The latest articles and news from the Hornsey Historical Society.
The ongoing fractious debate and depth of feeling felt over the type of borough war memorial best for Hornsey was highlighted in the first of the series Hornsey in 1919. …
Hornsey Journal, 8 August 1919
His Worship the Mayor requires a full list of the residents of Hornsey who gave their lives in the Great War for inclusion in the War Memorial.
An Armistice had ended the Great War on 11 November 1918. The peace treaty between the Allies and Germany was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly 5 years after Archduke …
Hornsey Journal, 25 July 1919
Schools celebrate peace
The Peace celebrations in Hornsey were mainly confined to the children.
A selection of articles about Alexandra Palace during the First World War.
Hornsey Journal, 6 June 1919
The statement was made not long ago that on the removal of the German prisoners from the Alexandra Palace the Government intended to use the premises as public offices.
Hornsey Journal, 30 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.
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. The project …
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 …
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 …