ANGLESEY ABBEY near Cambridge offers one of the finest winter gardens in the South, displaying a remarkable riot of colour at the dullest time of the year. Run by the National Trust, and included in the Royal Horticultural Society handbook, it’s a sight not to be missed.
The Friends of Waterlow Park is organising a coach trip to Anglesey Abbey on Saturday 16th February, leaving from Lauderdale House at 9.30am and back in London by 5pm. We’d be delighted if you joined us!
Prices range from £13.00 – £23.50 (depending on whether you’re a member of the FOWP and/or National Trust or RHS). Children are a flat £13 each. Any profit made will go towards the Waterlow Park improvement funds.
For more information email Patricia Walby on patricia@waterlowpark.org.uk or call her on 0207 209 1659 or go to the website: www.waterlowpark.org.uk
Come and join us to help plant a new orchard! The London Orchard Project will be joining us to plant our 11 Fruit Trees.
We hope to also be joined by some guests from Camden as well as our local supporters.
All welcome. Come and be prepared to muck in!
School fair. Fun for all the family.
Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this annual event with live music, children’s activities, stalls and entertainment for all. Admission is free.
Pond Square will reverberate to the carnival sounds of The Hornsey School for Girls Steel Band and local amateur choirs, dancers and musicians will perform on the stage in Pond Square as well as the cast from ‘The Blond Bombshells of 1943’ at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Over 120 charities, societies, Highgate shops and small businesses are taking part this year. No one need go hungry as there will be stalls serving an international selection of delicious foods. The popular Country Fair, arranged in conjunction with the Highgate Horticultural Society, will showcase the baking and horticultural skills of local people and entry is open to all.
There will be lots for the younger visitors to enjoy with roundabout and train rides, a creative play tent, Punch and Judy shows, circus skills workshops, stilt walkers and an unmissable Sheep Shearing Show.
Live band, food stalls, face painting, T-Shirt painting, ceramic painting stall, community stalls and lots lots more
HLSI’s annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books. Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature, travel and much more, priced from 50p. Collections this year include art, photography and special/antiquarian editions. Seriously good bargains!
Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this annual event with live music, children’s activities, stalls and entertainment for all. Admission is free.
Pond Square will reverberate to the carnival sounds of The Hornsey School for Girls Steel Band and local amateur choirs, dancers and musicians will perform on the stage in Pond Square as well as the cast from ‘The Blond Bombshells of 1943’ at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Over 120 charities, societies, Highgate shops and small businesses are taking part this year. No one need go hungry as there will be stalls serving an international selection of delicious foods. The popular Country Fair, arranged in conjunction with the Highgate Horticultural Society, will showcase the baking and horticultural skills of local people and entry is open to all.
There will be lots for the younger visitors to enjoy with roundabout and train rides, a creative play tent, Punch and Judy shows, circus skills workshops, stilt walkers and an unmissable Sheep Shearing Show.
Plant Heritage GRAND PLANT SALE (NCCPG) Specialist Nurseries at St Michaels School, North Hill, Highgate N6 4BG Saturday 30th April 10am-3. 30pm.
Curious about Highgate, its origins, stories, green spaces and buildings? Come in and talk to people who have an interest in and passion for local history. There will be representatives and stalls from the Roman Kilns in Highgate Woods, Camden Tour Guides, HLSI, Lady Gould’s Charity, Highgate School Museum, Friends of Kenwood, Highgate Horticultural Society, Friends of Hornsey Church Tower, Friends of Highgate Library Shepherds Hill, Highgate Society and lots of information about Lauderdale House.
A great day out for all the family.
The Highgate Festival will kick off with the Fair in the Square and continue with events all week.
Young musicians from The Cello Corner school perform live here at Lauderdale House on Sunday 7 July upstairs in the Long Gallery.
The young performers are the students of Susanne Beer’s The Cello Corner, and range from five to eleven years old. A number of these performers have also earned places in the National Children’s Orchestra and have won numerous musical awards.
The programme will include solo repertoire by Bach, Breval and Popper as well as chamber music by Haydn and Mendelssohn.
This is a charity concert, supporting Melanoma Focus
Doors open at 4pm, with the concert beginning at 4.30pm. Book tickets here
Discover fascinating stories from Highgate’s past, and the diverse history of the communities that make up North London.
Come and chat to over 20 people who are interested in and knowledgeable about the history of our local area, including representatives from local museums, historic houses and local history societies at this FREE fair! Alongside Jacksons Lane, we will also be hosting a ‘memory stall’ this year, and collecting photos from the community that show the venues or Waterlow Park. Have any images from the past that you’d like to share? Bring them along!
Confirmed attendees for this year’s Heritage fair include:
The Arts Society Hampstead Heath
Camden History Society
Camden Tour Guides Association
Channing School
The Coleridge Trust
Friends of Kenwood
Highgate Cemetery
The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution Archive
The Highgate Roman Kiln Project
Highgate School Museum & Archive
The Highgate Society
Hornsey Historical Society
Jacksons Lane
Kenwood House
Lady Gould’s Charity
Lauderdale House
North London U3A
Memories Stall
Pink Plaques Project