The Growth of Muswell Hill

The Arrival	1
The Gardens	7
The Woods	10
The Stream	14
The Shops	17
St James's School	20
The History of St James's School	22
Coppett's Farm	27
The Felling	34
The Clearing and Building	38
Carpenters	43
Books	46
Terminal Moraine	50
The Thames Valley	54
Tollington School	56
The History of Tollington School	58
The Second World War	62
The Old Tollington Preparatory School building	63
Nineteenth Century Fortis Green	64
Anthony Salvin	66
Harwell Park Estate	80
The Harwell Estate in the Nineteen-Nineties	85
The County Roads	87
Muswell Hill Road	90
Nash's Original Archway Tunnel	93
The Bishop of London 's Hunting Park	95
Woodlands	97
Fortismere	104
The Fortismere Census	109
W. J. Collins Before He Bought Fortismere	113
The First Layout of the Estate	118
Building the Estate	119
The Collins Family	124
Rookfield Estate	129
Collins's Upton Farm Estate	131
The Church Crescent Houses	133
William 'Billy' Collins	134
Bond & White's	137
J. Edmondson & Son	142
Midhurst Avenue	150
A New Midhurst	154
St James's Parish Hall, Fortis Green	156
The Nineteen Thirties	158
Abbot's Gardens, East Finchley	162
The War Years: 1939-45	166
The Conversion of the Coppetts Road Estate in 1957	170
Westside, Fortis Green	172
Road Widening in Fortis Green	177
Highgate Woods	180
The Broadway Church	190
The Church Prevaricates	198
Muswell Hill Odeon	202
The Purchase and Protection of Queen's Wood	208
How the Money was Raised	216
Open Space Movement	217
Queen's Wood Remembered	219
Queen's Wood in the Nineteen Nineties	220
Appendix 1: Housing	222
Appendix 2: How Tuberculosis affected the Design of Schools in Central London	224