Events

Special Historical Visit & Ray Swain Memorial Talk.

With John Laverick, Lay Minister of All Hallows.

The GI Bride-In-A-Box: A Tottenham Woman's Story Of Hope, Protest and Adventure in WW2

By Oona Kelly, Local Historian and Friend of Bruce Castle.

Stroud Green artist and sculptor Al Johson will be making the designs applied to two story chairs for the Haringey Feast.

Using worked textiles, she will be capturing our memories of the high street and Tottenham High Road and the vast range of shops, businesses and restaurants in our communities that provide us with food – from the past and today.

In this community workshop, you can get hands-on and see how to stitch and work textiles whilst sharing your memories.

Drawing from the collections of Bruce Castle Museum & Archive and Historic England, Curator Deborah Hedgecock chooses images by George and Cecil Shadbolt and looks at their extraordinary legacy of early photography in the UK.

Please book your free ticket for this in-person event at the Museum via Eventbrite.

For queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Saturday 7 October, 10.30am - 4.45pm (doors open 10.15am)

Time to reconnect, discover and be inspired by more of Haringey’s fascinating radical and pioneering history and community heritage at the Haringey History Fair at Bruce Castle Museum & Archive.

A lot has happened since last year's Fair in May 2022.  This October is a chance to get together again and touch base with your local heritage and cultural groups and organisations in Haringey.

Take a walk with tour guide Avril Nanton and explore the history of this well-known road in Stroud Green. With Avril you will discover more about pioneering trailblazer John La Rose and the George Padmore Institute, the New Beacon Bookshop, Black supplementary schools, protests by Haringey anti-apartheid group as well as local Black-led businesses. Avril will share stories about those who lived, worked or brought communities together in this street, making important contributions to the area and to Black British history in general.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Tracing the family tree or writing a family memoir has become increasingly popular, and for many of us there is a fascination in finding out more about who we are and where we come from. There is a wealth of variety for us Londoners, with forebears from across the British Isles and the World helping to shape our unique identities.

Come along and hear from tour guide Avril Nanton on this free walking tour in and around the area of Bruce Castle taking in over 400 years of Tottenham’s Black history. Starting off at Bruce Castle itself, this historical tour will take in original objects and art on display in the Museum, and then guide you around Bruce Castle Park, and nearby Lancasterian Primary School, All Hallows’ Church & Graveyard, before ending at Tottenham Cemetery.

As All Hallows Eve approaches dress up in costume and head down to Bruce Castle, one of London’s most haunted buildings...

In this family friendly event, the mysterious manor house of Bruce Castle is once again taken over by the spirits. Meet the spooky servants making potions in the old kitchen, hunt for Baron Bruce’s Bone Lab and discover what lurks inside the Round Tower... and don’t forget to watch out for the ghost of Lady Constantia as the clock strikes.

This is a free event open to all, but most suited to families with children aged 6-12 years.

BHM 2023 is when we are Celebrating Our Sisters! Join us at Bruce Castle to celebrate our local sister in Haringey – Judith Jacob, British actor known for her roles on television in dramas and soaps, Angels and Eastenders, but also for the hit sitcom No Problem!

This year it is 40 years since No Problem! was first aired in 1983 on Channel 4, created by the Black Theatre Co-operative. Come and hear Judith's very own stories and how she has contributed to making British onscreen history, in conversation with Bridget B-M.

Doors open at 7pm.

As All Hallows Eve approaches dress up in costume and head down to Bruce Castle, one of London’s most haunted buildings...

In this family friendly event, the mysterious manor house of Bruce Castle is once again taken over by the spirits.

Meet the spooky servants making potions in the old kitchen, hunt for Baron Bruce’s Bone Lab and discover what lurks inside the Round Tower... and don’t forget to watch out for the ghost of Lady Constantia as the clock strikes.

This is a free event open to all, but most suited to families with children aged 6-12 years.