Press cuttings from The Hornsey Journal and other local newspapers covering historic events and other items of interest.
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
An article from the Bowes Park Weekly News, 12 January 1940
Thieves broke into the Crouch End branch of the Westminster Bank during the week-end, and tried to blow open the safe in the strong room but failed. [Read more…] about SAFE ROBBERS FAIL, NOTE LEFT FOR POLICE
An article from the North Middlesex Chronicle, 13th January 1940
The fact that the Alexandra Palace television studio is closed continues to be a very sore point with the founders of the system. It is feared that the lead gained before the war will be lost, as was the lead in films during the last war, never to be regained. [Read more…] about TELEVISION HOPES AND FEARS
An article from the Bowes Park Weekly News, 5th January 1940
The six Wood Green elementary schools were re-opened on Tuesday on the terms recently reported, and in spite of wintry weather, the attendance of children was very good. [Read more…] about WOOD GREEN SCHOOLS RE-OPENED
An extract from an article from the Muswell Hill Record, 14 August 1908
Interesting Interview with a Local Octogenarian
Mr Richard Loader was sunning himself in front of his picturesque little residence “Hope Cottage”, St James’s Lane, when a “Record” representative saw him the other day. He is in his 81st year and is one of the oldest residents of Muswell Hill. [Read more…] about OLD MUSWELL HILL
An extract from an article in the Bowes Park Weekly News, 14th January 1905
The Rev. Winston Haines presided last Wednesday evening over the nineteenth anniversary of Shaftesbury Mission Hall, Bowes Park Station. [Read more…] about SHAFTESBURY HALL- NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY
An Extract from an article in the Muswell Hill Record, 22 May 1908
UPROARIOUS MEETING !!
Countess Russell and Miss Christabel Pankhurst have a lively time
Interrupters and Bell Ringers Ejected
Speakers Escorted by Police to the Railway Station
The Suffragettes held their meeting at Muswell Hill on Tuesday night, and the upshot was that Countess Russell and Miss Christabel Pankhurst had to be escorted by policemen to the railway station. [Read more…] about SUFFRAGETTE LEADERS AT MUSWELL HILL
An article from the Hornsey Journal, 9 July 1948
A BOROUGH ENGINEER OF DISTINCTION
DEATH OF “THE MAN WHO MADE HORNSEY”
Mr Edwin James Lovegrove, a former Borough Engineer of Hornsey, who died at Hove on Friday in his 87th year, carried out many important municipal schemes in the borough during its rapid development in the early years of the present century. [Read more…] about DEATH OF THE MAN WHO MADE HORNSEY
An extract from an article in the Bowes Park Weekly News,
5th October 1907
BRILLIANT OPENING CEREMONY
MILLIONAIRES AND LIBRARIES
Well, they had a gorgeous day for it, at all events. At four p.m. on Saturday last there was a bigger assemblage of local somebodies and their friends, than has ever been seen at the Wood Green Town Hall before. [Read more…] about WOOD GREEN’S NEW LIBRARY
An Extract from a profile in the Muswell Hill Record, 8th May 1908
If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, surely the man who builds a beautiful town, and builds it well, is equally so.
[Read more…] about MEN WHO HAVE MADE MUSWELL HILL: JAMES EDMONDSON