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Happy New Year 2014 and remembering 1914

So ... it's time for the traditional end of the year celebrations - a reflection on the year just passed and  hopes for the year yet to com…

Started by Richard McKeever

1 Jan 2, 2014
Reply by Liz Wright

HORNSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHRISTMAS CARD - AVAILABLE NOW

Support your local historical society and get a lovely new Christmas card - see attached. Using a North Middlesex Photographic Society pic…

Started by Lesley Ramm

0 Oct 19, 2013

Tottenham Cake - featured on the Great British Bake Off

This week's edition of The Great British Bake Off on BBC2 was an unlikely place to find a fascinating bit of local history. They carried th…

Started by Richard McKeever

0 Sep 18, 2013

North London zither supplies..?

A friend found an old zither and accompanying song book in her mum's shed on the Isle of Wight yesterday — both were bought by her gran aro…

Started by Jules

1 Sep 2, 2013
Reply by Richard McKeever

Music in Our Parks

One hundred years ago this week the local newspaper "The Recorder" for Palmers Green Winchmore Hill and Southgate carried a letter in its A…

Started by Richard McKeever

1 Aug 25, 2013
Reply by Lindsey Berthoud

Rock and Roll Enfield - a new community history project.

Sixty years ago next year, in December 1954, rock and roll hit the UK charts for the first time. with Bill Haley and the Comets', Shake, Ra…

Started by Richard McKeever

0 Aug 2, 2013

Looking for more info on Tony or 'Winkel' and his DC tea bar ...

A little search on Google pulls up the BBC Domesday Reloaded project and a local character called Tony. A post on our facebook page suggest…

Started by Friends of Ducketts Common

0 Jul 8, 2013

Historic Images of Bowes School

To celebrate the centenary of Bowes School 10 years ago an enormous archive of images and documents was collected. This glorious selection…

Started by Richard McKeever

1 Jun 29, 2013
Reply by Susie Holden

World Book Day - which are your favourite local books?

World Book Day is marked every March: at local schools kids will be will be dressing up as their favourite story book characters and discu…

Started by Richard McKeever

2 Mar 18, 2013
Reply by Richard McKeever

Joe Strummer honoured in Spain - What about in London?

It's been in the news today that punk hero and front man of the Clash, Joe Strummer, is to be honoured by the naming of a square after him…

Started by Richard McKeever

6 Feb 1, 2013
Reply by Laura Davenport

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