Removals Primrose Hill
Removals, Storage, Man and Van Hire and House Clearance in Primrose Hill, NW1, NW3 and NW8.
Allen & Young are a North West London Moving and Storage Company and we regularly move clients to, from and within the Primrose Hill area. We offer Removals, Packing Services, Man and Van Hire, Storage and House Clearance, with removal packaging such as boxes, tape and bubble wrap also available for purchase via our site. We also provide a full range of Business Services such as office moves, light haulage, furniture delivery and assembly. Although we offer the full range of removal services, frequently undertaking large moves, we also specialise in light and medium sized removals, perfect for apartments, flats, studios, bedsits, houses and moving offices. In addition we offer some specialist removal services such as comprehensive relocations for senior citizens planning to move into residential care homes, nursing homes or sheltered accommodation in Primrose Hill.
About Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill is a hill of 256 feet (78 m) located on the north side of Regent’s Park in North West London, England, and also the name for the surrounding district. The hill has a clear view of Central London to the south-east, as well as Belsize Park and Hampstead to the north and the area falls across 3 postal districts, NW1, NW3 and NW8.
Like Regent’s Park, Primrose Hill was once part of a great chase appropriated by Henry VIII and became Crown property in 1841. In 1842 an Act of Parliament secured the land as public open space. The built up part of Primrose Hill consists mainly of Victorian terraces. It has always been one of the more fashionable districts in the urban belt that lies between the core of London and the outer suburbs, and remains expensive and prosperous. In October 1678 Primrose Hill (then known as Greenberry Hill) was the scene of the mysterious murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey.
- Primrose Hill is a novel by Helen Falconer. Faber and Faber, London, 1999.
- In H.G. Wells’ book The War of the Worlds, Primrose Hill was the site of the final Martian encampment.
- In Dodie Smith’sThe Hundred and One Dalmatians, the Dearly family live near the district, on Regent’s Park’s Outer Circle, with Primrose Hill itself forming an excellent location for Pongo to engage in the ‘twilight barking’.
- Primrose Hill is referred to in the Blur song For Tomorrow. The lyrics “and the view’s so nice”, from the song, have been painted on a path leading to the top of Primrose Hill.
- Primrose Hill is mentioned in the Appleton single “Everything Eventually”, with the line “Let’s go fly a kite on Primrose Hill”. The video for the song was shot there too.
- Oasis took the black and white photo for the cover of the single “Wonderwall” here where a girl is shown through a frame. The original photo is coloured and shows Liam Gallagher, with the hand of an unseen person holding up a picture frame around him, however the young girl was chosen to be on the cover by Liam’s brother and Oasis guitartist/songwriter Noel Gallagher, at the last moment.
- Primrose Hill is referred to in “Emit Remmus” (‘summer time’ backwards), a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is off of their 1999 album Californication.
- Primrose Hill is referred to by Herman Melville in his “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!” short story. It refers to “all London, from Mile End (which is no end) to Primrose Hill (where there ain’t any primroses…”
- It is referred to in a poem by William Blake: “…The fields from Islington to Marylebone/To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood/Were builded over with pillars of gold/And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood…” It was upon Primrose Hill which the poet-illustrator supposedly climbed and had conversations with the Spirit of the Sun. He also believed that this area would eventually be the foundation for one of the pillars of the biblical New Jerusalem.
