Articles and information relating to the experience of Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill and other areas during WW1 1914-1918
We may think that we have nothing in common with the people who waited silently and reflectively at the opening of the Hornsey War Memorial in Park Road on 11th …
A selection of articles about Alexandra Palace during the First World War.
Hornsey Journal, 15 November 1918
“In loving memory of the brave heroes who gave their lives to give us peace”
The news that an armistice had been signed and hostilities with Germany would cease at 11 o’clock took Hornsey by surprise on Monday morning.
Hornsey Journal, 8 August 1919
His Worship the Mayor requires a full list of the residents of Hornsey who gave their lives in the Great War for inclusion in the War Memorial.
An advertisement from the Hornsey Journal, 6 December 1918
Messrs Harvey and Shillingford
Crouch End, Hornsey and Stroud Green
It is little known that that London suffered its first air raid not in World War Two, but just over one hundred years ago, in May 1915. Bombs were dropped …
HHS Bulletin 44 includes articles about Hornsey in WW1 and the Hornsey Red Sox Baseball Club 1936-1951.
HHS Bulletin 49 includes articles about Joseph Percy Barralet, St George’s Georgians Tennis Club and the beginnings of Scouting in Hornsey.
Bulletin 51 includes an appreciation of the life and work of Joan Schwitzwer and a look at the myth of Stapleton Hall.