The Back Maintenance Massage by the Garry Trainer Clinic Hippocrates claimed that “Massage is the mother of all therapies”, with the implication that it should be the cornerstone of any clinic. In Primrose Hill we are blessed to have Garry […]
Forty years ago, a band of Primrose Hill Community Association (PHCA) volunteers decided that there should be a Summer Fair in Primrose Hill. So they started running it in and around Chalcot Square, followed by a Sports Day on the […]
The Primrose Hill Community Association (PHCA) has been given an option by Camden Council to buy a 25-year lease on its home, the Community Centre at 29 Hopkinsons’ Place, for an upfront payment of £250,000. In the 1970s a campaign […]
“Bend it like Beckham has been the bane of my life,” says Gurinder. “Everyone wanted me to make the same film over and over again, but I wanted to make a big epic film that would wow the public and […]
In 2015 Andrew Marr sat for a portrait by Sophie Levi. The verdict came back: he called her a proper artist! Equally impressive is that Prince Charles has one of her works in his collection. To join the list of […]
“No problem,” insisted Voltaire, “can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” Voltaire was not, to put it mildly, a churchy man, but it was in this spirit of rigorous enquiry that St Mary the Virgin church first threw open its doors […]
It is a miracle that Primrose Hill Community Library has reopened after a series of setbacks. Early last year the Library was awarded a grant that was to be spent on replacing the original hard rubber floor, which had become […]
Many people who have climbed Primrose Hill will have noticed a plaque, set into the middle of the area on top of the hill, dedicated to Iolo Morganwg. Local people may also be aware, either by seeing their processions or […]
For a timid creature who has never once ventured beyond the railings of Primrose Hill, it is incomprehensible that anyone can say, ‘I have been to about 60 per cent of the countries in the world.’ Nah! Not possible. “I […]
We would like to send a huge thank you to Janet Reuben, editor of On the Hill magazine, for producing an excellent publication for the past 20 months. As part of a team of volunteer writers, designers, cartoonists and admin […]
