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International Vespa Rally, Harringay 1962

I love this set of photos from a rally at the Stadium in 1962. Am I romanticising, or does it seem easy for the Sixties to be effortlessly…

Started by Hugh

4 Aug 5, 2022
Reply by Ken Stevens

Edward Henry Chapman of Harringay House – Harringay's City merchant ‘prince’

If you find longer items less amenable to reading online (which, though you might not think it, I certainly do), this article has been conv…

Started by Hugh

4 Jun 17, 2022
Reply by Hugh

Alfred Braddock – a commercial photographic surveyor and recorder of Victorian Hornsey

Many of the images we have from the late Victorian and early Edwardian period of Hornsey Borough come from the lens of commercial photograp…

Started by Hugh

61 Jun 10, 2022
Reply by Hugh

The Gentleman Highwayman of Hornsey Road

Hornsey Road was once famed as the haunt and sometime hideout of a notorious 'gentleman highwayman', Claude Duval. His story and its connec…

Started by Hugh

10 Jun 10, 2022
Reply by Ken Stevens

Unique photos of Northumberland House circa 1900

This weekend I made HoL's latest local history acquisition with the purchase of a set of photos showing the exterior and interior of Northu…

Started by Hugh

53 May 26, 2022
Reply by Donna Fitzgerald

Photo set of the fire at Blandford Hall, Ally Pally 1971

This slide show includes thirteen photographs taken by Alison Chapman McLean in 1971. The images provide a vivid record of the firefighters…

Started by Hugh

2 Feb 27, 2022
Reply by John Shulver

Newly Discovered - Harringay's Very First Edwardian Cinema

Back in early 2008, I researched Harringay's cinema history and, as was my wont back then, published my findings as an article it on Wikipe…

Started by Hugh

12 Feb 25, 2022
Reply by JJ B

Braddock and an Odd Hornsey Church Postcard

This is a postcard I would have liked to buy but someone beat me to it on ebay. The odd thing about it is the gent in the foreground ,…

Started by Ken Stevens

17 Feb 22, 2022
Reply by Hugh

Pietro Pazzi's Edwardian Restaurant in Finsbury Park

Pazzi's Restaurant near the entrance to Finsbury Park in what is today a Lidl If you had been making your way along Seven Sisters Road in…

Started by Hugh

13 Dec 24, 2021
Reply by Richard Woods

The Starlight Dance - Late Fifties Glamour at the Arena

I discovered another interesting event at the Arena the other day. On 31st May, 1958, a music event was held at the Arena when people floc…

Started by Hugh

4 Dec 24, 2021
Reply by Richard Woods

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