The Primrose Hill Magazine
By Tracey Mitchell. “I’ve been incredibly lucky with a marriage to the right man, two super sons and really agreeable work,” says Katharine Whitehorn over coffee in her Primrose Hill home. We’re talking about her time on Picture Post, Paris Match […]
This is the mantra of Anna Dé, inspired by the track of one of her favourite musicians, Jamie Lidell. She recently launched her event business, Anna Dé Dreams (pun intended), that specialises in wedding and party planning. Anna is inspired […]
It is not the accuracy of Jennifer Louise Martin’s portrait paintings that make them remarkable, but her ability to evoke the personality and the mood of her subjects. Recently discovered by the model and writer Laura Bailey on Instagram, Jennifer […]
David Holmes’ book, A Brush with the Music of Time, about his life as an art student, advertising junior, art director, creative director, designer, ad agency proprietor, painter and illustrator is bursting with luscious images. And if you want to […]
Primrose Hill locals Karmen Alcala from Hackett’s hairdressers and JC from L’Absinthe recently got married. We sent Holly Collis to ask the questions we many locals wished we could ask them. To Karmen Holly: How did you react when JC […]
The demented domestic Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult musical to end all cult musicals, lives in a quiet street overlooking Primrose Hill. There is nothing quiet about Magenta’s progenitor, the exuberant Patricia Quinn, one of the […]
Local broadcaster Jon Snow has a thing about ties. He’s known for the colourful, patterned ties he wears on air. Each morning he selects his tie depending on his mood, although being conscious that it shouldn’t ‘distract from the news’. Now […]
Local Primrose Hill resident Pauline Baines recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Born in Brighton on 9 October 1917, Pauline came to North London at the age of five with her parents, going first to a small school in Hampstead, then […]
Annabel Leventon has been on the stage and screen since the 1960s. She was in the original London cast of Hair! and in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show and has had many other roles in theatre, film and […]
I look down from the Hill and all I see is houses. And each house is full of stuff. You see people pull up in taxis and they’ll have carrier-bags full of more stuff. And then they actually pay someone […]