The latest articles and news from the Hornsey Historical Society.
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 …
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. Beginnings This family …
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 …
A Hornsey Historical Society DVD
The story of Horney’s connection with the New River covering 400 years of local history.
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.
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.
Our archive holds a small collection of reproductions of early maps dating from 1595 to 1787, as well as a range of Ordinance Survey Maps dating from 1801. You can …
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 …
The land ownership and holdings of early manors (see The Manor and Sub-Manors of Hornsey) probably defined the borders of Hornsey Parish which contained the bishop of London’s Manor and …
The Manor of Hornsey was said in 1294 to have been part of the Bishop of London’s manor of Stepney from time immemorial. The bishop also claimed that his predecessors …