Crouch End

Crouch End – Four Walks

By Eleri Rowlands and Lesley Ramm

This pocket-sized book replaces our earlier title Crouch End – A Walk. [Read more…] about Crouch End – Four Walks

A DVD by David Evans recording changes in Crouch End over the years using old views and video camera footage including interior views of Hornsey Town Hall and views from the Clock Tower. [Read more…] about Crouch End – Past & Present

Crouch End Clock Tower

By Joan Schwitzer

A revised edition of a popular books describing one of our local landmarks. Now includes photographs. [Read more…] about Crouch End Clock Tower

Crouch End Postcards

Alexandra Palace and Crouch End Playing Fields

Shopping Parades, Tottenham Lane, Crouch End

Enjoying Your Local Space: A Children’s Project About Priory Park

By Jennifer Bell and Janet Owen

The educational pack is targeted at School: Key Stage 2 Y5/6; Key Stage 3 Y7. At Home: 8-11 year olds with their parents. [Read more…] about Enjoying Your Local Space: A Children’s Project About Priory Park

Ever Heard of the Local Architect and Surveyor John Farrer?

An article by Janet Owen

John Farrer (1843-1930), a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who lived in Crouch End for forty years of his life, was responsible for designing over eighteen hundred houses and shops for seventy three roads in our area and he laid out fifteen estates for local landowners and builders. [Read more…] about Ever Heard of the Local Architect and Surveyor John Farrer?

HORNSEY FOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE

An Article from the Hornsey Journal, 24th January 1919

A meeting of the Hornsey Food Control Committee was held at the offices, Topsfield Parade, Crouch End, on Saturday afternoon. [Read more…] about HORNSEY FOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE

Hornsey Past

By Steven Denford

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

HORNSEY STUDENTS IN REVOLT

The Hornsey Journal, 31 May 1968

Aggrieved students of Hornsey College of Art who took control of the main college building on Crouch End Hill on Tuesday had reached such a stage in their “revolt” by yesterday (Thursday) afternoon that they were working out their own system of art education. [Read more…] about HORNSEY STUDENTS IN REVOLT

Hornsey’s National Kitchens 1918-1919

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

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