Somers Town Space is a Community Interest Company, which emerged from Somers Town History Club (STHC) set up in 2016 by seven locals.
‘Capturing Somers Town Stories… by locals for locals…’ This is our guiding spirit – we believe in local ownership. And with our fantastic network of locals and historians, we've published 4 books, made a film, hosted talks and walks, held two Pop Up Museums, one at the British Library. We also campaign for the reinstatement of lost working class art in everyday life.
Our vision is for a space for a permanent Somers Town St Pancras Museum to honour this social history in a working class area, whose inhabitants still have a living memory of.
Our narrative is clear: this patch links Wollstonecraft to Jellicoe, priests in pubs to drinkers in prams; Shelley to Sainsbury, urban romantics to social reformers. Radical thinkers, radical housing and radical community.
- "It's a culturally significant area, home to idea bout women's education and medicine, politics, expeiments in communal living and theatre ... ideas of social justice that reach out to all of us" - Sir Keir Starmer.
Currently we 'Developing the Museum' project with the input of Youth project, we're providing free online education to primary schools, as well as the wider community,
