Hornsey Village – A Walk

Hornsey Village: A Walk

By Lesley Ramm and Eleri Rowlands

Hornsey Village – A Walk is a completely revised and updated edition of Ken Gay’s earlier work is a 24-page pocket-size booklet. It contains 42 colour and 3 black and white images and a useful route map.

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Hornsey Village Postcards

Hornsey’s National Kitchens 1918-1919

Female cooks serving the public at a National Kitchen during the First World War

A Ministry of Food was established in December 1916 to combat food shortages and price inflation, results of the ‘submarine menace’.  Hornsey’s MP, Kennedy Jones, was appointed director-general of the …

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Ivy-Mantled Tower

Distant View of Hornsey Churcy, J Clennell, Beauties of England and Wales, 1816

As the Old Schoolhouse has been closed, we’ve been running an occasional series sharing extracts from HHS publications. Ivy-Mantled Tower was published in 2015. Its author, Bridget Cherry, is Vice …

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John Farrer – The Man Who Changed Hornsey

John Farrer - The Man Who Changed Hornsey

By Janet Owen

The story of a man from rural Cumbria, who trained as an architect and surveyor, and played a vital part in creating a large part of the built environment of Hornsey. The author tells the story of John Farrer utilizing much archival material to illustrate his personal and professional life in this well illustrated book.

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John Farrer: The Man who Changed Hornsey

The Three Compasses, October 2020

As the Old Schoolhouse has been closed, we’ve been running an occasional series sharing extracts from HHS publications.  John Farrer: The Man who Changed Hornsey by Janet Owen was published …

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Keith Fawkes on BBC Radio London

BBC Microphone from 1944

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 …

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Lockdown in Hornsey

Hornsey Historical Society Area Map

We are hoping to add to our Lockdown Gallery of images with a collection of people’s written accounts of their experiences during the Lockdown period. In this way we hope …

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