Friday Ketchup | 5th December 2025

featured

• Hornsey Town Hall: quick first look post-restoration
• Hornsey Town Hall reopening & Christmas bash December 6
• Make your own Christmas Decorations at the Community Garden
• Winter fundraising at The Gospel Centre Foodbank
• Cat sitter available ☺️

local news And chaT

• So long ZipCar
• Friends of Alexandra Park Calendar 2026
• Collage Voices Charity Auction
• Moorgate trains
• People queue politely for a bus in Crouch End
• Home Education at The Paddock
• Labour Party Verdict on Cllr Sheila Peacock?

Questions and Advice

• Local Historical Points of Interest?
• Floor insulation - recommendations please

Trades and services

• Need Builder/handy person to assemble a large kids garden house.
• Recommendation sought
• Cleaner needed
• Highly recommended: Nick Putz (man with a van)

Events this weekend & next week or two

• Crouch End Festival Christmas Tree - turning on the lights
• Ras Tavaris and Jah Kirk
• Christmas Charity Concert at St Mellitus, N4 3AG
• Chilling Tales for Winter Nights at The Castle @ 6.30pm and 8.30pm on 10th and 11th 
• Haringey Borough FC's December fixtures

For Sale

• *RECORD CABINETS FOR SALE*
• *FOR SALE* Three Lego Technic Cars £15
• 2 X Thule roof bars for bikes. Used once, with keys. £120
• Nest of three teak Danish 1970's tables with tiled tops
• Floor standing silver vintage lamp
• Sipsmith Gin, wine and other alcohol
• For sale single bed very good condition

Share, Give, Ask

• Period internal doors - free to a good home
• FREE Terrazzo from Diespeker & Co. Offcuts
• Free - rollator to give away
• Grab bar FREE

Pets

• Any dog minders available Dec 27- Jan 3?

local history

• What Harringay's Road were made of in 1906

New comments 

• How history shaped the wide eastern end of Turnpike Lane
• Priory Vale Secondary School for Boys, Frobisher Road.
• When did the term 'Harringay Ladder' Become Common Parlance
• Building Woodberry Down Health Centre, 1950
• Blackberrying in White Hart Lane, 1905 (William Thomas Camper Atkinson)
• Crouch End Broadway 1975 - when Gails was a Kentucky!
• Paskell's Cycle Shop, 146A Seven Sisters Road, c1910

New photos

• Can you identify this Hornsey Villa built for W R Perry in 1875
• Priory Road at foot of Muswell Hill (diptych), c1905

A photo from the archive:  Turnpike Lane, c1905

things to do in December

• Santa's riding his sleigh around the hood again, 9th & 7th December
• Botanical Drawing Group
• Turning Earth Ceramics Winter Markets
• Campsbourne Repair Café
• Jolly Hobbies Japanese Christmas Market
• Free Badge-Making Workshop
• Santa Grotto and community party
• King Toadfish Christmas Show at the Antwerp, N17 8AS
• John Motors
• All Good Repair Café Turnpike Lane
• Mark and Friends Christmas Special
• Christmas Singalong on the Tea Lawn at Lauderdale House
• KAIYO-KARAMEL Christmas Gig featuring Geoff Simkins and Tommy Emmerton
• Botanical Drawing Group
• Traditional Mutant
• 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
• Last chance to see: Ketty La Rocca: you you
• 🥳 New Year's Karaoke Presented by Fat Gay Vegan
• Snow White and the Messy Dwarves

listings

05 December

• Christmas Comes to Moominvalley
• Fun new group piano adult classes in Stroud Green! 🙂🎹
• Reggae Xtravaganja

06 December

• Santa’s Grotto @ Lauderdale House
• Make your own Christmas Decorations at the Community Garden
• Harringay Songwriting Group
• Crouch End Festival Christmas Tree - turning on the lights
• Lordship Hub Festive Fair
• 🎤 London Vegan Mixer ~ social and karaoke
• Ras Tavaris and Jah Kirk

07 December

• Festive Wreath Making at Lordship Hub
• James Lisney piano recital at The Red Hedgehog
• Christmas Charity Concert at St Mellitus, N4 3AG
• freeYOURstyle Collective x Boy Blue
• Jazz Juice (Live Music) - Free Entry

08 December

• Home Education at The Paddock

10 December 

• Chilling Tales for Winter Nights at The Castle @ 6.30pm and 8.30pm

11 December

• Chilling Tales for Winter Nights at The Castle @ 6.30pm and 8.30pm
• Guido Spannocchi Quintet