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1895: Women’s Football makes its official debut in Hornsey
With all the interest in the current FIFA Women’s World Cup it is satisfying to know that Hornsey hosted the first official women’s football match attended by an enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 spectators. The 23rd March match was between North and South, the North winning 7-1. One of the South team, Emma Clarke, was the first recorded black woman football player. [Read more…] about 1895: Women’s Football makes its official debut in Hornsey
HORNSEY JOURNAL’S SCATHING COMMENTS ON THE FIRST OFFICIAL WOMEN’S FOOTBALL MATCH IN 1895
‘Comments and Pencillings’
from the Hornsey Journal, 30th March 1895
The much talked of football match between British ladies has been played and the world has not moved an inch out of its orbit. There was an enormous gathering, the number probably approached ten thousand. [Read more…] about HORNSEY JOURNAL’S SCATHING COMMENTS ON THE FIRST OFFICIAL WOMEN’S FOOTBALL MATCH IN 1895
Telling a story of Crouch End using pictures from the HHS archive
This Shared Learning Project with the University of the Third Age (U3A) will produce an exhibition about Crouch End in the past using pictures from the HHS Archive.
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Two Faithful Servants’ memorial returns home!
A marble memorial to Mary Parsons and Elizabeth Decker, who were servants to a Hornsey family for 57 and 47 years respectively in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, has been returned to St Mary’s Tower, Hornsey High Street.
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Wood Green’s Obelisk
Unless you are a frequent traveller along the Bounds Green Road you may not be aware that there is an obelisk in Wood Green. The 20 foot high granite obelisk is located on the grass verge opposite The Prince public house at the corner of Finsbury Road. [Read more…] about Wood Green’s Obelisk
The Edmonton Union Workhouse – Still housing the poor in 1919
For many of us it is a shock to read the Tender (Hornsey Journal 30 May 1919) for the supply of provisions to a workhouse. Surely the workhouse, such a spectre hanging over the lives of the Victorian poor, had gone by 1919? If it hadn’t, why was the workhouse in Edmonton not in Hornsey? When did this degrading system end? [Read more…] about The Edmonton Union Workhouse – Still housing the poor in 1919
EDMONTON UNION – TENDERS FOR SUPPLIES
A Notice from the Hornsey Journal, 30th May 1919
The Guardians invite Tenders from
1st July, 1919 as follows:- [Read more…] about EDMONTON UNION – TENDERS FOR SUPPLIES
A Park for Finsbury – crowd funding appeal
The Friends of Finsbury Park have asked author Hugh Hayes to revise his book A Park for Finsbury to celebrate the 150th anniversary this August of the founding of Finsbury Park.
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NEW ENTRANCE TO THE PALACE
An Advantage to Muswell Hill
An article from the Bowes Park Weekly News, 26 May 1906
For many months there has been an agitation for an entrance to the Alexandra Palace and Park from the top of Muswell Hill, and we are now informed on quite reliable authority that such an entrance is about to be opened.
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Alexandra Park and Palace: What was there before?
Alexandra Palace and its Park dominate the skyline for miles around in North London. What was on the site previously?
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