It’s hard to imagine, but Primrose Hill was once the proposed site for a necropolis. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the city’s graveyards were overflowing due to the burgeoning population as a result of the industrial revolution. With […]
Europe’s cathedrals are magnificent edifices, and, in general, grander than most castles and palaces. Simon Jenkins will be giving a talk at St Mary’s on 10 November where he plans to speak about his latest book, Europe’s 100 Best Cathedrals. […]
Arthur Rackham was a well-known figure in Primrose Hill, working from Primrose Hill Studios, off Fitzroy Road. In our June issue of On The Hill we ran an article about a 1929 copy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which Arthur […]
The cherry trees all over Primrose Hill are at their beautiful best this week. Let’s enjoy every moment of them before the blossom is scattered by the wind. The six white flowering trees around the middle of Chalcot Square are […]
Wednesday 20 January, 7pm – online via Zoom Andrew Marr will be talking about his fascinating latest book, New Elizabethans. Telling the story of the changes to UK society in the last 70 years through individuals who made an impact. […]
By William Gulliford.Vicar of St Mark’s, Regent’s Park. In the spare bedroom of my great aunt’s house, when I was young, was a photograph of a pretty young girl in a straw hat with her feet in a rock pool […]
Garnet Ampong remembers Primrose Hill in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I lived with my family at flat 3, 46 Fitzroy Road, we were there between 1988-1995. I know I was really young at the time but I still […]
The generation who were children during the Second World War remember VE Day 1945, on the seventy-fifth anniversary Residents of the London boroughs of Camden, Ealing, Croydon, Hounslow, Kingston and Merton shared their memories of VE Day for a short […]
By Martin Sheppard. Until 1970 the houses bordering the railway at the entrance to Primrose Hill from Gloucester Gate, 4–24 Gloucester Avenue, were a distinguished group of high-quality Victorian villas. They had been built by the architect Henry Bassett in […]
By Maggie Chambers. José Rizal, former resident of 37 Chalcot Crescent, was a doctor, writer and national hero of the Philippines. An English Heritage blue plaque was erected to him in 1983, and there has long been a statue of […]
