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Hornsey Library – An Unsung Municipal Gem

A talk at the Crouch End Festival by Ray Rogers. An illustrated talk telling the story of how the beautiful and important Hornsey Library building was designed and built exactly …

Another article in our series about church buildings which have changed their function. This imposing mid-1850s building is best viewed from Haringey Park N8 or whilst walking on Crouch Hill. …

Wooden rafters inside Alexandra Palace Theatre 1992

A look at the progress of the restoration, seen during a recent visit to the theatre for a group of Theatre Friends. Another milestone The Theatre regeneration project reaches another …

HHS member Andrew Whitehead is intrigued with a monkey which appears as external plasterwork on a house on Park Road in Crouch End dating from the early 1880s. Andrew was …

Distant View of Hornsey Churcy, J Clennell, Beauties of England and Wales, 1816

As the Old Schoolhouse has been closed, we’ve been running an occasional series sharing extracts from HHS publications. Ivy-Mantled Tower was published in 2015. Its author, Bridget Cherry, is Vice …

By Bridget Cherry

Ivy-Mantled Tower is a hard-back book with 138 pages and 202 illustrations. It tells the compelling story of a succession of buildings from the medieval church with its bell tower (which still stands) to an 1833 church, followed by a the building of a late Victorian church which was demolished in 1969.

As the Old Schoolhouse has been closed, we’ve been running an occasional series sharing extracts from HHS publications. John Farrer: The Man who Changed Hornsey by Janet Owen was published …

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.

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.

I met Mollie Guilfoyle on a Tourism course at Bournemouth in 1968, and I heard that she went on to…

Hi Liz, I too was at Mountview end 60s, beginning 70s & went on that amazing tour of the USA…

I was there 1971-1973 Was on acting course appeared in Blsck Conedy. The Hostage. Oh What a Lively War. Marat…

Not sure but was the gas company the place that had the fancy curved copper decoration at foot level on…

Hornsey Library – An Unsung Municipal Gem

Hymns and Rock Music: Park Chapel, Crouch End

Inside Alexandra Palace Theatre

Is this Charles Darwin? The Park Road Monkey Mystery

Ivy-Mantled Tower

Ivy-Mantled Tower – A History of the Church and Churchyard of St Mary Hornsey, Middlesex

John Farrer: The Man who Changed Hornsey

Lecture Note: Curious Muswell Hill

Lecture Note: Making an Entrance by Ray Rogers

Lecture Note: The Hillcrest Estate by Ray Rogers