43-542: Dunhill may refer to: People [ edit ] Alfred Dunhill (1872–1959), founder of the luxury goods company Alfred Dunhill Ltd. Alison Dunhill (born 1950), English artist and art historian Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946), English composer and writer Places [ edit ] Dunhill, County Waterford , a town in County Waterford, Ireland Retail brands [ edit ] Alfred Dunhill Ltd. ,
86-650: A Bowling Club which is situated on land owned by the London Diocesan Fund, part of the Diocese of London . The London Diocesan Fund had expressed an interest in building new homes on the site of the Bowling Club in 2015. Priory Park is, along with Alexandra Park, the main park serving the area. It is a 6.5-hectare site. Two key events that happen in the park annually are the YMCA Fun Run and
129-411: A British luxury goods company owned by Richemont Dunhill (cigar) , a brand of cigars owned by British American Tobacco Dunhill (cigarette) , a brand of luxury cigarettes owned by British American Tobacco Sports and entertainment [ edit ] Dunhill Records , a record label (later ABC/Dunhill Records) Alfred Dunhill Cup , a former golf event Alfred Dunhill Links Championship ,
172-523: A Colin Chapman museum or a Colin Chapman innovation centre for young people. Lotus moved to Cheshunt in 1959, and to Hethel in Norfolk in 1966. Established in 1964, Hornsey Co-operative Credit Union was Britain's oldest credit union , until it merged with London Capital Credit Union in 2013. Since 2000 Hornsey's residential developments have been architecturally diverse and overall accommodative of
215-611: A company selling motoring accessories, and in 1902 opened a shop in Mayfair . He developed a pipe designed for motorists in 1904. He opened a tobacconist's shop in St James's in 1907, offering tailored tobacco blends. Shops were opened in New York and Paris in the 1920s. With his international ambitions, Dunhill helped to create the modern luxury goods market. He retired from business in 1929, and married his mistress in 1945, following
258-455: A contemporary view of where local residents see the boundary between Hornsey and Crouch End and so defines the southern and western boundaries. The area defined is almost identical to that presented by one individual on a personal Google Map. Both closely resemble the post-19th-century Anglican parish and refer to former methods of property reference such as the layout of building schemes (developers' estates). The name Hornsey has its origin in
301-462: A diverse range of the local community. This has included estates of more than 50 homes with a proportion available under social housing and affordable housing schemes. The Hornsey Water Treatment Works were developed alongside the New River , the water supply system constructed in the 17th century that brings water from Hertfordshire to London. The brick buildings associated with the works were
344-630: A generally much more middle class nature continued throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras with the final gaps being filled during interwar period. Most of the early freehold land estates have since been demolished for public housing, or in the case of Abyssinia (Hornsey Vale) to accommodate the Hornsey School for Girls . The tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at
387-677: A golf event The Dunhill Trio , American dancers Other [ edit ] Dunhill Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dunhill . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dunhill&oldid=1105009848 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
430-486: A railway town. This tradition contines: two major maintenance depots for the new electric trains running from Finsbury Park to Brighton have been constructed beside the main line. In 1870 the first shop of what would become the David Greig national grocery chain, once a rival to Sainsbury's, was opened in 32 Hornsey High Street by Greig's mother. In 1951 the first Lotus Cars factory was established in stables behind
473-442: A year in the 1950s. A small group of residents wished Haringey Council to purchase the site and install arts and crafts studios, with a gallery, primarily for local artists. For 1978 to 2002 in the borough, having in its initial 13 years no wards mentioning Hornsey , three wards bearing the name existed and so popularised it among bordering, competing areas with newer names, strongly reflecting their historic, shared identity: In
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#1732771943587516-473: Is all that remains of St Mary's Church. The nave was demolished in Victorian times and a grey stone church was built on the corner of Church Lane and Hornsey High Street. The tower was retained as there were not enough funds raised for a new bell tower. However, in the late '60s the Victorian church was demolished and St Mary's school was built on the site. The 500-year-old Tower was restored and managed by
559-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alfred Dunhill Alfred Dunhill FRSA (30 September 1872 – 2 January 1959) was an English tobacconist , entrepreneur and inventor. He is the progenitor of Alfred Dunhill, Ltd. a London-based luxury goods company owned by Swiss company Richemont and the Dunhill tobacco products company owned by British American Tobacco (now two independently owned entities). From 1893 Dunhill ran
602-507: Is now Hornsey High Street, and in the seventeenth century it was bisected by the New River that crossed the village in three places: first at the end of Nightingale Lane, secondly from behind the Three Compasses and lastly, as it does now, at the bottom of Tottenham Lane. The village grew dramatically after about 1860 and eventually merged with the separate settlement at Crouch End (first mentioned in 1465), to form an urban area in
645-402: Is now a memorial plaque to Colin Chapman erected by Club Lotus. Recently an application to demolish the building, listed by Haringey Council as an "historic building of interest", was turned down following a public campaign by local resident Chris Arnold, son of the former Lotus Sales Director Graham Arnold. It was briefly a plumbing shop but is now empty. Suggestions have been made to turn it into
688-409: Is the churchyard and tower of the former St Mary's parish church, which was first mentioned in 1291. At the western end is Priory Park . This was the administrative centre of the historically broad parish. North of Hornsey High Street, and immediately to its south, some of the area is public sector housing , surrounded by the late-Victorian terraces developed by builders such as John Farrer. Between
731-516: The 1840's a section of a major new railway line from London to the north, the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) , was constructed right through Hornsey near to the centre of the village, and a station - the first out of London on the line - was built to serve it on Tottenham Lane, opened on 8th August 1850. It was successful and sidings on both sides of the line were constructed s well as goods depots, so Hornsey became somewhat of
774-575: The Borough of Hornsey at the instigation of Henry Reader Williams and opened in 1896 as the Middle Lane Pleasure Grounds. In 1926 the western section was added after the acquisition of a piece of land known as Lewcock's Field. During World War 1 this had been requisitioned by the council for allotments. After the war an initial plan for the council to develop the field for housing was dropped on grounds of cost, and an expanded park
817-518: The Borough, and the choice of other railway and tube stations towards, on these definitions, outer parts create conflicting definitions of Hornsey and it is unclear whether since 1965 the term is distinct from Hornsey Village, a term unrecognised by some residents. The old parish used to have two small detached parts immediately beyond and within Stoke Newington Parish. In the 1840s the parish had 5,937 residents, slightly reduced by
860-474: The Carter's Steam Fair. It has a cafe, kid's paddling pool and tennis courts. The park was originally opened in 1896 as the Middle Lane Pleasure Grounds.[2] In 1926 the western section was added after the acquisition of a piece of land known as Lewcock's Field. The expanded park was renamed Priory Park The park was created in two sections. Two parcels of land at the eastern and southern ends were purchased in 1891 by
903-605: The Discount Motor Car Company to sell his accessories through mail order . In 1902 he opened his first shop in Conduit Street, Mayfair , selling clothing and accessories to chauffeurs and their employers. He entered the pipemaking business in 1904 when he developed a "windshield pipe" to allow motorists to smoke while driving. In 1907 he opened a small tobacconist's shop on Duke Street in the St James's area. He offered tobacco blends tailored for
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#1732771943587946-475: The Railway Hotel (now No5 Dining) on Tottenham Lane. The company was formed as Lotus Engineering Ltd by Colin Chapman . The Railway Hotel pub was owned by Chapman's father. In its early days Lotus sold cars aimed at private racers and trialists. Its early road cars could be bought as kits, in order to save on purchase tax . Adjacent to the pub was the first Lotus showroom (now part of Jewson's) where there
989-541: The Saxon period and is derived from the name of a Saxon chieftain called Haering. Haering's Hege meant Haering's enclosure. The earliest-written form of the name was recorded as Harenhg' in about 1195. Its development thereafter gave rise to the modern-day names of Harringay (the district of London), the London Borough of Haringey and Hornsey. The church was first mentioned in 1291. Hornsey Village developed along what
1032-623: The book, the anonymous author credited Dunhill with making pipe smoking "a gentlemanly diversion". The book has rarely been out of print since its publication. Dunhill was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1925. Dunhill passed the chairmanship of his company to his son Alfred Henry in 1928, taking retirement for health reasons. He left his wife and moved to Worthing to join his long-term mistress, Vera Mildred Wright (1902–1976), who changed her name to his by deed poll . Dunhill married Wright on 28 March 1945, shortly after
1075-627: The centre of the old village. Other notable places are the former Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End , and Highpoint and Cromwell House in Highgate . On the north side of the High street was the old public bath and wash house (not to be confused with Hornsey Road Baths & Laundry 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) away on Hornsey Road) which was demolished to make way for a new housing scheme and Sainsbury's . Opened in 1932, it had 33,000 users
1118-521: The charity, Friends of Hornsey Church Tower (FoHCT). It is now used for open-air live performances and occasional services. The internal space, known as The Intimate Space, claims to be London's smallest performance space. It has become one of the four key venues of the Crouch End Festival that now runs an annual two-day music festival, The Tower Music Festival. Hornsey Parish Church holds open-air services there every Sunday. Hornsey also has
1161-530: The death of his first wife. He died in a nursing home in Worthing on 2 January 1959, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium . He left gross assets of £74,117 (equivalent to £2,178,053 in 2023). His second wife survived him. Hornsey Hornsey ( / ˈ h ɔːr n z i / ) is a district of north London , England, in the London Borough of Haringey . It is an inner-suburban, for
1204-406: The death of his wife. Dunhill was born on 30 September 1872 at 2 Church Path, Hornsey , Middlesex . He was the second son of five children of Henry Dunhill (1842–1901), a master blind-maker, and his wife and cousin, Jane, née Styles (1843–1922). His younger brother was the composer Thomas Dunhill . His father occupied premises on Euston Road , manufacturing harnesses for horses. Alfred Dunhill
1247-580: The eastern boundary of the parish was Green Lanes, it is alleged by some that these are now restricted by Alexandra Park and the Great Northern Railway respectively. The southern and western boundaries are less clear cut. A recent version of those boundaries was provided by local opinion as expressed in a small residents' survey undertaken as part of the application for the Crouch End Neighbourhood Forum. It offers
1290-513: The individual customer. In 1908 he introduced the first Dunhill cigarette. The shop rapidly prospered. His granddaughter Mary later described his flair as a salesman and a shopkeeper. The business expanded, and by 1910 Dunhill had taken additional premises in Duke Street. In 1912 he was joined in the business by his youngest brother, Herbert, and his eldest son, Alfred, followed by his second son, Vernon, in 1913. In 1912 Dunhill introduced
1333-526: The largest hundred in Middlesex and was a scattered semi-rural community of 2,716 people in 1801. By 1901 the population had risen about eightfold in forty years, reaching 87,626, by which time new localities/districts, mainly Crouch End and Muswell Hill , were popularly becoming considered distinct from Hornsey. The N8 postcode district , the current form of Hornsey ward as devised from time-to-time for equal representation (electorate) across wards of
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1376-873: The last constructed by the New River Company before the Metropolitan Water Board took over in 1904. They are now run by Thames Water and still supply some of London's water. The East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to the east Midlands, northern England and Scotland, successor to the GNR mentioned above, crosses Hornsey. Local commuter and regional services are provided from Hornsey railway station by Great Northern into Central London ending in Moorgate and towards Hertfordshire . A change at Finsbury Park station gives direct access on
1419-403: The laying out some large estates and subsequently the development of large villas along the principal routes. The arrival of the railway in 1850 made Hornsey a commuter town and accelerated urban development. In the late 1860s, large areas of Hornsey were developed by freehold land societies for working-class housing including Abyssinia (later known as Hornsey Vale) and Campsbourne. Development of
1462-401: The loss of Finsbury Park but comprised 2,362 acres (9.56 km ) taking in besides its own village, the established hamlets of Muswell Hill , Crouch End , Stroud Green , and part of Highgate . In the later eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, Hornsey became an increasingly popular area for wealthy merchants wanting a comfortable home close to London. With them came
1505-684: The middle of the parish. Hornsey was a much larger original ancient parish than today's electoral ward of the same name. These entities are smaller than the Municipal Borough of Hornsey which co-governed the area with Middlesex County Council from 1889 until 1965, since when the name refers, as a minimum, to the London neighbourhood with a high street at its traditional heart to the west of Hornsey railway station . Its parish ranked sixth in size, of more than forty in Ossulstone ,
1548-477: The modern luxury goods market with its international ambitions. In 1924 the company launched the Unique lighter , a product that Dunhill and his brother Herbert had much interest in developing, and was the world's first lighter that could be operated with just one hand. Also in 1924, Dunhill published The Pipe Book , a monograph which detailed the history of the smoking pipe. In The New York Times review of
1591-419: The most part residential, area centred 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Charing Cross . It adjoins green spaces Queen's Wood to the west and Alexandra Park to the north, and lies in the valley of the now-culverted River Moselle . The central core of the area is known as Hornsey Village. Hornsey is relatively old, being originally a village that grew up along Hornsey High Street, at the eastern end of which
1634-471: The outset. The early 1920s saw the wholesale and export side of the business move to Notting Hill Gate , close to the pipe and cigarette division located at Campden Hill Road . In 1921 the firm received its first royal warrant , as tobacconist to Edward, Prince of Wales . Dunhill also supplied Winston Churchill and Siegfried Sassoon . The 1920s also saw the opening of shops in New York and Paris. Bloomberg Businessweek opined that Dunhill prefigured
1677-567: The overground lines to central London, south London and Brighton. Turnpike Lane tube station on the Piccadilly Line is the nearest Underground station. Secondary schools serving the area include Greig City Academy , Hornsey School for Girls and Highgate Wood Secondary School . Primary schools within Hornsey include Campsbourne Primary School and St Mary's Primary School. In Jonathan Coe 's 1987 debut novel The Accidental Woman ,
1720-566: The western end of the High Street and the bottom of Muswell Hill , the character of the area changes; most being part of the Warner Estate built up with large late-Victorian houses. To the south west of the High Street is Priory Park . The High Street has a variety of shops, coffee shops, restaurants and pubs, the oldest being the Three Compasses. The eastern section retains strips of grassed areas. The 13th-century St Mary's Tower
1763-475: The white spot trademark to its pipes. In 1934 he had the ship Lady Gay built as a personal motor cruiser; it later participated in the Dunkirk evacuation and was preserved until being destroyed by fire in 2021. The post-war period witnessed both expansion and the commissioning of new products. The company always ensured its products were covered by patent and trade mark, a policy prosecuted with vigour from
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1806-541: Was educated at The Lower School of John Lyon in Harrow on the Hill and by tutors until he was 15, when he was apprenticed to his father's business. In 1893, Dunhill inherited his father's business and shortly afterwards began to supply accessories for motor cars under the name Dunhill's Motorities (a portmanteau of "motorist" and "priorities"). He married Alice Stapleton (1874–1945) on 15 June 1895. In 1890 he established
1849-507: Was renamed Priory Park in 1926. Some locals have suggested it be renamed Hornsey Park. Hornsey is served by 6 major churches including Hornsey Parish Church, Holy Innocents, Moravian, Middle Lane Methodist, St John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church and Campsbourne Baptist Church. Mosques in the area include Wightman Road Mosque and Diyanet Camii. There are various views as to the location of Hornsey's current boundaries. The northern and eastern boundaries are relatively uncontentious. Although
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