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St Mary’s Tower

Two Faithful Servants’ Memorial Returns Home!

Two Faithfull Servants memorial in Hornsey Church

A marble memorial to Mary Parsons and Elizabeth Decker, who were servants to a Hornsey family for 57 and 47 years respectively in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, has been …

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Abyssinia: Hornsey's Lost Village
ABYSSINIA: Hornsey's Lost Village
by Hugh Flouch

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  1. HHS Volunteers on The Fishmongers’ and Poulterers’ Almshouses, Wood Green High Road29th August 2025

    Hi Brett, thank you for your comment. You may be thinking of the Printers Almshouses located south of St Michael's…

  2. Alison L on Memories of Mountview?27th August 2025

    I saw a performanace of the Tempest at the Mountview Theatre sometime around 1981 or 2. Never forgotten it. I…

  3. Michael Parkinson on A Brief History of Highgate23rd August 2025

    My wife is looking into ancestry and she is trying to establish the location for St James church Highgate rise…

  4. Phillip hamilton on Greenridings House: What was there before?23rd August 2025

    Y grandfather and grandmother lived on high street they left wood green in 1923 for australia my grandfather was a…

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