Keeping Track: Primrose Hill and the railway

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 […]

Categories: History

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 […]

Categories: Passion

Hello: MP Keir Starmer

At eight o’clock on a Monday morning you may find our new Member of Parliament helping to run a football game at the local school in Kentish Town where his […]

Categories: Hello

About Face: Putting A Stamp On It

On 3 November philatelists and collectors across the globe will be waiting to see the Royal Mail’s 2015 Christmas stamp selection. This year they have been created by local artist, […]

Categories: About Face

Goodbye: Frank Dobson MP

Labour’s Frank Dobson steps down as MP after 35 years. Interviewed by David Lennon. Genial, warm, engaging; a wit and raconteur whose blunt, eloquent and passionate advocacy, especially on housing […]

Categories: Politics