London's burning!

[b-grrrlie]

There's a severe fire going on at Camden Market.
The old part of the market is now gone gone!
Rumour has it a gas tank had fell off a freight train and exploded, also there's loads of gas tanks in the market
(the sellers have gas heaters) and all the buildings are really old and loads wood has been used on the buildings...

Sky News (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1304790,00.html?f=rss)
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7237119.stm)

[Parkey]

It looks pretty severe on the TV. Where will all the cunts get their clothes from now...?

[b i o n i c]

how much of the city is this, like

[b-grrrlie]

It's the old Canal Market (http://www.camdenlock.net/markets.html) in Camden that's now gone.
They got fire down pretty well in just a couple of hours, but then it got into new blaze... :(

[paul jones]

It looks pretty severe on the TV. Where will all the cunts get their clothes from now...?

ROFL(y)

[ms.peachy]

It looks pretty severe on the TV. Where will all the cunts get their clothes from now...?
Ha, that is pretty funny.

although I have to say I'm a bit sad about this; when mr.p and I first moved to London we lived just up the road from here and I did used to enjoy having a walk around there on the weekdays.

Also it is a shame because for years developers have been trying to get in there and put in chain stores and so far they've been pretty well kept out of that part of Camden. This fire now means that the area will have to be 'redeveloped' so you can expect in a year's time to find a new Gap store there.

[Kid Presentable]

I got an Atari t-shirt and some live Beastie Boys bootlegs there. Is a heap of it gone?

[b-grrrlie]

Ha, that is pretty funny.

although I have to say I'm a bit sad about this; when mr.p and I first moved to London we lived just up the road from here and I did used to enjoy having a walk around there on the weekdays.

Also it is a shame because for years developers have been trying to get in there and put in chain stores and so far they've been pretty well kept out of that part of Camden. This fire now means that the area will have to be 'redeveloped' so you can expect in a year's time to find a new Gap store there.

That was my thought as well!
Now they've got all the chance in the world "updating" the scruffy area there... :(

Back 25 years ago that was one of my favourtie parts of the Camden Market cause you could get rhinestones in
all the possible colours and sizes so I bought loads of old broaches and other brick-a-brack and fixed them up.
And I bought a Bootsy Collins album for 50p.
When I visited it last autumn it felt sooo wrong!
Well most of Camden had lost that loving feeling...

[Randetica]

is it now burning or calling? all this damn confusage

[b-grrrlie]

Heard some news:

My unidentified source (ok, a friend of a friend has a stall in the current smouldering market and by
pure luck appears to still have a stall in the market) says that the security and a couple of
stall holders who were clearing up say they believe that one of the T-shirt sellers left his incense
a-burning when he closed up and a t-shirt went alight and the fire quickly spread.

There are a couple of food stalls down there with gas cooking\canisters so when it hit them that caused the explosions.
The Hawley pub and a couple of shops back onto the Canal market and the pub took the most of the hit.
'PunkyFish' escaped unscathed but a couple of the others in that row collapsed at the back.

Of course that area is prime redevelopment land and they would love to swank it up like they are gonna do to the Stables.
So the place is alive with conspiracy theories today particularly as the fire spread so quickly.

Thumbs up for the police and fire brigade for handling it all so well and ensuring people were evacuated and their were no fatalities.
Just feel for those who have lost their business' down there - its not just wood and material that has gone up in smoke.

[camo]

ahhhh that makes Amy Winehouse' grammy acceptance speech make sense. She shouted 'camden town is burning down' at the end of it.