Aqua Pharmacy on Mill Lane will be relocating – the other Mill Lane pharmacy isn’t happy. Jazz Cycles and Escott’s upholsterers on Mill Lane both closed, while Alison Davidson opticians opened. Headmasters – another West End Lane hairdressers – opened. … Continue reading →
The police seem to have an uneasy relationship with Twitter. While accounts such as @MPSInTheSky attract legions of followers and brilliantly balance updates on activity with behind-the-scenes insights, the borough level accounts are a bit more hit and miss. Brent’s … Continue reading →
South Hampstead High School has been operating out of temporary classrooms within the cricket club grounds for the past year. The school, which owns the cricket club land, has been renovating its Maresfield Gardens site, and had hoped to move … Continue reading →
You missed Christmas for a start! Happy New Year and all that. If you didn’t get a chance to read our various reviews of 2013, then I suggest you focus on this one (which links to all the others). Oh … Continue reading →
160 degrees Fahrenheit is the name of a new smokehouse bar/restaurant opening soon in West Hampstead. David Moore, who owns Michelin-starred Pied à Terre and L’Autre Pied, is taking the Me Love Sushi site. The site is owned by Tragus, which … Continue reading →
A brilliant documentary about the brutalist gem that is the Alexandra & Ainsworth estate. Sit back, get a cup of tea and enjoy One Below the Queen. (I came across this on the Dirty Modern Scoundrel blog)
Continue reading →Congratulations to Corinne Gladstone and Nicky Coleman, who can now add the letters TOTY and POTY to their signatures. Quiet in the back row. Here are the top 10 tweets of the year in descending order of greatness, as voted … Continue reading →
What happened between the all the spectacular sunrises and sunsets in West Hampstead in 2013? January Local MP Glenda Jackson formally announced she wouldn’t stand for re-election in 2015. Catch up on all the political stirrings of the year. February … Continue reading →
The prediction by our property sales pundit Darryl Jenkins of local estate agent Benham & Reeves was that house prices should rise by 5-10% in West Hampstead this year. He described this as being bullish. In fact he was bang … Continue reading →
Back in January, local MP Glenda Jackson confirmed what she’d told me back in 2010 – namely that she wouldn’t stand for re-election. Thus the tightest three-way seat in the country would have three new candidates. Chris Philp, who was … Continue reading →
