Press cuttings from the Hornsey Journal and other local newspapers covering historic events and other items of interest.
Bowes Park Weekly News, 26 May 1906
An Advantage to Muswell Hill
For many months there has been an agitation for an entrance to the Alexandra Palace and Park from the top of Muswell Hill, and we are now informed on quite reliable authority that such an entrance is about to be opened.
Hornsey Journal, 11 April 1919
Meeting at Crouch End
Under the auspices of the Hornsey Conservative and Unionist Association, a meeting for women was held at the Parish Hall, Edison Road, Crouch End on Thursday afternoon last week (4th).
Hornsey Journal, 28 March 1919
At Bow Street Police Court on Saturday, Sir John Dickinson concluded the hearing of the case of William Foster Watson, 37.
Hornsey Journal, 14 March 1919
William Foster Watson, 37, a turner’s engineer, of Inderwick Road, Hornsey, and Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, was charged at Bow Street on Saturday with seditious utterances in a speech at the Albert Hall, at a “Hand Off Russia” meeting, convened by the British Socialist Party.
Hornsey Journal, 28 February 1919
The deaths took place at the end of last week under extremely sad circumstances, due to the influenza epidemic, of Mr and Mrs Edward Tubbs of Church-lane, Hornsey.
Hornsey Journal, 21 February 1919
The tiny band of Crimea veterans living in Hornsey has been made still smaller by the death of Mr. William Coombs. Mr Coombs went out with the expeditionary force to the Crimea as a sapper in the Royal Engineers.
Hornsey Journal, 7 February 1919
The housing problem is becoming more acute. Building fell off about nine years ago, and it ceased altogether on the outbreak of war.
Hornsey Journal, 24 January 1919
A meeting of the Hornsey Food Control Committee was held at the offices, Topsfield Parade, Crouch End, on Saturday afternoon.
An advertisement from the Hornsey Journal, 27 December 1918
Rifleman William Oatway(M. M.) Royal Irish Rifles, British Expeditionary Force:
“I have very much pleasure in testifying to the beneficial effects derived from taking your Phosferine while on active service, because I was a Battalion Despatch Runner.