Press cuttings from The Hornsey Journal and other local newspapers covering historic events and other items of interest.
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
Extracts from the Hornsey Journal 11 May 1945
Profound Thanksgiving that so Much is Over
Our representatives have been out and about in Hornsey and gathered the following cross section of views which typify the feelings of those spoken to about the war: [Read more…] about VIEWS OF THE MAN AND WOMAN IN THE STREET
An article from the Hornsey Journal, 18th May 1945
VE night celebrations were more or less spontaneous while Saturday’s festivities were well planned and catered-for parties, especially for children. Our reporter set out to visit a number of them and here are his impressions: [Read more…] about CHILDREN HAVE THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
An article from the Hornsey Journal, 11 May 1945
Profound relief was the dominant note in Hornsey’s rejoicings on the morning of VE Day. Then as the day advanced people’s feelings found fuller vent and they let themselves go with whole-hearted joyfulness. [Read more…] about HORNSEY CELEBRATES VE DAY