Market Gardening

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

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

An oil painting of the pottery house 'Tentdale' - Copyright: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)

The Cole Pottery, White Hart Lane, Tottenham

"The understanding within my mother's family was that the pottery was started by John Cole. The earliest documentary evidence comes from the rating records, from which it appears that sometime...

Bruce Castle Museum & Haringey Archive Service, Clay, Cottage Industry, Crafts, Horticulture, Local History, Market Gardening, Pottery, White Hart Lane