THE HORNSEY ROAD

The Plough's owners have put in a planning application to turn it into a shop selling ' second hand books [...] along with station...

There are two posts on the Derelict London website about the old Hanley Arms and the damage that was done to it in the name of restorat...

Full-on post zombie apocalypse complete with rotting ephemera: When/if it becomes a living shop again I hope they don't throw away the s...

There's a paradox with memorials: they work as long as someone's alive who remembers you. After that they're only a record of y...

I've been reading through old Islington Gazettes in the British Newspaper Archive and this story stood out for its thorough-going wr...

' To be let. Unfurnished, on Lease, in Tollington Park - Hornsey Road, considered the most healthy spot near London, a first class resi...

This is a post about gun laws, violence and how things change and stay the same.   It's  from the Sunday 3 January 1864 edition of ...

The half-dozen of you who've read every entry in this blog may remember Montagu Williams as one of the prosecutors in the Sidney Clay ...

This post is thanks to Miss Annie, founder of the Stroud Green WI and regular on stroudgreen.org , who spotted the Hornsey Road cameo in th...

Augustus Egg (not a Wodehouse character - you're thinking of Gussie Fink-Nottle) painted a triptych called 'Past and Present'. ...

If you look into the Andover and the Six Acres Estates ' past you'll hear them described in dry officialese as 1970s slum clearanc...

Around the turn of the last century there were Methodists everywhere on the Hornsey Road. The Spiritualist church , the police station and...

Today's post is thanks to the  British Newspaper Archive  and the Saturday 30 November 1901 issue of the Essex Newsman, and proves tha...

The corner of Seven Sisters and Hornsey Road has a bike shop , a Chinese supermarket , and a pub that survived a Zeppelin attack. It ...

The police  said  Josie Daly was 'in the premier league of London madams', making millions out of the Aqua Sauna on Hornsey ...