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Calling all women over 65 with memories of working in or near Haringey from the 1960s to 1970s, we want to hear from you!
Another terrific, well researched talk by Ray Rogers, Hornsey Historical Society’s Conservation Officer, at the Union Church on 13th May.
A new VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) display on show at the Hornsey Historical Society display board outside the Old Schoolhouse.
Reproduced from the Hornsey Journal, 11 May 1945
Profound relief was the dominant note in Hornsey’s rejoicings on the morning of VE Day.
Jago Hazzard regularly posts videos on YouTube about slightly obscure aspects of the history of London’s transport system. He is entertaining, informative and knows how to make a subject interesting. …
Peter Barber (a fellow member of the London Topographic Society member) introduced Simon Morris when he delivered the latest HHS talk entitled ‘Street Name Plates of Hornsey’.
In case you missed it, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a short item on the Highgate Roman Kiln as part of their Sunday Feature strand – New Generation Thinkers: Clay and Collapse.
The defining aspect of an urban myth is not that it’s true – manifestly, if it’s slam-dunk cold fact it’s not a myth – nor that it could be true, but that it should be true. It’s the sort of story that sounds barely credible but could just have happened – and that you want to believe did happen.
HHS kicked off its New Year lecture programme with a fascinating talk by Peter Barber, the society’s President. Peter engrossed forty people who attended in person with another twenty or so online.
It was almost a full house at Crouch End’s Union Church on Wednesday 23rd October for the HHS’s latest talk. Conservation Officer Ray Rogers gave a cracking history of the development of Highgate’s Hillcrest estate.