When the Tsar abdicated in 1917, the Allies realised that the dynamics of their fight
against the axis powers of Germany, Austria the Ottoman Empire had shifted. Many
Russian soldiers simply made their way home – they had a revolution to attend to.
An exhibition of photographs and maps by Ben Nathan tracing natural spring water and sewage in Bounds Green Brook.
January’s HHS lecture was unusual for two reasons.
Hornsey Historical Society Members received an early Christmas Bonus this year as November’s lecture featured not one, but two top notch speakers.
October’s HHS lecture about the Peasants’ Revolt was one of the most interesting the Society has ever hosted.
This month’s HHS lecture was a bit of a hybrid. Delivered by author Andrew Whitehead, it was a joint event with The Muswell Hill and Fortis Green Association and chaired by our Secretary Vicky Peters.
Another terrific, well researched talk by Ray Rogers, Hornsey Historical Society’s Conservation Officer, at the Union Church on 13th May.
Peter Barber (a fellow member of the London Topographic Society member) introduced Simon Morris when he delivered the latest HHS talk entitled ‘Street Name Plates of Hornsey’.
It was almost a full house at Crouch End’s Union Church on Wednesday 23rd October for the HHS’s latest talk. Conservation Officer Ray Rogers gave a cracking history of the development of Highgate’s Hillcrest estate.