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After Camden Town Hall: A Wedding Photo Walk Through Bloomsbury
By John Roberto · 3 November 2026 · 6 min read
Most register office weddings end the same way: confetti, a group photo, then everyone heads to a restaurant. If your lunch is anywhere south of Camden Town Hall, that journey is the best portrait session you will get all day. Bloomsbury sits right below Judd Street, and walking through it gives you Georgian streets, garden squares and London details without ever feeling like a photoshoot. This is the route I planned for Thong Yen and Ludwig, who walked to lunch at No. 10 on High Holborn.
The route at a glance
- Start: the Marble Staircase inside Camden Town Hall.
- Then: Euston Road for the St Pancras skyline, and south down Judd Street.
- Through: Hunter Street to Brunswick Square Gardens.
- On: past the Foundling Museum and down Lamb's Conduit Street.
- Finish: Red Lion Street to High Holborn.
It is about 1.4 kilometres, roughly twenty minutes at a normal pace. With stops for photographs, allow forty minutes from the end of your group photos to the restaurant door.
1. The Marble Staircase
Start inside, while the excitement is still fresh. The Town Hall's grand marble staircase has white stone, carved balustrades and daylight from above, and it gives you elegant, classic portraits in a few minutes. It is also the rain plan. The catch is that it is shared with every other couple marrying that afternoon, so we use it the moment it is free rather than at a fixed time.
2. Euston Road and Judd Street
Step outside and turn around: the red-brick gothic towers of St Pancras and its hotel fill the skyline across Euston Road, with the odd red bus passing in front. A minute here gives you the most recognisably London photograph of the day. Then head south down Judd Street, a wide, tree-lined pavement that is perfect for slow walking photographs, hand in hand.
3. The streets towards Brunswick Square
This stretch is where the unplanned photographs happen. Quiet side streets, zebra crossings with almost no traffic on a weekend, a red telephone box against iron railings. None of it needs setting up. You walk, I keep pace, and I ask you to stop only when the light or the background is worth it.
4. Brunswick Square Gardens
A few minutes south down Judd Street and Hunter Street brings you to Brunswick Square, a railed garden first laid out in the 1790s. At its heart stands a huge London plane, one of the designated Great Trees of London. Inside the railings it is calm and green, with winding paths and mature trees all around, and it is the place for the softest, most romantic portraits of the walk. The Foundling Museum sits on the edge of the square if your guests are taking their time.
5. Lamb's Conduit Street to High Holborn
From the square, Lamb's Conduit Street runs south: mostly pedestrianised, lined with independent shopfronts, and home to The Lamb, a Grade II listed pub. It is ideal for relaxed, documentary photographs of the two of you as newlyweds, with real London life going on around you. From there Red Lion Street takes you down to High Holborn and your table.
If you would rather go somewhere else
Two other spots near the Town Hall are just as beautiful but sit in the opposite direction: Cartwright Gardens, a sweeping Georgian crescent about four minutes to the west, and Argyle Square, with its Georgian terraces, about three minutes to the east. If your meal is north of the Town Hall, King's Cross and the canal are the better route, and my Camden Town Hall guide covers those.
Practical things
- Shoes. It is a real walk. Bring comfortable shoes in a bag and swap when you leave the Town Hall.
- Rain. I bring clear umbrellas, which photograph well, and the staircase covers the rest.
- Guests. Send them ahead to the restaurant with someone who knows the way. You will arrive about forty minutes later, ready to celebrate.
- Coverage. Two hours covers the ceremony, confetti, family photos and this walk. If you would like me to stay for the meal and the toasts, that is our four hour Essentials collection.
If you are still choosing your coverage, my guide to registry office wedding photography in London lays out what each length includes.
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