Open House Festival

Drink, respectability and resistance

walk/tour

Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, N17 8NU

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This guided walking tour explores the social history of Tottenham — centred around Bruce Castle Park, Bruce Grove and Tottenham High Road — through three interconnected themes: drink, respectability and resistance. It examines how everyday spaces such as streets, homes, pubs and civic buildings were shaped by competing ideas about behaviour, morality and control.

Getting there

Tube

Seven Sisters

Train

White Hart Lane

Bus

123, 243

Additional travel info

We start at Bruce Castle Museum in Bruce Castle Park and finish at The Antwerp Arms, nearby on the northern edge of Bruce Castle Park.

Access

Facilities

What you can expect

This almost circular walking your begins at Bruce Castle Museum, follows Bruce Grove, High Road and Church Road N17.

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Activities

Sun 13 Sep

Walking tour

11:00–13:30

Guided Tour

How to book

Bookings will open at midday on 19 August. You won't be able to book a ticket before then.

About

History

This guided walking tour explores the social history of Tottenham, centred around Bruce Castle Park, Bruce Grove and Tottenham High Road, through three interconnected themes: drink, respectability and resistance. It examines how everyday spaces such as streets, homes, pubs and civic buildings were shaped by competing ideas about behaviour, morality and control, revealing Tottenham not as a quiet suburb but as a place of on going social negotiation.

This is a two hour walk along urban pavements with only slight changes in gradient. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.

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