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Jun
13
Thu
Friends of Waterlow Park AGM @ Waterlow Park Centre
Jun 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Various speakers will give an overview of developments in the park including the recent planting of an orchard and an update on consultation over future management plans which include the proposal of a new Community Management group.

The Waterlow Park Centre is the low white building near the Dartmouth Park Hill lodge entrance.

Nov
16
Sat
Friends of Parkland Walk @ Parkland Walk
Nov 16 all-day

the Big Clean organised by Friends of Parkland Walk. Please contact info@parkland-walk.org.uk to outline which of the four sessions you would be interested in attending: either at the southern section or Muswell Hill section of the Parkland Walk.

Nov
17
Sun
Friends of Parkland Walk @ Parkland Walk
Nov 17 all-day

the Big Clean organised by Friends of Parkland Walk. Please contact info@parkland-walk.org.uk to outline which of the four sessions you would be interested in attending: either at the southern section or Muswell Hill section of the Parkland Walk.

Big Clean @ The Parkland Walk
Nov 17 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

The Big Clean

The Highgate section of the Parkland Walk is being tackled on Sunday afternoon.

May
9
Mon
A Marvell-ous Literary Walk @ Around Highgate
May 9 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This will take place on Monday May 9 led by Zeb Soanes and Ruth Hazeldine featuring insights into the lives of famous literary figures in Highgate. The walk will include readings by Zeb Soanes, BBC Newsreader.

Price, including a cream tea, is £12. Places are limited. Please apply by April 30 with s.a.e to Ruth Hazeldine 52 Jacksons Lane, N6 5SX. Phone 020 8340 5446 for more info.
Full details will be sent with your ticket. Cheques made out to Highgate Society.

Oct
13
Tue
Virtual Tour – The Heights of Dickens @ Virtual tour
Oct 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

From the comfort of your home, follow in a virtual tour in Charles Dickens’ footsteps in a walk from Highgate to the hamlet of North End on the border with Hampstead and Hampstead Garden Suburb. We will follow some of Bill Sikes escape route after murdering Nancy in Oliver Twist, see houses that Dickens stayed in; learn about his friendship with philanthropist Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts; view the house that inspired Steerforth’s mother’s house in David Copperfield and peep into Highgate Cemtrey where several members of the Dickens family were buried and follow the Gordon rioters in Barnaby Rudge towards Lord Mansfield’s country estate at Kenwood (Caen Wood). We will pay a visit o the Spaniard’s Inn featured in the Pickwick Papers and continue with Bill Sikes’ journey in Oliver Twist from Highgate Hill across the grounds of Kenwood towards Northend and Hendon. We finish in North End where we view the 17th farmhouse that Dickens lodged in after the death of his sister in law Mary Hogarth.