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The Changing Years: The History and Development of Wood Green
London Screen Archives
This 30 minute film, made in 1961, can be viewed online at the London Screen Archives. It tells the history of Wood Green from tiny hamlet to major shopping centre told through still photographs and additional materials including maps, paintings, engravings, newspaper advertisements, motion footage. [Read more…] about The Changing Years: The History and Development of Wood Green
Dr Barton’s Airship
An article by Eleri Rowlands
It is little known that that London suffered its first air raid not in World War Two, but just over one hundred years ago, in May 1915. Bombs were dropped not from planes but from the German Zeppelin airships. It is even less well known that ten years previous to that, a similar dirigible or directional air ship had taken off from Alexandra Palace. [Read more…] about Dr Barton’s Airship
The Collins Family
An article by David Frith
Wherever you are in Crouch End or Muswell Hill you are never more than a short distance from a house or building built by the Collins family. [Read more…] about The Collins Family
Ever Heard of the Local Architect and Surveyor John Farrer?
An article by Janet Owen
John Farrer (1843-1930), a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who lived in Crouch End for forty years of his life, was responsible for designing over eighteen hundred houses and shops for seventy three roads in our area and he laid out fifteen estates for local landowners and builders. [Read more…] about Ever Heard of the Local Architect and Surveyor John Farrer?
Hornsey and The New River: 400 Years of History
A Hornsey Historical Society DVD
The story of Horney’s connection with the New River covering 400 years of local history. [Read more…] about Hornsey and The New River: 400 Years of History
Crouch End – Past & Present
A DVD by David Evans recording changes in Crouch End over the years using old views and video camera footage including interior views of Hornsey Town Hall and views from the Clock Tower. [Read more…] about Crouch End – Past & Present
The Town or Hamlet of Highgate
The story of a London village over 800 years
This DVD, originally a video, tells the fascinating story of Highgate’s development using rare images and archive documents brought together for the first time. [Read more…] about The Town or Hamlet of Highgate
An Overview of the Hornsey Historical Society Map Collection
We hold a small collection of reproductions of early maps dating from 1593 to 1787, and also hold a range of Ordnance Survey Maps dating from 1801. All the maps [Read more…] about An Overview of the Hornsey Historical Society Map Collection
Hornsey Historical Society Maps for Sale
We sell reproductions of a number of historical maps of the area. Maps are in black & white unless otherwise stated. We send maps, rolled, in cardboard tubes at a cost of £4.00 for up to 4 maps (UK only). Overseas postage on request. We also sell copies of the popular Alan Godfrey maps which are reprints of large scale Ordnance maps. [Read more…] about Hornsey Historical Society Maps for Sale
The Urbanisation of Hornsey
An extract from John Farrer The Man who Changed Hornsey by Janet Owen
London was sucking in people from the countryside as its industrial strength grew throughout the nineteenth century and its dramatic increase in population shaped the growth of Hornsey parish. People of all social classes arrived in the capital and the population exploded from 959,310 in 1801, to 2,808,494 in 1861, to become 4,521,685 by 1911. [Read more…] about The Urbanisation of Hornsey