurs & Sun
10am-5pm, Fri 10am-2pm.£7.50.
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Despite having no significant Jewish associations, Camden is home to London's purpose-
built Jewish Museum. On the first floor, there's an engaging exhibition explaining Jewish
practices and illustrated by cabinets of Judaica. On the second floor, there's a special Holo-
caust gallery, which tells the story of Leon Greenman (1920-2008), one of only two British
Jews who suffered and survived Auschwitz. The museum also puts on a lively programme
of special exhibitions, discussions and concerts, and has a café on the ground floor.
SHOPS
SLANCHOGLED
66 Chalk Farm Rd Chalk Farm.Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-6pm.
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Unusual, sunny shop selling arts and crafts materials - paper and inks, ribbons and trans-
fers, anything you can imagine - with lots of creative ideas to inspire.
SOUNDS THAT SWING
88 Parkway Camden Town.Mon-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun noon-6pm.
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The bricks-and-mortar store of No Hit Records offers an impeccable selection of retro
rockabilly, blues, gospel, ska and the like on vinyl.
