DRUMMOND STREET: CALL FOR ARCHIVE PHOTOS, FABRICS AND STORIES! 🎨
Next month we’ll be hosting a photography workshop with artist Jake Attewell, staging photography sets that reflect the culture, food, heritage and community of Drummond Street for a new mural in George Mews.
We need your help to shape what goes into it...
✨ We’re looking for:
- Photos of Drummond Street (recent or archive)
- Stories, memories or moments that define the area
- Situations or activities you'd like to see represented (e.g. cooking, playing games)
- Textiles, patterns or materials that mean something to you
The mural, created by @itaewon_artist will blend realism and abstract art to tell the story of the neighbourhood inspired by the people who know it best!
📩 Send your photos, stories and inspiration to [email protected]
⏰ Please send submissions by 20 May
This week we hosted a mural design workshop with Patrick Allen one of the squatters who stood at the heart of the monumental Battle for Tolmers Square in the 1970s ✊
Using incredible archive photography captured by squatters Patrick and Nick, the group used collaging to play with composition and to retell their own stories inspired by the activists who fought for their community decades ago.
Artist @teaone_gavin_renshaw is drawing from the workshop to shape a new mural for Tolmers Square, ensuring this story of resistance and community power is not forgotten.
Thanks to @olddiorama for their beautiful space!
Read more about the battle for Tolmers Square online at Tolmers.net
#euston #heritage #community
Drummond Street locals - join us for these design workshops and collaborate on two new art installations for our neighbourhood!
£14.80/hour
Neighbourhood Makeshop
Starcross St
8th April, 2-4pm: exploring the monumental battle for Tolmers Square with activist Patrick Allen. You will then collage the story using photos, imagery and archived materials with muralist Gavin Renshaw who specializes in telling histories through topography.
20th May, 2-5pm: work with mural artist Jake Attwell to stage photography sets that reflect culture, food, heritage and community. Join us to get a taste for styling and photography, and to help directly inform the final piece.
Email [email protected] to register your interest in one or both workshops.
Today we were at @sandwichclubeuston to introduce local traders to the team at @bdp_com who will design and implement a new lighting scheme. It will complement architecture whilst celebrating heritage... reflecting the vision of both business and resident communities. Three design routes are being explored... what do you think?
If you're local to the area and want to feed in, drop us a message and we'll be in touch!
A rainy evening on Drummond Street, exploring ideas for a new lighting scheme. We took in the Street's night time atmosphere, opportunities to celebrate its communities, and imagined a space that can be easily transformed to celebrate cultural moments.
Very excited to be working with @bdp_com on this scheme. Drop by the Sandwich Club on March 17th 2-4pm to meet the team and feed back on some high level design routes.
Alternatively, get in touch to arrange a meeting. Be part of the next chapter for this very special place.
*this project is funded by Euston Town BID and HS2's Business & Local Economy Fund.
💫 A new lighting scheme is coming to Drummond Street, designed to enhance the evening environment, sensitively celebrate the neighbourhood's architecture and heritage, and create a safer public realm.
If you live, work, or own a business nearby we'd love to see you at this drop-in session. You'll meet the designers at @bdp_com and can feed in your priorities and vision for the future of Drummond Street's nighttime streetscape. You'll also learn more about the co-design process so far with our local appointed Neighbourhood Designers.
📅 March 17th, 2-4pm
📍 The Sandwich Club, Drummond St
Can't make it? Drop us an email [email protected] and we'll be in touch to arrange a meeting.
Poetry asks us to slow down. To read. To pause and connect with your surroundings.
Euston Road is usually a place of movement; commuters in stride, plans in motion, people passing through.
Poetry in Lights shifts that rhythm.
In an environment filled with information and advertising, poetry offers a moment of visual calm. An invitation to see Somers Town, the neighbourhood quietly “hidden between the two stations.”
Developed through Euston Town’s Art Strategy in collaboration with @mtartagency this approach places community co-design at its centre.
Not just light on a building. But art, rooted in place.
@robertmontgomeryghost@aspaceforusnow
#publicart #poetryinlights #mtart #communityart #codesign
Apply now to be a Neighbourhood Designer for the Drummond Street Lighting project!
In February 2026, we’ll be hosting workshops led by professional lighting designers, inviting the local community to help shape a new lighting scheme for Drummond Street!
Apply now to take part in the design process...
📩 To apply, email [email protected]
with:
→ Your name, contact details & postcode
→ Your connection to Drummond Street
→ The unique perspective you can bring to this project
📅 Deadline: 6 February 2026
🔗 Link in bio to find out more!
#neighbourhooddesign #lighting #community #euston #eustoncommunity #codesign
Photo credit: Jan Kattein Architects
What's next for Chalton Street?
As our BID term comes to an end, we’ve been reflecting on the last 5 years and looking ahead to what’s next.
With new signage and lighting installed, alongside Camden Council’s Future Neighbourhoods project and Phoenix Road greening, Chalton Street has already seen major public-realm improvements.
In December, we spoke with local businesses about their priorities for the future.
Some clear themes emerged from our conversations:
👉 Better street cleanliness and waste management
👉 Celebrating Chalton Street’s cultural offer and independent businesses
👉 A more welcoming entrance from Euston Road
👉 Stronger local marketing support for independents
👉 Clearer wayfinding from stations through Somers Town’s quieter, less polluted routes
👉 More greenery with proper long-term maintenance
👉 Interest in forming a neighbourhood group to support and get involved
We’ll keep working with businesses over the coming months to shape a shared vision for Chalton Street.
Got ideas? We’d love to hear from you — email [email protected]
#euston #neighbourhooddesign #camdengreenloop #somerstown #chaltonstreet #eustontown
Seasons Greetings from Euston Town! 💫
A look back at our projects in 2025, from new walking routes through Mornington Crescent, to co-design workshops on Drummond Street and a brand new lighting installation and sign post for Chalton Street, there's a lot to reflect on this year.
Looking ahead to 2026, Euston Town will be going to ballot - and we hope to continue working with you on these fantastic projects.
Swipe to see some of the moments that shaped the year 👉
1️⃣ Installing the new Chalton Street sign @jankatteinarch
2️⃣ A saxophone-led walking tour of Poetry in Lights @mtartagency
3️⃣ Chutneys signage on Drummond Street
4️⃣ Artist Robert Montgomery introducing our new installation @robertmontgomeryghost@raziajukesphoto
5️⃣ Collaging during a Drummond Street alleyways workshop
6️⃣ Site visit exploring Drummond Street’s alleyways
7️⃣ Poetry in Lights after dark
8️⃣ Exploring green spaces across Euston with @footwayslondon
9️⃣ Plants donated from @globalgenerations ’ Story Garden, rehoused at @cmdncollective
🔟 Sustainable craft workshops at this year’s @camdeninspire festival
✨Our incredible artist and poet Robert Montgomery was commissioned by the Euston Town B.I.D to create a lighting installation. The result, Poetry in Lights, is a carefully thought-out series of five projected poetic illuminations along Chalton Street, created through a creative partnership between Robert Montgomery and A Space for Us People’s Museum, with MTArt Agency being the public art partner. Robert’s approach to the project was to hold creative writing workshops at the museum, open to all in Somers Town.
‘I once imagined a city where every morning you could see people’s dreams written in neon lights outside their bedroom windows. This project is as close as I’ve got to that so far.’ - Robert Montgomery
Filling the city with poetry, WHAT A DREAM! ✨
@eustontown has commissioned @mtartagency and artist @robertmontgomeryghost for a new lighting installation along Somers Town’s Chalton Street in collaboration with The People’s Museum Somers Town @aspaceforusnow . A series of five projectors illuminate the walls and pavements with poetry developed in workshops with the local community, with further installations due in 2026. The poetry is rooted in pertinent local issues; particularly the area’s radical heritage and the emotions that have been stirred by the changing nature of an area much loved by its community.
Poetry in Lights is a unique representation of a community’s experience, perfectly suited to a neighbourhood as fascinating and unusual as Somers Town. This community is the very meaning of resistance and its personality continues to shine through all the changes that are happening on every side.
Thank you for trusting us @pitkeathley . Ten years today that you gave us the special key of our very first office in Camden, @cmdncollective . Forever our first family at MTArt Agency. Mega well done to our super public art director @serra.ataman & Maria Katehis our super, the fab team at Euston Town BID @its.georgiestreet@eve_gilmour and the People Museum’s amazing Diana Foster.
Photo credits @raziajukesphoto
