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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
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Bob Oseman's Memories of growing up in wartime Harringay

Many thanks to Bob for sending us this set of memories of growing up in Harringay. (Attached below as pdf)

Started by Hugh

10 Jul 22, 2022
Reply by John Shulver

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

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

20 Dec 5, 2022
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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
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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

20 Feb 27, 2022
Reply by Ken Stevens

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
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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
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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

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