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, courtesy of @old_primrosehill_postcards. The postcard was recognised by local resident…

Categories: Book Review, History, Past

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. Foundations were being placed for the crane that will lift…

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, here in Primrose Hill. Sylvia and her husband, the poet…

Categories: Feature, History, Poem

Primrose Hill Memories

By Terry Lewis I much enjoyed reading the recent article in On The Hill by David Edwards about living on Regent’s Park Road in the late 1940s/50s (OTH September 2019). He mentioned several things that rang a bell with me,…