Saturday 3 February 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, booking required.
400 years of LGBTQ+ Heritage in Tottenham.
Let our guide Carol Hebbs of Tottenham Heritage Walks lead you on a guided walking tour through 400 years of hidden histories starting from Bruce Castle Museum & Archive in the north through to Tottenham Green. Walking along and near Tottenham High Road, explore with Carol buildings and places that uncover overlooked voices and reveal fascinating new research from Bruce Castle Museum & Archive and inspiring stories of Haringey's LGBTQ+ heritage from the past four centuries.
Sunday 4 February 2024, 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Meet: Costa Coffee, 3-7 West Green Rd, South Tottenham, London N15 5BX
The tour takes in the main High Road area looking at the infamous police station, the murals, the old clubs such as Shady Grove, and Body Music, one of the first black music shops in the area.
In 1554 when King Philip of Spain arrived in England to marry Queen Mary, he brought with him his Blackamoore servants. When he left England many years later, his servants remained and built a life for themselves in Tottenham.
Come and hear their story.
Sunday 11 February 2024, 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Meet: Costa Coffee, 3-7 West Green Rd, South Tottenham, London N15 5BX
During the 1960s the name Dyke and Dryden was unknown. By the 1970s they were one of the most famous names in the Tottenham area, opening a variety of shops, hairdressers and supplying Black women with the essential hair products that they needed.
This is just one of the many stories that West Green Road has to tell.
Saturday 9 March 2024, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Free, all welcome. Booking essential.
Meet: Outside The Everyman Cinema, Fortis Green Rd, Muswell Hill, London N10 3HS
From suffragettes to the feminist punk band The Slits, Muswell Hill has some remarkable women to discover. First settled as part of a medieval shrine to Mary, mother of Jesus, more secular inhabitants include an influential 20th century designer Peggy Angus and pioneering Egyptologist Myrtle Broome. Just join your guide Oonagh Gay on this 90-minute circular tour and learn more on this free walk about women from Muswell Hill.
Monday 20 May 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Come along on a walk with curator Deborah Hedgecock on International Museums Day as she explores around the Bruce Castle Museum area – from Church Lane and Prospect Place to Birkbeck Road and Bruce Castle Road. Drawing on the collections and stories from the archives and collections at Bruce Castle, you can discover more about the lives of those who resided or worked here, and who tested and pushed boundaries to achieve the remarkable and the unexpected.
Meet: Under the clocktower at Bruce Castle at 10.15am for 10.30am start
Ends: Warmington House, Tottenham High Road
Sunday 26 May 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Sunday 26 May, 10.30am
Take a walk with Carol Hebbs of Tottenham Heritage Walks as she guides you up Tottenham High Road recalling the sights and sounds of music from our youth. Across the generations, the High Road has seen music venues that were the place to be and hear your favourite stars of the day. Which record shop did you frequent and flick through the vinyl? What stories do you have? Share, listen and explore the musical parade along the High Road through the ages.
Free
Dress for the weather and wear appropriate shoes for walking.
Thursday 20 June 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Meet: Outside Costa Coffee, 261 Tottenham High Road, N15 4RR
Sunday 28 July 2024, 11.15am to 12.45pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Location: Starting from Orange Cafe, N8 0PR
Discover more about Turnpike Lane and South Asian Heritage with Deborah Hedgecock (Curator of Bruce Castle Museum). This will be a guided walk with Deborah in and around Turnpike Lane, looking at places, personal stories and events as we explore our local South Asian Heritage and community history.
Sunday 15 September 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome.
Join guide Oona Kelly as she takes you on a walk along the beautiful River Lea, from Tottenham Hale down to Springfield Park (Hackney) and back up to the Ferry Boat Inn. Along the way you will discover the remarkable history of the River Lea and the vital role it played in the development of Tottenham, its industries, transport and the people who lived there.
Starts: Outside Tottenham Hale Station, N17 9LR. Meet at 10.15am for a 10.30am start.
Ends: Ferry Boat Inn, N17 9NG
Monday 30 September 2024, 11.00am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Join Val Crosby for a guided tour exploring some of Tottenham's hidden heritage.
On this walk you will visit part of Tottenham Cemetery to look at the historic site of the mansion of Tottenham Park, sometimes called the Moated House, and the charming and unusual Montague Cottage. Learn about the residents, the buildings and what stood there long before the mansion was built.
Please book your free ticket for this walking tour via Ticket Tailor.
Sunday 6 October 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Starts: Abney Park main entrance, Stoke Newington High Street. Meet at 10.15am for a 10.30am start.
Established in 1840, the historic Abney Park Cemetery is known for its beautiful woodland, wildlife and its role as resting place for important activists and pioneers. Perhaps less well known, however, is that a surprising number of those buried in this garden cemetery were from Tottenham. Non-conformists, dissenters and radicals from Tottenham found their resting place here, as it was not attached to an established church.
Thursday 17 October 2024, 10.30am to 12.00pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Meet: 10.15am outside the African Caribbean Leadership Company (former West Indian Cultural Centre), N8 0DD for a 10.30am start. Next to bus stop E, Wightman Road.
Monday 18 November 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Join local historian Margaret Burr as she takes you on a guided walk exploring the fascinating stories behind the lives of Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds (1772-1864) and his Tottenham Green neighbours: Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832), the Quaker philanthropist, writer and feminist economist and the Turner collector, BG Windus (1790-1867).
Sunday 24 November 2024, 2.00pm to 4.45pm
Join Tottenham Trees for a walk, a talk, a discussion, a quiz and poetry about Trees.
Thursday 23 January 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Tottenham Heritage Walks with Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating Jewish History Walking tour around Tottenham. Free tickets must be booked via Ticket Tailor.
Sunday 26 January 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Tottenham Heritage Walks with Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating Jewish History Walking tour around Tottenham. Free tickets must be booked via Ticket Tailor.
Sunday 23 February 2025, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Join curator Deborah Hedgecock for a fascinating LGBTQ+ heritage walk along Green Lanes and Harringay. Keeping with this year’s LGBT+ History Month theme - ‘Activism and Social Change’ - this walk takes in Harringay’s many connections to iconic radical episodes in the nation’s LGBTQ+ heritage. From historic protests, to parties and politics, this tour celebrates the diverse and proud history of our borough. Please do bring along your own stories as well, as we map more about the borough's LGBTQ+ history!
Saturday 1 March 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Discover the history of different women's lives from across the centuries on this guided walk with your tour guide Carol Hebbs (Tottenham Heritage Walks) for this Women's History Month. The walk will take you around Tottenham Cemetery, Prospect Place and All Hallows Church and Graveyard, as well as exploring the monuments inside All Hallows Church.
Meet at 10.15am (for 10.30am start) outside All Hallows Church, Church Lane in Tottenham, N15 7AA.
Sunday 9 March 2025, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Discover some amazing women on this entertaining walk with local historian and tour guide Oonagh Gay - from author Gillian Tindall’s connection with Stapleton Hall, to Albertina Sylvester, founder of one of the local Black supplementary schools, and friend of John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books. On the way we will meet peace campaigners, pioneer film producer and pre-school specialist.
Meet at 10.45am (for 11am start) outside Holy Trinity Church, corner of Granville Road/Stapleton Hall Road N4.
Sunday 16 March 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Explore the world of Tottenham women, delving into the world of politics, careers and education and how these women challenged the stereotypes that were set for them. Join Oona Kelly, local historian, on this guided tour for Women's History Month around South Tottenham.
Meet at 10.15am (for 10.30am start) by Seven Sisters tube station exit (near the junction with Broad Lane), outside 214-218 Tottenham High Road, N15 4RP.
