Friday Ketchup | 28th November 2025

featured

• Joyce Butler: 'The National Woman's MP' - exhibition at Bruce Castle

local news And chaT

• Chance to get our own back - Competition to rename the borough
• TFL scores Harringay's connectivity as amongst best in North London
• Jam in a Jar under new ownership – worth a revisit!
• Street lighting in Finsbury Park
• In search of Hope
• FINSBURY Park: a six-year old steps on a used needle; Council Cabinet Member comments
• Full statement—Stroud Green Councillor resigns from the Labour Party
• Can a convicted criminal get an HMO licence for their property? Apparently so
• “All foreigners need deporting”
• Sign up to support the nature conservation site at Pinkham Way - Haringey's Local Plan

Questions and Advice

• Who's the best phone repairer on Green Lanes?

Events this weekend & next week or two

• Cinema Club for the over 60s: DIE MY LOVE; Thu 4 Dec; 2:30pm; Finsbury Park PictureHouse
• What's on @ Karamel This Week And The Next?
• Tottenham Flea and Designers' Fair @ The Castle
• Art & Design Christmas Fair, N15, 29th November
• Pottery Open Studio Wood Green 29th November
• Santa's riding his sleigh around the hood again, 9th & 7th December

For Sale

• Want to buy: footstool / nursing chair
• Fender Player Precision Bass Left-Handed with Maple Fretboard Black
• For Sale - orange yellow Squish bike
• For sale: set of 4 newly refurbished dining chairs
• Stokke YOYO newborn bassinet olive - £150

Share, Give, Ask

• FREE gerbil or small rodent food, bedding and bathing sand
• Motorcycle jacket

Pets

• UPDATE : FOUND!!!!!!!!!! Lost dog - Pug

local history

New Photos

• Finsbury Park West Indian Carnival, Stroud Green Road, August 1978
• Paskell's Cycle Shop, 146A Seven Sisters Road, c1910

New comments 

• Hornsey Historical Society Book Scores Best History Book of 2024 LAMAS award
• Priory Vale Secondary School for Boys, Frobisher Road.
• Air Raid Shelter at 68 Woodlands Park Road, c1967
• Turnpike Lane / Hornsey Park Road Junction circa 1905
• Crouch End Broadway 1975 - when Gails was a Kentucky!
• The train to Herford North at Finsbury Park, 1976
• More long-demolished terraced housing Wood Green High Road
• When did the term 'Harringay Ladder' Become Common Parlance
• Broadway, Crouch End, 1950s
• Blackberrying in White Hart Lane c1900

A photo from the archive: Wightman Road Now & Then

things to do in December

• Chilling Tales for Winter Nights and tour of Bruce Castle by candlelight
• What's on @ Karamel In December?
• Christmas Comes to Moominvalley
• Reggae Xtravaganja
• Santa’s Grotto @ Lauderdale House
• Crouch End Festival Christmas Tree - turning on the lights
• Lordship Hub Festive Fair
• 🎤 London Vegan Mixer ~ social and karaoke
• Mark & Friends Christmas Special
• Festive Wreath Making at Lordship Hub
• Christmas Charity Concert at St Mellitus, N4 3AG
• James Lisney piano recital at The Red Hedgehog
• freeYOURstyle Collective x Boy Blue
• Guido Spannocchi Quintet
• Turning Earth Ceramics Winter Markets
• Jolly Hobbies Japanese Christmas Market
• Free Badge-Making Workshop
• John Motors
• Christmas Singalong on the Tea Lawn at Lauderdale House
• KAIYO-KARAMEL Christmas Gig featuring Geoff Simkins and Tommy Emmerton
• Botanical Drawing Group
• Sing Christmas! With Crouch End Festival Chorus (matinee concert)
• We Aché
• Last chance to see: Ketty La Rocca: you you
• 🥳 New Year's Karaoke Presented by Fat Gay Vegan

listings

28 November

• Crouch End Players Present Chekov and Moliere
• üF-Beat Fringe Music Club - improv and feature acts
• Poetry and Poppadums with Michael Rosen
• Georgia Black - Rope Album Launch Party

29 November

• Tottenham Flea and Designers' Fair @ The Castle
• The Example 2
• Kasai Masai

02 December

• Winter Harmonies Choir Concert - Tuesday Dec 2nd
• Alexandra Palace Womens Institute December Meeting

03 December

• Folk in a Jar

04 December

• Simon Picard Quintet
• Jazz in the House: Zoe Francis / Jim Mullen Quartet