Margaret Leibbrandt, long-time resident and familiar face in Primrose Hill, died in September. She lived in Jacqueline House in the Oldfield estate for over fifteen years. Friend and local resident Judy Rich remembers her. Margaret and I shared a love…
By Nicola Manasseh. When Georgina Cave was at school in the 1980s, she was not allowed to study Art A level as it was considered non-academic. After leaving school, she worked as a photographer’s assistant in the fashion world. Soon…
By Ylwa Warghusen It is a sunny autumn day when local potter Fliff Carr, clad in bright blue overalls, greets me in her Primrose Hill studio. Fliff (a family nickname from when she was about six months old) is charming,…
In a special interview for On The Hill, retail expert and TVpersonality Mary Portas talks to Micael Johnstone about how she hopes her new book, Work Like a Woman, will inspire a new way of working and living A career…
Inspiration wasn’t hard to find on 19 September, when the Primrose Hill Community Association hosted an all-female entrepreneurs panel.Five wise women at varying stages of their innovative journeys sat down with aspiring locals, and a few from further afield, to…
Patrice Hutton-Jones is Primrose Hill’s very own Soul-Catcher, a spiritual healer and intuitive bodyworker who has been helping local residents for many years. Micael Johnstone went to meet her. Patrice Hutton-Jones greets me with her beaming smile as I walk…
You may have walked past the Gorilla Organization in Gloucester Avenue and wondered what exactly it’s doing in Primrose Hill. You’ll be amazed by its achievements… The inspiration for the organization began forty years ago, when Dr Dian Fossey was…
Local entrepreneur Petar Savic talks to some of the start-ups and small businesses running from Primrose Hill. This month he meets Jimmy Kyriacou. What is your company? My business is called UNBOX LONDON a ‘new breed’ marketing consultancy. We partner…
Article by Katy Taylor. Local resident William Miller invited me to join him for lunch in Primrose Hill to talk about his new book, Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups. We meet at one of his favourite local…
The Spark Grows to a Flame that can Change Everything You see loads of people down there at the Roundhouse. They were queuing up King Henry’s Road for Bob Dylan. And they were up all night for that lot Radiohead.…