Unfortunately the Friends of Hornsey Church Tower trip that was scheduled for Saturday April 25th, the Towers and Turrets Tour, has been postponed because of the Coronavirus. This is a precautionary …
If you’ve visited the Albert Road Recreational Ground on the Bounds Green/Muswell Hill border over the last few weeks you’ll have notice an additional object of interest, commemorating a famous …
Hornsey Historical Society’s Bulletin 59 (2018) was judged the best local history society journal submitted this year to the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS).
This Shared Learning Project with the University of the Third Age (U3A) will produce an exhibition about Crouch End in the past using pictures from the HHS Archive. The project …
The Friends of Finsbury Park have asked author Hugh Hayes to revise his book A Park for Finsbury to celebrate the 150th anniversary this August of the founding of Finsbury Park. …
Bulletin 58 won the 2017 London & Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) Journal Prize, having secured this award two years previously also. Hearty congratulations go to Sandra Clark, Bulletin Editor, to …
For the second time in a few weeks the HHS has featured on the BBC. Peter Barber, our president, was interviewed in the Old Schoolhouse for the BBC1 documentary Pubs, Ponds …
To coincide with the reopening of the Alexandra Palace Theatre, Keith Armstrong’s book Restoration: Alexandra Palace The East Wing is published on Monday 3rd December. From the publisher “The book …
On Saturday 1st December the Alexandra Palace Theatre officially reopens after over eighty years of closure. The varied and interesting history of the theatre is well-documented from its beginnings as …
In case you missed it you can listen to Hornsey Historical Society Chairman, Keith Fawkes, being interviewed about Hornsey on the Robert Elms’ programme on BBC Radio London last month. It’s …