Historical Buildings - Hornsey Historical Society

Is this Charles Darwin? The Park Road Monkey Mystery

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 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, …

We have previously looked at Southwood Hall in Highgate as part of the Lost Houses series and reference was made to two important 19th century occupants, Henry Virtue Tebbs and …

Nightingale Hall prior to demolition c.1890

This is the sixth in our series on Lost Houses of our area. This edited text was written by the late Albert Pinching, HHS Sales Manager for 21 years and …

This is the second article in the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. This house has such interesting connections that a number of articles in the future will …

We continue the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area with this important Stroud Green addition. There is not much left of Stapleton Hall, but what there is became …

This is the fourth article in the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. It has been written by Alice Jenkins, a sixth form History student at Highgate Wood …

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

Lost Houses: Brick Place

Lost Houses: Henry Virtue Tebbs of Southwood Hall

Lost Houses: Nightingale Hall, Wood Green

Lost Houses: Southwood Hall, Highgate

Lost Houses: Stapleton Hall, Stroud Green

Lost Houses: Topsfield Hall, Crouch End