Camden Town in north London is famous for its trio of 'castle' pubs: The Edinboro' Castle, The Pembroke Castle and The Dublin Castle.
It's said that, in the 19th century, these pubs were named in this manner as a means of segregating gangs of railway navvies: ie. the Irish were expected to drink in the Dublin Castle, the Welsh in the Pembroke, the Scots in the Edinboro' and the English in the Windsor Castle (which is now long lost).
This system supposedly prevented any animosity and drunken brawls between the groups.... but how true is the legend of the Camden Castles? In this video, we'll be finding out as we explore each pub in turn!
Plus of course I'll be including plenty of other history too (including two abandoned stations and some TV locations) as we go along!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:45 The Legend of the Camden Castle Pubs
02:09 The Edinboro' Castle
05:28 The Castle, Kentish Town & Nelson's Tree
06:22 South Kentish Town Tube Station
08:04 The Pembroke Castle
10:49 Primrose Hill Station
13:20 Camden's Lost Castle Pubs
14:04 Palmer's Pet Store
15:27 The Dublin Castle
20:10 Outro
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Links for this video:
The Edinboro' Castle
https://www.edinborocastlepub.co.uk/#/
The Pembroke Castle
https://www.pembrokeprimrosehill.co.uk/
The Dublin Castle
https://thedublincastle.com/
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Credits:
Images:
Dublin Castle Title Card image: Philafrenzy (Creative Commons)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Dublin_Castle_pub,_Camden.jpg
The Castle, 1910 image: pubwiki.co.uk
South Kentish Town Station: https://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2013/01/23/wednesday-picture-south-kentish-town-nw5s-ghost-tube-station/
Primrose Hill Station, 1990: Image Johnragla, Creative Commons
Camden New Journal Archive: https://www.facebook.com/cnjarchive
London Irish Centre image: https://londonirishcentre.org/
Dublin Castle, 1950: Image, reddit user Max2310
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Music:
The Colonel (Zachariah Hickman)
Yonder Hill and Dale (Aaron Kenny)
Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Dirty Mac (Endless Love)
Drag Race (TrackTribe)
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Top Down (Dan Lebowitz)
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Mine San Kyoku (Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger)
Jah Jah Bangs (Quincas Moreira)
The Thought of You (TrackTribe)
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