Tottenham Tales

In front of you are three of Tottenham High Road’s many historic buildings, each with their own story to tell - Tottenham Community Sports Centre, Moselle House, and the Baptist Church.

Suffragettes, LGBTQIA+ icons and more; this small pocket of Tottenham holds some surprisingly radical stories.

Page Green has existed as common land since at least the 14th century, while the built landscape around it has transformed, playing host to reformers, activists and more.

What links a local historian-bookseller and the fastest man on a Penny Farthing?

Near this site stood Tottenham Community Project. A democratic publisher producing material for organisations advocating for women’s rights, anti-racism, worker’s rights and more; this was a hub for local grassroots campaigners.

Tottenham has been home to pioneering educators for centuries, and Lancasterian School is one of the local legacies of this important and fascinating heritage.

Pioneering politics, artists, anarchists and queer spaces – South Tottenham has been home to them all!

Tottenham Green has been a hotbed of pioneers and changemakers. In the past 100 years, it has continued its radical legacy and helped transform the political landscape of Tottenham and beyond.

West Green Road’s draw to creatives and artists can be traced back to the 19th century and through to us today. As a place, West Green Road has been an area and community where its cultural identity and heritage has captured imaginations and inspired – from setting up creative businesses and homes, to influencing creative responses through writing, films, murals, storytelling, photography, art and music, and giving people their own sense of agency.