Major fire at Camden Lock Market

I can see it from my house the whole of camden smells like a BBQ

Kentish Town West was only burnt down a few years ago...

I wonder if TfL/Camden Council will find this an opportunity to redevelop Camden Town Station.

Its north of Camden Town station, centred on the strip of market stalls on the north side of the canal, so if any station benefits from this it will most likely be Camden Road. Particularly as some of the reports say that its moving towards Kentish Town.

Is this fire is affecting the Bakerloo line?

BAKERLOO LINE: Severe delays are occurring between Queens Park and Harrow and Wealdstone due to a lineside fire in the Kentish Town West area.

Message received 9:01pm

The Bakerloo Line uses the same track as the Overground north of Queen's Park. If there was blocking back on the Overground line because of the fire it'll affect the Bakerloo.

They've changed it to -

BAKERLOO LINE: Severe delays are occurring due to a signal failure at Queens Park

Message received 11:06pm


BAKERLOO LINE: Suspended between Paddington and Harrow and Wealdstone and severe delays on the rest of the line due to a signal failure at Queens Park.

There was a mention on the BBC report that the fire had crossed over the railway bridge on the "Silverlink" (sic) line. Possibly that would have been the reason for the initial message re Bakerloo with the signal failure compounding the problem.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person suspicious of the convenience of the fire.

I've just been watching the footage of this while slurping my morning coffee, and it looks savage! The Hawley has gone too! (For those not in the know, you can almost always catch someone famous in there)

A great deal of my record collection has been purchased from that area, and I've spent many a long hour just walking around the shops and market during my time.

Shocking! But the good news is that there are no reported casualties, which given the pictures, is a miracle in itself!

yep that's exactly it camden are trying to turn the market in to a hiddious glass covered shopping centre raise rent as high as they can and kick all the old stalls out
one of the most iffy things was camden council aren't really happy with the hawley arms anyway they thought it was causing too much trouble ......
........like artery and others someting is not right about this we could be looking at an inside job...

I never frequented that watering hole. I always just walk straight past.

At the time of the revelopment of the Horse Stables, thats the north end towards Chalk Farm, and Morrisions supermarket, a lot of the long established stall holders, were complaining, they were given under a month notice to quit, most were told they would be given alternative accomodation elsewhere in the market; but at a highly inflated price. It does surprise me though, that there is hardly ever a stall which is not occupied.

It appears that the Catacombs are now being used for additional stalls. They've put these huge copper statues of Horses RIGHT in the way of where I need to go; theres always a gaggle of people having their picture taken beside it... I had a nosey at the new development, looks like something straight out of a Jon Wayne film set...

It appears North London Line services have been passed to run, as according to nationalrail.co.uk, there are no service updates.

But only after fierce local opposition to its beig kept closed!

The market will rise again...

Looking at those pictures, I would say that The Hawley Arms is very dead!

It doesn't look too bad, but who knows what the other three sides look like. The early reports suggest that the fire started in an alley to the side and rear of the building, which could lead to extensive damage where we can't see.

The inspectors are going in later to examine the building and see if it is safe or not....