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Two Faithful Servants’ Memorial Returns Home!

Two Faithfull Servants memorial in Hornsey Church

A marble memorial to Mary Parsons and Elizabeth Decker, who were servants to a Hornsey family for 57 and 47 years respectively in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, has been …

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Two Parish Cottages in Hornsey High Street

Two parish cottages in Hornsey High Street

Wealthy residents, together with officials of the ancient parish, had at various times since the early seventeenth century, provided cottages for the poor at different locations, often on waste land.

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Voluntary Care in Hornsey and Wood Green – Introduction

Aged Pilgrims Home Hornsey Rise - An Interior

The Covid pandemic has raised the profile of care for the elderly and shone a light on what is all too often their isolation and vulnerability. We take for granted …

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Water Witches – Hornsey Open Air Swimming Pool (1929)

A British Pathe newsreel from 1929. “This picture explains why Adam frequents the pools so eagerly – because of the water witches there. “

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What’s in a name – Hornsey, Harringay or Haringey?

Map of Bishop of London's Manor of Hornsey, 1929

Hornsey, established as a settlement in the pre-Conquest county of Middlesex, is a name with Anglo Saxon origins and derives from the Old English name Heringes-hege (with the ‘g’s pronounced …

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  1. Hazel Greenfield on Memories of Mountview?20th October 2025

    I met Mollie Guilfoyle on a Tourism course at Bournemouth in 1968, and I heard that she went on to…

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    Hi Liz, I too was at Mountview end 60s, beginning 70s & went on that amazing tour of the USA…

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