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Madge's Study of the Development of the name of Haringey, Harringay and Hornsey

In a conversation on the main forum, Michael Anderson added a post about our area name. I chipped in with a comment to add the most authori…

Started by Hugh

6 Dec 27, 2020
Reply by EMC2

Hornsey's Edwardian Firemen

Hornsey Firemen outside the Tottenham Lane station with a horse drawn fire engine, c1905 In a comment on another photo earlier today, Str…

Started by Hugh

11 Dec 18, 2020
Reply by Hugh

Turnpike Lane boundary stone?

Can any one help identify this stone outside Nomad Turnpike Lane?. I thought it HBC 1880, but Hornsey Borough Council was not formed unti…

Started by Jim

9 Dec 18, 2020
Reply by Gerry N

Britain’s Last anti-Jewish Riots Send Post-war Ripple through Harringay

This minor but unpleasant episode of racist unrest followed violence again British soldiers in Palestine. Harringay's synagogue on Wightman…

Started by Hugh

1 Dec 10, 2020
Reply by Richard Ross

Wightman Road, a centre of the Black Power Movement in the Seventies

Black Liberation Front Poster showing Wightman Road address, (Image Encyclopaedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line) The Black Liberation Front…

Started by Hugh

0 Dec 6, 2020

Hornsey Civic Restaurants

I was alerted to the topic of Hornsey Civic Restaurants by @SteveHartUnite who tweeted about a new poster he's just acquired on the subje…

Started by Hugh

7 Nov 27, 2020
Reply by Jim

Potted History of the Gospel Centre, Wightman Road

Hornsey Church of Christ, date unknown but probably between 1920 and 1950 On 1st. January 1891 a temporary building clad in galvanised ir…

Started by Hugh

8 Nov 23, 2020
Reply by Hugh

Postal 'Scandal' in Harringay

I happened across this whilst researching something else and thought it was an interesting comment on how times change. London North Mer…

Started by Hugh

5 Nov 13, 2020
Reply by tigha

Welcome to the Early Summer Season in Finsbury Park's Open Air Theatre 71 years ago

Last year I wrote a short piece about Finsbury Park's Open Air Theatre. As a result of that piece, an ex-resident of Hornsey got in touch t…

Started by Hugh

2 Nov 10, 2020
Reply by rowena young

David Norman's Memories of the Bombing of Fairfax Road

A few days back, I posted the following on a forum posting:   Earlier today, I popped by Adam Coffman's house in Fairfax Road. Whilst we we…

Started by Hugh

14 Oct 19, 2020
Reply by John Shulver

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