Broadwaters

Heritage Workshops at Bruce Castle Museum with the Willow School

Tuesday, 30 April 2013 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm

Heritage Workshops at Bruce Castle Museum, with the ‘Willow’School Year 4’s, Covering the many and diverse types of farming that took place on the Broadwaters and Higham Road Allotments in...

Allotments, Broadwaters, Events, Farming, Higham Road, Schools, Willow School

Moselle Memories: Interview with Judith Hanna

Judith Hanna is Co-Chair of Growing in Haringey and plays a leading role in the local community's efforts to make Haringey more environmentally-friendly and sustainable. She is the Principal...

Broadwater's Farm, Broadwaters, Clay, Flooding, Local History, Moselle Memories, River Lea, River Moselle

Timeline

Farms, Nurseries, Allotments and Market Gardening

Mid 13th Century: Tottenham was mainly arable farming with only small area of pasture land.
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Allotments, Beam Engine & Museum, British Rail, Broadwater Farm Estate, Broadwater's Farm, Broadwaters, Bruce Castle Museum & Haringey Archive Service, Burial Ground, Carbuncle Ditch, Clean Water, Cole Pottery, Dig for Victory, Education, Edwardian Period, Farming, Farms, Flooding, Hidden Moselle, High-Density Social Housing - 1960s, Horticulture, Industrial Archaeology, Local History, Market Gardening, Markfield Park, Markfield Piggery, Pollution, Quakers, Railways, River Health, River Moselle, River Moselle Valley, Rural Landscape, Schools, Scotland Green, Sewage, Signs of the River Moselle, Tottenham Cemetary, Urban Development, Victorian, Visible Moselle, Wood Green, Workers' Cottages, World War I, World War II

Broadwater's Farm 1892 - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)

Broadwater's Farm and Dairy

"Until the opening of the nearby Bruce Grove railway station on 22 July 1872 the area was still extremely rural, despite its proximity to London and the growing suburb of Tottenham. Aside from a...

Broadwater's Farm, Broadwaters, Bruce Castle Museum & Haringey Archive Service, Dairy, Farming, Farms, Local History, Railways