by Peter Walton | Nov 8, 2019 | Development & Heritage
Highgate has a number of official blue plaques – Charles Dickens, Mary Kingsley, John Betjman and AE Housman for example, are all within a stone’s throw of each other in the village. But now we are hoping to get another one, for someone who isn’t perhaps...
by Peter Walton | Nov 22, 2018 | Development & Heritage, Economic activity
Highgate needs visitors – to increase the footfall in the village, to keep our shops, cafés, restaurants and pubs going, to encourage other businesses to open and to visit our theatres and galleries. Here are some ideas that might encourage tourism: A Highgate Village...
by Peter Walton | Nov 22, 2018 | Development & Heritage
Not many people know this but just over 700 years ago, in 1305, Robert the Bruce was a temporary resident of Highgate! He was staying in the hunting lodge which belonged at that time to the Earl of Gloucester, situated on what is now the 12th green of Highgate Golf...
