Broadwater's Farm

’Forum of Unity’ Willow Sculpture - Arts Week at Willow and The Brook Schools

Monday, 20 May 2013 (All day) to Friday, 24 May 2013 (All day)

Twisted Stocking Theatre Company will take part in Arts Week at Willow and The Brook Schools to weave a willow Sculpture/’Forum of Unity’ between the schools in ‘The Mead’ meadow at the front of...

Broadwater's Farm, Bruce Castle Museum Sculpture Trail, Crafts, Events, Sculpture, Willow, Willow School, Workshops

Samuel South & Sons 'Calendar Pot' - Courtesy: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)

Michael and Thomas Rochford and The Rise of Market Gardening

Monday, 29 April 2013 - 12:15pm to 1:15pm

Listen and Munch’ at Bruce Castle Museum with Martin Burrows, Back2Earth. Martin’s talk will bring the recurring presence of Farming in the Broadwaters, right up the present sustainable...

Back2Earth, Broadwater's Farm, Bruce Castle Museum & Haringey Archive Service, Events, Market Gardening

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

The Moselle valley, 1619

The Moselle Valley Showing 'Broade Waters' - 1619

Broadwater Farm: detail of the 1619 map of the Parish of Tottenham, Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Haringey), dated 1619.
The Source is: Tottenham Parish Plan 1619
The author...

Broadwater Farm Estate, Broadwater's Farm, Local History, Maps, River Moselle Valley