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Oh Happy Days
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When I lived in Primrose Hill in the 60's and 70's the area was called The Island, I never knew why.
I moved away in 1981 and miss the area still. Seeing the photos in the gallery has made me quite homesick - my family emigrated to Australia.
Has the wall next to the bridge that takes you to Chalk Farm station still got the paintings on? - one of them was mine!!!
Oh happy memories
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It was called the Island because it was surrounded by either railway, canal or the park, people used to say that you had to go over a bridge to get to Primrose Hill. You had the Bridge where the Pembroke Pub is (Chalk Farm Station), the bridge on Primrose Hill Road (the part of the road from Adelaide to King Henry's) and the bridge that takes you to London Zoo.
The paintings are still there but have a lot of graffitti on them -
Primrose Hill is the best place- I wouldn't want to live anywhere else
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its now a complete eyesore those paintings on the wall that runs along King Henrys Road - I wish someone would paint over it, dont mean to offend but the graffiti looks bad
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I agree about the paintings, they have been there too long
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does anyone remember the old woman on Erskine Road who used to ask you to go to the shops for her and she would lower a basket down from her top floor flat with the money in it and you'd put the goods back in it?
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I have lived here for 40 years and would not live anywhere else, there have been lots of changes over the years, things that you thought would be here forever - the chip shop, Chalk Farm Tavern, the fireworks on bonfire night- all gone BUT it is still the most wonderful place to bring your kids up.