The new OPEN OUT Gallery at the Castle is an art project where you can enjoy works by local artists, outside. Just installed, this is our new window takeover exhibition at the Museum – whilst we are temporarily closed to visitors. Enjoy the first in this series of takeovers – a collaboration between Bruce Castle Museum and Public...
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation has rounded off a unique summer by running a sports day for local families at our stadium. Held on Park Lane Square, with the backdrop of the stadium’s 17,500-capacity South Stand, the event saw kids, parents and guardians team up and compete against other families in a bid to be crowned champions....
Club legend Ossie Ardiles and young midfielder Harvey White yesterday visited Haringey Sixth Form College on White Hart Lane to open a new football pitch. Following a ribbon-cutting to mark the pitch officially open, Harvey took the first kick of a mini-match between college students and Estudiantes FC, a local club which combines football...
With so many turning to home-baking during lockdown, what better way to brighten up a November day? But we are not going to say anything further today on making festive puddings in this post. Instead, we are going to look back at stirring another type of ‘plum pudding’ in Tottenham. Back in 2010, Bruce Castle...
Follow the Gruffalo’s Child on her adventurous mission in Tall Stories’ enchanting adaptation of the much-loved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s Child ignores her father’s warnings about the Big Bad Mouse and tiptoes out into the deep dark wood. She follows snowy tracks and encounters...
2020 marks two significant anniversaries in the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement – sixty years since the exile of Oliver Tambo, later ANC leader, and thirty years since the release of Nelson Mandela. Join Nico Blackstock, who grew up in Tottenham, for this talk as he focuses on how these two events link to the...
This weekend is the start of the Open House Festival. Usually this would be the annual Open House London Weekend where architecture and design – both new and old – and our built-heritage of special, unique and unusual buildings all around London are admired and celebrated. This year it cannot be the same as in...
Welcome to Weekend Wonder: A Lad called Bobby – sharing our heritage from Bruce Castle Museum & Archive. With the return of the new Premier League football season for 2020/21 starting today on Saturday, September 12, we thought we would look back to the origins of the local premier football team, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club,...
During what would have been the second week of the Olympic Games 2020, we continue to look at aspects of our local sporting heritage and find out about those who have cycled to success in the past. From its invention in 1817 through to the modern day, the bicycle and cycling has been a huge...
Haringey has a long, proud history of being home to community leaders, reformers, campaigners and activists. Some were born here or moved into the borough to set up their home, and others have come to Haringey needing a place of safety, fleeing or exiled from their homeland. Whatever their reasons for being in Haringey, they...
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