The man who created 'Camden Lock'
Eric Reynolds doesn't often talk about how he turned a derelict patch by the canal in Camden Town into a world famous market site, but as we launch NewJournal+ we asked him for an interview
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By DAN CARRIER
IT’S hard to think of a time when Camden Lock’s famous markets were not there, teeming, as they are, with people browsing through an array of outlandish street food concoctions and searching for the now lesser-spotted mohicans.
Perhaps in the mists of time, the name of the man who imagined a place where you could while away the hours sifting through clothes rails, tables of books and record crates, and uncover unique crafts unavailable elsewhere in London, has been forgotten too.
The debate over what the ever-changing Camden Market should and…