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The Moselle

A River - Runs Through It

Welcome to our project - 'A River - Runs Through It'!

Our project celebrates the borough-wide heritage of the River Moselle. From its source high up in Highgate in the west of Haringey, the Moselle flows through Hornsey and Wood Green to Tottenham in the east. The waters of this river may now be mainly hidden underground today, but over the centuries they have helped shape the landscape and local industries.

Past industries such as the... more

Poem by Dan Hackett
Haringey Libraries Tour
Coombes Croft Library, N17
Lordship Moselle Water Quality Training Session
Moselle Memories: Interview with Judith Hanna
Moselle Memories: Interview with Martin Ball
Moselle Memories: Interview with Derek Lewis
Open House London Weekend: Steaming at the Beam Engine Museum
The magnificent Beam Engine that pumped the typhoid out of Tottenham
Open House London Weekend: Tower Gardens Garden Suburb
Tower Gardens East Terrace
London Open House Weekend: Muswell Hill Odeon
Muswell Hill Odeon
Open House London Weekend: All Hallows Church
Portal of All Hallows Church
Open House London Weekend: Art @ The Tower
The round, Tudor Tower at Bruce Castle - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
Open House London Weekend: How To Find Home - A talk by the artist Rosalind Davis, on Art & Architecture, Existence and Reparation
Rosalind Davis
Open House London Weekend - Bruce Castle Museum
Early facade of Bruce Castle
Tottenham Cake Recipe
Tottenham Cake with its distinctive pink icing
Slice of History – Tottenham Cake and other Baking Stories
Bruce Castle Museum & Haringey Archive
Moselle Memories: Interview with Joan Curtis
Moselle Walk from Markfield Park to Lordship Rec
Beam Engine and Museum in Markfield Park, N15, Martin Ball (Friends of Down Lane Park) talking about the park, Coombes Croft Library, Tottenham High Road - photo by Art for Architecture, Bruce Castle W-eel-ow Sculpture, Potters Hut Installation at Bruce Castle Museum, Tottenham Cemetery and public footpath - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), River Moselle at Lordship Rec in Summer 2012, Dave Morris (Friends of Lordship Rec) talking about the park & the de-culverting of the River Moselle
Singing the 'Tottenham Toad' at Bruce Castle
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Compost Giveaway
Fork in compost
Sally Wilford Art Exhibition
Art by Sally Wilford
Tottenham High Road: Heritage, Restoration and Regeneration
Tottenham High Road - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Tottenham Ploughmans
Tottenham Ploughmans
Traditional Craft Workshop: Quilting, Quakers and the Moselle at Bruce Castle
Quilt
Fabric-Painting and Quilting Workshop @ Hornsey School for Girls
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Victorian Mayhem at Markfield Park
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'Art In the Park' 'River Life' Quilt in Downhills Park
Art in the Park flyer, 'Art In the Park' 'River Life' Quilt in Downhills Park, 'Art In the Park' 'River Life' Quilt in Downhills Park, 'Art In the Park' 'River Life' Quilt in Downhills Park, 'Art In the Park' 'River Life' Quilt in Downhills Park, 'Art In the Park' 'River Life' Quilt in Downhills Park
Summer Gathering @ Queen's Wood
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Tottenham Flower and Produce Show
Tottenham Flower and Produce Show 2013
Timeline
River Moselle Walk
Queen's Wood, Highgate at the source of the River Moselle
The Cob Oven Residency at The Broadwater Community Centre in Harmony Gardens
Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven, Building a cob oven
Reminisence Cafe @ Bruce Castle Museum
Bruce Castle Museum & Park
Scotland Green, Tottenham
Scotland Green, Tottenham (1905) - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Scotland Green, Tottenham - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Williamsons
Williamsons (front) - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Williamsons (right) - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Williamsons Cottages - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Noel Park
Duckett's Manor (the future Noel Park) and the nearby village of Wood Green in 1619 - Source: Tottenham Parish Plan 1619 (by Thomas Clay)
Digging for Victory
Prince of Wales Hospital Nurses Digging During World War I - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Gladesmore Community School
Gladesmore Community School - Courtesy: Friends of Markfield Park
Lordship Rec, Tottenham
1864 Map - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Archive Photo of Model Traffic Area - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Archive Photo of Model Traffic Area - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Model Traffic Area Today - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, Adventure Playground - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Childrens Playground - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Ducks in Lordship Rec - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, River Moselle De-culverted - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Friends Clear-up in Lordship Rec - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Lordship Rec Gate - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Kite Labyrinth - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Lake - Courtesy of Friends of Lordship Rec, Moselle Bridge in Summer 2012 - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, River Moselle in Summer 2012 - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, Park Vista - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, Planted Bank - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, River Moselle - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, Shell Theatre - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Snowy Moselle - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, The Trax - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, Winter Moselle - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec, Woodland - Courtesy: Friends of Lordship Rec
Lordship Lane, Tottenham
Lordship Lane in October 1893 - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Carbuncle Alley
Carbuncle Alley, Tottenham - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Beam Engine, Markfield Park
Beam Engine (1886) - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Beam Engine (2011) - Copyright: Friends of Markfield Park, Beam Engine interior - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Beam Engine exterior - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Beam Engine building from the side - Copyright: Friends of Markfield Park, Beam Engine building from the side (2011) - Copyright: Friends of Markfield Park, Through the windows of the Beam Engine building - Copyright: Friends of Markfield Park, From the end of the Beam Engine building - Copyright: Friends of Markfield Park, Gladesmore Wharf aerial photograph - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Map showing Tottenham Sewage Works (1894-6) - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Markfield Park Ordnance Survey map - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Fun Day with the Beam Engine (2011) - Copyright: Friends of Markfield Park
Queen Mary at Adolf's Kindergarten
Queen Mary at Adolf's Kindergarten - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
William Hobson
Portrait of William Hobson by Henry Raeburn © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Theo Thomas, Thames21
Theo Thomas, Thames21
Quakers' Meeting House in Tottenham
Plan of the Tottenham Quakers' Meeting House with a branch of the Moselle nearby - Copyright: Religious Society of Friends in Britain, Sketch of the Quaker Friends' Meeting House - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Tottenham Quakers' Meeting House - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Brook House, Tottenham
Brook House circa 1954 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Brook House, Tottenham - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Bruce Castle Dairy
Bruce Grove Dairy - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
White Hart Lane
Travellers at White Hart Lane, Maliphant 1880 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), A view of the inside of White Hart Lane from the South Stand, after a match against Stoke City FC in 2012 - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Tottenham Cemetery
Tottenham Cemetery gates, latter 19th century - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), 'For Lennie' in Tottenham Cemetery - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
William Bedwell
"A Briefe Description of the Towne of Tottenham" by William Bedwell - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), "A Briefe Description of the Towne of Tottenham" by William Bedwell - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Mrs Hobson
Portrait of Mrs Hobson by Henry Raeburn © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Broadwater's Farm and Dairy
Broadwater's Farm 1892 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Cows at Broadwater's Farm Dairy - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Broadwater's Farm Dairy in 1908 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Broadwater's Farm circa 1892 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Queen Mary, the Markfield Piggery and the 'Tottenham Pudding'
Queen Mary inspecting the 'Tottenham Pudding' - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Queen Mary inspecting the 'Tottenham Pudding' - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Tottenham Sewage Works - an Ordnance Survey map of 1894-96 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Artisan Cottages in Markfield Road
Artisan Cottages in Markfield Road - Courtesy: Richard Hadingham
Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway
Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Moselle Bridge
River Moselle Bridge - Courtesy Richard Hadingham, River Moselle Bridge - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Tottenham South Junction Signals Diagram
Tottenham South Junction Signals Diagram - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Tottenham Signal Box Nameboards
Tottenham Signal Box Nameboards - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Talk on 'Artisan Farming by the Urban CheeseMaker'
Wildes Cheese - Courtesy Wildes Cheese, Wildes Cheese - Courtesy Wildes Cheese, Wildes Cheese - Courtesy Wildes Cheese
Richard Hadingham, Former Resident of N15
Richard Hadingham as a young boy (c1954) - Courtesy Richard Hadingham, Richard Hadingham today enjoying a well-deserved pint - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Markfield Secondary School - Opening Ceremony
Markfield Secondary Modern Opening Ceremony (page 1) - Courtesy Richard Hadingham, Markfield Secondary Modern Opening Ceremony (page 2) - Courtesy Richard Hadingham, Markfield Secondary Modern Opening Ceremony (page 3) - Courtesy Richard Hadingham, Markfield Secondary Modern Opening Ceremony (page 4) - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Moselle Brook Outlet
Moselle Brook Outlet - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
Markfield Pumping Station 1925
Whit Monday 1925 - Courtesy Richard Hadingham
The Old Co-op in Tottenham
1962 (1964) and Closure of the Sewage Works
The View from the Bridge: Lea Bridge Heritage
The view toward Lea Bridge from the north, A similar view today...
Michael and Thomas Rochford and The Rise of Market Gardening
Samuel South & Sons 'Calendar Pot' - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Heritage Workshops at Bruce Castle Museum with the Willow School
Tottenham Grammar School and Sarah, Duchess of Somerset
Sarah, Duchess of Somerset - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Tottenham Grammar School Crest - Tottenham Grammar School Foundation
Queen’s Wood – where the Moselle Starts, but Time Stands Still
River Moselle source - Courtesy Theo Thomas, Thames21
Noel Park School Ceramics Residency
Clay pots made by pupils
Clay Modelling Workshop at Winkfield Resource Centre
Clay pipes discovered in the River Thames
Easter Wreathe Willow-Weaving Workshop
Willow 'tile kiln' in Priory Park
Ceramic Tile Making Residency at St Mary's Primary School
Tiles made by St Mary's School pupils
Markfield House
Markfield House - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Clay Hill and the New River
Rear view across the field of a group of farm buildings belonging to Clay Hill Farm in Devonshire Hill, Tottenham - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Clay Hill
Farm labourers work the fields at Clay Hill Farm in Devonshire Hill, Tottenham. Haycarts can be seen near the farm buildings - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Coombes Croft Library: Do You Know What Lies Beneath It….?
Moselle viewing panel at Coombes Croft Library
Willow Sculpture Residency at Living Under One Sun Allotments
’Forum of Unity’ Willow Sculpture - Arts Week at Willow and The Brook Schools
Willow and Ceramics Sensory Exploration
The Moselle River is Telling Us 'It is Ill'
Sewage fungus in the Moselle River, coating the reeds - Courtesy Theo Thomas, Thames21
Luke Howard - 'Weatherbrain'
Portrait of Luke Howard
Luke Howard and Cloud Names
Cumulus Clouds by Luke Howard - Courtesy: Royal Meteorological Society
Luke Howard on Wikipedia
Luke Howard - "namer of clouds". English Heritage Blue plaque on the building at 7 Bruce Grove, Tottenham, London N17 - By Acabashi licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Luke Howard: 'The Godfather of Clouds'
Drawing of the clouds from Luke Howard's Sketch Book
Three-Spined Stickleback
Three-spined stickleback
European Eel
Glass eel, juvenile European eel
Eel Research in the Thames and its Tributaries
Small eel with eel researcher
Three-Spined Stickleback - Young People’s Trust for the Environment
Stickleback drawing
Moselle Villa, Tottenham
Moselle Villa 1965 - Tottenham - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
'Watery Names'
Brook House, Tottenham, circa 1954 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
All Hallows' Church (previously All Saints), Tottenham Cemetery
Portail detail of All Hallows' Church - By Urbanplay available under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0
The Cole Pottery, White Hart Lane, Tottenham
An oil painting of the pottery house 'Tentdale' - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Tentdate photograph - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning), Tile Kilns - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Moselle River Historical Report by Ray Swain
Lordship Lane Tottenham - 1893 - looking west towards Wood Green - the Moselle river runs under the white bridge
Moselle River History on Lordship Rec Website
The course of the River Moselle on an old map - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Haringey Independent: Oxygen So Low in Haringey Rivers Fish Cannot Survive, Thames21 Study Finds
One of the Moselle Brook's headstreams in Queen's Wood.
Friends of Haringey Parks Forum
Kite labyrinth in Lordship Rec
Bruce Castle, Tottenham
The magnificent Grade 1 listed Bruce Castle - home to Haringey local history archive & museum
St Mary's Church, Hornsey
A view of the Three Compasses Inn, and St Mary's, in about 1830, by George Scharf
Moselle House, Tottenham
Moselle House, Tottenham - Courtesy: Historic Tottenham
Edmonton Hundred Historical Society
The Edmonton Hundred area as shown in the Domesday Book in 1086 - map from 1820 - Courtesy of Enfield Local Studies and Archives Centre
Citizen Action for River Health
Green Walls Cody Dock
Sewage Fungus and Other River Ecology Issues
Sewage fungus in the River Moselle
Rivers, Right Angles and Wrong Connections
The bend in the River Moselle - Courtesy Theo Thomas, Thames21
Samuel South & Sons
Calendar pot - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
Willow Weaving at Markfield Park #1
Willow weaving at Markfield Park with Twisted Stocking & TCV
Tottenham Parish in 1831 from British History Online
London's Lost Rivers by Paul Talling
A book, a website and occasional guided walking tours
The Moselle Valley Showing 'Broade Waters' - 1619
The Moselle valley, 1619
101 Things To Do With Willows
Willow fencing at Hampton Court Garden Show, The Wildlife Garden (Silver-Medal Winner)
Willow
Golden weeping willow
Heritage Moselle Workshops (Willow Crafts)
Willow sculpture
Oral History Training Course
The magnificent Grade 1 listed Bruce Castle - home to Haringey local history archive & museum
Pymmes Brook
Pymmes Brook at Fore Street, Edmonton
River Moselle
River Moselle in Tottenham Cemetery, Haringey, London. 22 November 2005. Photographer: Fin Fahey.
Broadwater Farm Estate
Broadwater Farm - By Iridescenti available under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0
'Haringey’s Hidden Streams Revealed' by Albert Pinching & David Dell
Haringey's Hidden Streams Revealed by Albert Pinching & David Dell
River Ecology Talk at the Lancasterian School
Thames21 'Love the Lea' campaign
The Sluice on the Moselle near Wimbourne Road
The Sluice on the Moselle near Wimbourne Road
History of the Brook Street Chapel
Brook Street Chapel, Tottenham - Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported , Brook Street Chapel, Tottenham
The Tottenham Memorandum
Brook Street Chapel, Tottenham
Second 'Tile Kiln Hut' in Priory Park
'Tile kiln' huts in Priory Park
Heritage Moselle Workshops (Ceramics) with Noel Park School
Duckett's Manor (the future Noel Park) and the nearby village of Wood Green in 1619
Weaving 'Tile Kiln Huts' in Priory Park
'Tile kiln' huts in Priory Park
Willow Weaving with Gladesmore School Gardening Group
Gladesmore School Gardening Group with the screens they made for Pistachio's Cafe
Arts Engine@Markfield Project
Willow wheel in Markfield Park, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens, Arts Engine at Harmony Gardens
The River Lea and Tottenham: A Brief History
Tottenham Mills, Ferry Lane, Tottenham by John Bonny - original housed at Bruce Castle Museum, Tottenham
Hornsey Historical Society
The Old Schoolhouse in Hornsey - Courtesy: Hornsey Historical Society
Tottenham Civic Society
Tottenham well
Tottenham: Growth after 1850
Tottenham development from the mid-19th century
Friends of the Earth - Tottenham & Wood Green
Friends of the Earth
'The Moselle and Other Watery History': History Fair at Bruce Castle Museum
The magnificent Grade 1 listed Bruce Castle - home to Haringey local history archive & museum
Willow Weaving at Markfield Park #2
Willow weaving at Markfield Park with Twisted Stocking & TCV
Haringey Potter: Re-creating the Highgate Roman Kiln
Roman kiln firing up for cooking
Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
River Moselle on Edith's Streets
Sustainable Haringey
River Moselle Walk Guide: Highgate to Tottenham
Read and Hear the Poem by Markfield Project Arts Engine!
Hear the 'Tottenham Toad' Sung by Noel Park and St Francis De Sales Schools!
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