Fitzrovia News

Fitzrovia business owner says high rents and rates, and Crossrail delay, is putting her business at risk

9:04 pm, Wednesday, 18 September 2019

A Fitzrovia shop owner appeared on BBC’s Inside Out London programme this week to explain how the delay in the opening of Crossrail is affecting her business. Rowena Howie told BBC reporter Tom Edwards that she opened her shop Revival Retro in Fitzrovia in the hope [...]

Westminster council announces consultation on 20 mph limit

9:48 pm, Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Westminster council has finally a got around to consider a 20 miles per hour speed limit across the city with the announcement this week of a public consultation on the plans. If given the go ahead it will mean an end to the two different speed limits in operation on [...]

‘Lost murals’ from Camden Town Hall go on sale at auction

11:03 am, Tuesday, 17 September 2019

A collection of “lost murals” which depict images from the former borough of St Pancras are going on sale at auction next week, reports Spitalfields Life. The three oil paintings which measure nearly six foot by six foot are by artist Cecil Osborne (1909-1996) [...]

Comedy festival brings Edinburgh Fringe acts back to Fitzrovia pub

10:47 pm, Saturday, 14 September 2019

On Wednesday 18 September the “Objectively Funny Festival” returns to the Albany pub on Great Portland Street with acts from all over the comedy spectrum for a marathon 42 shows over 12 days. The festival will be fresh from Objectively Funny’s success as a [...]

Pedestrian crossing on Tottenham Court Road has become a collision hot spot

12:18 pm, Wednesday, 11 September 2019

A light-controlled crossing on Tottenham Court Road has become a collision hot spot after three pedestrians were seriously injured after being struck by buses in almost identical circumstances. Since April emergency services and collision investigators have attended the [...]

Dear Marie Stopes: ‘birth-control opera’ returns as a powerful melodic reminder

9:10 pm, Friday, 6 September 2019

‘Please help me!’ This heart-breaking refrain from Alex Mills’ chamber opera Dear Marie Stopes is drawn from the thousands of letters which Stopes received after her sex manual Married Love was published in 1918. The opera had its stunning premier last year at the [...]

Investigation of former hospital and workhouse site reveals intact human burial remains

11:17 am, Friday, 6 September 2019

An archaeological investigation at the Middlesex Hospital Annex and former Strand Union Workhouse site has recovered 55 intact human burials dating from 1780 to 1853 from three test trenches dug into the ground. The findings are revealed in a report by Museum of London [...]

Autumn events in The Regent’s Park will interest gardeners and night owls

8:01 pm, Wednesday, 4 September 2019

The Regent’s Park programme of autumn events kicks off this Saturday with an open day at the park’s allotment garden. Visitors can enjoy apple pressing and tasting, and take home some garden produce. There will be a children’s treasure hunt, and [...]

Film festival celebrates the art of non-fiction at London venues

10:22 am, Tuesday, 3 September 2019

The ninth edition of the Open City Documentary Festival opens this week and runs for seven days at various venues in central London. Celebrating the art of non-fiction, the festival champions the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers from around the world. [...]

Camden seeks views on the cumulative impact of construction projects

9:31 am, Tuesday, 3 September 2019

It’s a little late in the day but Camden’s planners have finally woken up to the fact that a pestilence of planning applications and property development south of the Euston Road is having a negative impact on everyone’s lives. Camden’s strategic [...]

Third collision involving bus and pedestrian at junction of Tottenham Court Road and Torrington Place

8:09 pm, Monday, 2 September 2019

A pedestrian has been seriously injured after being struck by a southbound bus on Tottenham Court Road on Monday 2 September, the third such collision since the street was converted to two-way traffic in April. Fitzrovia News understands that a southbound doubledecker bus [...]

New Brexit group is stuffed above a restaurant in Charlotte Street

4:33 pm, Saturday, 31 August 2019

People chomping down sausages and slurping bubbly in a Charlotte Street restaurant will likely be unaware that in a room above their heads is the registered London office of a US-based pro-Brexit lobbying group. Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit party, hosted a launch for [...]

Exhibition of Equiano’s life – leading black campaigner for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade

5:34 pm, Tuesday, 6 August 2019

An exhibition celebrating the life of the leading black campaigner for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade will open this month at a venue on Tottenham Court Road. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) rose to prominence in the late 18th century and his book “The [...]

Camden Council continue to ignore our pleas to only carry out hedge cutting in the autumn and winter to protect wildlife

9:29 am, Friday, 2 August 2019

We’ve asked time and time again for Camden Council to only carry out hedge cutting with machinery during the autumn and winter months to protect wildlife. Yet despite our efforts we continue to be ignored by a council that seems to be hell bent on carrying out work [...]

Fitzrovia’s historic streets will be setting for Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller

11:00 am, Saturday, 27 July 2019

Filming on several streets in Fitzrovia will start this week for a new British movie directed by Edgar Wright, who gained success with Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver. The scenes for Last Night in Soho are due to be shot over five days between Monday 29 July [...]

London Fire Brigade issues warnings after blaze at Fitzrovia restaurant

6:58 pm, Monday, 15 July 2019

The London Fire Brigade has issued a warning about the dangers of tumble drying and ignoring alarms after a fire partly gutted a Charlotte Place restaurant. Investigators believe the fire within the basement kitchen of the Lantana restaurant on Charlotte Place in Fitzrovia [...]

Another day of fun ahead at All Souls School annual summer fair

9:12 am, Friday, 5 July 2019

Join in the fun and games this Saturday 6 July for another summer fair at All Souls Primary School. At this year’s event their will be a child-led talent show, a bouncy castle, raffles and tombola’s, games, face painting, music and much more. All Souls Primary [...]

Second pedestrian seriously injured on Tottenham Court Road

1:23 pm, Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Another pedestrian has been seriously injured after a collision with a southbound bus on Tottenham Court Road today. In what appears to be nearly identical circumstances to a collision last Tuesday, a pedestrian and a southbound bus collided near the junction with [...]

Council seeks ideas on how to reduce CO2 emissions in Camden

9:22 am, Monday, 17 June 2019

Camden Council is seeking ideas on how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the borough ahead of a “citizens assembly” to debate the issue and publication of an “environmental plan” in 2020. Councillor Adam Harrison, cabinet member for a sustainable [...]

Lidl to open its first central London store on Tottenham Court Road

3:10 pm, Wednesday, 12 June 2019

German supermarket chain Lidl has announced it will open its first central London store on Tottenham Court Road next summer. Lidl will takeover and refurbish the Sainsbury’s store near Warren Street tube station, reports the Guardian and other media. It will be a [...]