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Harringay in Grey and Green, The Alexanders of Harringay House

William Cleverly Alexander and his family lived at Harringay House for five years between 1869 and 1873. I’ve written before about the Jame…

Started by Hugh

13 Oct 7, 2022
Reply by Hugh

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

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

Mr Harling's 1st Middlesex Volunteer regiment red tunic from c1901

I recently came across this tunic from the 1st Battalion Middlesex Volunteers who were based in The Elms in Hornsey in the years around 19…

Started by Hugh

21 Mar 4
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

Old Hornsey police station

There has been a police building in Hornsey from at some point in the first half of the nineteenth century, or late eighteenth century un…

Started by Hugh

2 Jan 3, 2023
Reply by Hugh

How Hornsey dealt with the 'idle poor' two hundred years ago

All towns and parishes in the country had poor residents to deal with. Some did so more compassionately than others. The Poor Law of 1601 g…

Started by Hugh

9 Oct 28, 2021
Reply by Dick Harris

Hornsey and Wood Green Synagogue in pictures

For many years a synagogue stood on the site in Wightman Road where the mosque is now located. The Hornsey and Wood Green Affiliated Synago…

Started by Hugh

3 May 25, 2023
Reply by Hugh

A whiff of scandal, the chink of coin, a dose of mismanagement and the Grand Old Man of Cricket: Harringay Cricket Field in the Golden Age of Cricket

I'm neither a cricketer not a cricket fan and I've never given much of a thought to Harringay's former cricket ground in the north eastern…

Started by Hugh

14 Sep 18, 2021
Reply by Geoffrey Walker

Decoding a Watercolour of Eighteenth Century Crouch End Broadway

Fig 1: John Bewick watercolour of Tottenham Lane, c 1791. (Click the image for a larger version) I've had a  digital copy of the above ima…

Started by Hugh

14 Sep 30, 2021
Reply by Agabus

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