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Lecture Note: Street Name Plates of Hornsey

Simon Morris giving HHS talk in March 2025

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’.

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Lecture Note: The Hillcrest Estate by Ray Rogers

Ray Rogers Giving his HHS Talk

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.

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  1. Alan Berry on Lost Houses: Woodlands, Muswell Hill14th September 2026

    Reference to Woodlands Crouch End, perhaps this property, at page 150 of Lyn Macdonald's '1915 The Death of Innocence ',…

  2. Gary John Austin on A Brief History of Wood Green6th September 2026

    I was born in a nursing home in Hampstead 4/11/48. then taken to 6 the Crossways my dad passed Friday13//4/53…

  3. Don Ford on Memories of Mountview?31st August 2026

    David. I should have been a little broader in my dates i.e. Theatre Club and Theatre School. Don Ford

  4. Tony Kilbane on Memories of Mountview?28th August 2026

    Hi David. Here's another memory for you! In the photo you can see Tim Coleman right at the back sporting…

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