Friday Ketchup | 1st August 2025

local news And chat

• Pigeons
• Green On The Lanes
• MP Catherine West and MP Sarah Champion's letter to the PM
• "London council named as England's 'most rotten' borough"

Trades and Services

• Exterior Painter & decorator recommendation ?
• treating and replastering a basement wall
• Visiting hairdresser wanted...

Events this weekend & next week

• Joli Blon (Cajun Band) - Free Entry
• Cinema Club for the over 60s: BRING HER BACK; Thurs 7 August; 2:40pm; Finsbury Park PictureHouse
• What's On @ Karamel This Week And Next?

Pets (including lost and found)

• Missing Cat - Reward £400

Free Stuff / Want To Borrow

• free-standing fridge/freezer
• Free gardening magazines
• Table tennis table - free
• Fluorescent 80 watt tube bulbs 4 pin Daylight x 2 FREE GIVEAWAY!

For Sale/want to buy

• Dunelm Curtains For Sale
• Sony PD100 DV Camera Kit £30 - FOR SALE
• Clothes rails x2
• ISLABIKE - CNOC 16 - Blue
• Islabike Beinn 20inch Small - Teal
• Drinks for sale

local history

New photos

• Cavendish Road c1905
• Broadway, Crouch End c1905

New comments

• Unique photos of Northumberland House circa 1900
• Brass pillars for female tube passengers at Manor House
• A cobbled Green Lanes by Northumberland House c1955
• Stock Car Racing at Harringay Stadium, 1960s(?)
• Rainy day in Finsbury Park, 1914

A picture from the archive: Grand Parade 1910ish

things to do in August

• What's on @ Karamel In August?
• Mostly Children's Pre-Festival workshops for Tottenham Flower and Produce Festival 24
• Smiles Collective feat. Ivy Chanel
• Campsbourne Repair Café
• 🎶 Soulvines – Bringing the music of Amy Winehouse to Wood Green 🎶
• All Good Repair Café Turnpike Lane
• Sean Fyfe
• IGNITED LDN
• Swingbusters in the Grove
• Life Drawing at the Museum
• Live Robot Fighting!
• William Wood's Living Content (Live Jazz)
• Grass Roots
• Family Art Day: Discover, Play and Share
• George Johnson Quartet (Live Jazz)
• London Metropolitan Brass in the Grove

01 August

• Back To The One at the Rose and Crown, E17 4SA

02 August

• Free Martial Arts for teenagers
• Plants 'n' Bass ~ Vegan Club Night
• Joli Blon (Cajun Band) - Free Entry

03 August

• Free Summer Pruning Workshop in the Orchard, Lordship Rec
• VEGAN SUNDAY ROAST
• London Metropolitan Brass in the Grove

07 August

• Tori Freestone Quartet