We lived at 154 Regent’s Park Road, Primrose Hill. My grandfather had a shop in the terrace that led up to the hill. The front of the shop was boarded up with rough sawn boards salvaged from bomb-damaged houses, and…
A blue plaque on the front of Compton Lodge is dedicated to its original owner, Dame Clara Butt. Dame Clara entertained Edward Elgar, Sir Henry Wood and Ellen Terry regularly after buying the place in 1903. Today Compton Lodge offers…
Windows on the Past throws some light on buildings and businesses in Primrose Hill. Small Inn Attached to a Farm Lower Chalcot was an ancient farm sited up a lane which led west from the main Hampstead road. It may…
What do David Bowie, Adele, Tina Turner, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Take That, Coldplay, U2, The Spice Girls, Blur, Radio Head, Suede, Bryan Adams, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Cliff Richard, George Michael, Kylie Minogue and many more have in common? Apart…
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…
