It's Apple Day on Sunday at Fulham Palace
October events also include family fun day, talks, tours and walks
It's Apple Day at Fulham Palace this Sunday, 6 October, with local people invited to drop in between 11am and 3pm.
This free annual event, held in the walled garden, celebrates the palace's orchard and includes displays and tastings, live music, bee keeping and wood turning demonstrations, a hotly anticipated baking competition, children’s activities, storytelling, refreshments and more.
The baking competition is now open for entries and you can find out all the details here.
Other events in October are as follows:
Saturday 12 October, 10.30am - 12.15pm - Young Archaeologists' Club
Each month YAC members aged eight to 16 investigate different themes, with activities that can range from learning to catalogue artefacts to taking part in a real archaeology dig.
The recent Dovecote dig uncovered fragments of 17th century moulded plaster which may once have adorned the great hall. In this session young archaeologists will be creating moulded plaster shapes using natural elements and attempting to replicate the former hall ceiling.
Tickets £16. Young adults attend independently. Book here.
Sunday 27 October, 11am - 3pm - Family fun days: Astonishing archaeology
Discover different eras at the site, meet Romans who used to live here and find out about Roman medicine, agriculture and people enslaved by the Romans. With tours, trails, crafts and real artefact handling sessions, this family fun day is all about discovering what’s hidden beneath our feet, without all the digging!
Free drop-in event, suitable for ages 3+. Children must be accompanied by an adult
Tours, walks and talks plus Palace Explorers sessions for toddlers also continue throughout October as follows:
Monday 14 October, 1.30pm - 2.30pm - Tour: Talking Heads
Get under the skin of some of the most intriguing Bishops of London in the company of collections and research officer Lisa Voden-Decker.
Lisa will lead you through the portraits on display and behind the scenes and you will discover the often surprising lives of these powerful patrons, pastors and politicians.
This is a free talk, but due to limited numbers places must be booked in advance. Book your place here
Sunday 6, 13, 27 October - 12.30pm - 1.30pm, Tuesday 15 October - 2pm - 3pm - History Tour
On this tour of the house and garden, learn how their passions, wealth and power shaped Fulham Palace. Find out about the mixture of different architectural styles that make up the house, the stories of the Bishops and their families who called the Palace home, and how the 13 acre garden evolved over the centuries to become the beautiful urban oasis it is today.
Thursday 4, Sunday 20 October - 2pm - 3pm - Garden Walk
On this tour around Fulham Palace's 13 acre site, hear how successive Bishops of London made their mark on the garden, learn about the unusual specimens grown here today and find out about the exciting projects the gardener team are currently working on to restore this Grade II* listed garden.
Tickets for garden walks and history tours cost £6 per person, accompanied children free. No need to book in advance. Meet at the visitor welcome desk.
Monday 7,14 and 28 and Tuesday 8, 15 and 29 October, 9.30am - 10.30am - Palace Explorers
These fun and creative facilitated sessions are geared specifically to 2-4 year olds and their adults.
Booking essential. £5.50 per session. To book your place email education@fulhampalace.org.
Fulham Palace is also hosting an exhibition: Discovering the Bishop of London’s Palace at Fulham
The first exhibition in the palace's new museum celebrates its recent £3.8 million restoration project, revealing what was involved in this thee year programme to restore and reinterpret the Tudor courtyard and historic rooms and create new plant beds in the botanic garden.
Find out how this complex restoration project has resulted in a richer understanding of the building of Fulham Palace, how the site was used and the people who lived and worked here over the centuries.
Learn about the work carried out by the specialist conservators and craftspeople involved in the project, and the traditional methods they employed to remain faithful to those used at Fulham Palace in the past.
See many of the fascinating finds discovered during the restoration works, from artefacts uncovered through archaeology digs to a 17th century painted wall hidden behind plasterboard.
Learn about the vital role volunteers played in discovering more about Fulham Palace and the Bishops of London through carrying out an extensive archive research project and participating in archaeology digs.
The exhibition is on display until November 2020 and is open during museum opening times - 10.30am till 5pm till 27 October then 10.30am till 4pm until 27 March 2020. Admission is free
September 6, 2019