The name Stroud Green signifies a wet, marshy place, overgrown with brushwood and liable to flooding. [Read more…]
Stroud Green
Stroud Green – A History and Five Walks
By John Hinshelwood
This book in a new format describes the growth and development of Stroud Green from a wet and marshy wasteland in mediaeval times to the present-day cosmopolitan suburb. [Read more…]
Stroud Green Postcards
The Collins Family
An article by David Frith
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. [Read more…]
The Old Dairy at Crouch Hill
By John Hinshelwood
The Friern Manor Dairy building (now a restaurant) is renowned for the rare decorative panels that adorn it. This is their story and that of a local dairying family, beginning in the 1840s. An original piece of research with wonderful and rare illustrations. [Read more…]