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Rhodes Brewery Hornsey

A Rhodes beer mat from the mid-20th Century. You have to wonder if the company's marketing slogans helped to cement its demise! Rhodes Bre…

Started by Hugh

6 Sep 8, 2023
Reply by John Grover

A Forgotten Little Corner of Wood Green

It's odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again,…

Started by Hugh

57 Sep 1, 2023
Reply by David Todd

The Story of the Effingham-Beresford Backlands

The development of the Harringay Ladder was tightly controlled, both by the covenants imposed by the land vendor, the British Land Company…

Started by Hugh

31 Aug 29, 2023
Reply by John Shulver

A Few memories of 1960s Beresford Road

This from member Les: We manufactured Handbags from approx 1960 - 1975 in our small workshops that were situated in part of the back garde…

Started by Hugh

19 Aug 5, 2023
Reply by Geraldine

Goulding Court, Turnpike Lane and another Local Builder made Good

Last September, Marcus added a picture to Harringay Online of Goulding Court. This was a block of flats built by the Borough of Hornsey jus…

Started by Hugh

9 Jul 21, 2023
Reply by Richard Woods

Changing Prospects in Hornsey

After I added the story about Goulding Court on Turnpike Lane recently, someone asked if the site of that building had also been the site o…

Started by Hugh

15 Jul 12, 2023
Reply by Hugh

The Gardens at Harringay House - the place, the plants the people

If you find longer items less amenable to reading online, this article has been converted to a booklet format that can be read on-screen or…

Started by Hugh

21 Jul 11, 2023
Reply by Hugh

Finsbury Park flapper venue: Palais de Dance, c1920

Following on from my piece on Harringay's Salon du Bal in the jazz age, I've been unsuccessfully trying to find out more about the contem…

Started by Hugh

15 Jul 8, 2023
Reply by Geoff Amabilino

Shadbolt Exhibtion - well worth going to see

George Shadbolt (1819-1901) was a British writer, editor and photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of Hornsey and Tottenha…

Started by Hugh

0 Jul 7, 2023

Talk: Evidence of Our Past: 100 Stories From The Archive, Crouch End, 8th July 2023

From the Hornsey Historical Society: The past is endlessly fascinating and full of clues about how we connect to the history of our loca…

Started by HoL Site Admin

0 Jul 7, 2023

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