Curious Crouch End
available post free from the publishers Five Leaves
REVIEWS
'By telling these stories Andrew has managed to capture
the spirit of Crouch End: the slightly incongruous,
the half-forgotten, the arty and the downright weird.
This little book will have nestled under the Christmas Tree
of hundreds of local households and, unlike so many Christmas books,
will have been read by Boxing Day lunchtime.'
David Winskill in the Hornsey Historical Society annual Bulletin
'Andrew’s vibrant and playful retelling of local history artfully challenges those who prematurely dismiss Crouch End
as a sleepy corner of north London'
read the full review in the Ham & High
'Whether you know N8 or not, this illustrated book will be a great companion
on a walk or two through the area'
says the London Society
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Seeded sourdough and oat milk flat white –
that's how Crouch End is often seen. This is leafy, liberal North London. There's a Waitrose, a fishmonger, several butchers and bakers, two cinemas almost side-by-side, and more bookshops, vinyl stores, florists and independent coffee shops per head of population than ... well, you get the picture. There's a lot more to this proudly independent locality. In Curious Crouch End, historian Andrew Whitehead tells the stories hidden away amid the Victorian villas and Edwardian terraces of this fashionable corner of the capital: from a pioneering women’s football match organised by the wonderfully named Nettie Honeyball, to the high point of the 1968 student rebellion. It's where Bob Dylan got lost (perhaps) on his way to a local recording studio and where Ray Davies found his ‘working man’s cafe’. Look out for the spectacular Art Deco in the square, the sparkling Art Nouveau in the pub. And Crouch End has its own Cathedral too. A detailed map designed by Nancy Edwards will help the truly curious navigate their way round historic N8 and there's a wealth of illustrations, both from the archive and photographs specially taken for Curious Crouch End. |
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Read an extract: The Ghost Station
and have a look at articles in the Ham & High based on the book
Jacob Walker, the 'faithful slave', buried in Hornsey churchyard
also The Cathedral in Crouch End
and The Six Saints of Womersley Road
plus truth and myth behind When Dylan came to Crouch End
... and the Londonist has published an excerpt
The Crouch End studios that gave us Captain Pugwash
And here's a selection of photos from the book launch
and have a look at articles in the Ham & High based on the book
Jacob Walker, the 'faithful slave', buried in Hornsey churchyard
also The Cathedral in Crouch End
and The Six Saints of Womersley Road
plus truth and myth behind When Dylan came to Crouch End
... and the Londonist has published an excerpt
The Crouch End studios that gave us Captain Pugwash
And here's a selection of photos from the book launch
CURIOUS CROUCH END
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11 Stork in the Porch
12 Saints on the Porch 13 Windy Miller in Womersley Road 14 Maddy Prior + the miners' strike 15 AC/DC 16 Paul's Last Stand 17 Saturday Morning Revolution 18 Meet at the Clock Tower 19 "Jones for Hornsey" 20 Behind the Dress Rail 21 Charles Darwin's Tail? |
22 Workers' Cottages
23 Motors in a Mews 24 The 'Outstanding' Queens 25 Pulp Fiction 26 Silas K. Hocking 27 Working Man's Café 28 Lotus Blooms 29 The Tower 30 The Faithful Slave 31 St Paul's at the Priory 32 Homage to Nettie Honeyball |
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