St Mary’s Tower Memorial Boards

St Mary's Church, Hornsey, Memorial Board

Inside St Mary’s Tower in Hornsey High Street on the north wall of the ground floor room are four panels mounted as one memorial board listing the names of 136 …

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The Braddock Collection

Hornsey Pound Friend's Cottages (1890)

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 …

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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 Late Mr Sainsbury

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Hornsey Journal, 5 January 1928

The death occurred at his residence “Bishopsfield” Broadlands-road, Highgate on Tuesday of Mr John James Sainsbury, the founder of the well-known firm of provision merchants. He was 83 years of age.

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The Priory Park Philosophers

The Philosopher's Garden, Priory Park

The Friends of Priory Park N8 are working with a company to design a sundial to be placed in The Philosophers’ Garden in the park. But why does the garden …

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The Recollections of Clementina May

Cover of the Recollections of Clementina May

Edited by Janet Owen, Introduction and Notes by Brenda Griffith-Williams

Clementina (Clemmie) May, the youngest child of Henry and Sarah Elder of Topsfield Hall, Crouch End, who married Frank May, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England in 1879, recalled her memories a few months before her death in 1942, aged 92.

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The Two Faithful Servants

St Mary's Church Tower, Hornsey

The story of the Two Faithful Servants plaque is moving towards a very satisfactory conclusion and featured this week in the local press.The story featured in this week’s Ham & …

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