A fascinating 12 minute film, without sound, of Mrs Mary Cannon of Crouch Hill doing the shopping and picking up her ration books in post-war Crouch End. [Read more…]
People
The following pages will contain articles, books, postcards, photographs and other resources about the lives of people who have lived in the area. The material is organised alphabetically by title and will be added to gradually over the coming year.
An Introduction to St Mary’s Hornsey Churchyard
By Joan Schwitzer
The author sets out short biographies of ten notable Victorians and their families and gives the location of their graves in the churchyard. [Read more…]
Buried in Hornsey – The Graves of St. Mary’s Churchyard
By Joan Schwitzer
This illustrated booklet gives a brief history of St. Mary’s Church and a conducted tour around the churchyard describing the tombs, gravestones and memorials of some of Hornsey’s famous former residents. [Read more…]
Dr Barton’s Airship
An article by Eleri Rowlands
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 not from planes but from the German Zeppelin airships. It is even less well known that ten years previous to that, a similar dirigible or directional air ship had taken off from Alexandra Palace. [Read more…]
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…]
John Farrer – The Man Who Changed Hornsey
By Janet Owen
The story of a man from rural Cumbria, who trained as an architect and surveyor, and played a vital part in creating a large part of the built environment of Hornsey. [Read more…]
Memories of Highgate from a Keeper’s Lodge
By Liza Chivers
A long-awaited reprint in an attractive new format of this book, first published in 1982. Liza grew up in the Keeper’s Lodge of Queens Wood, Highgate (now an ecology centre and café). [Read more…]
Memories of Tenants of Margaret Hill House, Hornsey
A book of life stories from a selection of people living in Margaret Hill House, Hornsey. [Read more…]
Memories of the Residents of Margaret Hill House
A talk by Jennifer Bell MBE, in which she will consider the importance of collecting the memories of ordinary people and how they affect our knowledge of history. [Read more…]
The Braddock Collection
Hornsey Historical Society holds the negatives of 30 Braddock photographs of Hornsey.
Alfred Braddock was a typical early photography enthusiast. He started his working life keeping a tobacconist and stationers shop in Hackney, became a keen amateur photographer in the 1870s and turned professional in the early 1880s. He took a large number of photographs in Hackney and then moved to live in Hornsey in 1890. [Read more…]