Urban Development

Rosalind Davis

Open House London Weekend: How To Find Home - A talk by the artist Rosalind Davis, on Art & Architecture, Existence and Reparation

Saturday, 21 September 2013 - 12:15pm to 1:15pm
Coleraine Gallery, Bruce Castle Museum

Rosalind Davis discusses her exhibition...

Bruce Castle Museum Sculpture Trail, Events, Housing, Open House London Weekend, Social Housing, Urban Development

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

The bend in the River Moselle - Courtesy Theo Thomas, Thames21

Rivers, Right Angles and Wrong Connections

The River Moselle takes a zigzag course through Haringey, as if trying to escape our attempts to control it.

The straight lines and right turns of its route from Queen’s Wood to Markfield...

Clean Water, Concrete, Culvert, Ecology, Eels, Factories, Flooding, Heavy Rain, Lordship Rec, Lost Rivers, Markfield Park, Pollution, Queen's Wood, River Lea, River Moselle, River Thames, Sewage Fungus, Stickleback, Tottenham Cemetary, Urban Development, Waste Water

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Tottenham development from the mid-19th century

Tottenham: Growth after 1850

"The arrival of the Northern and Eastern railway in 1840 did not markedly improve communications with London, nor did new centres of population arise around the first stations, east of Tottenham...

Local History, Maps, Tottenham, Tottenham Civic Society, Urban Development

River Moselle in Lordship Rec, Haringey, London N17, now open, not culverted, with banks of wild flowers

About the Project

Welcome to our project - 'A River - Runs Through It'!

Our project celebrates the borough-wide heritage of the River Moselle. From its source high up in Highgate in the west...

Archive, Bruce Castle Museum & Haringey Archive Service, Flooding, Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), Hidden Moselle, Highgate, Local History, Lost Rivers, Metropolitan Public Gardens Association (MPGA), Performances, River Moselle, Sculpture, Talks, Tottenham, Tottenham Grammar School Foundation, Traditions, Urban Development, Visible Moselle, Workshops

Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society

"The Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society (GLIAS) was founded in 1968 to record relics of London's industrial history and to deposit these records with national and local museums,...

Historical Societies, Industrial Archaeology, Local History, Urban Development