Pauline Baines at 100 Years
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ron Holding tells us about his memories of St Paul’s CE Primary School, Primrose Hill… I’m still wondering how many times I have opened gates, changed loo rolls; how many teachers, […]
The other day I heard (we moles have phenomenal hearing) a jazz version of ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ that did my heart good. The woman who was singing put […]
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the well-known illustrator Arthur Rackham was born in London. Throughout his life he illustrated more than 65 books, including Shakespeare, the Brothers […]
Our local MP Sir Keir Starmer talked to Micael Johnstone just before the general election about food, politics and some of the hot topics impacting on Primrose Hill. Keir Starmer […]
Hands. You can’t tell a mole anything about hands. That’s what we are, a pair of hands attached to a little furry body. So when this artist says she’s got […]
Spending time with Guy Hills is like being in the company of Caractacus Potts. As soon as we meet, he hands me a device he’s been tinkering with, a radio […]
According to the Daily Mail, Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of Coast and prize-winning author, is a ‘national treasure’. He modestly assures me that they haven’t always been so complimentary towards him. […]