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Special offer: Dark Knight Rises local premiere

West Hampstead Life Posted on June 7, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonDecember 23, 2013

Don your cape, check your batarangs, get into your batmobile and speed through the mean streets of Gotham to get to the Swiss Cottage Odeon on July 20th for opening night of the Dark Knight Rises. STOP PRESS: SOLD OUT … Continue reading →

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Bunting a-go-go

West Hampstead Life Posted on May 31, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonDecember 21, 2013

We have a long weekend. Four whole days of it! It’s like we’re in continental Europe or something. And why have we had this bestowed upon us? Because the Queen’s been Defending the Faith longer than Jamie Carragher, that’s why. … Continue reading →

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Is this Virgin suicide?

West Hampstead Life Posted on May 28, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonMay 28, 2012

One of the most frequent grumbles I see on Twitter from locals concerns the performance of Virgin Media’s broadband service. For months, people ask whether other locals are having problems. A few helpful folk repeat what they’ve been told by … Continue reading →

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Mind the (mental) gap

West Hampstead Life Posted on May 21, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonMay 21, 2012

Apart from being a bon viveur, my food and drink correspondent Tom also has a predilection for the paranormal. Of course I’m drawing no correlation between the amount of red wine he drinks and his willingness to see the supernatural. … Continue reading →

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Remember when it was all fields?

West Hampstead Life Posted on May 21, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonMay 21, 2012

Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms quite literally wrote the book(s) when it comes to local history. And now they’re taking their work online with a new Kilburn History website. The first story to appear concerns a wartime murder at Kilburn … Continue reading →

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West Hampstead included in Camden eruv plans

West Hampstead Life Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonMay 7, 2012

You may have heard of an eruv. It’s the name commonly given to an demarcated area within which Orthodox Jews are permitted to do some things on the Shabbat that they otherwise would not be. Most pertinently, and generally at … Continue reading →

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West Hampstead “cooler than Hampstead”

West Hampstead Life Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonDecember 22, 2013

This week, The Times ran an article in its property section looking at West Hampstead. The full article is behind the Times paywall, but I thought I’d share a couple of the highlights. “West Hampstead is more under-the-radar than Hampstead … Continue reading →

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Whampreview goes posh

West Hampstead Life Posted on April 27, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonApril 27, 2012

On Thursday May 10th, whampreview takes place on the West Hampstead / St John’s Wood borders at the relatively new One Blenheim Terrace. One Blenheim is owned by chef patron Ed Shaerf  (previously at The Ivy). According to its website: … Continue reading →

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A market for West Hampstead

West Hampstead Life Posted on April 20, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonApril 20, 2012

I got a very exciting e-mail yesterday from Cllr Gillian Risso-Gill announcing that an agreement has been reached with First Capital Connect for the West Hampstead Business Forum to hold a Saturday market on the widenened pavement area by the … Continue reading →

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Plans for Feis festival scaled back

West Hampstead Life Posted on March 26, 2012 by Jonathan TurtonMarch 26, 2012

There wasn’t a whole heap of support for music promoter Vince Power’s original plan for an 18-day festival to be held in Kilburn Grange during the Olympics. As it seemed that the proposal had a snowflake’s proverbial of being approved, … Continue reading →

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