The HHS is continuing to compile a record of life in lockdown in our areas, to record for future generations how we’re experiencing the differences in everyday life. [Read more…] about Life in Lockdown 2021
An Editorial Note from the Bowes Park Weekly News, 17 February 1939
Sonny Boy, who is now past six, and is in the important position of having had his bicycle stolen, has long been curious as to where I go for “meetings” and what I do there – as were his brothers before him. [Read more…] about NO MEAT FOR MEETING
I read with interest David Frith’s story of Grove Lodge in the September Newsletter. In that there is a mention of, ‘the tree-lined strip which is still there and called Grove Lodge Gardens’. I rediscovered this ‘strip’ or path a few years ago.[Read more…] about Grove Lodge Gardens
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.[Read more…] about Memories of Grove Lodge when occupied by the Red Cross
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. But fear gave way to surprise when I saw that we had arrived in an attractive part of London and were passing Alexandra Palace, which to all us teenagers was known as ‘Ally Pally’. [Read more…] about Memories of Grove Lodge as a Children’s Home
There were three large houses on the eastern side of Muswell Hill until the late 19th century – Bath House, The Grove and Grove Lodge. By far the oldest site was the one which still remains, Grove Lodge. [Read more…] about Grove Lodge, Muswell Hill
