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Railways & Underground

Highgate Common and the Development of the Archway Road Community: Part Two

Coleridge Buildings Archway Rd 1905

The extension of the Great Northern Railway and the opening of Highgate Station in 1867 caused a rush of development and in the next twenty years streets devoured most of the …

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The Piccadilly Line Extension: Did You Know?

Wood Green underground station site

Our articles on the development of the Piccadilly Line extension cover some of the commercial and political elements of the process, but here are a few of the logistical points …

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The Piccadilly Line Extension: Part One

London Underground Map 1926

We take it for granted today that from the more northerly reaches of the HHS district it can take under thirty minutes to get to central London by tube. This was not …

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The Piccadilly Line Extension: Part Two

Tunnel workers at Turnpike Lane

As we’ve seen, Parliamentary powers to build the Piccadilly Line extension were given in June 1930 and the first section of the extension from Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove opened …

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Latest HHS Book

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

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  1. Philip brougham on Memories of Weston Park Shopping Parade19th September 2025

    PS l remember using the the old red telephone box just outside that little shop and could hear "black and…

  2. Philip brougham on Memories of Weston Park Shopping Parade19th September 2025

    My next door neighbour in Inderwick road (bob wheeler) opened that little shop in the 1960's and I used to…

  3. Jackie on Memories of Weston Park Shopping Parade17th September 2025

    Unfortunately I can’t recall their names either, funny how one can remember some things so clearly, as if only yesterday,…

  4. Philip brougham on Memories of Weston Park Shopping Parade12th September 2025

    PS ,You probably knew the daughters of the guy that took over from John Conns ,they were often working in…

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