A new VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) display on show at the Hornsey Historical Society display board outside the Old Schoolhouse.
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Hornsey Celebrates VE Day
Reproduced from the Hornsey Journal, 11 May 1945
Profound relief was the dominant note in Hornsey’s rejoicings on the morning of VE Day.
Archway, Trams and suchlike
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. …
Lecture Note: Street Name Plates of Hornsey
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’.
The Highgate Roman Kiln on the BBC
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.
A Curious Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan in Crouch End
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.
Revolutionary Restauranteurs and Political Crimes by Peter Barber
Lecture note
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.
Lecture Note: The Hillcrest Estate by Ray Rogers
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.
My Apprenticeship at the Hornsey Journal
In the first of an occasional series of personal reminiscences, journalist Richard Woods shares his memories of writing for the Hornsey Journal in the 1960s.
Lecture Note: The Mercenary River
The new series of HHS lectures started last Thursday at the Union Church Hall on Weston Park.
HHS Chair Walter Merricks introduced ex-BBC correspondent Nick Higham who gave a very well received talk based on his book The Mercenary River.