Heritage project

The Heritage project creates a valuable resource for our local area of Highbury. Topics include: the architecture and heritage of Christ Church, St John and St Saviour, Highbury names, places and maps, Highbury people, leisure and entertainment in Highbury, remembrance and the legacy of war, and community and schools in Highbury.

The proposal for the Highbury Heritage visitor centre in the church received overwhelming support during our public engagement meeting in January 2015 at which representatives of the local community also gave us helpful information and suggestions.

Thanks are due to those who completed our online survey on the proposed Highbury Heritage project. The results are available here.

Cataloguing

Some of us attended a training session led by Islington Local History Centre to help us understand how to catalogue Christ Church archivesTraining cataloguing CCH c

Research

In March and April we visited Islington Local History Centre to find information about the notorious Pleasure Gardens in Highbury the 18th and 19th centuries, the house where Alexander Aubert installed an observatory on the roof in the 18th century, the cost of purchasing Highbury Fields in 1885 and many other fascinating details about Highbury's past

                 archive training ILHC c

 

Research

In March and April we visited the London Metropolitan Archives to research the history of Christ Church and the former churches of St John and St Saviour LMA training c