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 …
For many of us it is a shock to read the Tender (Hornsey Journal 30 May 1919) for the supply of provisions to a workhouse. Surely the workhouse, such a …
When the building served milk not alcohol
Substantial building development has changed the appearance of the top of Muswell Hill. The Green Man, probably a public house from the mid-16th century, has become Pinnacle, luxury town houses and apartments.
The iconic Art Deco Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End opened at the end of 1935. Yet the Hornsey Journal, 19 September 1919, refers to town hall plans on this …
Clementina (Clemmie) May, the youngest child of Henry and Sarah Elder of Topsfield Hall, Crouch End, who married Frank May, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England in 1879, recalled her memories a few months before her death in 1942, aged 92.
An extract from John Farrer The Man who Changed Hornsey by Janet Owen London was sucking in people from the countryside as its industrial strength grew throughout the nineteenth century …
This is the first article in a new series for 2022 – Hornsey Personalities of the Past The 19th century naturalist who immediately comes to mind is Charles Darwin whose …
The first article in our new series on Church Buildings which have changed their function. In 2022 we will be looking at some buildings, specifically churches, which have changed their …
The Representation of the People Act 1918 extended the franchise in parliamentary elections (right to vote) to men aged 21 and over, whether or not they owned property, and to …