THE HORNSEY ROAD

Not Abbey Road.

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

On looking up at Bathhurst Mansions and finding Orson Welles

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Bathhurst Mansions on 458 Holloway Road is an uncommonly pretty building. The ground floor's been turned into drab tat, but look up a...
Friday, 5 December 2014

Bridging the gap to 1914

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There were people standing outside the W. Plumb butcher's shop the other week, the first queue it's seen for years, maybe decades....
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Saturday, 29 November 2014

Effeminate and Obstinate

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This story makes sad and strange reading. In 1875 William Stafford, an attorney and solicitor living at 49 Hanley Road, was taken to court o...
Saturday, 15 November 2014

Aladdin's Cave

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If you go to Aladdin's Cave today, you won't find any of this: Or this: These will have gone too:  As will this: The photographs are...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2014

1842 to 1891 at the Shaftesbury, omnibuses, strikes and disorderly mobs.

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The other day @jennitpk (who you should follow if you don't already) found an 1842 watercolour of the Hornsey Road on the Museum of Lon...
Monday, 23 June 2014

Transforming Seven Sisters

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Seven Sisters has a name that belongs to a fairy tale, but it's a newcomer compared to the Hornsey Road. It was started in the 19th cen...
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Saturday, 21 June 2014

Usually Quiet Hornsey Rise

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'The usually quiet locality of Hornsey-rise was, for a short time on Sunday morning, in a state of great alarm. Between four and five o...
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