# Camden memorial **URL:** \ **Category:** Anything Amy\ **Created:** [December 15, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/t/camden-memorial/6207 "2011-12-15T14:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AMYstery](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/user_avatar/www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/amystery/32/98_2.png) [@AMYstery](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/u/AMYstery)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/t/camden-memorial/6207/1 "2011-12-15T14:42:40Z")
longer interview with Mitch in the Camden New Journal : [http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2011/dec/‘i-want-build-memorial-amy-winehouse’](http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2011/dec/%E2%80%98i-want-build-memorial-amy-winehouse%E2%80%99) **‘I want to build a memorial to Amy Winehouse’** **Published: December 8th, 2011** \_ **Pavan Amara talks to Mitch Winehouse about plans to remember his daughter** \_ AMY Winehouse’s father Mitch said he will talk to the Town Hall about the possibility of building a memorial outside his daughter’s former home in Camden Town. Mr Winehouse, 60, switched on the Christmas lights at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square on Friday, just yards away from the house where the singer was found dead in July. Along with around 100 festive revellers, he was there with his wife Jane, who he married in 1996, and Amy’s former manager, Trenton Harrison-Lewis. Mr Winehouse was invited in honour of Amy and also to highlight the services that the centre runs for people suffering from addiction. “A daughter of my friend died and they had a bench dedicated to her outside the Roundhouse,” said Mr Winehouse. “I would love to do something similar for Amy because this will always be the place she loved. “When she was a little girl she used to talk about how she dreamed of living in Camden. And then she did it. I don’t know what it was that drew her so strongly to this place but there was clearly something. “She was a very down-to-earth girl and this is a very down-to-earth place. It’s like where I grew up in east London, a melting pot of everyone. You get that mix of the very wealthy and then the very normal people, and they are all together, and she loved that about here.” Mr Winehouse added: “We want to ask Camden Council if we can have a bench in Camden Square or a memorial of some sort. I think everyone would be happy. The only thing that worries me is that the neighbours might not like it, and I really hope that isn’t a problem.” Mr Winehouse said that sections of the late singer’s home still remain “untouched”.“I can’t bring myself to move some things,” he said. “Some of the stuff that she left, it’s still there, just as it was. We moved to Caversham Road in Kentish Town when she first moved into Camden Square, and I can’t see me and Jane leaving their now. We love it, we’re regulars on Kentish Town’s high street. We moved because we wanted to be neighbours with Amy. She was excited that it was finally going to happen, that we’d be like neighbours to her.” Amy, loved the world over for her two hit albums Frank and Back To Black, died after drinking a large amount of alcohol.She had been through a period of abstinence in the weeks before her death. A coroner recorded a inquest verdict of “misadventure”. This week, songs she recorded before her death were released posthumously in a third album titled, Lioness: Hidden Treasures. “I used to blame the places she went to like the pubs she went to in Cam­den Town and lots of other places that she used to be in, but now I don’t,” said Mr Winehouse. “Now I think it was all to do with the circumstances. I have my good days and my bad days – luckily for me, today is a good day. The truth is that Camden will now for ever be our home, because it will always be Amy’s home. She used to walk past this centre nearly every day. It’s comforting because of that.” The taxi driver called the centre “a focal point” for the community, which operated an “open-door policy” and urged residents to support the centre as it faced financial cuts next year. “In today’s day and age, it is so important that there’s somewhere you can go for a cup of tea, for a chat,” he said. “Things are tough out there with the recession and people need somewhere they can come and feel like that place is their home. It belongs to them, and this place does that, not just for Irish people but for everyone. Everyone gets that cup of tea in here.”In recent months, Mr Winehouse attended a wake for a close friend at the centre, and said he had been “honoured to have been asked” to switch the lights on. He said that he did not have plans to set up a rehabilitation centre for drug or alcohol addiction, contrary to rumours, but instead wanted to push the government to change the way it deals with addiction. “I am not the best person to run a centre like that and I know that,” he said. “I don’t know enough about how to effectively help people, and so I want to leave it to the professionals. What I do want is to help them do it wherever I can. “Addicts need to be assessed quicker within the current health system, they need help quicker. There are so many people who can’t afford help for their addictions, like people in prison and on the streets, and others who just can’t afford the cost, or can’t afford to wait for the treatment because waiting lists are so long. They need help exactly at the point where they say they need help, not to have to wait months to get a place somewhere and have to hold out that long.” Mr Winehouse added: “We also need money directed to people who aren’t caught up within the criminal justice system because a lot of the money is concentrated there, which isn’t a bad thing, but we want to see everybody get help if they need it.” The couple enjoyed mulled wine, mince pies and Irish singalong Christmas songs before emphasising that they would be “very frequent” visitors to the centre, because it was a place they felt “secure”. The centre’s director Jeff Moore described how Camden Council’s funding cuts next year would have “a real impact”, as money for the centre will dwindle. “If you want to help us please join the friend scheme on our website,” he said. Visit [http://www.londonirishcentre.org/index.php/support/friends/](http://www.londonirishcentre.org/index.php/support/friends/) ---
**Author:** ![Amy\_Jenna\_Harper](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/user_avatar/www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/amy_jenna_harper/32/197_2.png) [@Amy\_Jenna\_Harper](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/u/Amy_Jenna_Harper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/t/camden-memorial/6207/2 "2011-12-15T16:20:17Z")
That will be so great.I really that they will do it.Thanks ---
**Author:** ![paulh202](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/user_avatar/www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/paulh202/32/182_2.png) [@paulh202](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/u/paulh202)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://www.amywinehouseforum.co.uk/t/camden-memorial/6207/3 "2011-12-16T00:22:23Z")
Nice post, it’s also interesting to know who took my photo with Mitch in Jazz After Dark, didn’t know who Trenton was at the time, I do now, Amy’s former manager, Thank you!