A FREE AND generous spirit would have been one of the best ways to describe long-time Primrose Hill resident Elizabeth van der Drift who has died aged 94. In her thirties she travelled alone to Nigeria for a holiday despite being advised not to because of the political situation, and later to Zambia long before … Continue reading
A SHORT STORY in the Camden New Journal in January 1983 announced the launch of an “exciting new community venture for King’s Cross”. It was to be called the Calthorpe Project, the result, it said, of “people power” mobilising to prevent a derelict piece of land in Gray’s Inn Road being sold off to office … Continue reading
THERE WAS standing room only at the showbiz-style send-off for the music manager Bobby Hanlon, whose childhood adoration of Kylie Minogue saw him become a mover and shaker in the pop world. Mourners wore bright colours and a diamante pink casket lay within a horse-drawn glass carriage in honour of the larger than life figure … Continue reading
A FAINT WINTER’S sun followed us as we trudged up King’s Cross Road to reach an attractive block of redbrick flats in Clerkenwell whose name, Spring House, said it all. In the middle of the forecourt, a few metres down, lay the purpose of our visit, Black Mary’s Hole, a 17th century well popular among … Continue reading
The historic studio of the internationally renowned London-based Ghanaian photographer James Barnor has been all but forgotten HE’S BEEN EXHIBITED in the world’s top galleries, received his country’s highest honour and most recently was the subject of a feature in the New York Times, but when I took a trip to the place Ghanaian photographer … Continue reading
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