HHS Bulletin 43 includes articles about St Luke’s Hospital, the changing face of Campsbourne and the early years of girls’ schools in Highgate.
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HHS Bulletin 42
HHS Bulletin 42 includes articles about Council Housing in Hornsey 1918-27, Southwood Hall and the early years of the Hornsey Journal.
HHS Bulletin 41
HHS Bulletin 41 includes articles about Hornsey libraries, Hornsey’s Public Housing, and W.E. Gladstone and Holy Trinity, Stroud Green.
HHS Bulletin 40
HHS Bulletin 40 includes articles about the (mostly) lost cinemas of Haringey and tales of schools in Hornsey.
A London Schoolboy Remembers the Second World War
Hornsey Historical Society DVD A Hornsey lad, David Evans was a 10-year-old schoolboy in 1939, and when the war finished he was 16 years old. He recalls his experience of …
Beauty in the Borough
A 20 minute amateur film, without sound, from 1959 about floral colour in Haringey. It’s as interesting for the people, buildings and vehicles as it for the abundance of flowers. …
Hornsey Historical Society Wins New Award!
At the annual conference of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) held at the Museum of London on Saturday 18th November, HHS won the award for the best London …
Muswell Hill Girls – Leaders in Fashion
A 1959 film of girls at the William Grimshaw School in Muswell Hill learning to make and model the latest fashions.
A Brief History of the Crouch End Clock Tower
The clock tower, a much loved if not exactly architecturally distinguished building, was erected in 1895 in ‘appreciation and recognition of the public services’ of Henry Reader Williams (1822-97). Bridget Cherry …
Stroud Green Postcards
