Sharing information about the borough's history, heritage & historic house museums, including exhibitions & events. Part of London Borough of Sutton Cultural Services.
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Honeywood Museum is an intriguing Grade II listed house next to Carshalton Ponds, predominantly Edwardian but with structural evidence which dates it back to the 17th Century. Opening times:Thurs, Fri, Sat 10am - 5pm
Address: Honeywood Walk, Carshalton , SM5 3NX
Contact: [email protected] Tel: 020 8770 42
Welcome to Sutton Heritage, part of London Borough of Sutton Cultural Services
Honeywood Museum is an intriguing Grade II listed house next to Carshalton Ponds, predominantly Edwardian but with structural evidence which dates it back to the 17th Century. Opening times:Thurs, Fri, Sat 10am - 5pm
Address: Honeywood Walk, Carshalton , SM5 3NX
Contact: [email protected] Tel: 020 8770 42
Operating as usual
Sutton Council is offering two new beautiful historic venues for civil ceremonies. Whitehall Historic House in Cheam and Honeywood Museum in Carshalton are steeped in history, offering value for money for small intimate ceremonies. More information here: https://tinyurl.com/SuttonCeremonyVenue
The Friends of Honeywood Museum
We have some exciting events coming up at Honeywood Museum as part of Wandle Fortnight Events, a celebration of all things Wandle, for the community, by the community.
The Wandle Wardrobe: stories of life in lockdown along the Wandle Trail:
The Wandle Wardrobe explores how our relationship with the river has changed, and how our lost clothes might suggest the ways we interact with the natural world. Honeywood Museum 11 September, 11am - 4pm, FREE.
The Wandle from Honeywood to Hackbridge: Join John Phillips for a guided walk looking at the history of the river in Carshalton. Meet at Honeywood Museum, 25 September 2pm, £5.
For more information or to book visit: https://visit-honeywood-museum.eventbrite.co.uk
Who remembers balancing on the wooden forms at gym time, or climbing the ropes? This Sutton High School for girls gymnastics lesson from c.1910 evoking memories of wooden school gym apparatus right the way up the 1980s and 90s. #BackToSchool #ExploreYourArchive
Who remembers balancing on the wooden forms at gym time, or climbing the ropes? This Sutton High School for girls gymnastics lesson from c.1910 evoking memories of wooden school gym apparatus right the way up the 1980s and 90s. #BackToSchool #ExploreYourArchive
🌳Sutton Council has identified seven possible locations for a new green space in the borough. These areas are particularly vulnerable to flooding and/or overheating, and have limited access to open green space. Options could include increasing green areas, improving wildlife habitats, landscaping plants, new trees and creating better drainage through the removal of tarmac and adding in planting🌳
Complete the survey now! https://bit.ly/3m44zLh
🌳Sutton Council has identified seven possible locations for a new green space in the borough. These areas are particularly vulnerable to flooding and/or overheating, and have limited access to open green space. Options could include increasing green areas, improving wildlife habitats, landscaping plants, new trees and creating better drainage through the removal of tarmac and adding in planting🌳
Complete the survey now! https://bit.ly/3m44zLh
Join us at Whitehall Mice for a special session that will include Makaton Signing, a sign language often used to support babies and children as they develop speech skills.
Whitehall Historic House, Wednesday 15 September. Book tickets £5 in advance:
Babies 0 - 18 Months | 10am: https://whitehall-house-mice-zero-to-eighteen-months.eventbrite.co.uk
Babies 18 Months - 3 years | 11am: https://whitehall-house-mice-eighteenmonths-to-three-years.eventbrite.co.uk
Join us at Whitehall Mice for a special session that will include Makaton Signing, a sign language often used to support babies and children as they develop speech skills.
Whitehall Historic House, Wednesday 15 September. Book tickets £5 in advance:
Babies 0 - 18 Months | 10am: https://whitehall-house-mice-zero-to-eighteen-months.eventbrite.co.uk
Babies 18 Months - 3 years | 11am: https://whitehall-house-mice-eighteenmonths-to-three-years.eventbrite.co.uk
Letters to the Earth and Sutton Council are inviting you to respond and express how your feel about the climate crisis. Families or anyone who wishes to contribute can drop into Honeywood Museum & Whitehall Historic House and share a letter, piece of art, or creative response to the climate crisis.
Thursday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm. Drop-in event, FREE
Contributions will form an exhibition across Honeywood Museum and Whitehall Historic House this November.
Creative Writing For Mental Wellbeing by @suttoncollege starts Wednesday 22 September, for 10 weeks, 9:30am - 11:30am at Whitehall Historic House. Explore different creative writing themes and activities to get closer to your unique writing voice.
Standard fee £70.00 or concessions £49.00. Course ref: E30000F17NG or search “wellbeing” at www.suttoncollege.ac.uk
Creative Writing For Mental Wellbeing by @suttoncollege starts Wednesday 22 September, for 10 weeks, 9:30am - 11:30am at Whitehall Historic House. Explore different creative writing themes and activities to get closer to your unique writing voice.
Standard fee £70.00 or concessions £49.00. Course ref: E30000F17NG or search “wellbeing” at www.suttoncollege.ac.uk
Explore inspiring exhibitions at Whitehall Historic House & Honeywood Museum this week:
🖼️ Whitehall in Words - Last chance to see original poetry, prose, artworks and personal photographs bringing together life experiences within and beyond the borough, and Whitehall Historic House.
🎨 Crafting a Village - Inspirational model houses and buildings made from mixed media, clay, card, and textiles and turned into a model village by Sutton South Hello.
🎞️ Match: Weddings of the past and memories for the future - we look back at some of the weddings of the past captured by Sutton's famous high street photographer, David Knights-Whittome, and explore the importance of civil ceremonies in the historic record.
Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Free entry. More information:
Honeywood Museum: https://visit-honeywood-museum.eventbrite.co.uk
Whitehall Historic House: https://visit-whitehall-historic-house.eventbrite.co.uk
The Friends of Honeywood Museum
Thank you to everyone who joined us at last Saturday's guided tours.
We have more informative tours coming up this weekend as part of the Open House festival:
👉 Whitehall Tour - Learn about Tudor origins of the building, and the stories of the residents who lived at Whitehall during it’s 500 year history. Cost £5
👉 Honeywood Museum Garden Tour - With guide Jane Howard looking at the surviving features of the late Victorian and Edwardian garden. Cost: FREE
For more details or to book visit: https://suttonculturalservices.eventbrite.com/
The Friends of Honeywood Museum
Timeline Photos
What should we do to make Sutton an even better place to live, work and raise a family after the pandemic?
👷♀️ More local jobs
🌍 Tackling climate change
🏡 Increasing affordable housing
☝️ All this and more?
We’re launching the Stronger Sutton Conversation to hear how Covid-19 affected you and what you want us to improve as we move forward.
Let’s recover better together. Have your say: https://bit.ly/3sqTvZZ
Look out for this exciting opportunity to carry out research into the history of the Royal Female Orphanage as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund project: Restoring and Celebrating the Arts and Craftsmanship of St Mary’s, Beddington.
Look out for this exciting opportunity to carry out research into the history of the Royal Female Orphanage as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund project: Restoring and Celebrating the Arts and Craftsmanship of St Mary’s, Beddington.
Join guide, John Phillips, on a walk from Honeywood Museum to Hackbridge looking at the history of the river in Carshalton.
Saturday 25 September 2pm, Meet outside Honeywood Museum. Cost £5 in advance. Book tickets here: https://the-wandle-from-honeywood-to-hackbridge-walk.eventbrite.co.uk
Join guide, John Phillips, on a walk from Honeywood Museum to Hackbridge looking at the history of the river in Carshalton.
Saturday 25 September 2pm, Meet outside Honeywood Museum. Cost £5 in advance. Book tickets here: https://the-wandle-from-honeywood-to-hackbridge-walk.eventbrite.co.uk
Starting today as part of the Open House Festival enjoy guided tours & live music performances:
👉 Whitehall Historic House Tour
👉 Honeywood Museum Garden Tour
👉 Sutton Music Service Performance at Wallington Library Gardens.
For more details or to book visit: https://suttonculturalservices.eventbrite.com/
Starting today as part of the Open House Festival enjoy guided tours & live music performances:
👉 Whitehall Historic House Tour
👉 Honeywood Museum Garden Tour
👉 Sutton Music Service Performance at Wallington Library Gardens.
For more details or to book visit: https://suttonculturalservices.eventbrite.com/
As part of Open House 2021, welcome to Little Holland House, and the story of it's remarkable creators: Frank Dickinson, and his wife, Florence. The vast majority of everything on display- right from the building's foundations to it's furnishings- was created through this partnership.
Follow the Red tags to learn the story of the Dickinson family, and their life in Little Holland House.
Follow the Blue tags to learn more about each object, and the tale behind their creation.
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=BfuEijDZ3nd
The girls of Dinorben School in Woodcote Road Wallington here, angelic in summer dresses and short bobs for the Summer of 1954. #BackToSchool #ExploreYourArchive
The girls of Dinorben School in Woodcote Road Wallington here, angelic in summer dresses and short bobs for the Summer of 1954. #BackToSchool #ExploreYourArchive
Coming this October: Commemorate the African experience of the Second World War through this free exhibition at Sutton Central Library, open until 13th November.
https://www.learningthroughthearts.co.uk/events/the-royal-west-african-frontier-force-in-the-second-world-war/
Coming this October: Commemorate the African experience of the Second World War through this free exhibition at Sutton Central Library, open until 13th November.
https://www.learningthroughthearts.co.uk/events/the-royal-west-african-frontier-force-in-the-second-world-war/
A small band of students and alumni from Sutton Music Service will bring a great music set of rock and pop tracks, with music from Mancini to Bruno Mars!
Come for FREE on 4th September, 11:30am at Wallington Library Gardens
https://sutton-music-service-perform-in-wallington-gardens.eventbrite.co.uk
A small band of students and alumni from Sutton Music Service will bring a great music set of rock and pop tracks, with music from Mancini to Bruno Mars!
Come for FREE on 4th September, 11:30am at Wallington Library Gardens
https://sutton-music-service-perform-in-wallington-gardens.eventbrite.co.uk
Textile artist Elly Platt has walked the length of the Wandle Trail in South London collecting lost or discarded textiles. The River Wandle has a rich history as a site of textile production and is also an ecological success story. The Wandle Wardrobe explores how our relationship with the Wandle has changed, and how our lost clothes might suggest the ways we interact with the natural world. Textile artist Elly Platt has presented her collections of lost clothes and textile scraps as quilts.
Saturday 11 September 11am - 4pm, Honeywood Museum. Register in advance for FREE tickets here: https://wandle-wardrobe-stories-of-life-in-lockdown.eventbrite.co.uk
The Friends of Honeywood Museum
Textile artist Elly Platt has walked the length of the Wandle Trail in South London collecting lost or discarded textiles. The River Wandle has a rich history as a site of textile production and is also an ecological success story. The Wandle Wardrobe explores how our relationship with the Wandle has changed, and how our lost clothes might suggest the ways we interact with the natural world. Textile artist Elly Platt has presented her collections of lost clothes and textile scraps as quilts.
Saturday 11 September 11am - 4pm, Honeywood Museum. Register in advance for FREE tickets here: https://wandle-wardrobe-stories-of-life-in-lockdown.eventbrite.co.uk
The Friends of Honeywood Museum
Get a taste of what to expect at our all-encompassing tour of Whitehall Historic House. On the tour learn about the interesting facets, Tudor origins of the building, and the stories of residents who lived at Whitehall during it’s 500 year history.
Saturdays 4 & 11 September, 2pm - 3pm, Whitehall Historic House. Cost £5 in advance, book tickets here:
https://open-city-whitehall-historic-house-tour.eventbrite.co.uk
Part of Open House festival.
Get a taste of what to expect from guide Jane Howard on the upcoming Honeywood Museum Garden Tour. Saturday 4 September & Saturday 11 September 11am, 2pm and 3.30pm. Part of the Part of @openhouselondon festival.
FREE entry. Limited capacity, book in advance here: https://open-house-london-honeywood-garden-tour.eventbrite.co.uk
The Friends of Honeywood Museum
🌳Sutton Council has identified seven possible locations for a new green space in the borough. These areas are particularly vulnerable to flooding and/or overheating, and have limited access to open green space. Options could include increasing green areas, improving wildlife habitats, landscaping plants, new trees and creating better drainage through the removal of tarmac and adding in planting🌳
Complete the survey now! https://bit.ly/3m44zLh
🌳Sutton Council has identified seven possible locations for a new green space in the borough. These areas are particularly vulnerable to flooding and/or overheating, and have limited access to open green space. Options could include increasing green areas, improving wildlife habitats, landscaping plants, new trees and creating better drainage through the removal of tarmac and adding in planting🌳
Complete the survey now! https://bit.ly/3m44zLh
The Freedom Caffe' at Whitehall Historic House will be closed from Wednesday 1 September until Tuesday 7 September as the team enjoy a well-deserved break. They will reopen on Wednesday 8 September 2021.
The Freedom Caffe' at Whitehall Historic House will be closed from Wednesday 1 September until Tuesday 7 September as the team enjoy a well-deserved break. They will reopen on Wednesday 8 September 2021.
An exhibition exploring how the things we keep are often connected to experiences, memories and moments of change within our lives. Visit now in Sutton Central Library Art Gallery. Ends 9 October.
https://10-objects-exhibition-sutton-library-art-gallery.eventbrite.co.uk
An exhibition exploring how the things we keep are often connected to experiences, memories and moments of change within our lives. Visit now in Sutton Central Library Art Gallery. Ends 9 October.
https://10-objects-exhibition-sutton-library-art-gallery.eventbrite.co.uk
Join guide, John Phillips, on a walk from Honeywood Museum to Hackbridge looking at the history of the river in Carshalton.
Saturday 25 September 2pm, Meet outside Honeywood Museum. Cost £5 in advance. Book tickets here: https://the-wandle-from-honeywood-to-hackbridge-walk.eventbrite.co.uk
Join guide, John Phillips, on a walk from Honeywood Museum to Hackbridge looking at the history of the river in Carshalton.
Saturday 25 September 2pm, Meet outside Honeywood Museum. Cost £5 in advance. Book tickets here: https://the-wandle-from-honeywood-to-hackbridge-walk.eventbrite.co.uk
As well as exciting inspirational model houses and buildings you can also enjoy beautiful textile displays from Sutton South Hello at the Crafting a Village Exhibition.
See the exhibition Thursdays to Saturday, 10am - 5pm until 30 October 2021, Honeywood Museum. FREE entry. Walk in and pre-booked visits are available. For more info: https://visit-honeywood-museum.eventbrite.co.uk
As well as exciting inspirational model houses and buildings you can also enjoy beautiful textile displays from Sutton South Hello at the Crafting a Village Exhibition.
See the exhibition Thursdays to Saturday, 10am - 5pm until 30 October 2021, Honeywood Museum. FREE entry. Walk in and pre-booked visits are available. For more info: https://visit-honeywood-museum.eventbrite.co.uk
A small band of students and alumni from Sutton Music Service will bring a great music set of rock and pop tracks, with music from Mancini to Bruno Mars!
Come for FREE on 4th September, 11:30am at Wallington Library Gardens
https://sutton-music-service-perform-in-wallington-gardens.eventbrite.co.uk
A small band of students and alumni from Sutton Music Service will bring a great music set of rock and pop tracks, with music from Mancini to Bruno Mars!
Come for FREE on 4th September, 11:30am at Wallington Library Gardens
https://sutton-music-service-perform-in-wallington-gardens.eventbrite.co.uk
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