Join us for two combined talks exploring English public library architecture and celebrating Hornsey Library. The English Public Library 1850-1930: the development of a building type Delivered by Susie Barson. …
Another in our series on Church buildings which have changed their function. This small but distinctive building in Tottenham Lane, Crouch End N8, is easily missed, squeezed between the blocks …
Highgate Archway bridge was London’s (probably the world’s) first flyover, begun in 1812. This book celebrates the centenary of the building of the present bridge.
We resume our 2022 series on Church buildings which have changed their function with this second article. On the corner of the Broadway and Princes Avenue N10 stands an imposing …
Greenridings House, a modern office block in the High Road Wood Green, houses a British Telecom switching centre. The building which stood on this site previously had a much more …
Wood Green was at the geographical centre of the 1965 local authority amalgamation which created the Borough of Haringey. So the new Civic Centre was located in the High Road …
With visits to all public venues, including Alexandra Palace, postponed for the foreseeable future as a result of the current coronavirus pandemic, we can read about an HHS outing to ‘The People’s Palace’ which provides an intriguing and evocative glimpse into the past.
This booklet is a self guided walk around the church tower, the bell tower for the three successive parish churches and the only remaining building which has been conserved and watched over by the Friends of Hornsey Church Tower for the past 28 years.
Imagine it is 1929 and you are on a train steaming north out of Kings Cross. There is a man in his mid-30s sitting opposite you – he is Barnes Wallis, later to be knighted and famed for his bouncing bombs.
Colin Marr wrote about a gas holder at the Hornsey Gasworks known as Hornsey No 1 in 2006 when it was under threat of demolition to make way for the Haringey Heartlands development. This was reposted as part of our Newsletter Archive series in 2020.