Editing Kentish Town (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:KentishTown.jpg|thumb|Kentish Town graffiti]]
[[Pub rock (United Kingdom)|Pub rock]] is usually traced back to the "Tally Ho" in Kentish Town, a former jazz pub, where [[Eggs over Easy]] started playing in May 1971, and were soon joined by [[Bees Make Honey (band)|Bees Make Honey]], [[Brinsley Schwarz]], [[Max Merritt|Max Merritt and the Meteors]], [[Ducks Deluxe]] and others.<ref>{{cite book|first= Will|last= Birch|year= 2003|title= No Sleep Till Canvey Island – The Great Pub Rock Revolution|edition= 1st|publisher= Virgin Books Ltd|location= London|pages= [https://archive.org/details/nosleeptillcanve00birc/page/120 120–129]|isbn= 0-7535-0740-4|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/nosleeptillcanve00birc/page/120}}</ref> The [[Assembly House, Kentish Town|Assembly House]] is a [[listed building|Grade II listed]] pub at 292–294 Kentish Town Road.<ref name="English Heritage">{{NHLE|desc=Assembly House public house|num=1379240|access-date=28 February 2014}}</ref>

Kentish Town is also home to [[London Forum|The Forum]] (formerly known as the Town and Country club), during the 1950s a cinema, and now a live music venue. Spring 2014 saw Kentish Town to get its first speak easy, 1920s style hidden bar, when Knowhere Special opened its doors next to Kentish Town station.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/bars-pubs/knowhere-special|title=Knowhere Special|website=TimeOut London|access-date=9 September 2014}}</ref>

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a Kentish Town street home to [[Pete Stanley]], one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players; British actor [[Bill Nighy]]; and [[The Torriano Poets]], where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings: its founder was [[John Rety]]. The street is also home to two pubs, one being an 1850s hostelry [[The Leighton]], the other [[The Torriano]], which was for many years an old-fashioned community off-licence. They take their names from the local landowners, Sir David Leighton and Joshua Torriano, who developed the land for housing in the mid 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lovell |first1=Percy and Marcham, William McB. |title=Survey of London: Volume 19, the Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Old St Pancras and Kentish Town. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1938. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol19/pt2/pp33-51 |website=British History Online |access-date=7 August 2020}}</ref>

One of London's most famous [[nudist]] [[public baths]], Rio's, is in Kentish Town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/attractions/where-to-get-naked-in-london-8711419.html|title=Where to get naked in London|author=Melisha Kaur|date=22 July 2014|work=Evening Standard}}</ref>

===Kentish Town Sports Centre===
[[File:St Pancras Public Baths Prince of Wales Road 2005.jpg|thumb|St Pancras Public Baths]]
The largest municipal building is the Kentish Town Sports Centre <ref>{{cite web | title = Kentish Town Sports Centre | url  = https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/london/camden/kentish-town-sports-centre | date  = 2024-02-09 | archiveurl  = https://archive.today/20240209125058/https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/london/camden/kentish-town-sports-centre| archivedate = 2024-02-09 }}</ref> which opened as the [[Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras|St Pancras]] public baths in 1903,<ref name="matthewweaver">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jul/26/kentish-town-baths-restored-open|title=Making a splash: newly restored Kentish Town baths reopen|author=Matthew Weaver|work=The Guardian|date=26 July 2010}}</ref> designed by Thomas W. Aldwinckle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/102705/r102705_03.htm|title=Camden New Journal|website=Camden New Journal|access-date=12 August 2017}}</ref> The large complex originally had separate first and second class men's baths and a women's baths, along with a public hall. Little of the interior remains intact. The baths were closed in January 2007 for refurbishment and re-opened at the end of July 2010.<ref name="matthewweaver"/>