Andrew Whitehead
The Roundhouse and Di Clay
- Credit: Andrew Whitehead/Di Clay
It was built as an engine shed - later became a liquor warehouse - and bounced back from dereliction to become the epitome of London cool.
The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm has had a much livelier history that most railway buildings, and more than 170 years on it s still going strong.
The Roundhouse dates from the 1840s, when rail lines started carving their way across north London. It was a hugely impressive piece of architecture incorporating a locomotive turntable which gave the building its shape and name.
But within little more than a decade, the engines became too big for the turntable. By the end of the 1860s, Gilbey s was using the place to store its gin.
As co-founding editor Barry Miles tells it, according to journalist Alex Watson, “It’s very, very difficult now to imagine how straight England was, even in the mid 60s. It was a very black and white world then… The idea of anyone from our community writing for the
Guardian or the
Times was inconceivable. None of the papers had any popular music coverage in those days. Our group of people needed somewhere to express themselves, so in early 1966, Hoppy (John Hopkins) and I started to put it together.”
They did so with backing from Miles’ friend Paul McCartney, whom Miles had first introduced to hash brownies with a recipe from
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