NW5 Gospel Oak, Kentish Town
An American in Kentish Townby Ellen Anthony |
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I lived in London from August 1976 to May 1977. My older sister is a teacher there, and allowed me to come for my final year of school. She lived in Camden Town, and I lived for a time in Countess Rd, north of Kentish Town tube. I had a small room on the ground floor of a family house, and I paid my rent by looking after a set of three-year-old triplets: Miriam, Dinah and Nicholas. I biked to my school in Gray's Inn Rd: all the way down York Way, wakening from my 'automatic pilot' state of mind only by the gray vans parked outside the R. Fox company, and then again when I got to the traffic light near the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which name I found intriguing. |
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My landlady was Australian, as was the man across the street. I had never met an Australian before, or, more exciting, heard that accent. The man's kids said he was 'Stroian'. |
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Well, not much of a story, but I remember that time and place well. Especially the library. |
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