ZSL London Zoo Launches Nationwide Appeal
ZSL London Zoo is today launching History Hive, a public appeal for memories and artefacts to bring its 200-year history to life.
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History
Category: History
The Volunteer Phone Box Painter
By Maggie Chambers “Why have all the phone boxes in Primrose Hill turned pink?” was a question directed to me last autumn. I really hadn’t noticed, but suggested it might […]
The Hanover Pearls and Restring Your Pearls: Two Events
Harriet Kelsall, Primrose Hill’s multi-award-winning Bespoke Jeweller and business entrepreneur is holding two events in November: a history of the Hanover Pearls at the Primrose Hill Community Library on Wednesday […]
Primrose Hill in the Second World War
By Martin Sheppard. The area of Regent’s Park, Hampstead Heath and Primrose Hill was initially not a prime German bombing target, due to its situation north of the heart of […]
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History
Chronicle of Gloucester Crescent
A book by Michael Dowd In the December issue of On The Hill, we published this postcard of a house on Gloucester Avenue in our ‘Postcards from Primrose Hill’ series, […]
Pickford’s Stables
A remarkable but forgotten stables complex in Primrose Hill By Peter Darley Walking along Gloucester Avenue and over Fitzroy Bridge in early October, you would have found the road closed. […]
The Yeoman Who got the Bananas for Guy the Gorilla
By The Mole on the Hill Grandad, why are there three fruit and veg shops all on one road? I don’t know the answer to that, Lass. There’ve always been […]
Sylvia Plath: 60 Years On
“When I came to my beloved Primrose Hill, with the golden leaves, I was full of such joy.” This week marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath, […]
St Mary’s Church Celebrates 150 Years
The first vicar of St Mary’s church was Charles Fuller who attracted a group of pious young women, one of which, Mary Emily André gifted the church £3000 on condition […]
The Primrose Hill Necropolis
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 […]