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Locale
The area is the location of the Greig City Academy and the Hornsey School for Girls. Greig City Academy, the successor of The School of StDavid and St It is the base of the Hornsey Housing Trust. Hornsey Housing Trust was set up in 1934 with the purpose of Housing people in the Hornsey and Crouch End areas of North London. It forms part of the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency. Hornsey and Wood Green is a parliamentary constituency in the London Borough of Haringey represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the
History
The name Hornsey originated from a Saxon chieftan named Haering; 'Haering's Hege was Haering's enclosure[1].
Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village. Other notable places are the Doragh Gasworks, the former Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End, and Highpoint and Cromwell House in Highgate. Hornsey Town Hall is a public building in Crouch End area of Hornsey, London. Crouch End is an area of north London, in the London Borough of Haringey. Highgate is a suburb of North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath.
In 1968 Crouch End was briefly the scene of a student revolt at Hornsey College of Art. Hornsey College of Art is a former college centred in Crouch End, London, now part of Middlesex University.
Education
- For details of education in Hornsey see the London Borough of Haringey article. The London Borough of Haringey (ˈhærɪŋgeɪ) is a Borough of North London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by
Notable current and former residents
Former residents include poets A.E. Housman and Thomas Moore, eminent theatre architect Frank Latcham, soviet communist apologists William Peyton Coates and Zelda Coates. Greig City Academy, the successor of The School of StDavid and St Alfred Edward Housman (ˈhaʊsmən 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 usually known as A Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 &ndash 25 February 1852 was an Irish poet singer songwriter and Entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Zelda Kahan (1886 - 1969 was a British Communist. Born in Russia in 1886 Kahan's family were forced to emigrate and she moved to Britain at an early Actor Bob Hoskins grew up here. Robert William "Bob" Hoskins Jr (born 26 October 1942 is an English Actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters and The once-famous poet Samuel Rogers, a friend of Byron and Dickens, is buried in Hornsey churchyard.
Other notable residents are:
- Sway DaSafo
- Lilian Harvey
- Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
- Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
Transport and locale
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Notes
External links
- Hornsey Historical Society
- Local community website used by Hornseyites - Harringay Community Website
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