• Highgate Choral Society's Ronald Corp awarded OBE

  By LiseS at 13:20 on 03/01/12

  

  Choral composer and director of the Highgate Choral Society Rev Ronald Corp has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list. The conductor and musical director of the New London Orchestra and the New London Children's Choir, who joined HCS in 1985, was awarded the OBE for services to music. The 200-strong Highgate Choral Society is one of London's oldest and most acclaimed choirs. Founded in 1878, the choir...

• Jacksons Lane community Christmas Day lunch

  By LiseS at 17:54 on 15/12/11

  

  Those Good Samaritans at Jackson's Lane will once again be throwing their doors open to older people in the community who are in need of lunch and a friend on Christmas Day.  The theatre and arts centre has been hosting a Christmas lunch for elderly and disabled people who would otherwise be spending the day on their own for thirty years, and expects to once again welcome over 100 older people from the local area this year. The ...

• 70 Below at Highgate Station

  By LiseS at 17:49 on 18/11/11

  

  Small Green Shoots, a music consultancy based in King's Cross, has teamed up with Heritage Lottery Fund and Transport for London for the project 70Below - Celebrating 70 years of Highgate Tube Station. The project draws on local people's memories of the station since its opening in 1941. Five young people aged 17-20 have been carrying out a research project this month on the history of Highgate Tube, talking to station staff and local...

• Halloween treats - and tricks - for all ages in Highgate

  By LiseS at 11:50 on 07/10/11

  

  Highgate People loves Halloween - so much so that we started planning our party costume back in May, and we've been perfecting our pumpkin-carving teachniques since last weekend in readiness for the big night. But we know we're not alone in our love of all things creepy, spooky and downright ghoulish. This year, there's lots of Halloween activities taking place in Highgate for kids and grown-ups - join us if you dare! For young ones...

• Simon Pegg bids a fond farewell to North London

  By LiseS at 22:35 on 06/09/11

  

  Actor, writer, film director and occasional Boogaloo headliner Simon Pegg has bid an emotional farewell to Crouch End after nine years, during which the Spaced co-creator became a familiar sight at several of Highgate's favourite pubs. In addition to the Boogaloo gig, performed in April as a special memorial tribute, Pegg immortalised The Winchester in critically-acclaimed zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead in 2004 - although the pub...

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