HHS Bulletin 44 includes articles about Hornsey in WW1 and the Hornsey Red Sox Baseball Club 1936-1951.
Entertainment
Hollywood Green, Wood Green: What was there before?
It is very difficult to imagine that central Wood Green with its cinema complex, shops, road junction and busy traffic was ever peaceful countryside with the New River meandering through. …
Hornsey Journal’s Scathing Comments on the First Official Women’s Football Match in 1895
Hornsey Journal, 30 March 1895
The much talked of football match between British ladies has been played and the world has not moved an inch out of its orbit. There was an enormous gathering, the number probably approached ten thousand.
Inquest on Chung Ling Soo
Bowes Park Weekly News, 6 April 1918
The inquest on Chung Ling Soo, whose real name was William Elsworth Robinson, 58, of 50, Lonsdale-road, Barnes, was begun at Wood Green Town Hall on Thursday of last week.
Lost Theatres of Haringey
Lost Theatres of Haringey tells the stories of six of Haringey’s long vanished theatres once located in Highgate, the Alexandra Palace, Crouch End, Tottenham and Wood Green.
Memories of Mountview?
The Mountview Theatre (or, to give it its full title, the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts) is sadly leaving Hornsey, where it was founded 72 years ago. In September 2018 …
Persuasion at the Alexandra Palace Theatre
A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion is running at the Alexandra Palace Theatre until 30th April. It’s adapted by Jeff James, with James Yeatman, and directed by Jeff James. Switching …
Television Hopes and Fears
North Middlesex Chronicle, 13th January 1940
The fact that the Alexandra Palace television studio is closed continues to be a very sore point with the founders of the system.
The Athenaeum, Muswell Hill
As the Old Schoolhouse is closed for the time being, we thought we’d share some extracts from HHS publications over the coming weeks and months. Cinemas of Haringey by Jeremy …