📣 News Flash - Instagram Takeover! 📣
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We are delighted to announce that our recent Christmas collaborator and all round baking genius Emily @gingerbreadmaid will be taking over our Instagram account this Easter! Needless to say we are ridiculously over excited to see what treats, challenges and culinary secrets she will share with us to get us baking at home! So dust off those oven mitts, get your apron on and keep your baking eyes peeled for her first post tomorrow!
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🎥 by Benjie Croce
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Christmas at Dennis Severs' House
December the 25th -
Flinging open the shutters so the sound of the carollers from Spital Square fills the house, Sophie, with one last flurry, pins a sprig of festive green upon each of the household. It really is Christmas. Sophie’s Christmas.
🎥 by Benjie Croce
18 Folgate Street gingerbread house
December the 16th -
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My first baking experience, I can’t really remember, but there is a photo of me standing on a chair putting the finishing touches to an apple pie and I can’t be older than 4.
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I was very lucky to grow up around lots of keen talented cooks in my family, so much so that I definitely took it a bit for granted. One of the best was my Great Aunt Margaret. She had the most fabulous kitchen and was a passionate foodie all her life. My mum and her were especially close so she inherited Margaret’s food diaries - one of them is a book in which she documented all the dinner parties she hosted, listing who came, what she cooked, what cocktails were served and then an overall rating on how the whole event had gone!
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I always loved gingerbread houses, so much that my mum made me one instead of a birthday cake for my 5th birthday! I sort of fell into making things out of gingerbread a bit by accident, but it is the perfect edible building material. Unlike other biscuit recipes, it lasts a really long time without going stale, it’s relatively strong so you can build quite ambitious structures without fear of them breaking (well, within reason!)
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Emily Garland from Maid of Gingerbread
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🎥 by Benjie Croce
The Dennis Severs' House Advent Calendar
December the 23rd -
O you merry, merry souls,
Christmas is a coming,
We shall have flowing bowls,
Dancing, piping, drumming.
Hey for the Christmas Ball,
Where we shall be jolly,
Jigging short and tall,
Kate, Dick, Ralph and Molly.
Hodge shall dance with Prue,
Keeping time with kisses,
We’ll have a jovial crew.
Of sweet smirking Misses.
An extract from 'Christmas Entertainments 1740'
🎥 by Jim Le Fevre | Illustration by Ben Rea
The Dennis Severs' House Advent Calendar
December the 20th -
Old Scrooge, nervous for having just seen a ghost, is out of bed and meanly poised in the armchair in the corner. Tiny Tim seated before the fire clings to his crutch wide eyed with hope. While Bill Sykes watches over captive Oliver Twist who is too distracted to ask for more. Little Nell and Grandfather, during their flight from London, take time to rest.
The house’s motto is adamant that…
‘You either see it or you don’t.’
Dennis Severs 1948 - 1999
The Dennis Severs' House Advent Calendar
December the 11th -
‘Make no mistake… in this house it is not what you see, but what you have only just missed and are being asked to imagine’
Dennis Severs 1948 - 1999
🎥 by Jim Le Fevre
The Dennis Severs' House Advent Calendar
December the 9th -
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‘Your guide tonight is human instinct…the one that leads you in the direction of light and warmth.’
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Dennis Severs 1948 - 1999
The Dennis Severs' House Advent Calendar
December the 7th -
The game is : you hear the 18th Century Silkmaster Isaac Jervis, his family and his descendants still all around you - somewhere in the house. As you approach - they depart, as you depart they re-enter.
Dennis Severs 1948 - 1999
The Dennis Severs' House Advent Calendar
December the 4th -
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Here is the kitchen the warm and welcoming hub of this 18th century home, the domain of the house cook Rebecca Philpot - four feet five inches tall, with bright red hair and blue eyes who can on occasion behave like a herring on a griddle.
Her motto : Never mind your own business.
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The Dennis Severs' Christmas Advent Calendar
The Dennis Severs' Christmas Advent Calendar has arrived - a little secret insight into 18 Folgate Street will be unlocked each day until Christmas! 🎁
#TheChristmasInstallation
The wait is over! 🎄🎁🎅
#TheChristmasInstallation arrives to 18 Folgate Street this Sunday!
We will be open from 12 to 3:15pm last admission.
*We expect long queues & suggest to arrive early to avoid disappointment
bit.ly/DSHChristmas2018
The Christmas Installation 🎄
On the 24th of November at 18 Folgate Street Christmas arrives...🎄
We are now nearly fully booked but we still have some spaces available on the 27th + 29th November and 4th of January. Bookings online: bit.ly/DSHChristmas2018
Christmas at Dennis Severs' House
The residence of the Jervis is all decked out for Christmas!
Join the family for an evocative and captivating experience where your senses will be your guide.
Bookings online: bit.ly/DSHchristmas2017
The Annual Christmas Installation at Dennis Severs' House bit.ly/DSHchristmas2017
The Jervis Family is already getting ready for Christmas and they look forward to welcome you to their celebration.
Book your tickets for the #AnnualChristmasInstallation and travel back in time to join #18Folgate's inhabitants for a very special evening lit by candlelight.
Bookings: bit.ly/DSHchristmas2017
Chapman Brothers
⎜Art Night 2017⎜
Join us this Saturday at 18 Folgate for this year's edition of Art Night which will take all over East London.
As you enter Dennis Severs' House you might notice something a little twisted about the paintings on the walls. Come along and discover the work of the Jake and Dinos Chapman.
The house will be open from 6pm to 11:30pm last admission. Free entry and no booking required.
We are very excited to announce we will be part of Art Night 2017 which will take place throughout East London during the night of Saturday 1st of July. This year's edition is organised by Whitechapel Gallery and Unlimited Productions.
Art Night 2017 will see London’s East End transformed with free art, performance and music by some of the world’s leading artists for the night of Saturday 1 July 2017.
Christmas at Dennis Severs' House
Only three weeks left for our Annual Christmas Installation!
From the 25th of November 2016 to the 6th of January 2017, the spirit of Christmas will be brought back to 18 Folgate, welcoming guests into this fascinating world and on a unique and captivating journey through three centuries of human occupation.
Tickets available at bit.ly/chridsh
Hundreds of people join us to hold their hands at Save Norton Folgate today. Thank you to everyone for your support!
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