The Tottenham Hotspur Heritage Tour: Showcasing the unique history of the Club and its local area

Tottenham Hotspur is delighted to launch its first-ever Heritage Tour, detailing the incredible story of the history, architecture and people that make up the past, present and future of the Club and its local area.

It follows the recent installation of a series of heritage plaques on a number of buildings with historic significance nearby Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to highlight the unique, untold stories of the Club and area’s past.

Officially beginning on Thursday 15th August and operating bi-weekly on Thursdays at 10am, the Heritage Tour is the latest visitor attraction to arrive at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. It forms part of the Club’s wider plans to create a sport, leisure and entertainment destination in London N17, embracing arts and culture and contributing an estimated £344m to the local economy annually.

A Heritage Tour can be added on to any other attraction booking at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, including Stadium Tours, The Dare Skywalk or F1 DRIVE – London.

All funds raised through Heritage Tour bookings (£8 per person) will be donated to the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation – the Club’s charitable body committed to creating life-changing opportunities across our local community.

The Foundation’s headquarters at Percy House sits within the historic Northumberland Terrace – situated on the High Road to the north of the stadium – and is included on the Heritage Tour. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the House was a residence of the Percy family, to whom the famed medieval nobleman who inspired the Club’s name - Henry ‘Harry Hotspur’ Percy – belonged.  

Visitors on the Heritage Tour will get the chance to enter Percy House to learn more about the Foundation’s incredible work and observe some of the artefacts uncovered during the building’s restoration.

Further stops on the guided Tour - led by experienced Stadium Tour guide and lifelong Spurs fan, John Chambers - include:  

• Warmington House – formerly occupied by John Alfred Prestwich, the inventor of the Model 5 camera chosen for both the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic expeditions. Now home to the fantastic OOF Gallery as part of the Tottenham Experience
• The Tottenham and Edmonton Dispensary façade– now incorporated within the Spurs Shop at the Tottenham Experience, where fans are able to have their replica shirts printed. Previously, the Dispensary stood on the High Road from 1864 and was where local people could obtain medicines and visit a doctor free of charge
• The Cockerel Clock - reinstated to the High Road having previously resided on the Red House between 1934 – 2007. It is attached to a new Hotspur Lamppost symbolising the gas lantern that, legend has it, the Club was formed underneath in 1882.
• Ledley King & Harry Kane murals – tributes to two of the Club’s modern-day legends, recently created by Murwalls at Tottenham Community Sports Centre and Whitehall Street respectively
• Bobby Buckle’s House – the first registered address of the Club and home to one of the original three youngsters who formed the Club in 1882
• Walter Tull Plaque – a blue plaque that commemorates Walter Tull, the first mixed-heritage outfield player to feature in the Football League who played for the Club between 1909-1911
• Dial House – the oldest property within Northumberland Terrace, built for soap manufacturer Moses Trulock in 1691
• The site of the Black House (800-802 High Road) – once owned by George Henningham, a member of the Royal Court and associated with Anne Boleyn. An inscription in a bedroom recorded that King Henry VIII once stayed here
• Billy Mudge’s House – one of Tottenham’s first motorists, Mudge was a great friend to the Club and drove a four-horse carriage to St Pancras station to bring home our victorious 1901 FA Cup-winning team
• The site of the Red House – a plaque marks the site of the Club’s first administrative headquarters which housed the office of legendary former manager, Bill Nicholson

The Heritage Tour is approximately two hours long, with a scheduled 15-minute comfort break at the stadium’s M Café. During the tour, you will cover nearly 4,000 steps, so comfy footwear is advised.

We look forward to welcoming visitors to explore the history of our Club and local area on the latest attraction at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.