After spending the summer at the Villa, Ackworth, Yorkshire for many years, the family left their home
in Tottenham Green and moved there to live in 1828, but they always considered Tottenham as home.
Picture
Bruce Grove c1890 John Bonny © Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)

4 Bruce Grove: Mariabella and Luke returned to Tottenham in 1837 to live at 4 Bruce Grove although they continued to visit Ackworth in the summer months.  His mother and sister, Elizabeth, had moved to Bruce Grove on leaving their house at Stamford Hill on the death of Robert Howard, Luke’s father, in 1812.  His mother died in 1816 and Elizabeth stayed on in the house until her death in 1869.


7 Bruce Grove: Luke Howard moved to 7 Bruce Grove to live with his son, Robert, on Mariabella’s death on 23 February 1852 and remained there until his death on 21 March 1864.

Luke Howard died here in 1864 having lost all memory of his beloved clouds but still looking up at the sky.