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Recent History of Harringay Posts
Where modern Harringay started - the birth of Endymion Road and the lost roads and houses of Harringay
A Belated Happy 125th Birthday to The Salisbury
Equine thrills, locomotive spills, Vesuvian pyrodramas and other frolics at Victorian Ally Pally
Run that by me again - how did Harringay end up with two spellings?
Singing the Blues and All that Jazz: Music at Manor House 1959 - 2004
The Mysterious Seymour Road Circle, Three Butchers and the Perrier-Jouët Champagne House
Where the Whittington Hospital came from
The Christeys: from the 18th century fruit stalls of Covent Garden, up to Crouch End and St James's Clubland
Edward Henry Chapman of Harringay House – Harringay's City merchant ‘prince’
The Gardens at Harringay House - the place, the plants the people
Harringay in Grey and Green, The Alexanders of Harringay House
Alfred Braddock – a commercial photographic surveyor and recorder of Victorian Hornsey
How Hornsey dealt with the 'idle poor' two hundred years ago
A whiff of scandal, the chink of coin, a dose of mismanagement and the Grand Old Man of Cricket: Harringay Cricket Field in Golden Age of Cricket
Decoding a Watercolour of Eighteenth Century Crouch End Broadway
Old Crouch Hall and Linslade House
A short history of Harringay's manufacturing area
The Gentleman Highwayman of Hornsey Road
Unremembered: London's Favourite Racecourse at Alexandra Park
The Elms Hornsey
Effingham-Beresford Backlands
Metamorphosis of Hornsey Station
Development of the New River and Water Works in Hornsey
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Hornsey Historical Society at Hornsey Library
May 1, 2026 from 11am to 1pm – Hornsey Library
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King Toadfish back at the Antwerp Arms, N17 8AS 8:30 May 2nd
May 2, 2026 from 8:30pm to 11pm – The Antwerp Arms
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Bruce Castle Heritage Quarter Open Day
May 3, 2026 from 10:30am to 4pm – Bruce Castle Museum
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