Historical Buildings - Hornsey Historical Society

Hymns and Rock Music: Park Chapel, Crouch End

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.

This month we are starting a 2021 series of articles on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. We begin with Brick Place, the oldest known substantial house we know of, …

PS l remember using the the old red telephone box just outside that little shop and could hear "black and…

My next door neighbour in Inderwick road (bob wheeler) opened that little shop in the 1960's and I used to…

Unfortunately I can’t recall their names either, funny how one can remember some things so clearly, as if only yesterday,…

PS ,You probably knew the daughters of the guy that took over from John Conns ,they were often working in…

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

Lost Houses: Brick Place