Events

Join us at Bruce Castle once a month for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories. You’ll be able to chat and enjoy refreshments in a safe and welcoming environment.

This month, we will be looking at sports. From Spurs to skating, we have so many objects and stories at Bruce Castle relating to Haringey's sporting history. We hope to see you there!

You will also have exclusive access to the Museum's galleries. 

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

1950s brought Rock and Roll to these shores, and shocked our parents and teachers. Elvis and Little Richard gave us a new and exciting sound that made us want to move and dance. The sixties took us on to soul and skiffle, Bob Dylan, with his guitar and folk, and the new pop groups, the Beatles and Rolling Stones. Seventies, and the flamboyant Glam Rock, with Queen, Abba and Bowie. Punk, hip hop and rap all followed, musical genres growing from previous generations and ever more inventive.

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories. March's theme is music, so we'll be sharing objects and images from the collection that tell the exciting history of Haringey's music scene.

You’ll be able to chat and enjoy refreshments in a safe and welcoming environment.

You will also have exclusive access to the Museum's ground floor gallery spaces. 

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Modern gadgets can be a bit of a challenge for some of us, for all their usefulness. Those we used in the past were often so much more simple and trustworthy. The telephone, firmly fixed to the wall so it was never lost and never ran out of charge like those all-singing, all-dancing mobiles.

The history of our local communities can be read in our buildings, the different styles of architecture and the stories they tell. Some may still be with us, others vanished with changing fashions. The handsome Wood Green Empire and the Tottenham Palace are evidence of past entertainment pleasures – music hall, theatre, bingo and cinema. The 1930s Muswell Hill Odeon, on the other hand, with its beautiful Art Deco architecture, still survives.

Special Local History Activity for Dementia Action Week 

Not only is it Dementia Action Week from 13-19 May, but this month also marks Local and Community History Month!

To celebrate these two occasions, we've put together a hands on activity exploring the diverse and exciting history of the borough of Haringey, all inspired by the collections at Bruce Castle Museum & Archive.

You’ll be able to chat and enjoy refreshments in a safe and welcoming environment.

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

22 June is Windrush Day, and Windrush has its own London Transport rail line to celebrate, recognising the contribution immigrants made to the country. It doesn’t go through Haringey, but we have our Weaver and Suffragette lines. Weaver, from Liverpool Street to Enfield/Cheshunt/Chingford, acknowledges the immigrant French silk weavers and the Jewish ‘rag trade’. It brought migrants from the East End to Tottenham and provided residents with the easiest route to the Essex seaside.

Since the 19th century, Haringey’s fields and woods have been steadily covered in bricks and concrete. But through foresight and community action, some green spaces have survived. Tottenham Marshes to the east and Highgate Woods to the west edge a borough with parks, greens, allotments and commons poking holes in our urban jungle. Today, children play in the parks, walkers patrol the larger areas, with runners and cyclists weaving round them, football and tennis players find their places and for fitness there are the outdoor gyms.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included. No booking required.

Summer has drifted away, the weather is cooler, but Autumn brings us many rewards with nature’s harvest of fruits, nuts and berries. We live in the city, but not so long ago there were farms, nurseries and orchards on our land, and there are still some remnants to be found in our green spaces and on the edges. My memories take me back to the mulberry tree – once part of an old orchard – in the factory grounds behind our houses. It was a tree we were able to climb where we could scrump a harvest of juicy berries.

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.

October's session is: Bonfires and Broomsticks!

With Halloween and Bonfire night on the horizon, we'll be looking at Autumnal festivities past and present. During the session you will be able to chat over morning tea in a welcoming environment, handle some of our museum and archive collections and share your own stories.

You will also have exclusive access to the museum’s downstairs galleries.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included. No booking required.

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.

November's session is: Festive Food!

With the festive season on the horizon, we'll be looking at celebratory food past and present. During the session you will be able to chat over morning tea in a welcoming environment, handle some of our museum and archive collections and share your own stories.

You will also have exclusive access to the museum’s downstairs galleries.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments provided.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.

March's session is: Grown in Haringey!

With spring on the horizon, we'll be looking at gardens, allotments, farms and more - to celebrate all things 'Grown in Haringey'. During the session you will be able to chat over morning tea in a welcoming environment, handle some of our museum and archive collections and share your own stories.

Free, all welcome. No booking required. Refreshments included.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

"The end of the Second World War was a massive relief, but it was not without its challenges and hardships - and for many a very changed world. Food rationing was not finally phased out until 1954, and city dwellers were confronted with bombsites, lost homes and lost buildings. For those of us who were children in the 1940s and 1950s, there was sweet rationing to be endured, when the occasional treat of a chocolate bar or a bag of boiled sweets was an exceptional pleasure.

Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.

May's theme for Dementia Action Week is: VE Day Commemorative Session

2025 marks 80 years since VE Day. We will be commemorating this special occasion through object handling with our museum and archive collections, sharing stories, and, of course, tea and cake.