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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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Latest Comments

  1. Jackie on Memories of Weston Park Shopping Parade8th September 2025

    Thank you so much for keeping these memories alive. I used to live above the greengrocers around 1971 to 1974.…

  2. M Freeman on A Brief History of Muswell Hill5th September 2025

    I used to live in the Colney Hatch estate, which was originally 6 rows of post-war council homes + a…

  3. Barbara Smith on A Brief History of Highgate3rd September 2025

    I learned my 4th gr-grandfather, Richard Robinson died in 1845 in Hornsey and is buried in High Gate Cemetery. He…

  4. Diana Davies (was) on Memories of Crouch End High School: Part Two2nd September 2025

    I was at the school in the 40s. I would love to know if any of my friends are still…

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