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Alexandra palace farmers’ market
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Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market

Founded by City & Country Farmers’ Markets in 2003, award-winning Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market is held every Sunday at Alexandra Palace Park or nearby Campsbourne School. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the market is a much-loved local fixture for residents as well as visitors to the palace and park. The primary focus is on...

Cultural style week is coming to haringey
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CULTURAL STYLE WEEK IS COMING TO HARINGEY

Growing Cultural Fashion & Beauty Movement Announces Events In Wood Green   Established in May 2022, the London-birthed Cultural Style Week event empowers migrants, displaced people, and their descendants living in diverse cities across the world, to celebrate and share their cultural diversity through fashion and personal style! From 21-27 May, People from all over...

Pedal Power in Haringey
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Pedal Power in Haringey

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...

The Last Elm
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The Last Elm

Some of you might recall in July last year the premier of Bruce Grove Stories, to showcase a new short film by BBC documentary-maker Alex Jones about the community and neighbourhood of Bruce Grove in Tottenham and a specially-commissioned poem about Bruce Grove by the poet Abondance Matanda. The event highlighted the project to bring...

Huff and puff up Highgate Hill
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Huff and puff up Highgate Hill

If you are a very keen cyclist, you may well have checked out the more challenging inclines in London. Although not known particularly for its hills, London does have some really tough climbs if riding a bike (or even walking for that matter!). And not surprisingly most of the steep hills are located in and...

Signs for bakers their shops in Haringey
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Signs for bakers their shops in Haringey

Old signs for bakers and their shops can be found on our local streetscapes today – alongside new ones. Here’s a familiar sign in the shop window of the large and popular bakery with its tasty treats at ‘Yassar Halim’, 493 Green Lanes, Harringay: © Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Archive and Museum Service) Some of...

Chiming with History
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Chiming with History

‘As the chimes of the “grandfather” or long-case clock standing in the entrance hall resound around the museum at Bruce Castle, most visitors will be unaware of the connection with one of the old characters of Tottenham. Clock at Bruce Castle (above) and Billy Mudge on his bone-shaker in 1952. You might remember him from...

Pedal Power in Haringey
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Pedal Power in Haringey

During our present lock-down, cycling is one form of exercise that has been allowed by the government, with all due care and attention for social distancing that comes with it of course. Whether you are able to get on a bike, or be lucky enough to have an exercise bike at home (or might even...

Room with a View
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Room with a View

As our everyday experience of the world has suddenly become smaller and we view the outside from our homes, from our windows or balconies, we thought we would share some views from around the borough from our collections – as seen through or from windows by artists and photographers.   A room with a view...

© Bruce Castle Museum & Archive
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Holidays at home and bank and public holidays 2020

We’re going to look at Holidays at Home and bank and public holidays. In these trying times, with the sun shining, our minds are possibly looking towards better and easier times when we can move freely about and go somewhere else other than our local park or back garden. So, this post is to help...