Fire at Camden Canal Market

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7237119.stm

I'm supposed to be going there on Thursday! I'm hoping Camden stables and Lock will be Ok, I've been saving up to go. Oh I am so pigged off right now.

 

Its just my mate called Rankin Roj enjoying a joint he rolls em big and he's just stokin it up right now - they think its a fire but its just someone tokin a huge joint - bigger than any joint ever made

 

I was there last night watching it all from a mates flat.

Looks like it started by all the food stalls - oil and gas dont mix, obviously. The market is so closely packed in it spread very quickly.

From what i saw, theres going to be little point of you going mate -

 

Do you have any enemies that wanted to ruin your day out in london ?
Now would be the time to shop them to the police

 

Gah, that sounded self centred now I think of it! I feel really sorry for all the people who own stalls there and shops.

 

meh. disappointment is natural. i hope they get it up and running again. hard thing to lose your business.

 

Yeah disappointment is natural, but it is so lucky that no one was hurt!

 

self centred can be fun its where all good humour springs from - like I would have said
if them stall holders were thinking right they get the burnt clothes and spray em up with the words
"my mom went to camden market and all I got was this burnt out tee shirt"

 

Rah, you ain't funny mate.

 

i thought that was kinda funny, actually. no one died, someone will buy a shirt like that, and thus the people who've been burned out will get some money from some gallows humor. i like it.

 

Not that, just in general. Or maybe I'm just generally pissed off tonight due to other reasons.

 

could be. i'm in a complete shit mood today, too.

 

Rah, you ain't funny mate

You look funny, are you scottish? a blue haggis seems to have fallen on to your head

 

'scalled a tam, and I'm not scottish, I just don't listen to what people tell me about what I wear.

 

tams are pretty and handy.

 

you could keep a packet of pie and chips warm, on a cold night, in a tam

 

This should now pave the way for positive regeneration of the market. My experience of the market has been one, less appealing than Brixton's Electric Avenue. Hopefully Camden Council will reach deeper into its infinite pockets and pull out a market for the 21st century, whilst also capturing it traditional heritage. I believe some guy probably threw his joint into a dustbin and then inferno. I saw someone quickly go round to iceland and buy bbq meat

 

if the market dies, and they replace it with shops or suchlike, i will punch whichever prime minister is in power at the time- heres hoping its cameron, cos brown would murder me.

 

It is no real loss. Infact Camden Market's only acet was the Canal. The fact you could arrive by water boat and purchase fake leather gloves which included the old spikes on the knuckles, for less than the price of a Big mac meal was what actually attracted people to this haven of violence.

You would often see groups of spotted teenagers. One of them would come up to you, show you what looked like a crushed up ball of tin foil, and try and pass it off as drugs. More often than not, it contained wood chippings. You refuse, but the man's posse would give you the look of "You betta buy or else". Camden is well known for the Roundhouse. I think Amy Winehouse and The Feeling once performed there. it must of been their first gig. After that they were never seen again, except on poorly drawn posters that resembled that of an old Northern Line billboard advertisement, selling Hamlet.

Camden Market won't be missed. Call this a blessing, for out of the ashes may come regeneration that locals have been fighting for for years.

 

Camden's never been the same since they closed the Compendium bookshop.