Extended due to popular demand
Greetings from Finsbury Park will now run until 30 March
Greetings from Finsbury Park
29 December 07 - 2 March 08
Saturday & Sunday 11-dusk
Public event on Saturday 19 January 12:00
Celebrating the end of a year long project exploring the history of the Park, Greetings from Finsbury Park is the second collaboration between gallery:space and the Friends of Finsbury Park.
Greetings from Finsbury Park presents the earliest known image of Hornsey Wood House, the oldest documented building in the area. Hornsey Wood House was located only yards from where the gallery now stands and in the mid 1700s it became a fashionable tea house for Londoners escaping the city grime.
Eight large scale reproductions of postcards from a private collection illustrate the golden age of Finsbury Park in a time when postcards were a popular medium of communication.With six post deliveries a day, you could send a postcard in the morning to arrange a meeting later that day; an early version of emails and text messages.
Different maps of the area illustrate the great speed in which north east London developed. From woodlands and fields, far away from the dirty streets and factories of the city in to a busy, well connected suburb housing thousands of new residents within 60 years.
See what local Edwardians told each other about Finsbury Park and find your house on a 1894 Ordnance Survey map of the area. Become part of history!
During the winter the gallery will open on Saturday and Sunday from 11am and close at dusk.
Closing time will change throughout the show. Please contact us for exact times.
FREE
For more information please contact gallery@galleryspace.org.uk
Greeting from Finsbury Park is a gallery:space production curated by Shiri Shalmy and Linsey Bell.
The show is part of PARK project, organised by The Friends of Finsbury Park with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The book A Park for Finsbury by Hugh Hayes is on sale during the exhibition for £4.99