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May
30
Sat
Visit to Beth Chatto’s Garden @ Beth Chatto's House near Colchester
May 30 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Friends of Waterlow Park are organising a coach trip on Saturday 30 May to this famous garden and plant nursery near Colchester in Essex. Beth Chatto, now in her 90s, is one of the country’s foremost plantswomen. Highlights are the gravel garden, the fabulous display of herbaceous plants and shrubs, and water and woodland gardens. Come along to get ideas for your garden or just to enjoy seeing great garden design. Coach will depart Highgate at 9.00 and return by 17.30.

Jun
27
Sat
Antiques & Crafts Fair @ HLSI
Jun 27 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Antiques & Crafts Fair. Sat 27th June 11-5:00 Entry £1.50 Children free

26th June 5:3O -8:30, by invitation

HLSI 11 South Grove N.6 6BS Tube: Archway & bus 210 271 143 W5 Kentish Town & bus 214 Highgate & walk

Eclectic mixture of antiques & crafts from familiar dealers and new- selling: felted creations, bright soft leather ware, stylish summer hats, china recycled and updated, varieties of stationery, cloth- vintage, quilted, cushions and ethnic from India & Malli, jewellery- costume, tribal, precious, vintage clothing, glassware, books … an Aladdin’s cave of goods.

Cream teas on our terrace café, inside if raining

 

Dec
10
Sat
Highgate Antiques & Crafts Christmas Fair @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Dec 10 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

A small, friendly Christmas fair set in the beautiful surroundings of Highgate’s Literary & Scientific Institution offering a wide range of antiques and local crafts as well as items from Indie Books (publishers of From Syria With Love), culinary crafts from Kitchen Provisions, hand-made cards from Save Me I’m Wild, children’s clothing from Olive Pip Clothing plus jewellery and textiles from Antonia Graham.

For food-lovers, there will be a Cookbook Swap Shop where you can bring a cookbook from home and swap it for a new one, wine tasting and a literary-themed pop-up Cafe serving cakes, sweets and snacks such as Proust’s Madeleines, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Apple Pie, Walt Whitman’s Coffee Cake, Sausage Rolls from Harry Potter and Turkish Delight from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. For children, there will be a Scavenger Hunt (with goodie bags from Rude Health’s new kids’ range) and a Craft Room where they can create hand-made Christmas cards themed around well known Christmas books.

Sep
9
Sat
Hargrave Hall Learning Fair @ Hargrave Hall
Sep 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm