Events

xmas tree
Saturday 13 December 2025, 1.00pm to 5.00pm

Trails are available from the reception desk in the museum. 

Free activity, donations welcomed.  

Head down to the Castle and see the galleries sparkling with themed trees and twinkling lights. Spot colourful birds, see the Christmas Post and discover the fruits and spices traditionally used at Christmas.  

Suitable for families with children aged 5 years old and over. Please note, children under 12 years old must always have an adult with them. 

xmas tree
Sunday 14 December 2025, 1.00pm to 5.00pm

Trails are available from the reception desk in the museum. 

Free activity, donations welcomed.  

Head down to the Castle and see the galleries sparkling with themed trees and twinkling lights. Spot colourful birds, see the Christmas Post and discover the fruits and spices traditionally used at Christmas.  

Suitable for families with children aged 5 years old and over. Please note, children under 12 years old must always have an adult with them. 

xmas tree
Saturday 20 December 2025, 1.00pm to 5.00pm

Trails are available from the reception desk in the museum. 

Free activity, donations welcomed.  

Head down to the Castle and see the galleries sparkling with themed trees and twinkling lights. Spot colourful birds, see the Christmas Post and discover the fruits and spices traditionally used at Christmas.  

Suitable for families with children aged 5 years old and over. Please note, children under 12 years old must always have an adult with them. 

xmas tree
Sunday 21 December 2025, 1.00pm to 5.00pm

Trails are available from the reception desk in the museum. 

Free activity, donations welcomed.  

Head down to the Castle and see the galleries sparkling with themed trees and twinkling lights. Spot colourful birds, see the Christmas Post and discover the fruits and spices traditionally used at Christmas.  

Suitable for families with children aged 5 years old and over. Please note, children under 12 years old must always have an adult with them. 

Bruce Castle in 1940 with sandbags outside the entrance
Tuesday 20 January 2026, 2.00pm to 4.00pm

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Let’s celebrate! This year Bruce Castle Museum will be 120 years old, and what a roller coaster ride of survival it has been! Closed during two World Wars, used as a municipal health clinic during the twenties and thirties – and all the time teetering on the brink of full-time closure, maybe even demolition, as its very old fabric needed constant, urgent repairs. Now the recent MEND grant has given us a much-restored building we can look forward to many more years with Bruce Castle open to the public.

tottenham outrage 1909 image
Friday 23 January 2026, 11.00am to 12.45pm

A Heritage Walking Tour

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Local History guide and Friend of Bruce Castle Oona Kelly will be tracing the path taken by two armed Latvian Social Democrats over 100 years ago on 23 January 1909, as they fled from a payroll robbery at Schnurmann's Rubber Factory in Chesnut Road.

High Cross Congregational School
Sunday 25 January 2026, 11.00am to 1.00pm

A Walking Jewish History Tour

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Tottenham Heritage Walks and Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating walk looking at Jewish history around Tottenham Hale.

Starting by the High Cross monument, we will be looking at stories of Jewish families who moved from the East End to settle in Tottenham, in the streets around the Hale, the High Road and Lansdowne Road.