Locals curious about squatters at Gordon Ramsay's Camden pub

LondonWorld

Locals are curious about a group of squatters who have occupied Gordon Ramsay's Grade-II listed gastropub in Camden.  At least six “professional squatters” entered Ramsay’s York and Albany pub, on the edge of Regent’s Park, early last week.  Cal, who works in a school nearby said she has been curious about the takeover since the pub closed a few weeks ago.

Transcript

00:00 But I guess a few weeks ago I saw people taking down all the bits and I was like, oh maybe the restaurant's closing.

00:04 And then I saw in the news that they had taken over the building and they worked around the corner.

00:09 So what are some of the rumors you've been hearing yourself?

00:12 I guess that, I guess I was wondering who it was

00:16 because they seemed kind of organized in terms of what they put on the sign about not being able to,

00:23 that they were allowed to squat there because it wasn't a residential building and I thought that was kind of cool.

00:29 And interesting, I was interested to know more about it.

00:34 And obviously I don't know a huge amount about their politics or whatever.

00:37 But I know there's a big homeless population so I was wondering if it was to do with that as well.

00:41 And what about the art cafe that was, well, that lasted a day or so?

00:45 Would that have been something that would have been welcome in the area?

00:48 I don't think it would have been welcome in this area because these people are all like quite fancy.

00:53 So I don't think, but I think the general Camden community would have been interested in that, yeah.

00:59 There's like another free food place like down the road and there's often free food stuff so I wonder if it would.

01:05 But this is kind of out of the way, this is more a fancier area, in my opinion. So I don't know.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended