Primrose Hill Opera Cabaret

6.30 p.m., Sunday 10 September 2023St Mary’s church, 2 Elsworthy Road NW3 3DU The Primrose Hill Opera Cabaret is back and offering a sparkling evening’s entertainment with talented young professional opera stars singing arias, duets and ensembles. Enjoy an indoor…

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Summer Festival and Dog Show

Twice a year, in early summer and late November, Regent’s Park Road is turned into a mini-festival complete with craft stalls, a food market, traditional fairground rides, face painting, and the much-loved dog show (details below). This summer, the festival…

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A Stitch in Time

By Bridget Grosvenor  St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, opened its doors for the first time on 2 July 1872. It was built to accommodate the flourishing congregation which had outgrown the church on Ainger Road that served the boys’…

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Charlotte Philby on Espionage

In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th-century history and was then written out of it. Charlotte Philby, the granddaughter of…

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St Mary’s Church Celebrates 150 Years

The first vicar of St Mary’s church was Charles Fuller who attracted a group of pious young women, one of which, Mary Emily André gifted the church £3000 on condition that the vicar married her. Shrewdly he did, and the…

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Primrose Hill Lecture Series 2022

8 June Charlotte Philby on Espionage In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th-century history and was then written out of…

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