Pups of Primrose Hill

Pups of Primrose Hill is an Instagram photography project, started by Primrose Hill resident Katy Ryder in October 2020 to tell the stories of dogs who walk through Primrose Hill park. Featured on Instagram at @pupsofprimrosehill, Katy snaps shots and…

Categories: Dogs, Passion, Pets

Passion: Karl Minns

Karl Minns, writer, actor, resident of Primrose Hill these past eight years, is very well­ known in Norfolk. Indeed, Adnams the beer company thought him so much Norfolk­man that they made him the face of their famous beer on TV,…

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Primrose Hill Passions: Suzy Messenger

I was welcomed by Suzy Messenger to her hidden away home with its beautifully planted patio. Though I had lived on the neighbouring street for nearly 30 years, I didn’t know these five little disabled-friendly bungalows existed. For many years…

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Unseen Tours with Mike O'Hara

I met Mike O’Hara outside Chalk Farm tube, flourishing a folder for ‘Unseen Tours’. You may have seen him holding forth to spellbound groups of tourists in the streets of Primrose Hill. His own story is as fascinating as the…

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Snookered

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…

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Primrose Hill Passions with Rosemary Emanuel

Rosemary looks like an unlikely mathematician, and her Regent’s Park Road house is appealingly piled with high chairs and toys for the grandchildren, but in her study at the top of the house there are shelves of textbooks with her…

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Primrose Hill Passions with Dennis Picknett

Trust your Intuition I always find lots to discuss with Dennis Picknett while he works on my back: builders (he was a carpenter in this area for years before osteopathy training 15 years ago), parenting (he has two kids) woodland…

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