![]() The wealth of amazing work on display was amazing, as always. Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Pence Gallery’s annual art Auction, as one of the contributing artists. I sketched here until the sun came out, before heading back to Burnt Oak for dinner. Yep, there’s a lot of social history in a place like this. Dancing to Anarchy in the UK while my friend Tel threw up in the toilets. Getting my drink knocked vertically across the bar by bouncers steaming past quickly to conclude a fight. Watching very serious unheard-of bands while surrounded by record company band-scouts. Talking Serbian poetry with students from Belgrade. Oh, this old place, many evenings were spent in here, back in the 90s and early 00s. Now he does have a long association with this pub and this area (here’s his ode to the area) but still it was fun seeing him in there, briefly, especially as I was drawing his poster (he’s on the tube-sign one next to it too). As I was sketching the big ‘Madness’ poster, I heard a guy talking to a woman at the bar whose voice was familiar, and it was in fact Suggs himself, the Madness singer. I got a beer (actually wasn’t expensive, for London) and sat and sketched the red interior. Thankfully it was still the same, though being the daytime it was practically empty. Anyway, I arrived soaking wet, having run through the rainstorm from Camden Lock (see the handy map below to figure out my route), to see if this old haunt had gone the way of the so many London pubs – gentrified, sanitized, or worse, closed. It’s easy to get confused, it hasn’t changed in the slightest. No no, wait, it’s 2014, I got confused there. ![]() This is the Dublin Castle pub on Parkway, Camden Town. When I added the colour later I left it as the luscious N1 summer blue sky, pre-tempest. ![]() People dashing about like mad things, and I took shelter in a doorway. And then, whoah, massive thunderstorm, super heavy rain – good job I got the ink done, because this rain was stupendous. The clouds were rolling in, oh big black clouds, scary looking but not enough to stop me. I didn’t do any colour except the red cross of the flag. I stood, with the sun shining, and sketched the lock, as far as I could. I chose the Regents Canal, specifically Camden Lock, well Hampstead Road Lock. I haven’t sketched much around here, so I wanted to do a bit while I was back. I for one have a lot of personal history around here, nights out, days about, the odd gig, too many night buses, a good few birthdays, and of course my stag party. Everyone in north London has their own Camden I think. It’s grimy and tacky and great, and vibrant and awful and touristy and local and rough and everything, it is Camden and can be everything at once. There’s no way to properly describe Camden, it’s just Camden. Never Never Distilling Co.Camden Town, ladies and gentleman. Maison Marnay - see Treasury Wine Estates Loch Brewery & Distillery - see Gintonica ![]() Here's Looking At You Kid - see Of All The Gin Joints Gramp & Sons - see Pernod Ricard Australia UK - see under England, Scotland, Wales & IrelandĪdelaide Hills Distillery - see GintonicaĪustralian Distilleries - see Remy AustraliaĪustralian Whisky Company - see Castle Glenīarossa Co-operative Winery - see Kaiser Stuhlīlack Bottle Distillery - see Bickford's GroupĬinzano & Cia (Australia) - see McWilliamsĬontinental Distillers (Spirits) - see CUBĭead Governor's Gin - see Kimberley Rum Co.įederal Distilleries - see Bickford's Group Reformed Government of The Republic of China These raw photos are shown under Unprocessed. We are continuing to collect photos of bottles for both unprocessed and already processed countries. We are also continuing to add non-straight bottles into the main database and remove duplicated straights bottles from there. THIS AREA IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION with countries or parts of counties with a large number of bottles being added as processed. Descriptions are incorporated in the phototograph name. We are trying not to duplicate bottles between this and the main database but inevitably there will be some duplicates. The file names in this area are indexed by Freefind so bottles in both this area and the main database will show up in a text search. This area of Miniature Bottle Library contains larger photos but there are no descriptions yet. Miniature Bottle Library - Straights Index
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