Friday Ketchup | 24th April 2026

featured

• Experience the Dawn Chorus at Railway Fields this Saturday 25th April at 5am

local news And chaT

• Air pollution N4 wc 13 Apr - Did you know that persistent smoke and emissions from restaurants are anti-social behaviour?
• Chestnuts Park Playground set to open on 24th April
• St. George's Day 2026
• Walk in green spaces - Woodberry Wetlands animation
• Last chance to enter: Children's Photo Competition
• How to help bumblebees in your garden
• Join the City Nature Challenge with iNaturalist this weekend
• Interesting pavement plants: Fennel in Umfreville Road

Questions and Advice

• Finding Out the Name of my House

Events this weekend & next week 

• North London Book Festival 2026
• One day Folk Festival for Bounds Green Food Bank
• The Community Jam
• Muswell Hill Creatives Spring Makers Fair

For Sale

• Antique desk - slant front bureau style
• For Sale: Pine Dining Table
• Vintage/antique bottles - £40

Share, Give and Ask

• Free to collect - packing boxes, paper and bubble wrap
• Wanted : Hazel or willow branches for roadside garden fence
• Free to collect - two garden chairs in need of cushions
• Free to collect - some bits of wood for a shed base

Trades and Services

• Gardener needed
• Guitar Teacher

Local Elections and Politics

• Local Elections 2026
• 22nd April, Earth Day & municipal nature-thuggery
• Where are the Harringay Greens? Does HoL skew too old and right for them?
• She sets the strategy - make your mind up about council leader Peray Ahmet

local history

Photos: New comments

• Horse drawn London Road Car Co omnibus on Holloway Road at Seven Sisters Road, c1900 (new photo added to original post of a restored omnibus)
• Tatchell Recalls George Michael in Harringay & Manor House
• Ridge Road under construction 1900 and early years with view towards end of Hog's Back
• Woolworth Harringay & Salon Bal c1930
• Music Power, 37 Grand Parade, late 1980s

A photo from the archive: Seven Sisters Road - looking east towards Manor House 1961

things to do in April, May and Beyond

• Children's Photo Competition
• The Illegal Oysters
• Bruce Castle Heritage Quarter Open Day
• FRU The Roof
• Highgate Repair Café
• Amaraterra
• All Good Repair Café Turnpike Lane
• PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY BRIEFING: free community film screening & discussion
• Jazz in the House: Henry Lowther’s Still Waters
• Stephen Hose Free Lunchtime Concerts
• Japanese Jumble Sale(Yaneura Market)
• Jazz in the House: Georgia Mancio Quartet
• Jazz in the House: ARQ

Now Booking at Jackson’s Lane 

May

• Period Drama by Olga Kaleta
• Nocturne by One more saga productions
• HeeraMandi by Insaan Arts in a collaboration with Amina Khayyam Dance Company
• The Comedy String Quartet by Graffiti Classics
• The Shedding by Elise Reine

June

• Edge Street Live Presents John Robb

listings

24 April 

• Botanical Drawing Class every Friday
• Pilates mat class Fridays 10.15am

25 April

• Dawn Chorus at Railway Fields
• Pilates mat class Saturdays 9.00 and 10.00am
• Muswell Hill Creatives Spring Makers Fair
• Muswell Hill Repair Café
• One day Folk Festival for Bounds Green Food Bank
• 50 Years of Rock Against Racism Live Music Event 25th April

27 April

• The Community Jam

28 April

• Why you should be a socialist

30 April

• Last chance to enter: Children's Photo Competition
• Jazz in the House: Rob Luft Quartet