Bulletin 66 contains as usual a very varied selection of articles, two by new contributors: Leatrice Bailey and Brian Parry.
Leatrice Bailey writes about a much loved local institution, Martyn’s grocer’s shop, well over 100 years old, still run by the same family and going strong, while Brian Parry gives an account of the life of his grandfather who worked in a long dead profession – as a horse cab driver – in Archway.
Other Hornsey personalities are explored in articles by John Hinshelwood, who tries to find out more about Mary Martineau, cousin of the better-known Harriet, and Hugh Flouch, who describes the career of the photographer Alfred Braddock, whose documentation of Hornsey in late Victorian and early Edwardian times has given us so many iconic images of life in our neighbourhood. Pioneering photography, this time of wildlife, features again in David Winskill’s article on Hornsey resident Eric Hosking, whose skills won him an OBE and huge acclaim from the RSPB among other many other public bodies.
Local buildings are the subject of other articles. Roger Hancock and Kirsten Forrest continue their series on the Victorian Theatre at Alexandra Palace, describing the functions of the stage machinery found there; Ray Rogers focusses an account of domestic architecture in Crouch End on the variety of handsome porches to be found there. Finally, Brenda Griffith-Williams unearths a fascinating debate in the early years of the 20th century between local antiquarians as to why there was at that time no Hornsey Historical Society, and Stephen Collins adds a postscript to his article in Bulletin 64 about the Stationers’ Company School, showing, rather sadly, that a pleasing old painting long believed to be of the school in fact depicts somewhere completely different.
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