What's On at Fulham Palace in September
Activities start on Saturday with guide to cut flowers and Bishops Park tour
Saturday 8 September, 1.30pm-3pm - A Guide to Home-Grown Cut Flowers
Grow and make the most of flowers from your garden with the help of talented Palace gardeners. You will learn what to grow, when and how to cut your flowers, and how to expertly arrange them
£7.50 (£5.50 for unemployed). Booking essential. Book here. This event takes place in the Walled Garden vinery
Thursday 13 and 20 September and 2pm-3pm - Meet the Apprentice Bricklayer
What is it like to study the craft of heritage bricklaying and work on 500 year old walls? Join our Apprentice Bricklayer and his expert colleagues on a mini tour of the key areas of brickwork undergoing restoration.
Free, no booking required. Meet in the Tudor Courtyard
Saturday 15 September, 10:30am - 12:15pm - Young Archaeologists’ Club Autumn Term
This Autumn, a number of exciting topics are planned for our Young Archaeologists’ Club, exploring both the wealth of archaeology here at Fulham Palace and in the surrounding area.
Suitable for 8 to 16 year olds, young people attend independently.£45.50 per Autumn term (September to November). Booking essential - click here to book.This takes place in the Jessie Mylne Education Centre.
The Autumn term sessions are :
• Saturday, 15 September – Neolithic Houses
• Saturday, 13 October – Possessions of the Dead
• Saturday, 17 November – The Hidden Palace
Saturday 15 September, 10.30am-12pm - Little Green Fingers
This hands-on gardening workshop is for children and their carers to explore how vegetables and flowers grow, with the opportunity to sow, plant, and care for produce and flowers in an exclusive Little Green Fingers bed in the beautiful Walled Garden.
£10.50 per child. Booking essential, click here to book. Suitable for ages 3+. N.B. Children must be accompanied be an adult. This event takes place in the Walled Garden
Monday 17 September, 2pm - 3.15pm - The Bishops Who Built Fulham Palace
Join our Curator, Miranda Poliakoff, as she examines the fascinating mixture of architectural styles showcased here at the Palace. Evolved over seven centuries, today’s ‘patchwork Palace’ reflects the many different Bishops who have lived here.
Free; booking recommended. To book, click here. This event takes place in the Jesse Mylne Education Centre.
Sunday 23 September, 11am-5pm - Open House
For Open House, a rare chance to revel in London’s architecture, parts of Fulham Palace usually closed to the public will be opened for select tours.
Free. Booking essential for selected tours; visit Open House London for full details.
Guided walks bookable through the Thames Discovery programme, other activities free. Various locations ( four walks) – to book, click here. Guided walks suitable for children 5 years +. Fulham Palace activities suitable for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult.
Regular events also continue this month:
Saturday 8 September, 2pm - Bishops Park Tour
Formed from meadows once belonging to the Bishop of London's estate, discover the Park's fascinating history on this guided walk. Click here for more information on tours.
9, 18, 30 September, 2pm- History Tour
Learn the secrets of Fulham Palace on this Historical Tour through the garden and public rooms of the Palace. £6 per person, accompanied children free, no booking necessary, meet in the Museum. Click here for more information on tours.
16 September, 2pm - Garden Walk
Join this tour of the Fulham Palace garden and discover more about its history and the rare plants grown at the Palace today. £6 per person, accompanied children free, no booking necessary, meet in the Museum. Click here for more information on tour, 2pm - History Tour
10,11, 17,18, 24 and 25 September - 9.30am - 10.30am - Palace Explorers
These fun and creative facilitated sessions are geared specifically to 2-4 year olds and their adults. each week offers the chance to explore and learn together through a specific theme, with arts and crafts, storytelling and dressing up, games, gardening, singing and whole host of other delights! £5 per child, Each session costs £5 per child, click here to learn more and book.
June -September 2018 - A Pop-up Exhibition on the Great War
As part of the commemoration of the First World War, there is a new display at Fulham Palace.
The pop-up exhibition in Bishop Sherlock’s Room tells the story of the Great War at Fulham Palace. Bishop Winnington-Ingram, who was Bishop of London at the time, was a controversial public figure during the war, preaching stirring sermons and recruiting volunteers.
In early 1918, he offered Fulham Palace to the Red Cross as a hospital. On 31 May that year, the Duke of Connaught opened the ‘Freemasons War Hospital No 2’ at the Palace. It had 100 beds for convalescent and shell-shocked patients and was run by a team of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses under the charge of the matron, Lady Fox-Symons. The hospital closed on 20 June 1919.
Many of the photographs in the exhibition come from an autograph album which belonged to one of the nurses, Sister Mary Latchmore. It was given to the Museum by Barbara Mann and as well as autographs it contains photographs of the staff and patients as well as sketches and poems done by the patients for Sister Latchmore. The display will continue until early September.
During June you can also look ahead and book tickets for upcoming events at Fulham Palace, including:
September 6, 2018