Friday Ketchup | 19th December 2025

featured

• Saturday Opening at Railway Fields in December

local news And chaT

• New Harringay Passage Mural on Turnpike Lane
• Haringay Draft Local Plan
• Catch North London’s the Limbonauts new single
• Harringay Online it’ should now be time now to revert to a .co.uk …
• Freeholder owners | Building work
• RAW sewage from Park Road Crouch End, surfaces in Lordship Rec; council complacency
• Haringey Circle Crowdfunding: Days Out Powered by the Community!

Questions and Advice

• Recommendations for Quiet(ish) Roads for a Learner Driver
• Gift donations

Trades and services

• Cleaner Housekeeper required recommendations please

Events this weekend & next week

• Islington Meistersingers and St Ann's Singers Christmas Concert
• Traditional Mutant
• Free Family Festive Crafts at Railway Fields
• Festive Gathering at Stroud Green and Harringay Library
• The Freewheelers

For Sale & Wanted

• Blackburn Core Mini Portable Bike Pump £10
• Curtains for Sale: 2 matched pairs thermal lined for large bay and side window with tie backs £300ono
• For Sale - Dining Table
• Brand new Abacus 890mm glass shower panel + accessories FOR SALE
• Green Zellige Gloss Metro Tiles, 3.47m2, from Quorn Stone for sale
• Hoy Meadowmill 24" Kids' Cyclocross Bike Lightweight Aluminium
• Wardrobe wanted

Share, Give, Ask

• Assistance products and equipment on freecycle
• Free to give away : crafting table N4
• Free children’s single bedding
• FREE Dolls house and furniture

Pets

• Need an emergency cat sitter this Christmas?

local history

New Photos

• Side Window of Bakery at 553 Green Lanes with Original Paint and Primer (Hewitt Road)
• "Montague Burton The Tailor of Taste" grille, Topsfield Parade
• Crouch End Flood by Clock Tower 1896
• Station Platforms, Finsbury Park, 1994
• Station Place, Finsbury Park, 1994

New comments 

• Pleasant lives on 19th Century Crouch Hill for Mr Bankruptcy and the originator of the Regency 'Street View'
• Crouch End Broadway 1975 - when Gails was a Kentucky!
• Turnpike Lane East End c1950

A photo from the archive:Children with Snap the Pit Pony at Harringay Arena, 1952

things to do in December and January

• Christmas Comes to Moominvalley
• Vegan Christmas at Karamel N22 – Festive Roast Lunch
• What's on @ Karamel In January?
• N8 NuArts Life and portrait classes,spring term
• Hustle Wrestling Presents: Ambition
• Lucky Nugget's Wild West New Year Party!
• New Year's Karaoke Presented by Fat Gay Vegan
• NYE at The Hillbilly Social
• The Community Jam - Jam Session
• Snow White and the Messy Dwarves
• Lordship Rec Orchard Wassail '26
• Home Education at The Paddock
• Salsa Wednesdays in North London
• Limbonauts only live London gig 15th jan
• The Tottenham Outrage, 23 January 1909: A Heritage Walking Tour
• Discovering the Original Little Russia in Tottenham: A Walking Jewish History Tour
• Ramon Goose + DJ set from Mr Boogie at Jam in a Jar

listings

19 December

• Botanical Drawing Group
• Islington Meistersingers and St Ann's Singers Christmas Concert
• Traditional Mutant

20 December

• Nature Drawing Group for Adults at Railway Fields
• Festive Gathering at Stroud Green and Harringay Library
• Winter Solstice Singing Circle
• Sing Christmas! With Crouch End Festival Chorus (matinee concert)
• We Aché
• Sing Christmas! With Crouch End Festival Chorus (evening concert)
• The Freewheelers

21 December

• Last chance to see: Ketty La Rocca: you you