Escorts in Camden Town, NW1: who is close, and how soon
The Roundhouse on Chalk Farm Road was built in 1846 to turn railway engines round, and within little more than a decade the engines had grown too long for it. It spent most of the next hundred years as a gin company's warehouse before the arts took it over in the 1960s, and it still sets the tone for an evening in Camden Town: music first, theatre close behind, and everything else fitted round a start time.
Camden Town is nobody's home zone on the board, so escorts in Camden Town come up from the middle of town. Between the office's written yes and her arrival, count on about an hour, and more once the evening rush sets in; what each length costs is on the rates.
On the ground
Camden Town in practice
Landmarks on the arrival slip
By postcode, never by nameNW1 7BY, NW1 7PS, WC1H 0HT, WC1H 8EG.
Nearest stations
Walking timeCamden Town, 2 minutes. Camden Road, 6 minutes. Chalk Farm, 10 minutes. Mornington Crescent, 10 minutes.
Getting there
NW1Travel is included across Zones 1 and 2, and counted from the moment the hour is set rather than from when she leaves.
On the board
Nearest prints to Camden Town
Who works here
On the board in Camden Town
The six prints above are a first shortlist for Camden Town tonight. Any of the twenty eight on the who is free page can be asked for by name instead.
Note 02
The round room on Chalk Farm Road
The Roundhouse reopened in 2006 after a long restoration, and its programme runs from big concerts to circus, theatre and spoken word, with a well-known strand for young performers alongside the headliners. The circular hall is the point: even a sold-out night feels close to the stage, and the sound carries round rather than back. Chalk Farm, on the Northern line, is the nearer station for it than Camden Town.
Note 03
Halls along the High Street and Parkway
Camden High Street carries the rest. At the Mornington Crescent end, KOKO fills a theatre that opened in 1900 as the Camden Theatre and spent the eighties and nineties as the Camden Palace nightclub. By the Tube station, the Electric Ballroom has been a dance hall and a gig room for generations, and the Underworld, below street level on the corner opposite, is where the heavier bands play.
Off the High Street, Parkway has the Jazz Cafe and the Dublin Castle, a pub whose small back room is famous for bands at the very start of their careers. None of these rooms is grand, and none pretends to be; that is exactly why people cross London for them.
Note 04
An evening built round a show
Doors, a support act and the headliner stretch a gig across several hours, so in NW1 the length of the booking matters more than the table. A concert is arranged like any evening out: tell the office which hall, when the doors open and whether it is seated or standing, and she comes dressed for the night you describe. When Camden Town escorts are booked round a show, set the hours to cover the encore and the walk afterwards, either to a late room on the High Street or up the quieter streets towards Kentish Town, with Regent's Park, at the far end of Parkway, the calmer choice.
From The Roundup
Two notes worth reading for Camden Town
Asked most often
Camden Town, asked and answered
What does the Roundhouse put on?
Is KOKO the old Camden Palace?
Is there any of Camden's music history to see by day?
Can a booking be built round a gig?
One zone either way
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Last strip
Say a name and an hour
Write in with a length, a time and the zone you are staying in, and a name from the board comes back with a window attached. That is the whole of the arrangement.