THE HORNSEY ROAD

Not Abbey Road.

Monday, 31 October 2011

Number 348

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Last week Strettons sold a 990 year lease of 348 Hornsey Road for £61,000, £1000 above the top end of the guide price. The shop's lai...
Saturday, 29 October 2011

Devil's Lane and Dick Turpin

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I just found this story, in Walter Thornbury's  Old and New London,  about highwaymen haunting the Hornsey Road.   " Hornsey Ro...
Friday, 28 October 2011

Platform Cafe'

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Platform is a GOOD thing. A new youth centre in the old Hornsey Road Baths building (more on that in later posts) it has  a theatre, a per...
Monday, 24 October 2011

How a Methodist Chapel became Holloway Police Station.

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This was the Methodists' Hornsey Road Chapel, built in 1858.  It replaced their smaller Chapel built in 1821, which in turn replace...
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Hornsey Pool & Amusements

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This place used to have a sign on the door saying 'members only', but I've never seen anyone go in or anyone inside to let th...
Sunday, 16 October 2011

Deja Vu: Retail Fashion and Culture

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Deja vu has a wall painted a fashionable deep dark blue and an African art display but it's a long way from a 'curated...
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Saturday, 8 October 2011

Time Travel: Highway Robbery and the Old Bailey

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On the 29th of October 1817 Justice Park and the First Middlesex Jury tried a James Whitby, accused of stealing a shawl worth ten shillings...
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