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 Wallace, later to be knighted and famed for his bouncing bombs. As you pass through Hornsey station he looks out of the window and gazes at the smaller of the two gasholders at Hornsey Gasworks – he smiles at its skeletal structure of repeating triangular shapes. [Read more…] about Hornsey Gasworks: A Structure at risk
This comprehensive local history, covering part of Hornsey parish ie.Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Hornsey Village, is in the popular Historical Publications Ltd “Past” series format. [Read more…] about Hornsey Past
MEETING AT CROUCH END An article from the Hornsey Journal, 11 April 1919
Under the auspices of the Hornsey Conservative and Unionist Association, a meeting for women was held at the Parish Hall, Edison Road, Crouch End on Thursday afternoon last week (4th), when addresses were given by Mr Kennedy Jones MP and Mrs Hudson Lyall, London County Council, on “The Powers and Responsibilities Conferred on Women by the Vote”. [Read more…] about HORNSEY WOMEN AND THE VOTE
A Ministry of Food was established in December 1916 to combat food shortages and price inflation, results of the ‘submarine menace’. Hornsey’s MP, Kennedy Jones, was appointed director-general of the Food Economy section. What was Hornsey’s response? [Read more…] about Hornsey’s National Kitchens 1918-1919
The opening paragraph of the Hornsey Journal editorial, 7 February 1919 describes the housing shortage which Britain faced in the months after the 11th November 1918 Armistice. How would Hornsey Council tackle this shortage in 1919?
The ongoing fractious debate and depth of feeling felt over the type of borough war memorial best for Hornsey was highlighted in the first of the series Hornsey in 1919. What happened in the intervening months between January and August 1919? Was Hornsey any nearer deciding on the nature of its borough war memorial? [Read more…] about Hornsey’s Proposed War Memorial: The Continuing Story
In 2016 Muswell Hill Library was threatened with closure by Haringey Council. This is the Hornsey Historical Society objection to the closure submitted as part of the official public consultation. It was by written by HHS Conservation Officer, David Frith. [Read more…] about Muswell Hill Library Submission
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
This article by Pamela Jefferys links with two previous ones on the history of the Archway Road and Highgate whichwere written in connection with the Archway Road Inquiry 1973. This had been prompted by aproposal to develop a motorway-standard dual carriageway road from the Wellington pubjunction, north of Highgate village, and the old London County Council boundary at ArchwayBridge. That proposal would have meant, (i) the demolition of about 170 houses and shops, (ii)increased deterioration in the environment, (iii) a blight on property and on the lives of manypeople in the area.[Read more…] about The Archway Inquiry: A First Hand Account
A Ministry of Food was established in December 1916 to combat food shortages and price inflation, results of the ‘submarine menace’. Hornsey’s MP, Kennedy Jones, was appointed director-general of the Food Economy section. What was Hornsey’s response? 
