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No midwinter cheer for our gloomy High Street
• WHAT price beauty in High Street? You reported that regarding the lack of Christmas lights there this year, the business group Camden Town Unlimited had advised Camden Council that money would be better spent elsewhere (Camden: the Town Christmas forgot, December 23).
But your report did not specify where the elsewhere is. So, we are left wondering where the money in fact was spent?
Could the self-appointed Camden Town Unlimited to explain themselves as I thought that such decisions were taken by the Council Environment Committee on behalf of the local voters.
It would be great if Camden Town Unlimited would fight for the south end of Camden High Street too. The Christmas lights there used to at least mask the grubbiness for a few dark, midwinter weeks. Yes, a tree was erected on the traffic island opposite Koko’s which is welcome – but the neighbouring tree lights were not connected.
Can I back our famous local resident Dame Beryl Bainbridge’s comments, about this end of Camden High Street, stating in effect that it just gets worse and worse with numerous betting shops, pound shops, greasy, nasty looking, chicken & rib “caffs” and, of course, the endless charity shops – which are not so bad but nevertheless a sign of a poor, run-down area.
It is just not good enough for a London shopping centre.
I make it a rule not to spend my money in an area that can’t be bothered.
Only one shop on our High Street bothered this year with some half-decent lights – the Chinese Herbalist. So I purchased some presents there – also at the Brunswick Centre which looked welcoming and very clean with its decorations and traffic-free shopping.
ABBI GREENE
Longford Street, NW1
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