Friday Ketchup | 12th July 2024

local news And chat

• Steam engine 'Blue Peter' first main-line run since 2001, Harringay station Sat 13 July 1410 or so
• Nilgun Canver commemorated in naming of new council flats building
• The View From Chettle Court
• Haringey Community Action Network
• Chaos on Harringay's high street as Turkish Far right target Kurdish Community Centre
• Heavy Police Presence On Saturday Night.
• New Gallery opening in Heartlands June 18
• Enter your garden or green space for this year's Haringey In Bloom

Events this weekend

• Walk and talk on Turnpike Lane's South Asian Heritage
• Chestnuts School Summer Fair
• Free performance of Great Expectations at Bruce Castle Park this weekend

Lost and Found

• Lost Keys Green Lanes 11 July

Crime, policing and Scams

• Nearly caught out by a TV Licensing scam - beware

Questions and advice

• White Hart Lane Coles Park Market
• Winkworth boards

Free stuff and skills wanted / offered

• I’d like to donate an old Apple iMac to a worthy club or organisation
• Free woodchip to collect at Priory Common Orchard
• Cedar shingles FREE
• Worm compost bin FREE
• FREE - job lot of SCART cables
• Free single bed/daybed
• FREE - Golden Hands Encyclopedia of Crafts (Marshall Cavendish, 1975) Issues 1-98. Complete.
• 4 person tent
• Free to collect 2 enamel sinks for use as garden planters.

For Sale/want to buy

• Bass Guitar and Amp's for sale £40
• 2 x ikea liatorp bookcases £40 for both
• Industrial Dining Table Small Metal Furniture Set 2 Chair. New/ £50
• Modern Vintage Industrial Metal Ceiling Lamp. 50cm/ £20

Accommodation offered/wanted

• Looking for a house to buy on the ladder/nearby!

Trades and services recommendations

• Looking for a French tutor
• Guttering

local history

• Walk and talk on Turnpike Lane's South Asian Heritage
• Free guided walks to launch Tottenham Tales walking trail (booking req) on 10th and 22nd July

New Photos

• Finsbury Road, Wood Green c. 1910
• Before Jewsons - the old station yard at Harringay West Station c1965
• Chettle Court under construction 16th February 1969
• Woodlands Park Road at junction with Avondale Road c1928
• Barratt Factory, Coburg Road (above where Karamel is now)

Latest comments on

• Horace Walter Smith WW1
• Working out whether a cluster of Seymour Road houses are original or rebuilds
• Mackenzie Gardens, Finsbury Park, 1910
• Western Road Swimming Pool, Wood Green
• Southgate in Colour in 1951 (and the Harringay connection)
• Finsbury Park, Station Place circa 1925
• Pink Floyd in Wood Green 1968/69
• Finsbury Park 1953

A photo from the archive

• Davis & Timmins "Automatic Screw Factory", Hornsey Park, Wood Green, c1905

Local democracy, Politics

• My Fauxpology to Keir Starmer: I'm genuinely concerned if I upset the former Grand Inquisitor
• A free article on Starmer in the London Review of Books

things to do in july

• July Jazz at Karamel!
• Free trampolining trials for 11-17 year olds, Hornsey Trampoline Club - 17th July *NEW CLUB*
• Quiz Night at Olive Three (Wood Green) on 19th July
• Lost Cabaret: A cacophonyony of clowns by Lost Cabaret International Clown Collective
• NGS garden opening on the Ladder
• Broadwater Farm Repair Café Saturday 20th Jul 10:30-1:30pm
• A Summer Serenade - Concert on Sat 20 July with New Tottenham Singers
• Ironing Board Man by Jody Kamali
• ​​Noel Park Summer Festival 2024
• Tomatoes Don’t Fly by Jose Parra
• Mel McGlensey is Motorboat by Mel McGlensey
• Silly Little Things by Trygve Wakenshaw
• Art in the Park
• Intensive SUMMER crash course for children
• Bending Reality by Nua Dance

13 July

• Chestnuts School Summer Fair

14 July

• All Good Repair Café

16 July

• Pomp and Cirque-umstance No 3.1 by Ella the Great

17 July

• Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair by Luke Rollason

18 July

• Troll by Marie Kallevik Straume & Anna Marie Simonsen
• Kaiyo 3 with Karen Sharp