Tottenham Tales

Brook Street Chapel may look small, but it is full of fascinating stories; from its founding in 1839 to its present role in serving the local community.

Behind the beautiful facades of these Georgian houses and beyond are over 200 years of fascinating tales from cloud watching, to pioneering women’s art, to disability rights action.

Uncover Tottenham’s Quaker heritage, full of changemakers, progressives, and the iconic recipe for Tottenham Cake!

Proto-feminists, progressive educators, union solidarity, and a skeleton horse? The history of the High Cross area is bold and sometimes bizarre.

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

Originally built in c1910, the story of Bruce Grove Public Conveniences tells a much larger tale about Tottenham’s growth from village to metropolitan hub.

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.

This site once served as the headquarters of Tottenham’s most popular local newspaper – the Weekly Herald. No longer in print, it is now a vital piece of publishing history.

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.