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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

Artisan Cottages in Markfield Road - Courtesy: Richard Hadingham

Artisan Cottages in Markfield Road

"My paternal grandparents lived at No 51 Markfield Road, described on the map as 'artisans cottages'. This row of six houses were built by the Midland Railway Company c1894 and I think were...

Archive, British Rail, Great Eastern Railway, London & North Eastern Railway, Markfield Park, Midland Railway Company, Moselle Memories, Railways, River Lea, River Moselle, Tottenham South Junction, Workers' Cottages

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Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway - Courtesy Richard Hadingham

Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway

"Part of an original Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway map in my possession which shows the Moselle Brook in the final stage of its course towards the River Lea near Markfield Park."

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Markfield Park, Moselle Memories, Railways, River Lea, River Moselle, Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway

Tottenham South Junction Signals Diagram - Courtesy Richard Hadingham

Tottenham South Junction Signals Diagram

"My grandfather worked for the Great Eastern Railway and was a Signalman at Tottenham South Junction (demolished 1969) from 1899 until about 1920. My father also spent a period there, from 1942-...

Moselle Memories, Railways

Tottenham Signal Box Nameboards - Courtesy Richard Hadingham

Tottenham Signal Box Nameboards

"Photo of some of the Tottenham signal box nameboards in my collection when they were exhibited at the Walthamstow Pump House in 2005."

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Moselle Memories, Railways