The latest articles and news from the Hornsey Historical Society.
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.
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.
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.
Colin Marr wrote about a gas holder at the Hornsey Gasworks known as Hornsey No 1 in 2006 when it was under threat of demolition to make way for the Haringey Heartlands development. This was reposted as part of our Newsletter Archive series in 2020.
It was a full-house of ninety for the launch of the HHS’s new book Abyssinia : Hornsey’s Lost Village by Hugh Flouch at Hornsey School for Girls on Thursday 27th June.