The Community Association for West Hampstead is holding a “Business brunch” the morning of August 3rd at the Dornfell St community centre. It’s free to come along and you can just turn up. Should be a great opportunity to make … Continue reading →
Back in May, the Friends of Fortune Green planned an outside film screening on the green. For free! It rained. Obviously.But as the weather seems to be improving, the screening has been rescheduled for this Tuesday July 24th and has … Continue reading →
Apologies for the delayed newsletter – couldn’t get reliable WiFi last night I’m afraid. We shall crack on! Camden announced proposals to extend Kingsgate School with an entirely new site in Liddell Road although this would mean the loss of … Continue reading →
Andy Murray lost, but Kilburn’s Bradley Wiggins assumed the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, so, y’know every cloud… well, every cloud seems to be passing over West Hampstead. It’s been a quiet week of local news though, so … Continue reading →
If youv’e been following the birth of the Neighbourhood Development Forum, then you’ll know that the next step is to start putting together the actual plan. This is a document that will, unlike Camden’s Place Shaping document, have actual statutory … Continue reading →
Local artist Martin Robertson contacted me last week to ask for my – and your – help. Martin produces screen prints of local areas, based around what makes them great places to live. That’s the usual shops, bars, restaurants, along … Continue reading →
It’s been a couple of weeks now since the ninth edition of the local get-together known as #whampgather. Fifty of us took over the front half of The Black Lion on West End Lane while a sudden, if brief, monsoon … Continue reading →
On Thursday night, I found myself on stage in the lecture theatre at the Museum of London taking part in a University Challenge style N v S v E v W quiz organised by London’s überwebsite Londonist. Having been asked … Continue reading →
No, no spelling mistake here. On Wednesday evening I joined about 40 other locals at West End Lane Books to hear local author and historian Simon Inglis and University of Southampton academic Martin Polley talk about the history of the … Continue reading →
We had a thumping win for Spain in the Euros, Self-styled “Kilburn kid” Bradley Wiggins got off to a good start in the Tour de France, and there was YET ANOTHER banking scandal. But what happened closer to home? A … Continue reading →
