Highgate

Our pick of the weekend’s other news stories.

An abandoned railway, a forgotten river, and one of London’s most atmospheric cemeteries…

Put words in the mouths of these Highgate folk.

A Victorian-era house from Highgate has been recreated, brick by brick, on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

Our old friends at the Boogaloo film quiz celebrate half a decade of movie-based facting tonight. The ‘You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat‘ quiz is an all-singing, all-dancing, part-exploding, often stirring car chase of an event, with multimedia questions drawn from a century of movies. …

For anyone with a postcode beginning with ‘N’, it’s been one of the most visible public campaigns in recent memory. The battle to save the A&E department and maternity facilities of the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill has been won. Health Secretary Andy Burnham today …

Brighter Later launches its new series of gigs for charity on Thursday at Highgate’s Boogaloo; yes that one where Kate Moss and Pete Doherty used to hang out. That aside, it’s a smashing boozer replete with 1960s photo booth for when you get drunk and …

Photo / HowAboutNo! Highgate-dwellers are aghast that Haringey council contrived to blow £1,500 on a Christmas tree in their ‘burb that fell over at the first sight of a breeze. Despite costing a mere £150 to purchase, erecting the tree necessitated a further expenditure of …

Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Opposite Highgate tube station is a tiny little treasure trove. Although it’s got a bit of a reputation for being a children’s bookshop, Ripping Yarns actually carries a wide range of fiction, magazines (old copies of Shoot or …

“who could live in a house like this?” Not you. The Victorian Society, watchmen of all things 19th Century, have raised a red flag over a 20th Century pile. Witanhurst in Highgate is the second largest home in London after Buckingham Palace, boasting 25 bedrooms …