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, […]
Primrose Hill Memories
Constituency Review Consultation
The Boundary Commission for England are currently reviewing Parliamentary constituencies, to rebalance the number of electors in each area. Primrose Hill, currently in Keir Starmer’s constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, is due to move to the newly re-established seat […]
St Mary’s Community Festival
A Community Festival is being planned on Saturday 19 November to celebrate the 150th anniversary of St Mary’s church. The Festival had originally been planned for September, but was postponed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth, and also the […]
Reverse Advent Hampers
Give back this Christmas. The Chalk Farm Foodbank has organised a scheme in which participants put an item a day into a hamper or box over the month of November and the foodbank will give it to a family for […]
Remembering Cornelius Koundouris
Cornelius Koundouris, 38, planned to surprise his long-term partner Celyn with a marriage proposal on their Greek holiday. They had taken their baby Clio back to Mykonos where Cornelius grew up, the son of a British mother and a Greek […]
Freddie Carter on Kaz Brekker
Young journalists from Haverstock School interview Freddie Carter When Freddie Carter was creating the character of Kaz Brekker the cunning gangster and con man for the new television series Shadow and Bone, his neighbours probably thought he was going crazy! […]
Poetry Slamming at Open House
By Tracey Mitchell Open House is Primrose Hill Community Association’s programme of talks, lectures, and gallery and museum visits, held on Wednesday afternoons. In February, Open House enjoyed an afternoon of performance poetry, led by Megan Beech. Megan won the […]
A Hostile Environment – With Sonita Gale
Local resident Sonita Gale is an independent film producer and director. Micael Johnstone spoke to her about life in Primrose Hill and her new documentary, Hostile. How long have you been in Primrose Hill? I’ve lived in Primrose Hill for […]
Welcome to October
“Thank you to everyone who has been involved in convening communities, families, neighbours and friends to mark my Platinum Jubilee. I know that many happy memories will be created at these festive occasions.” Queen Elizabeth II In June, Primrose Hill […]
Alan Hollinghurst in Conversation with Nick Shepley
In this final talk for 2022 from the Primrose Hill Lecture Series, Booker-prize winning author Alan Hollinghurst will offer a rare glimpse into the writer’s process as he discusses how his fiction offers a way ‘to write, obliquely and in […]