Friday Ketchup | 28th February 2025

local news And chat

• Update: Asda at the Old Queens Head
• Cinema Club for the over 60s; THE LAST SHOWGIRL: Thu 6 Mar; 12:45pm: Finsbury Park PictureHouse

Free Stuff / Want To Borrow

• Left over bathroom flooring?
• Wanted: moving boxes
• Beautiful colourful rug to give away
• Small wooden drawer unit to give away
• Homemedics Shiatsu Chair Massager to give away
• Free: Spare/Replacement 7W Night Light Bulb
• Free 2 Besta wall cabinets with glass doors
• Wanted: moving boxes
• FREE IKEA INVAR UNIT 2 cupboards and 2 drawers

For Sale/want to buy

• Children's mattress - barely slept on. £100 ono
• Simba Hybrid® Mattress Super King £500 (open to offers)
• Child's Frog 55 Bike for sale - £100
• chicco bouncer chair and travel cot
• Ikea sundvik kids wardrobe , £50

Trades and Services

• Dentist for toddlers recommendations?
• Looking for someone to strip and repaint a ground floor window frame
• Roofer recommendation thanks (Flat fibreglass roof with leak)
• Ladies hairdresser for pixie cut recommendation
• Looking for a an expert in repairs and refurbishment

local history

New photos

• Hornsey Town Hall service counters, 1935
• Downhills Park Conservatory, c1905
• Cranley Gardens Station platforms c1905
• Blackberrying in White Hart Lane c1900

New comments on

• Can you identify the location of this 1849 "Hornsey" drawing?
• Who lived in your house in 1935?
• The Nightingale Tavern - a window on Wood Green's development
• Singing the Blues and All that Jazz: Music at Manor House 1959 - 2004
• Finsbury Road, Wood Green Estate, c1905
• Turnpike Lane, early 1970s
• Old Park Chapel Crouch End, 1863
• New Curzon 2002(?)
• Barclays Crouch End (Interior), 1961
• Keevans Wood Green High Road c 1935 (New design by Taperell and Haase)
• Beautiful Harringay Society Prize Certificate, 1908
• Stroud Green & Harringay Library c1905
• Brass pillars for female tube passengers at Manor House

A photo from the archive

• A View of Hornsey circa 1860

things to do in March

• COMEDY CLUB
• Kasai Masai (Vibrant Congolese Rhythms) - Free Entry
• ​​THE ALL GOOD BOOKSHOP 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!
• Vogon Poetry Night
• Performance: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
• Häppy Hour by The Nordic Council
• Mess by Foan and Fortune
• Freewheeling by The Noise Next Door
• Jazz Night
• Whipped Up! by Soap and Rope
• NCCA 2nd Year Show: UNCHARTED
• Song Circle at Meadow Orchard Project - 6th April

28 February

• Pilates mat class Fridays 10.15am
• KEEPING WARM FOR LESS
• Song writing Workshop: Exploring Songwriting with Phil Cooper

01 March

• ART: POP FORMATION - GRAHAM HOLLICK
• Harringay Songwriting Group
• Collage Kids: Little Red Riding Hood and Friends
• CHUBE
• Footprint In the Snow by Laura Moy
• The Bakelites return to the Antwerp Arms

02 March

• The Littlest Yak by LAS Theatre
• The Detective Dog by Tiny and Tall
• Jazz Juice (Live Music) - Free Entry
• Muswell Hill Creatives Together Exhibition

03 March

• The Natural Sing - Monday Nights

06 March

• Pete Hurt Quartet
• Hypnos