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Proud Camden
The
new Proud Camden might not be quite as hip as it used to be – a victim
of its own cult success – but look carefully and you will still spot
the odd skinny-jeaned singer in one of the old horse stalls. It’s a
good place to come for a quiet coffee and free wi-fi in the day.
There’s live music every night from about eight.
Proud Camden, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AH (7482 3867/www.proud.co.uk).
Big Chill House
Just
down from King’s Cross station, the Big Chill House is all comfy sofas,
shared platters and European lagers. There’s a very reasonable £5 lunch
menu, which is probably the time take your laptop before the music gets
cranked up in the evening.
Big Chill House, 257-259 Pentonville Rd, N1 9NL (7427 2540/www.bigchill.net).
Wellcome Collection Café
An
outpost of Peyton & Byrne, the compact café in the Wellcome
Collection foyer is relaxing and civilised. Sip on an Earl Grey tea,
settle on a sofa and get to work on your essay on ‘Why science is
essentially art’.
Wellcome Collection Café, 183 Euston Rd NW1 2BE (7611 2222/www.wellcomecollection.org).
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Camden Arts Centre
According
to Time Out itself, the Camden Arts Centre has ‘the best coffee in north London’, and the pastries aren’t bad either. The café is light
and airy with free wi-fi and nice big tables, but there’s also a
gallery and bookshop stocked with quirky little publications that
you’ll struggle to find anywhere else. The café opens on to a garden,
where you can work among the various temporary artworks.
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd, NW3 6DG (7472 5500/www.camdenartscentre.org).
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35 comments
The Westfield shopping centre in White City has a free network with a good signal and plenty of comfy seats.
Thanks Ian, I am on my laptop with it plugged into the wall for power at departure! How brilliant! the staff is so kind and it's a creative based cafe/library which is great for me because I'm a designer :)
Now I can work in peace!
Good work, Time Out, but I think Annie's excellent post proves that you could have tried harder.
Much as I dislike Starbucks, I have to back them up a bit here. They do have info on their web site about the WiFi they use. It is currently only available in Holborn and Chiswick in the London area.
http://starbucks.co.uk/en-GB/_Card/Starbucks+Card+Re wards+Wi-Fi+Support.htm
Phil.
Starbucks have switched to BT Openzone and you can only access the free wi-fi if you have one of their Starbucks cards however none of the staff are able to tell you how to access it and nor is there any info on their UK website.
Am aware of the WiFi hotspots in London...South London infact, in like McDonalds and so forth, but has anyone found an ideal spot for meetings, simply where you can have a group discussion alongside free wifi (enough space)?
Annie Boland's list looks very impressive until you notice how many Wetherspoons there are in there. Wetherspoon advertise free WiFi in all their pubs but it is extremely hit & miss and where you can get a signal it takes you to the wrong log-on page! Cheers JDW! To log on (where you can actually do so!) you need to stick the following in your browser's address bar and hit enter...
https://hotspot.thecloud.net/cloud-ssg-web/ssg.do
That should take you to the page where you put your ID in as "Sponsored" and password as "Service" (it's all on the correct log on screen).
The free WiFi in McDog is brilliant. Just wish I could say the same about the food!
Phil.
Thankyou Annie! Now that's what I call really useful!
For those who are interested, I made a list of all addresses of Restaurant/Pubs chains offering free WIFI in London (Wetherspoons, McDonald's, etc). It can be very useful to keep this list for offline use on your laptop or mobile phone: you will be able to search the txt file by street name in the list to find the nearest FREE hotspot in London :-)
Here is the addresses... ENJOY!
Corney & Barrow (Bar) FREE
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19 Broadgate Circle
9 Cabot Square
1 Ropemaker Street
5 Exchange Square
25 Fenchurch Avenue
1 Leadenhall Place
12 Mason's Avenue
2b Eastcheap
3 Fleet Place
12 New Street Square
111 Old Broad Street
37 Jewry Street
10 Paternoster Square
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Leon (Restaurant) FREE
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Carnaby Street, 35 Great Marlborough St
12 Ludgate Circus
275 Regent Street
3 Crispin Place
86 Cannon Street
73-76 Strand
7 Canvey Street, The Blue Fin Building (Behind the Tate Modern)
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Coffee Republic (Coffee Shop)
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FREE for 10 minutes
Note: Spend a minimum of £2 and you’ll get 20 minutes (the code is printed on the receipt), spend £5 and you get 45 minutes.
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Unit RS190 Cabot Place
198-200 Earls Court Road
71 The Mall
119 - 121 Gloucester Road
39 Great Marlborough Street
214 Portobello Road
19 Soho Square
1-9 Wimbledon Hill Road
Unit 3, 25 Exchange Square
38 Berwick Street
52 Gray's Inn
32 Coleman Street
157 Kings Road
778 High Road, North Finchley
8 Pembridge Road
214 Portobello Road
19 Soho Square
99 Tottenham Court Road
1-9 Wimbledon Hill Road, Wimbledon
220 High Street, Beckenham
38 Berwick Street
79A The Strand
126 Queensway
92 North End Road, West Kensington
25 Exchange Square, Broadgate
118A High Street, Bromley
35 King Street Parade, Twickenham
Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth
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McDonald's (Fast-Food Restaurant) FREE
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County Hall, Westminster
45/47 Whitehall, Westminster
155 Victoria Street, Westminster
Unit 43 The Colonnade, Lambeth
34/35 Strand , Westminster
5 Swiss Court, Leicester Square
25/27 Shaftesbury Avenue , Westminster
68/69 St Martins Lane , Westminster
115 Buckingham Palace Road , Westminster
74/78 Regent Street, Westminster
8/10 Oxford Street, Westminster
152/153 Fleet Street
112 High Holborn, Camden
185/187 Oxford Street, Westminster
291b Oxford Street, Westminster
West One Shopping Centre, Westminster
198/200 Walworth Road, Southwark
6/7 Holborn, Holborn Circus
177 Brompton Road, Kensington
134 Tottenham Court Road, Camden
2/3 Marble Arch, Westminster
49 Kings Road, Chelsea
Boland House, London Bridge
143/149 Cannon Street, City Of London
41/42 London Wall, City Of London
368/370 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
122 Baker Street, Westminster
Belgrove House, Kings Cross
178/180 Edgware Road, Westminster
302/304 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross
Unit 25 The Concourse, Liverpool Street, City Of London
Unit 55 (Macmillan House), Paddington Station, Westminster
67 Chapel Market, Islington
241 City Road, Islington
518/522 Brixton Road, Brixton
201/217 Commercial Road, Tower Hamlets
112 High Street, Camden
130/134 Clapham High Street, Clapham
76/78 Queensway, Westminster
518 Old Kent Road Retail Park, Peckham
208 Earls Court Road, Earls Court
102/106 The Highway Westbound, Shadwell
Sundial House, Kensington
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Pret A Manger (Restaurant) FREE
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7-8 St Martin's Place, Trafalgal Square
1 Whitehall
25 Villiers Street
62/65 Traflagar Square
421/422 Strand
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Wetherspoons (Pubs) FREE
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18–20 Edgware Road, Marble Arch
198–204 High Street, Lewisham
185 Lower Road, Rotherhithe
Metro Central Heights, 119 Newington Causeway, Elephant & Castle
56a High Street, Tooting
338–346 Holloway Road, Holloway
87–91 Mansell Street, Aldgate
29–35 Farringdon Road, Farringdon
7 Station Approach, Marylebone Road, Marylebone
4 Hertsmere Road, West India Quay, Docklands
125–127 Stroud Green Road, Stroud Green
22 Replingham Road, Southfields
282–284 Mare Street, Hackney
553 Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury
283–288 High Holborn, Holborn
250–252 Chingford Mount Road, Chingford
255–256 Upper Street, Islington
Swan Island, 2–4 King Street, Hammersmith
146–148 The Grove, Stratford
857–861 High Road, Leytonstone
105–107 Charing Cross Road, also at: 20 Greek Street, West End
46–47 The Mall, Ealing
Unit 5, Spouter’s Corner, 180 High Road, Wood Green
Unit 3, First Floor, Fulham Broadway Centre, Fulham
120–124 King Street, Hammersmith
32–33 Westow Street, Crystal Palace
194 Balham High Street, Balham
71–79 Peckham High Street, Peckham
149 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
7–9 Wellington Street, Woolwich
Cutty Sark Station, 210 Creek Road, Greenwich
107–109 Streatham High Road, Streatham
281 High Street, Acton
202 Upper Richmond Road
15 Trinity Square, Tower Hill
Africa House, 64–68 Kingsway, Holborn
16–18 Whitehall, West End
Unit 5, Victoria Island, Victoria Station
28 Leicester Square, West End
25 Wilton Road, Victoria
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Le Pain Quotidien (Cafe) FREE
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70 Parsons Green Lane
Units 5 & 6 Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street
201-203 Kings Road
1 South End Road, Hampstead Heath
174 High Holborn, Covent Garden
81-85 Notting Hill Gate
Upper Festival Walk, Belvedere Road, Royal Festival Hall
18 Great Marlborough Street
15- 17 Exhibition Road
Unit 4, St Pancras International, Euston Road
4- 5 High Street, Wimbledon Village
9 Young Street, Kensington
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its the first time i have used this site and each time i am in london i find its the first one i use to locate.
Debbie who sent a message on 11th May 2009 comments about Brighton, but there are plenty of free sites there. I have a question to ask, is this the same Debbie who claimed to have a house in Kensington, Hounslow and Brighton?
There are LOADS of free wifi places in East London....at the top of Brick Lane, E2 (the Bethnal Green ROad end) there is a small cafe between the 2 bagel bakeries which offers it, plus one accross the road on the corner with big sofas, and the Surf Shop/cafe directly opposite the end of Brick Lane also has a couple of laptops you can use. THere are also other cafes along there which offer it too.
Bethnal Green library also offers free computer/internet use (possibly wifi too) you just become a member so need proof of address but do NOT need to be a resident of Tower Hamlets.
The Gallery Cafe next to York Hall swimming baths on Old FOrd Road E2 also offers free wifi.
London in the Stoneage indeed. When the pebbles on Brighton Beach have worn down to sand and the howling chill wind on the seafront dies, call me, it might be worth a visit :D
Leon's in Regent Street does not have wi-fi, nor do staff know anything about it
Well! That was a bit of lame effort was'nt it? I thought you'd have more than a few for the whole of East London! I get the impression this article was written to fill quota rather than serve any useful purpose. Disappointing!
I just called the Southbank Centre to see if there have been any issues with connectivity before I make the journey. The girl on the phone was useless! ''We haven't been told anything...urrrmmm...there's always problems and glitches...but I haven't been told anything'' Give me strength!
Southbank Centre WAS a great place to go until the wifi signal mysteriously became hit and miss a few weeks ago.
Spacious, large tables, numerous power outlets to plug in your laptop, no obligation to buy anything and stay as long as you want without being hassled -- these things made this my favorite free wifi place to go for a full day's work when I started going there about 2 months ago. But about 3 weeks go, the signal strength dropped to the point where basic browsing is painful (flashback of 56k days), and twice the wifi signal dropped completely. It's no longer reliable and now I have to find a place...arghhh.