Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road

Hatton Garden is the long-established jewellery district in Camden, where rows of showrooms and workshops concentrate around a few short streets. The area is known for bench jewellers, diamond dealers and firms that specialise in repair, soldering and faceting; many of those operations happen in small basement or first-floor workshops behind plain shopfronts. Buildings are a mix of Victorian and early 20th-century commercial stock adapted for specialist trades, interspersed with office space used by design and trade services. The street pattern and narrow lanes retain a trades-oriented feel rather than a typical high-street layout, and you can still see loading bays and safes at ground level in several premises.

Theobalds Road sits immediately north of Hatton Garden and runs as a working thoroughfare with housing, small retailers and light commercial premises. Its terraces and parade-front shops reflect incremental change: old shopfronts alongside newer conversions for offices or studios. Local traffic, service vehicles and deliveries are part of the daily rhythm, and small food shops and cafés cater to tradespeople and residents. The route also links to inner streets where legal chambers and professional practices cluster, so the area mixes specialist retail, light industry and back-office activity.