Aviation Specials – June 2018

34 The London Bus

Finally, not far beyond

Regent’s Park, we turn north on

Hampstead Road, passing the

giant white art deco Carreras

building and Leslie Green’s

oxblood-tiled Mornington

Crescent Underground station,

built in 1907. Then we fork

left past the domed white Koko

music venue, opened in 1900 as

the Camden Theatre and now

Grade II listed, and head up the

broad one-way Camden High

Street. On the return journey,

buses have to go the long way

round via Kentish Town Road.

The stretch passing Camden

Lock is bursting with tourists,

and the activity doesn’t stop

here. Just beyond Regents Canal

and the railway bridge we come

to Stables Market, originally used

by Pickfords to house canal barge

horses. Overall, the markets in

Camden are said to represent the

fourth-biggest tourist draw in

London, attracting a quarter of a

million visitors a week.

Journey’s end is a short way

beyond Stables Market in Chalk

Farm Road – really just an

extension of Camden’s town

centre. A few paces farther on

is the Roundhouse, a celebrated

concert venue since 1964, but

built in 1847 as a railway engine

shed. And a little farther up

the hill is another tube station

by Leslie Green. Both this and

Mornington Crescent are Grade

II listed, and this one has Green’s

longest frontage. ● PR

London by Bus

ABOVE: Rear view
of ADH45042
passing Madame
Tussauds.

BELOW: The
Planetarium
dome at Madame
Tussauds.