Albert Street, Camden

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Albert Street
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20 Albert Street, where there is a blue plaque commemorating the writer George MacDonald
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Location Camden Town, London NW1, England, United Kingdom
Postal code NW1 7LU, NW1 7LX, NW1 7LY, NW1 7NA, NW1 7NB, NW1 7NE, NW1 7NR, NW1 7NU and NW1 7NZ
Nearest London Underground station Camden Town station (Northern line)
Coordinates 51°32′09″N0°08′35″W / 51.5359°N 0.1430°W / 51.5359; -0.1430
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Known formany Grade II listed buildings and several notable residents and former residents

Albert Street, London NW1, is a street in Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, England, near Camden Town station. It includes several listed Grade II listed 19th-century buildings. Some of the houses have had notable former residents and two of them have blue plaques. Although the street is mainly residential, it also includes some offices, a pub, and a museum.

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Location

The street leads, at its north-west end, to Parkway (the A2401 road) and, at the south-east end, to Delancey Street (the A503 road). Arlington Road runs parallel to the east with Mornington Terrace to the west. The nearest station is Camden Town on London Underground's Northern line.

Listed buildings and notable residents

Even-numbered houses

The artist Frank Auerbach had studios at No. 4 and painted a number of works featuring Albert Street. One of these paintings, 'Albert Street, 2009', estimated to be worth millions of pounds, was recovered from a convicted money launder and subsequently sold by the National Crime Agency [1] .

The writer, journalist and Labour MP Dick Leonard (1930–2021), his wife Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, Professor of German Literature, their son Mark Leonard (born 1974), political scientist and author, and their daughter Miriam Leonard (born 1976), Professor of Greek Literature, have all lived at No. 18. [2] Dick Leonard died there in 2021. [3]

No. 20, known as Tudor Lodge, which has been listed Grade II by Historic England, was built in the 1840s as a house and studios for the artist Charles Lucy (1814–1873). The poet and novelist George MacDonald (1824–1905), who lived there from 1860 to 1863, described the house in his 1871 novel The Vicar's Daughter. [4] It now has a blue plaque, commemorating MacDonald, that was erected by English Heritage in 2005. [5]

The Liverpool-born writer, theatre critic and artist Beryl Bainbridge (1932−2010) lived at No. 42 for 45 years. [6] [7] [8] In 1967 she painted Napoleon Dancing at 42 Albert St, Camden Town, to the Strains of the Gramophone. [9] [10]

John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), the Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology, lived and died at No. 44. In 2001 English Heritage placed a blue plaque there to commemorate him.

The writer and broadcaster Robert Elms (born 1959) lives at No. 74. [11] [12]

Noel Gallagher, founder and singer of Oasis, lived at No. 88 prior to moving to Supernova Heights. Gallagher has referred to receiving a phone call from his manager informing him that he had become a millionaire whilst living in this flat [13] .

Odd-numbered houses

A terrace of 27 houses (Nos. 45 to 97) was built in 1845 and is Grade II listed. [14] The Yorkshire-born architect William Henry Crossland (1835–1908), who designed Rochdale Town Hall, Holloway Sanatorium and Royal Holloway College, died at No. 57 on 14 November 1908. [15] [16]

The artists Victor Willing and Paula Rego lived at No. 87 during the 1960s. [17]

A terrace of nine houses (Nos. 123 to 139) was built in about 1845 and is Grade II listed. [18] Nos. 129 to 131 are now called Raymond Burton House, which is the location of Jewish Museum London.

Bernard Miles, Baron Miles, actor and founder of the Mermaid Theatre lived at No. 139 during the 1950s. [19]

No. 141, on the corner of Albert Street and Parkway, is a pub, The Spread Eagle. [20] It is Grade II listed. [21]

Other buildings

At the other end of the street, a Grade II-listed house, No. 38 Delancey Street, has an entrance on Albert Street. [22] [23]

Former mosque

London's first mosque was opened in 1895 at a house in Albert Street. [24]

Albert Street North Residents’ Association

Albert Street North Residents’ Association represents the interests of local residents who live at the street's north end. [25]

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  25. ↑ "Albert Street North Residents' Association". Albert Street North Residents’ Association. Retrieved 10 September 2021.

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