Newsletter - 01 Oct 21

E-Scooters...for or against? 🛴 Plus a new fried pizza joint

Your Friday morning essential read. Five local feel-good highlights, including exclusive special offers and events. Prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 EXPLORE: Visions of youth 

The Museum of Youth Culture

 on Carnaby Street returns with two new exhibitions, including a 'Reconstructed Teenage Bedroom installation'. In the basement gallery, London Moves celebrates the city's reopening post-lockdown by displaying some of the styles, scenes and movements that have defined this exciting and volatile place we call home, from 1960s discos to today's live-streamed club nights. Upstairs, delve into the museum's Grown Up In Britain campaign, their first public showing curated from the thousands of submissions received from the public during lockdown. Submit your own photos here and they might even be featured in the show.

Photo taken by Caron Malcom on the 1984 Mod run to Buckingham Palace

 RIDE:  E-scooter hire rides into Camden  

As you may well have noticed, this week TfL's e-scooter trial has finally arrived across the borough - the first legal scooters to be available on our roads, would you believe? The trial comes with plenty of parameters that the Council will be hoping mean we don't see accidents or blocked pavements. GPS technology means the new e-scooters will only work on the road and are limited to 12.5mph. Special go-slow zones have also been developed, including market streets and near schools, where the maximum speed will be further limited to 8mph. The scooters will not work at all in parks and other open spaces, and hiring and parking is restricted to approved bays. Look out for the brightly coloured vehicles from Lime, Tier and Dott, and give it a try - or answer our poll question below with your opinions. 

 EAT: Neapolitan fried pizza kings 

Another arrival at the new Hawley Wharf are deep fried pizza connoisseurs A'Do'RE Fritto ('the King of fried food'). Fried pizza originated in Naples and this lot are determined to stay as loyal to those roots as possible, using ancient recipes and high quality Italian DOP ingredients. Served in paper cones, the King recommends you take your delicacy for a walk, as this treat is best indulged whilst on the move. You can also find arancini, frittatina di bucatini (deep fried pasta cake) and 'graffa' (a sweet homemade donut). Buon appetito!

 BORROW: Library of Things 

You no longer need to splurge the latest essential device, only to use once and then leave it sad and alone in the back of a cupboard. Visit the new

Library of Things

 that has finally opened it's doors at Kentish Town Library to simply borrow stuff instead. Need a power drill or a sewing machine? What about a pasta maker and a GoPro? Your wallet, your garden shed and most importantly the planet will thank you. 

 ART: Eat-in exhibitions 

Enjoy art while you eat thanks to two free exhibitions by local artists currently on display in Camden cafés. First up, Laura Price is showing her paintings at the

Lido Café

, where you can incorporate a bracing dip before warming up with a cup of something hot while enjoying the art. Meanwhile, over in Primrose Hill, the lovely 

Sam's Café

 on Chalcot Road has just opened its new exhibition by Artist in Residence Reed Wilson

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 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL With the e-scooter trial meaning they are now lurking round every corner, are you tempted to take one for a (12.5mph) spin?  

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

Cautious optimism about the long-term outlook for workers rights and a new era of flexibility from voters. Perhaps the bigger question is when - or if - will we feel work/life has 'gone back to normal'?

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