also last time we went we stayed in a NCP car park but i noticed a lot of
car parking spaces on roads, does russell street have any and if not any
large roads to check out before the NCP?


Parking restrictions in the area north of High Holborn and east of Kingsway
(northeast of Holborn tube) finish at 1.30 on Saturdays. You can park for
free on single yellows and pay-and-display bays (not resident's bays). There
are usually spaces on (or just off) Theobald's Road. But look at the signs
carefully!

You've got a 10/15 minute walk to bow street from there.

xx j