Less than a week to go before the Haringey Local History Fair

Less than a week to go before the annual Haringey Local History Fair at Bruce Castle Museum on Saturday 23 February from 11am - 5pm.

Talk to Archive Staff, enjoy the all-day talks programme or browse stalls covering aspects of our local heritage and cultural organisations in Haringey.

Museum café open all day for tea, cake and sandwiches.

The line-up for the all day talks programme is as follows (each talk lasts 20 - 30 minutes):

• 11.15am "The Discovery of a Harringay Estate Map" by Bethany Burrow Atherton, (Harringay Online)
• 11.55am "The Chinese Workforce Heritage Project" by Robert Waite, Deputy Curator (on behalf of Ming-Ai,  Institute, Bounds Green)
• 12.35pm "Famous Sons & Daughters of Tottenham" by Alan Swain (Summerhill Road website)

1 - 2pm  Lunch break

• 2pm "Alexandra Palace Theatre - a history" by Marlene McAndrew (Friends of Bruce Castle)
• 2.40pm  "As Alan Saw It: Alan Woodward - An Appreciation of his Life and Work" by members of Radical History Network for North East London
• 3.10pm Tea break
• 3.30pm "The Moselle and Other Watery History" by Albert Pinching & David Dell, Hornsey Historical Soc
• 4.10pm "Picture This! The BBC Your Paintings website by Deborah Hedgecock, Curator

The Search Room will be open 11am - 4.30pm, where not only you can see a special small display of archives celebrating 100 years of Risley Primary School of Tottenham, but also you can ask staff about researching local history and family history.
(Please note: this is an introduction to the service and a chance to ask questions, and not a time for research.)