November 2011
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Faces of the First World War →
Collected by the Imperial War Museum and published now following the death of the last WW1 veteran Claude Choules
August 2011
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“A horse-drawn omnibus has paused to pick up passengers outside a row of shops,...”
– ViewFinder - Image Details Click to view picture
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“How can you, who have felt the oppressor’s hard hand, Who for freedom, all...”
– The Dark - a 3D sound installation by Braunarts for Culture Online and the DCMS
Based on the writings of blind poet Edward Rushton, characters and stories from the 18th century recreate a time when Britain dominated the seas and the slave trade created vast profits.
July 2011
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“Tottenham volunteer fire brigade was set up by public subscription in 1870 and...”
– Tottenham - Public services | A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5 (pp. 345-348)
February 2011
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Haringey designated Sites of Industrial Heritage...
Disused railway Finsbury Park to Highgate and Alexandra Palace N22
1) Station building at Alexandra Palace. 2) Viaduct. 3) 1940 interchange station at Highgate. 4) Twin tunnels. 5) Transformer station. Current use as Parkland Walk.
Bell Brewery, High Road N17
Early C19, elegant single storey with clock turret Listed grade II, restored and repaired, current user Haringey Community...
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Tottenham High Road Conservation area character... →
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Plaque to murdered boy unveiled in Tottenham -... →
January 2011
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On this day 1973: First Open University degrees... →
As an OU student of many years, I have a great love of all things OU.
Grateful for their commitment to sharing free high quality resources on the Internet about all manner of things, their engaging and challenging course materials and their lovely staff.
November 2010
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Antony Beevor in defence of history →
Vickery on why Starkey is wrong about women's... →
Amanda Vickery socks it to Starkey
Schama on history teaching in schools →
Impassioned plea for proper history - no more hitler and Henry
August 2010
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The Complete Newgate Calendar →
Lest any should imagine that cruelty and crime were invented at the same time as the Welfare State
Brought to life →
VISITING BETHLEM IN THE 18TH CENTURY →
Malaria chemist's legacy celebrated outside his... →
A CHEMIST who pioneered a treatment for malaria will be remembered with a plaque outside his former Tottenham home today.
John Eliot Howard (1807 - 1883)who lived at 1, Lordsmeade Road, near Bruce Castle Park, is the man responsible for developing the use of Quinine as a Malaria treatment.
(Full article at the Haringey Independent link above)
July 2010
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Building on History: The Church in London... →
Remonstrance of the Tottenham Passengers →
Early passenger protest at the poor train service in Tottenham from 1856
Tis said we Tottenham men are “rude”
And “saucy as a monkey”
June 2010
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A History Lesson from Twitter about Harringay and... →
Listening to music from 1968 and wondering what was happening locally when this music was new, I began to google the era and tweet my results. Soon @StephenBln and @kmflett joined in with their personal knowledge of the era…we dug up some info about the Tottenham Royal which hosted The Who and Status Quo among others in 1968 and you could have seen the Small Faces, Bonzo Dog Band, Joe...
Ally Pally 68 New Years Eve Rave Up →
Small Faces, Spooky Tooth, Bonzo Dog Band, Joe Cocker etc
Found war memorial plaque comes home to Tottenham →
A MEMORIAL plaque dumped in Essex has been returned to Tottenham after more than 15 years. The tablet, which bears the names of 17 servicemen who died during the two world wars, sparked an internet hunt for its home when it was abandoned in Hornchurch in February. It was returned to the Frederick Knight Sports Ground, in Willoughby Lane, Tottenham, on Monday
Wood Green Empire,Theatre of Varieties, High Road,... →
From the Arthur Lloyd site, information about the Wood Green Empire including photos and quotes from
The Face of London by Harold P. Clunn 1956
“We now turn into Green Lanes which leads down past Finsbury Park to the busy...”
– Wood Green Empire, Theatre of Varieties, High Road, Wood Green, N22
April 2010
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Plans for Austria's Nazi-era towers spark... →
‘Difficult’ heritage - what should be done with buildings associated with dark times in 20th century history
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Tottenham CAAC 2010 report (pdf) →
Heritage in Tottenham - annual report
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Maps of Deep Time →
on The Long Now Blog
Ingenious →
This site brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into SCIENCE and CULTURE
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London Transport Museum - some local snippets
From a trip to the London Transport Museum, some local snippets
1. This early 20th century tramway map shows the stops in and around Harringay
2. Some side splitting humour from the Wood Green Tram station
3. I’m very reliably informed by IsarSteve in Berlin and former Harringay resident that these trolley buses operated along Green Lanes until 1961 along routes 629 and 641
4....
March 2010
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Memories of a wartime tragedy in Tottenham →
In 1940, a civilian air raid shelter was hit in the Downhills Area of Tottenham. 41 people lost their lives. Local historians have collected memories of that dreadful night
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“This is a part of the school I attended from 1928 (when I was five years old) to...”
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Hornsey County School (South Harringay) Art Room, circa 1910 - Harringay online
Christmas Play photo
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“Harringay board school, between Falkland and Frobisher roads, opened in 1893. It...”
– Hornsey, including Highgate - Education | British History Online
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Baroness Summerskill's early political life in...
Dr Edith Summerskill, Labour politician and feminist, began her political life in Harringay. She entered active politics almost by chance when she was 32 and in practice in Wood Green…she was asked to fight the Green Lanes ward of Harringay in the Middlesex County Council elections, a safe Conservative seat, and she won with a healthy majority. Obituary, British Medical Journal Feb 16th...
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Interview with Franceso Bandarin, UNESCO World... →
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Historic-Fire-Stations of London →
Guidance from English Heritage on their conservation and their future
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BBC Archive - SUFFRAGETTES - Women recall their... →
Just vote and don’t forget…
February 2010
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The Visual Front - Posters of the Spanish Civil... →
Posters produced by the republicans for the Spanish Civil War
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Luke Howard and Cloud Names Royal Meteorological... →
The man who named the clouds was a local lad
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Google! →
What Google looked like back in 1999.
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A fishy tale from the New River, Harringay
It was Mr Brigg, using rod and line who finally landed the monster in October 1907. For two years it had been glimpsed in the waters of the New River between Wood Green and Harringay and had became the stuff of legend to local anglers. When finally Mr Brigg, after struggling for a full half hour, pulled it from the water, it was found to weigh 18lb and to be 2ft 6in long. For Mr Brigg had...
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A vision of Britain through time | Including maps,... →
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A place to remember lost sons: Coram Fields
I found this little memorial plaque to two sons lost in the Great War above a window looking out onto children playing. It was strangely moving and I thought what a wonderful place to stand and remember. The plaque reads:
To The Happy Memory of Harold Vyvyan and Vere Harmsworth Sons of Viscount Rothermere who gave their lives for us in the Great War 1914-1918 These laid the world away,...
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Race is on to save site of Roman chariot track :... →
Local people in Colchester get together to try to save only Roman racing track in Britain.
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Local history research - an introduction - Your... →
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Timelines: Sources from History →
Beautiful history timelines from the British Library
January 2010
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Archive Awareness Campaign →
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Pleistocene Park'... →
Extreme conservation - ‘undoing the damage’ done by humans begun 10,000 years ago.
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Natural England →
Biodiversity and re-introduction links; farming action