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Art deco
The glamour of the 1920s: symmetry, fans and sunbursts, tall elegant type and gold on cream and black.
Open Art decoThe Gilded Lantern
Est. on Lantern Row · Cocktails & music
The GildedLantern
A cocktail salon of mirrored walls, jade velvet and low golden light. Classic drinks, made slowly and served at the table, with a band on the stage four nights a week.
Evenings at the Lantern
Doors at seven. The stage lights come up at nine.
Thursday
The Quiet Quartet
Piano, double bass, brushes and a muted horn from nine until late.
Friday
Swing in the Salon
The floor is cleared at ten. A short lesson first, then the band takes over.
Saturday
The Gold Room
Dress up, sit down, and let the bartenders choose your evening for you.
Visit the salon
Down the brass stairs at 12 Lantern Row, beneath the sign of the golden lamp. Tables are held for fifteen minutes; the bar is always first come, first served.
- Wednesday & Thursday
- 7 pm to 1 am
- Friday & Saturday
- 7 pm to 3 am
- Sunday
- 6 pm to midnight
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Home, car, travel and business insurance
Insurance that is clear from the first page.
Harbourline has protected families and small businesses for over sixty years. Plain-language policies, fair prices and a real person to call when something goes wrong.
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Your documents arrive by email the same day, and one named adviser looks after your policy.
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Buildings and contents cover, including accidental damage and emergency repairs.
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Open Dark luxuryMaison Ombre
Perfume house · Made in small editions
Scent for the hours after dark.
Three perfumes, composed slowly and poured by hand. Each one made for evening, and for being noticed only by those who come close.
The collection
Three perfumes, no more
Cendre
Cold ash and a struck match.
- Top
- Pink pepper, bergamot
- Heart
- Smoked tea, iris
- Base
- Birch tar, white musk
50 ml extrait · €240
Lune d’Encre
Ink drying on a letter at midnight.
- Top
- Black cardamom
- Heart
- Violet leaf, myrrh
- Base
- Oud, ambergris accord
50 ml extrait · €240
Figue Nocturne
A fig tree in a garden after rain.
- Top
- Green fig, cassis
- Heart
- Fig milk, jasmine
- Base
- Cedar, tonka
50 ml extrait · €240
How we make them
We pour four hundred bottles of each, and then we stop.
The atelier
Visit by appointment
Thursday to Saturday, from six in the evening. One guest at a time, an hour each, and nothing to buy unless you wish to.
Request an eveningEditorial magazine
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Open Editorial magazineIssue 23 · Autumn 2026
The Marrow Quarterly
A journal of food, kitchens and the people who keep them
Cover story · Kitchens
The patience of stock
Why the kitchens we love most still begin every day with a pot that takes eight hours and that nobody ever orders.
Before the lights go on in the dining room, before the bread is shaped or the first delivery van backs into the yard, someone at Lantern Street Canteen lifts a forty-litre pot onto the back burner and fills it with cold water. It will not be touched again, except to skim, for eight hours.
Stock is the least visible thing a kitchen makes. Nobody orders it, few menus mention it, and yet almost every plate that leaves the pass carries some of it: in the sauce, in the braise, in the rice that soaks it up. Cooks talk about it the way builders talk about foundations — mostly when something has gone wrong.
“You can rush a sauce. You cannot rush the thing the sauce is made from.”
Hal Brennick has run this kitchen for eleven years. He roasts the bones until they are the colour of strong tea, adds onions with their skins still on, and never lets the pot boil. “A boil makes it cloudy and tired,” he says. “A shiver keeps it clear.”
The rest of this story follows the pot through a single day, from the first skim at six to the moment, late in the afternoon, when it is strained, cooled and portioned for the week. It is, Brennick admits, the dullest job in the building. It is also the one he would never hand to anyone else.
Also in this issue
Markets
A morning at the eel smokery
Three generations, one brick chimney and a waiting list that never gets shorter.
Page 18
Kitchens
Bread for a whole street
How a single wood oven feeds forty households before the school run.
Page 30
Essay
In defence of leftovers
The second day is when a stew finally knows what it wants to be.
Page 44
Letters
The soup you grew up with
Readers write in about the pot that was always on the stove.
Page 58
Subscriptions
Four issues a year, printed on uncoated paper
Each issue runs to 120 pages of reporting, recipes and drawings. A subscription starts with the next issue, and postage is included wherever you live.
Subscribe for a yearHandmade craft
Made by a person: paper colours, ink lines, wonky hand-drawn shapes, stamps and handwritten notes.
Open Handmade craftBobbinwick Sewing Rooms
A sewing workshop above the old haberdashery
Learn to sew in a room full offriendly people.
Bobbinwick is a small, bright room with eight sewing tables, a big cutting board and a kettle that is always warm. We teach beginners, help menders and make space for anyone who wants to finish that half-made dress.
Small classes8 seatssince 2009
Classes this term
Every class is taught by Maud or Iris, who have been sewing in this room for years.
Complete beginners
First stitches
Thread a machine, sew a straight line, and go home with a drawstring bag you made yourself.
Some sewing
Make a skirt
Read a simple pattern, cut your fabric with confidence, and fit an elastic waist that sits just right.
Anyone
Mend and patch
Bring the jeans with the hole in the knee. Learn darning, visible patches and a tidy hand-sewn hem.
How a class works
Pick a seat
There are only eight tables, so every class stays small and nobody waits long for help.
Borrow everything
Machines, scissors, pins and thread are all here. You only need to bring yourself and a cup.
Take it home
You leave each class with something finished, and a little card of notes for next time.
“I came to fix one button. Two years later I make all my own shirts.”
Come up the stairs
We are on the first floor of 14 Spindle Row, above the old haberdashery. Ring the brass bell and someone will come down to open the door.
- Tuesday
- 6 pm to 9 pm
- Thursday drop-in
- 1 pm to 5 pm
- Saturday
- 10 am to 1 pm
Thursday drop-in
Use a machine for the afternoon and ask for help when you get stuck.
£12, no booking needed
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Raw, loud and honest: thick black borders, hard offset shadows, flat clashing colours and unpolished type.
Open Neo-brutalistClatterbox Records
CBX-031 · LP · Out Friday 7 November
Pebble RiotLoud Kitchen
Eight songs recorded in one weekend, in a flat above a chip shop, with every pan in the building. Their second record and their loudest yet.
Hand-numbered vinyl
Tracklist
Side A
- A1Kettle Drum2:48
- A2Saucepan Heart3:12
- A3Burnt Toast Anthem2:05
- A4The Fridge Hums in E4:01
Side B
- B1Washing-up Waltz3:33
- B2Smoke Alarm1:47
- B3Leftovers3:20
- B4Lights Out, Pilot Light5:10
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Fri 14 Nov
The Coal HoleAshby
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Basement NineLowmoor
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Union RoomsHarbourside
Get tickets
Three people, a basement and a cutting lathe.
Clatterbox has put out thirty-one records since we started pressing them by hand. We only release bands we would queue in the rain to see, and we pay them first.
Join the mailing listOrganic natural
Grown, not built: warm earthy colours, soft irregular shapes, a gentle serif and a feeling of paper and plants.
Open Organic naturalFernhollow Farm
Farm shop, open Thursday to Sunday
Picked this morning, on your table tonight.
Fernhollow is a small family farm at the bottom of a wooded valley. We grow vegetables, keep hens and ducks, and sell everything from a stone barn at the end of the lane.
In the shop this week
Whatever is ready, while it lasts. The board in the barn is updated every morning.
Purple sprouting broccoli
Cut at dawn from the top field
£2.40 a bunch
Crown prince squash
Cured in the barn for three weeks
£3.10 each
Rainbow chard
Big leaves, bright stems, tender
£1.80 a bag
Duck eggs
From the flock by the stream
£3.50 for six
Russet apples
Picked from the old orchard
£2.20 a kilo
How the farm works
We grow slowly
Nothing here is forced under lights. The vegetables come when the weather lets them, so the shop changes every week.
The soil comes first
Clover, compost and resting fields keep the ground alive. We would rather grow less than wear the land out.
Short trips only
Most of what we sell travels less than a hundred steps, from the field to the shop shelf, in a wooden crate.
“My grandmother planted the orchard. We are still eating her apples every autumn.”
Come and visit
- Thursday and Friday
- 10 am to 6 pm
- Saturday
- 9 am to 5 pm
- Sunday
- 10 am to 2 pm
Follow the lane past the white gate until you see the stone barn. Bring a bag or a basket; we have spare crates for the bigger shops.
A weekly vegetable box
Eight to ten seasonal vegetables, packed on Friday and ready to collect from the barn.
£18 a week, stop whenever you like
Playful rounded
Friendly and bouncy: chunky rounded type, pill-shaped buttons, bright candy colours and wobbly shapes.
Open Playful roundedPip & Paddle
Swimming school for little ones
Swimming lessons that feel like playtime.
Small groups of four, a warm pool at 32 degrees and teachers who are very good at silly voices. Your child learns to love the water first. The strokes come after.
A class for every size of swimmer
Groups go by age, but nobody moves up until they are ready and happy.
Splashers
6 months to 2 years
You get in the water too. Songs, floating on your arm and the first brave blow of bubbles.
Bubblers
3 to 5 years
Kicking with a noodle, faces in the water and jumping in from the side into a teacher’s hands.
Paddlers
6 to 9 years
Real strokes, a first width on their own and a badge for every new thing they can do.
How the first lesson goes
Thirty minutes, in this order, and you are on the poolside the whole time.
Say hello
Meet your teacher on the poolside and pick a float to hold.
Sit and splash
Legs in, a few big kicks, and nobody has to go under.
Little steps in
Down the steps holding hands, into water no deeper than a tummy.
Sticker time
Every swimmer leaves with a sticker and a note of what they tried.
What a parent said
Noor used to cry at bath time. Six weeks in, she asks if it is Saturday yet so she can jump in to Teacher Sam.
Adaeze, mum of a very proud Bubbler
Try a lesson for free
After that, lessons are £13 each, paid by the term. Weekday afternoons and weekend mornings, with a family changing room right by the pool.
- Groups of four
- Swim nappies on us
- Free parking
Retro futurist
The future as people imagined it decades ago: deep space blues, neon glows, wide geometric type and scan lines.
Open Retro futuristQuasarlane Diner
Open tonight · 6 pm to 4 am
Late-night burgers in low orbit
Chrome stools, a long counter and a window onto the stars. Quasarlane is the diner the future promised us: thick shakes, hot fries and a jukebox that never sleeps.
Launch nights
- MonQuiet orbitLow lights, no music, the best night for a long talk.
- WedJukebox requestsWrite your song on a card and the staff play it next.
- FriDisco under the domeA mirror ball, a dance floor and shakes until four.
- SunMidnight pancakesStacks with blueberries and syrup from twelve onwards.
Find us at Dock 9
At the far end of Quasar Lane, under the round blue sign. Booths seat four to six; the counter is first come, first served.
- Monday to Thursday
- 6 pm to 1 am
- Friday and Saturday
- 6 pm to 4 am
- Sunday
- 6 pm to 2 am
Soft minimal
Calm and airy: lots of space, soft neutral colours, gentle rounded corners and one quiet accent.
Open Soft minimalHushfield
A quiet place, ten minutes a day.
Hushfield is a meditation app with short guided sessions, a breathing timer and nothing else. Put your phone face up for once.
Breathe
3:00
Three ways to sit
Pick by how much time you have, not by how you feel you should be doing.
10 minutes
Morning sit
A slow body scan to start the day before the phone does.
3 minutes
Three breaths
For the gap between meetings. In for four, out for six, three times.
15 minutes
Wind down
A spoken walk through an empty field, timed to end as you fall asleep.
From the wind-down session
Notice where your feet meet the floor. There is nothing here to fix.
Read by Ines Arlow, one of four Hushfield guides
What we left out
Most apps ask for your attention. This one tries to give it back.
- No streaks
- Miss a week and nothing is lost. The app does not count.
- No nudges
- Hushfield only sends a reminder if you set one yourself.
- No account to start
- Open it and press play. Sign up later, or never.
Free to begin
Every breathing timer and twelve sessions are free for good. Hushfield Plus opens the full library of ninety sessions for €4 a month.
Download HushfieldSwiss grid
A strict grid, big sans-serif type and asymmetric layout do all the work; nothing is there for decoration.
Open Swiss gridRaster Atelier
Architecture and urban design
Structure, then everything else
Practising since 2009
Fourteen architects
We design libraries, schools and homes whose plan is clear enough to read from the street. One module, one drawing table, and a habit of building exactly what we drew.
Now on siteKettle Lane Library, a public library on a 7.2 m grid. Opens to readers next spring.
Index of work
Selected projects, newest first, by job number.
- R-052Kettle Lane LibraryPublic library, 3,400 m²NorthgateOn site
- R-047Harrow Yard64 homes around a shared courtEastbank2024
- R-041Ostwald School HallAssembly hall and canteenMillbrook2022
- R-036Pier Nine Ferry HallWaiting hall and ticket officeSaltmarsh Quay2020
- R-029The Long ShedWorkshop for a furniture makerFenwick2018
Practice
A grid is a promise. Every column line we draw is one the builder can find on site.
One module
Each building starts from a single bay size. Rooms, windows and furniture are counted in it, so nothing is left over.
Structure on show
Columns and beams stay visible. You can stand in any room and see how the building holds itself up.
Nothing added
If a detail does not keep out weather, carry load or help someone find their way, we leave it out.
Studio
Visit
Raster Atelier
4 Weaver Row, second floor
Northgate
Hours
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 18:00
New projects
We take on four new buildings a year. Tell us about the site, the budget and the people who will use it.
Start a conversationArt deco
The glamour of the 1920s: symmetry, fans and sunbursts, tall elegant type and gold on cream and black.
Open Art decoThe Gilded Lantern
Est. on Lantern Row · Cocktails & music
The GildedLantern
A cocktail salon of mirrored walls, jade velvet and low golden light. Classic drinks, made slowly and served at the table, with a band on the stage four nights a week.
Evenings at the Lantern
Doors at seven. The stage lights come up at nine.
Thursday
The Quiet Quartet
Piano, double bass, brushes and a muted horn from nine until late.
Friday
Swing in the Salon
The floor is cleared at ten. A short lesson first, then the band takes over.
Saturday
The Gold Room
Dress up, sit down, and let the bartenders choose your evening for you.
Visit the salon
Down the brass stairs at 12 Lantern Row, beneath the sign of the golden lamp. Tables are held for fifteen minutes; the bar is always first come, first served.
- Wednesday & Thursday
- 7 pm to 1 am
- Friday & Saturday
- 7 pm to 3 am
- Sunday
- 6 pm to midnight
Bento tech
A product told in tiles: a tidy grid of rounded cards of different sizes, each holding one fact, with crisp type and soft depth.
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- Ask for the second meeting
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Your week
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Writers say
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Open Classic corporateHarbourline Assurance
Home, car, travel and business insurance
Insurance that is clear from the first page.
Harbourline has protected families and small businesses for over sixty years. Plain-language policies, fair prices and a real person to call when something goes wrong.
Get a quote in five minutesCompare our cover
- No hidden fees
- Claims line open day and night
- Cancel any time
- Policy
- Home, buildings and contents
- Excess
- £250
- Adviser
- Priya Lindqvist
- Monthly price
- £24.50
Renewal reminder sent 30 days before your policy ends.
Covered in three simple steps
No jargon and no long forms. Most customers are covered the same day.
Tell us what to cover
Answer a few short questions about your home, car or business. It takes about five minutes.
Choose your plan
Compare three clear levels of cover side by side, with the price for each shown up front.
You are covered
Your documents arrive by email the same day, and one named adviser looks after your policy.
Our insurance
Every policy comes with the same clear documents and the same named adviser.
Home insurance
Buildings and contents cover, including accidental damage and emergency repairs.
Get a quote for home insuranceCar insurance
Comprehensive cover with a courtesy car and a free windscreen repair service.
Get a quote for car insuranceTravel insurance
Single-trip and annual cover for medical costs, delays and lost luggage abroad.
Get a quote for travel insuranceBusiness insurance
Liability, property and equipment cover for small firms and sole traders.
Get a quote for business insurance
Trusted when it matters
- claims settled within ten working days
- 9 in 10
- average rating from 12,400 customer reviews
- 4.8 / 5
- protecting homes and businesses on the coast
- 62 years
“After the storm our adviser called us before we had even reported the damage. The roof was fixed in a week.”
“Clear prices, clear documents. I have moved all three of our shop policies to Harbourline.”
Ready for a quote?
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Dark luxury
Quiet expense: a deep dark ground, a refined serif, thin gold lines, slow fades and very little on screen.
Open Dark luxuryMaison Ombre
Perfume house · Made in small editions
Scent for the hours after dark.
Three perfumes, composed slowly and poured by hand. Each one made for evening, and for being noticed only by those who come close.
The collection
Three perfumes, no more
Cendre
Cold ash and a struck match.
- Top
- Pink pepper, bergamot
- Heart
- Smoked tea, iris
- Base
- Birch tar, white musk
50 ml extrait · €240
Lune d’Encre
Ink drying on a letter at midnight.
- Top
- Black cardamom
- Heart
- Violet leaf, myrrh
- Base
- Oud, ambergris accord
50 ml extrait · €240
Figue Nocturne
A fig tree in a garden after rain.
- Top
- Green fig, cassis
- Heart
- Fig milk, jasmine
- Base
- Cedar, tonka
50 ml extrait · €240
How we make them
We pour four hundred bottles of each, and then we stop.
The atelier
Visit by appointment
Thursday to Saturday, from six in the evening. One guest at a time, an hour each, and nothing to buy unless you wish to.
Request an eveningEditorial magazine
Reads like a well-set magazine: confident serif headlines, generous columns, pull quotes and fine rules.
Open Editorial magazineIssue 23 · Autumn 2026
The Marrow Quarterly
A journal of food, kitchens and the people who keep them
Cover story · Kitchens
The patience of stock
Why the kitchens we love most still begin every day with a pot that takes eight hours and that nobody ever orders.
Before the lights go on in the dining room, before the bread is shaped or the first delivery van backs into the yard, someone at Lantern Street Canteen lifts a forty-litre pot onto the back burner and fills it with cold water. It will not be touched again, except to skim, for eight hours.
Stock is the least visible thing a kitchen makes. Nobody orders it, few menus mention it, and yet almost every plate that leaves the pass carries some of it: in the sauce, in the braise, in the rice that soaks it up. Cooks talk about it the way builders talk about foundations — mostly when something has gone wrong.
“You can rush a sauce. You cannot rush the thing the sauce is made from.”
Hal Brennick has run this kitchen for eleven years. He roasts the bones until they are the colour of strong tea, adds onions with their skins still on, and never lets the pot boil. “A boil makes it cloudy and tired,” he says. “A shiver keeps it clear.”
The rest of this story follows the pot through a single day, from the first skim at six to the moment, late in the afternoon, when it is strained, cooled and portioned for the week. It is, Brennick admits, the dullest job in the building. It is also the one he would never hand to anyone else.
Also in this issue
Markets
A morning at the eel smokery
Three generations, one brick chimney and a waiting list that never gets shorter.
Page 18
Kitchens
Bread for a whole street
How a single wood oven feeds forty households before the school run.
Page 30
Essay
In defence of leftovers
The second day is when a stew finally knows what it wants to be.
Page 44
Letters
The soup you grew up with
Readers write in about the pot that was always on the stove.
Page 58
Subscriptions
Four issues a year, printed on uncoated paper
Each issue runs to 120 pages of reporting, recipes and drawings. A subscription starts with the next issue, and postage is included wherever you live.
Subscribe for a yearHandmade craft
Made by a person: paper colours, ink lines, wonky hand-drawn shapes, stamps and handwritten notes.
Open Handmade craftBobbinwick Sewing Rooms
A sewing workshop above the old haberdashery
Learn to sew in a room full offriendly people.
Bobbinwick is a small, bright room with eight sewing tables, a big cutting board and a kettle that is always warm. We teach beginners, help menders and make space for anyone who wants to finish that half-made dress.
Small classes8 seatssince 2009
Classes this term
Every class is taught by Maud or Iris, who have been sewing in this room for years.
Complete beginners
First stitches
Thread a machine, sew a straight line, and go home with a drawstring bag you made yourself.
Some sewing
Make a skirt
Read a simple pattern, cut your fabric with confidence, and fit an elastic waist that sits just right.
Anyone
Mend and patch
Bring the jeans with the hole in the knee. Learn darning, visible patches and a tidy hand-sewn hem.
How a class works
Pick a seat
There are only eight tables, so every class stays small and nobody waits long for help.
Borrow everything
Machines, scissors, pins and thread are all here. You only need to bring yourself and a cup.
Take it home
You leave each class with something finished, and a little card of notes for next time.
“I came to fix one button. Two years later I make all my own shirts.”
Come up the stairs
We are on the first floor of 14 Spindle Row, above the old haberdashery. Ring the brass bell and someone will come down to open the door.
- Tuesday
- 6 pm to 9 pm
- Thursday drop-in
- 1 pm to 5 pm
- Saturday
- 10 am to 1 pm
Thursday drop-in
Use a machine for the afternoon and ask for help when you get stuck.
£12, no booking needed
Neo-brutalist
Raw, loud and honest: thick black borders, hard offset shadows, flat clashing colours and unpolished type.
Open Neo-brutalistClatterbox Records
CBX-031 · LP · Out Friday 7 November
Pebble RiotLoud Kitchen
Eight songs recorded in one weekend, in a flat above a chip shop, with every pan in the building. Their second record and their loudest yet.
Hand-numbered vinyl
Tracklist
Side A
- A1Kettle Drum2:48
- A2Saucepan Heart3:12
- A3Burnt Toast Anthem2:05
- A4The Fridge Hums in E4:01
Side B
- B1Washing-up Waltz3:33
- B2Smoke Alarm1:47
- B3Leftovers3:20
- B4Lights Out, Pilot Light5:10
Pick a format
12" vinyl
€24
Orange splatter, 180 g, hand-numbered. 300 copies, then never again.
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Chrome tape in a blue shell, with a fold-out lyric sheet. 100 copies.
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€8
WAV, FLAC or MP3, plus the sleeve as a print-at-home poster.
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Fri 14 Nov
The Coal HoleAshby
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Basement NineLowmoor
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Thu 20 Nov
Union RoomsHarbourside
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Three people, a basement and a cutting lathe.
Clatterbox has put out thirty-one records since we started pressing them by hand. We only release bands we would queue in the rain to see, and we pay them first.
Join the mailing listOrganic natural
Grown, not built: warm earthy colours, soft irregular shapes, a gentle serif and a feeling of paper and plants.
Open Organic naturalFernhollow Farm
Farm shop, open Thursday to Sunday
Picked this morning, on your table tonight.
Fernhollow is a small family farm at the bottom of a wooded valley. We grow vegetables, keep hens and ducks, and sell everything from a stone barn at the end of the lane.
In the shop this week
Whatever is ready, while it lasts. The board in the barn is updated every morning.
Purple sprouting broccoli
Cut at dawn from the top field
£2.40 a bunch
Crown prince squash
Cured in the barn for three weeks
£3.10 each
Rainbow chard
Big leaves, bright stems, tender
£1.80 a bag
Duck eggs
From the flock by the stream
£3.50 for six
Russet apples
Picked from the old orchard
£2.20 a kilo
How the farm works
We grow slowly
Nothing here is forced under lights. The vegetables come when the weather lets them, so the shop changes every week.
The soil comes first
Clover, compost and resting fields keep the ground alive. We would rather grow less than wear the land out.
Short trips only
Most of what we sell travels less than a hundred steps, from the field to the shop shelf, in a wooden crate.
“My grandmother planted the orchard. We are still eating her apples every autumn.”
Come and visit
- Thursday and Friday
- 10 am to 6 pm
- Saturday
- 9 am to 5 pm
- Sunday
- 10 am to 2 pm
Follow the lane past the white gate until you see the stone barn. Bring a bag or a basket; we have spare crates for the bigger shops.
A weekly vegetable box
Eight to ten seasonal vegetables, packed on Friday and ready to collect from the barn.
£18 a week, stop whenever you like
Playful rounded
Friendly and bouncy: chunky rounded type, pill-shaped buttons, bright candy colours and wobbly shapes.
Open Playful roundedPip & Paddle
Swimming school for little ones
Swimming lessons that feel like playtime.
Small groups of four, a warm pool at 32 degrees and teachers who are very good at silly voices. Your child learns to love the water first. The strokes come after.
A class for every size of swimmer
Groups go by age, but nobody moves up until they are ready and happy.
Splashers
6 months to 2 years
You get in the water too. Songs, floating on your arm and the first brave blow of bubbles.
Bubblers
3 to 5 years
Kicking with a noodle, faces in the water and jumping in from the side into a teacher’s hands.
Paddlers
6 to 9 years
Real strokes, a first width on their own and a badge for every new thing they can do.
How the first lesson goes
Thirty minutes, in this order, and you are on the poolside the whole time.
Say hello
Meet your teacher on the poolside and pick a float to hold.
Sit and splash
Legs in, a few big kicks, and nobody has to go under.
Little steps in
Down the steps holding hands, into water no deeper than a tummy.
Sticker time
Every swimmer leaves with a sticker and a note of what they tried.
What a parent said
Noor used to cry at bath time. Six weeks in, she asks if it is Saturday yet so she can jump in to Teacher Sam.
Adaeze, mum of a very proud Bubbler
Try a lesson for free
After that, lessons are £13 each, paid by the term. Weekday afternoons and weekend mornings, with a family changing room right by the pool.
- Groups of four
- Swim nappies on us
- Free parking
Retro futurist
The future as people imagined it decades ago: deep space blues, neon glows, wide geometric type and scan lines.
Open Retro futuristQuasarlane Diner
Open tonight · 6 pm to 4 am
Late-night burgers in low orbit
Chrome stools, a long counter and a window onto the stars. Quasarlane is the diner the future promised us: thick shakes, hot fries and a jukebox that never sleeps.
Launch nights
- MonQuiet orbitLow lights, no music, the best night for a long talk.
- WedJukebox requestsWrite your song on a card and the staff play it next.
- FriDisco under the domeA mirror ball, a dance floor and shakes until four.
- SunMidnight pancakesStacks with blueberries and syrup from twelve onwards.
Find us at Dock 9
At the far end of Quasar Lane, under the round blue sign. Booths seat four to six; the counter is first come, first served.
- Monday to Thursday
- 6 pm to 1 am
- Friday and Saturday
- 6 pm to 4 am
- Sunday
- 6 pm to 2 am
Soft minimal
Calm and airy: lots of space, soft neutral colours, gentle rounded corners and one quiet accent.
Open Soft minimalHushfield
A quiet place, ten minutes a day.
Hushfield is a meditation app with short guided sessions, a breathing timer and nothing else. Put your phone face up for once.
Breathe
3:00
Three ways to sit
Pick by how much time you have, not by how you feel you should be doing.
10 minutes
Morning sit
A slow body scan to start the day before the phone does.
3 minutes
Three breaths
For the gap between meetings. In for four, out for six, three times.
15 minutes
Wind down
A spoken walk through an empty field, timed to end as you fall asleep.
From the wind-down session
Notice where your feet meet the floor. There is nothing here to fix.
Read by Ines Arlow, one of four Hushfield guides
What we left out
Most apps ask for your attention. This one tries to give it back.
- No streaks
- Miss a week and nothing is lost. The app does not count.
- No nudges
- Hushfield only sends a reminder if you set one yourself.
- No account to start
- Open it and press play. Sign up later, or never.
Free to begin
Every breathing timer and twelve sessions are free for good. Hushfield Plus opens the full library of ninety sessions for €4 a month.
Download HushfieldSwiss grid
A strict grid, big sans-serif type and asymmetric layout do all the work; nothing is there for decoration.
Open Swiss gridRaster Atelier
Architecture and urban design
Structure, then everything else
Practising since 2009
Fourteen architects
We design libraries, schools and homes whose plan is clear enough to read from the street. One module, one drawing table, and a habit of building exactly what we drew.
Now on siteKettle Lane Library, a public library on a 7.2 m grid. Opens to readers next spring.
Index of work
Selected projects, newest first, by job number.
- R-052Kettle Lane LibraryPublic library, 3,400 m²NorthgateOn site
- R-047Harrow Yard64 homes around a shared courtEastbank2024
- R-041Ostwald School HallAssembly hall and canteenMillbrook2022
- R-036Pier Nine Ferry HallWaiting hall and ticket officeSaltmarsh Quay2020
- R-029The Long ShedWorkshop for a furniture makerFenwick2018
Practice
A grid is a promise. Every column line we draw is one the builder can find on site.
One module
Each building starts from a single bay size. Rooms, windows and furniture are counted in it, so nothing is left over.
Structure on show
Columns and beams stay visible. You can stand in any room and see how the building holds itself up.
Nothing added
If a detail does not keep out weather, carry load or help someone find their way, we leave it out.
Studio
Visit
Raster Atelier
4 Weaver Row, second floor
Northgate
Hours
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 18:00
New projects
We take on four new buildings a year. Tell us about the site, the budget and the people who will use it.
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