Friday Ketchup | 31st July 2020

Featured

• This Sunday at Stroud Green Market

local News, chat and questions

• Old ale emporium
• Marie Curie shop
• Number Two
• Noisy motorbikes
• Bizarre Midnight Dumping of Grain on our Front Doorstep
• Potato crop
• Nature notes: Hedgehogs! Terns! And a BIG Thank You to Haringey's Volunteer Litter Pickers!
• Large dead fish in New River - anyone know why?
• Residents to get new decision-making powers in cycling 'revolution'
• Volunteers needed at Ally Pally
• Virginmedia - more Outage problems

Questions and advice

• Need to buy a bike.
• Can anyone confirm if the Queens pub in Crouch End is open?
• Anyone know if Zhen Hai Healthcare London (567 Green Lanes) is permanently closed?
• Baby carriers
• Funding Application Advice
• Does anyone know someone who can make face masks?
• CV Help
• Advice on purchasing a child's educational tablet laptop?
• Residents' parking permit for a new car?

The conversation continues

• Joggers in the Passage
• The Queens pub in Crouch End
• No Wildlife Meadow for Harringay Stretch of New River
• New cafe Wightman Rd - Le Petit Cafe
• Sit in at the Oak Trees in Queens Wood threatened by Axa insurance company #SaveQueensWoodOak
• Should You Wear a Mask?
• Poorly Signposted Road Closure on Wightman Causing Chaos on Ladder
• Haringey Council to Seize Empty Homes for Homeless Residents
• Any local makers of stylish face masks you'd like to recommend?
• Fancy Your Own New River Tower with Large Garden for just £1M?

pets (including Lost and found)

• Missing Cat

crime, scams and policing

• The local police have been busy!

lost and found

• ‘Property of CR’ key spotted

Free stuff and skills offered/requested

• Free new white wooden slatted blinds
• Free-jumparoo, ergo baby carrier, baby bouncer, city mini jogger carrycot
• Free, Chest of drawers
• Hoping to borrow an infant lifejacket
• Free: Ikea Billy bookcase
• Free: Unused wetroom tanking kit
• Free: Brand new and unused Vitra bathroom shelf
• Some Things to Give Away
• Free oven and hob
• Wanted - 5ft lap fence panel (or part of)
• Leftover chicken manure pellets for free
• Leftover weed control fabric
• Several baby giant houseleeks (Aeonium valverdense) to give away
• Has anyone got some spare Hydrangea Glam Rock or Serratta cuttings?
• Rambling rose - white/very pale pink - anyone interested?
• Free: small cat bed, as new
• Free Rakes X 3

local history

• Hornsey's First Pleasure Grounds
• July 1948: Harringay Arena hosts Basketball for the Olympic Games
• The Development of Sainsbury's Crouch End in Pictures (and a special link with the Sainsbury family)
• Medal Citation For Attempted Rescue in tragic Hornsey Fire

The conversation continues

• He Came, He Sawed.....Harringay & Wood Green's Victorian Saw Mill Guy
• The Story of the Effingham-Beresford Backlands
• Buy a Little Memento of the Queen's Head 

From the archive

• 'Take That' got start in Harringay: Bolts nightclub and all that

Photos

• Catching the Tram to Green Lanes, c1905

local tradespeople, services and businesses

• Window cleaner recommendation
• "Anyone know of a good decorator locally?"
• Plumber recommendation
• Man with Van- Purple Removal Vans
• Mover Recommended
• Optician Recommendation - Green Lanes Eyecare

For Sale/want to buy

• Foot spa for sale
• Wanted - Plastic Cricket Stumps
• EOS 70D Digital Camera or similar Wanted
• Briers Short Garden Wellies - UK size 10 / EU size 44 - £7
• Black 'Dalek' Compost Bin 330 litres - £10
• Ikea Minnen - Extendable Child's Bed Frame - Only £40
• Juicer for sale
• Ecco ladies sandals for sale
• Ladies pink M & S sandals for sale
• Ladies ankle boots for sale
• Double blow-up mattress for sale
• Tile cutter for sale
• For sale: Barbell and weights
• Wickes mitre saw
• Ikea Double Bed (Malm) frame only (£30)
• Floor lamp for sale
• For Sale: BabyDan Playpen, Beech
• For Sale: John Lewis Moses Basket (Unused)
• For Sale: Mamas & Papas Stargaze Playmat & Gym - Like new, with box
• 3 brand new glass ceiling pendants / light shades for sale

things to do

• Girls football try outs
• Football Summer Camp
• Hub Birthday Celebration
• For anyone missing live music events...flute and piano recital

All events previously listed on HoL up to the end of May are cancelled.  Online events ONLY are now listed.

• Harringay Online Events Listings for the Coronavirus Era

Listings

1st August

• Family fitness in Brunswick Park this Saturday

3rd August

• FREE Energy Advice and Savings in Haringey

4th August

• Online Pregnancy Yoga with Carly
• Complete Online Antenatal and Hypnobirthing Course with Carly
• Zumba via Zoom

5th August

• Hypnobirthing and antenatal limited time offer on all online courses
• Online Postnatal Yoga with Carly

6th August

• Zumba via Zoom