The opening of “A Space For Us. People’s Museum, Somers Town”. There have been a lot of famous people to inhabit Somers Town, it’s an extraordinary patch of land in the centre of London compressed between the fast flows of Euston Road, Pancras Road, Eversholt Street and Crowndale Road - it has been the place of much history, transformation, jubilation and tragedy.
Its inhabitants include many familiar names: William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Andres Bello, George Padmore, Doris Lessing, Mike Leigh, Aidan Andrew Dun, Fred Titmus, Jeremy Hardy and the founder of our Pearly tradition, Henry Croft.
12th May is St Pancras Day, celebrating all things St Pancras, and this year it was also the preview event for the opening of “A Space For Us. People’s Museum, Somers Town”. We went along for the festivities and to see the Queen of St Pancras, Queen Mary’s suit, donated to the museum, instilled into it’s rightful place alongside curiosities and curios from this unique, special, dimorphic, vibrant place of social reform, of community, of connection, of artists, writers, political thinkers, of anarchist and royalist and everything in between, a place for us …………….aka home
To find out more visit their website at aspaceforus.club
The proprietor, Diana is also going to be our distributor for our Beer in and around the St Pancras area
