Straight onto the news this week The northern entrance to the Thameslink station closed (it reopens in January), and the temporary side-entrance next to the almost finished Iverson Road station opened. This has meant that the bookseller has moved – … Continue reading →
Next Tuesday there’s a public meeting about education in general and local schooling in particular at the library. It’s organised by the West Hampstead Labour party but anyone is welcome to attend.
Continue reading →“We actually live here, it’s not just a ‘place with great transport links’, it’s our home” Last week, quite a large group of locals turned up at Sidings Community Centre to hear a presentation from the developers and architects of … Continue reading →
We bade farewell to Europe’s most, er, “flamboyant” politician and watched England’s boys in white prove that the best team doesn’t always win. But what made the headlines in West Hampstead last week? First Capital Connect services were severely disrupted … Continue reading →
Freaks and fools and ghosts and ghouls, but no decent fireworks display in West Hampstead this week. So what did we get up to instead? On Wednesday, initial proposals to develop the Iverson Road garden centre site were presented to … Continue reading →
Lets move away from planning for an evening and chill out to the sociable sounds of our very own Simon Whiteside and his jazz band at La Brocca on Thursday night. It’s free people! FREE!! Nice.
Continue reading →A market square; bustly shops and cafés; new influx of residents; 12-storey building… wait, what now? On Saturday, architects John Thomson & Partners held an exhibition in the church hall on Sherriff Road to show their latest proposals for the … Continue reading →
On Thursday, 24 of us took over Broadhurst Gardens’ newest restaurant Osteria Spiga in the latest (and largest) edition of #whampreview. With so many of us, we staggered the tables over the evening and Tom and I had selected a … Continue reading →
We are entering a new phase in the evolution of West Hampstead. Does that sound like hyperbole? Well, there are so many large-scale plans waiting to be submitted that if they were all to be implemented as they stand, the … Continue reading →
The news this week was of eurozone bail outs, thermal imaging of tents and the demise of Jimmy Saville. Goodness gracious me, what do we have here? Why, it’s the weekly whampnews of course. The West Hampstead community centre got … Continue reading →
