Talks
Munch and Listen
Enjoy our free monthly lunchtime talks programme - just bring your lunch and listen! All welcome.
Please note: there are no talks in August and December.
Let's Talk Birds: Tottenham birdlife
by David Cottridge, Friends of Tottenham Marshes
- Monday 29 July, 12.15pm
Join internationally-acclaimed wildlife photographer and author David Cottridge (external link) for an illustrated talk looking at the birdlife of Tottenham.
David will be using his own photographs and his expert observations to show us the variety of birds on our doorstep - from Tottenham Marshes, Bruce Castle Park and his own back garden in Tottenham.
Doors open 12 noon.
Refreshments available.
Kindly supported by the Friends of Bruce Castle.
Hear Here
Our free evening monthly talks programme is on the last Wednesday of each month. All welcome.
Please note: there are no talks in August and December.
Bruce Grove, At Your Convenience
- Wednesday 31 July, 7.30pm
Join us for the premiere of Bruce Grove Stories, a new short film by BBC documentary-maker Alex Jones about the community and neighbourhood of Bruce Grove in Tottenham and the proposals to bring its beloved public conveniences back to life. Hear from community group The Last Elm, founded to save the loos, and their drive to restore and revitalise this Grade 2 listed building. Learn about a 'potty' history connected with Bruce Grove - from Bruce Castle's own Groom of the Bedchamber in the 16th century, as well as this 18th century fashionable household having one of the first flushing WCs in this country, to the ‘urinary leash’ and the feminist struggle for women’s public toilets in the 19th century.
Speakers include: Geraldine Turvey of The Last Elm community group; Deborah Hedgecock, Curator - Bruce Castle Museum; Alex Jones, documentary filmmaker and producer of 'Bruce Grove Stories' and children’s film collage; and Abondance Matanda, poet, reading of ‘eva shining’, a specially commissioned poem about Bruce Grove
Doors open 7pm.
Refreshments available.
Kindly supported by the Friends of Bruce Castle.
