Hornsey Past provides a comprehensive local history, covering part of Hornsey parish including Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Hornsey Village. It is part of the popular Historical Publications Ltd “Past” series format.
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Hornsey’s Response to the Treaty of Versailles and to Peace Day
An Armistice had ended the Great War on 11 November 1918. The peace treaty between the Allies and Germany was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly 5 years after Archduke …
Ian Christie Wins TLA Book Award
Congratulations to Ian Christie for winning a prestigious Theatre Library Association (TLA) Book Award earlier this month. Ian won the 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the …
Lockdown in Muswell Hill
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 …
Lost Houses: Woodlands, Muswell Hill
This is the fifth article in the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. This mid-19th century house and grounds was situated on Southwood Lane (now Muswell Hill Road …
Madam Uzielli’s Almshouses, Pages Lane
The Archive holds two copies of this photograph; one gifted by Bridget Cherry, HHS Vice President and architectural historian, and the other by Ken Gay, Muswell Hill’s historian and HHS …
Memories of Grove Lodge as a Children’s Home
It was quite strange in the late 1980s being uprooted from Cambridge in the middle of the night and being taken to London to go into foster care. I watched from the car and tried not to cry – even in the dark London scared me.
Memories of Grove Lodge when occupied by the Red Cross
Mention of Grove Lodge in the last Newsletter brought back memories to me. In 1948 I was a Red Cross Cadet and did voluntary duty there. At that time the Commandant was Mrs Blue when the house was a home for elderly ladies in need of full-time care.
Men who made Muswell Hill: James Edmondson
The Muswell Hill Record, 8 May 1908
If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, surely the man who builds a beautiful town, and builds it well, is equally so.
Muswell Hill – Four Walks
Muswell Hill – Four Walks is a new walk booklet that replaces our popular 2003 publication, A Walk Around Muswell Hill, by Ken Gay.