Joan Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell of Stockport, is at 82 still fully involved in socialist politics. A few years ago Harriet Harman asked her to help with the equalities bill by being ‘the voice of older people’. “It was an unofficial […]
I still remember the joy I felt some 15 years ago when we moved from west London to our new home in Primrose Hill. That first evening we ventured out to Mustoe’s in Regent’s Park Road to enjoy griddled kidneys […]
See who was out and scaring us around the Hill on Halloween… Photography by Lars Christiansen
We sent our intrepid reporter, Michele Hier, out onto the streets of Primrose Hill to bring you inspiring and unusual gift ideas for Christmas from our Market Place retailers.
Lisa Hauck Hair and Makeup got the pre-Christmas auction and fund-raising season off to a great start. From her bijou salon on Gloucester Avenue, Lisa and her team launched and ran a successful fund-raising initiative generating over £1000 for the […]
Primrose Hill is intimately associated with the mainline railway which defines its northern and eastern borders. The first intercity railway of any length, the London and Birmingham (L&BR), skirted the northern flank of Primrose Hill, obliged by the landowner, Eton […]
Jonathan Gale let me in through the street door in Fitzroy Road into his family’s beautiful new home in what was Butcher’s Yard Plasterworks. Set round a courtyard with a Buddha statue, it feels remarkably quiet and private. We sat […]
In conversation with Maureen Betts, Chair of the Primrose Hill Community Association
At eight o’clock on a Monday morning you may find our new Member of Parliament helping to run a football game at the local school in Kentish Town where his seven-year-old son is a pupil. “My job is keeping the […]
Have you got a handbag hidden in the back of a cupboard that you never use and could donate for a good cause? Big bags, small bags, evening bags, small luggage, purses, office bags – even man bags welcome! BAG IT […]
