Hornsey Journal, 18 May 1945
VE night celebrations were more or less spontaneous while Saturday’s festivities were well planned and catered-for parties, especially for children.
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Chung Ling Soo: The Man Behind the Magician
The death of a famous Chinese magician as the result of an accident at the Wood Green Empire in the spring of 1918 provided a hot topic for discussion in …
Crimea Veteran’s Death at Hornsey
Hornsey Journal, 21 February 1919
The tiny band of Crimea veterans living in Hornsey has been made still smaller by the death of Mr. William Coombs. Mr Coombs went out with the expeditionary force to the Crimea as a sapper in the Royal Engineers.
David (Tec) Evans 1929-2018
David Evans, who died on 28 February 2018 as a result of leukaemia, was a long-standing member of the HHS. In addition to his family (wife Brenda and four daughters) …
David Greig (1861 – 1952): Hornsey’s Educational Philanthropist
This is the third article in our series – Hornsey Personalities of the Past The capture of a Scottish sea captain by the French, another Scots’ decision to emigrate to …
Death of G.O. Barratt
Bowes Park Weekly News, 6 October 1906
Grand old man of confectionary dies at green old age
Dr Barton’s Airship
It is little known that that London suffered its first air raid not in World War Two, but just over one hundred years ago, in May 1915. Bombs were dropped …
Edwin James Lovegrove 1861-1948: Shouldn’t we honour him?
HHS members and readers probably know a lot about John Farrer and his contribution to Hornsey’s housing. He was honoured when a road was named after him. But who now …
Ever Heard of the Local Architect and Surveyor John Farrer?
John Farrer (1843-1930), a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who lived in Crouch End for forty years of his life, was responsible for designing over eighteen hundred houses and shops for seventy …