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 →
Burglars broke into The Wet Fish Café on Sunday night. They made off with the safe, which had only a few hundred pounds in it. However, the burglars also caused around £1,000 worth of damage to the building. Owner André … Continue reading →
This Wednesday, January 8th, is enrolment day at Sidings Community Centre. The Camden-funded centre runs a variety of courses for adults, ranging from computer skills to healthy meal planning. Want to brush up on basic maths? Or get a beginner’s … Continue reading →
Actress and local resident Angela Griffin was interviewed for the Metro’s “My London” feature, published last Friday. Asked where she would set the denouement of her (hypothetical) novel, the one-time Coronation Street star singled out West Hampstead as somewhere with … 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 →
Next Friday, January 10th, another hairdresser arrives on West End Lane. Headmasters is a chain with 65 unisex salons in the UK and Norway, and its West Hampstead branch will be at 220 West End Lane. Eagle-eyed readers will notice … Continue reading →
On Thursday night 5 July 1877, a huge storm burst over London. Just after eight o’clock, people in Kilburn saw a vivid flash of lightning and heard a loud burst of thunder, this was followed by a second and then … 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 →
