The Collins Family

WJ Collins in Wolsley car c1925

Wherever you are in Crouch End or Muswell Hill you are never more than a short distance from a house or building built by the Collins family. Beginnings This family …

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The Rookfield Estate

The Rookfield Estate

Muswell Hill’s Garden Suburb

By David Frith

This book traces the early history of the Rookfield Estate from when the site was first enclosed from Muswell Hill Common to its acquisition by W. J. Collins in 1899. It includes a history of the Collins family who were responsible for the development of the Estate.

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The Urbanisation of Hornsey

John Farrer - The Man Who Changed Hornsey

An extract from John Farrer The Man who Changed Hornsey by Janet Owen London was sucking in people from the countryside as its industrial strength grew throughout the nineteenth century …

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