Freedom Day?

After a year of disrupted schooling and university, no opportunity to travel, few job prospects and soaring mental health referrals, many young people have struggled this year. So it’s not surprising that when restrictions relaxed to allow groups of up…

Primrose Hill Community Dogs

Sitting outside Anthony’s Delicatessen – unofficially known as Germano’s or ‘Dog HQ’ – you can often see a group of dog owners and friends who take their dogs and the community very seriously. The dogs are Primrose Hill’s Community Dogs,…

The History of Dogs on Primrose Hill

By Martin Sheppard. Since Primrose Hill became a public park in 1842 it has been enjoyed by millions of visitors. Some of the most frequent and regular of these have been dogs. While most canine visits have left no record,…

Categories: Feature, Pets

Primrose Hill Festival and Dog Show

The tenth annual Primrose Hill Festival and Dog Show will be held on Sunday, 19 May on Regent’s Park Road, in partnership with St Mary’s Youth Centre, championing their impactful work in the community. Funds raised from the dog show…

Categories: Events

Cooking with Colour

For thousands of years ceramics have played an integral role in archaeology, helping us understand the cultures and behaviours of peoples of the past. The practice of creating objects and artefacts dates back to 24,000 BC, when ceramic figurines were…

Categories: Art, Feature

Dick Bird’s Primrose Hill Diary

My Auntie Kathleen always had a dog. More precisely, she had a series of dogs, all of them rescued, all of them extremely badly behaved and all of them called Roger. “Get down, Roger!” When asked what breed any of…

Categories: Primrose Hill Diary

Policing Primrose Hill

We put a number of readers’ questions to the police, who are responsible for enforcing the Royal Parks’ regulations. “The Metropolitan Police hold Community Ward panels every 6 to 8 weeks to ensure that local policing teams are tackling the…

Categories: QandA

PupAid Dog Show

It’s September and time for Primrose Hill to host one of the highlights of our local calendar-the PupAid Dog Show! Now in its fourth year on the hill, this fun event attracts families and their canine companions to come to…

Categories: Events