What's On and Things To Do Around Bexley

Join our Estates Manager for a gentle 45 minute walk around the Hall Place grounds. Listen to him as he explains how the new season will affect the site and the changes the team are making to ensure we have year round colour and interest. Pick up some good gardening tips from the expert as you wander.

Come and have a ROARING time with us this May! Includes a hilarious story and dinosaur craft to take home. Advance booking required.

The Farmers Market at Hall Place, Bexley is held on the 1st Sunday of the month. The Farmers Market is open to the public between 10am and 2pm (ish) and is held in the Courtyard area. There is a variety of local produce available

Join Nick Dobson for his talk as you travel back to the year 1600 to take a virtual trip around our capital as it looked 400 years ago. You’ll see a few familiar landmarks, but be prepared to experience the sights of a city very different to modern London. Advance booking required

The first in a series of art classes run by our very own accomplished artist Anthony Nield. Understand the techniques behind ‘Pen & Wash‘. Complete your own masterpiece of the Jacobean Barn and pick up tips under the watchful eye of the expert. Join Tony for an informal lunch in the tearoom to discuss your day.

Our headliner for this Bexleyheath Comedy Show is American comedian and the Ferrari of comedy - Tanyalee Davis! As always there’s a great supporting lineup direct from the London Comedy Circuit! Limited Ticket Availability! For more information visit www.houseofstandup.co.

If you are visiting in the morning please book on one of our Highlights Tour, the only way to see the property until 1:30pm. Our volunteer guides will share the stories behind William and Janey’s red brick house. Guided highlights tours are the only way to visit the property in the morning.

If you are visiting in the morning please book on one of our Highlights Tour, the only way to see the property until 1:30pm. Our volunteer guides will share the stories behind William and Janey’s red brick house. Guided highlights tours are the only way to visit the property in the morning.

Garden and orchard surrounding the only house commissioned, created and lived in by William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement. Café and shop. One of 200+ gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend.

This WEA course, led by a well qualified tutor, will explore works of art and music, their creators and context, linked to anniversaries of births and deaths and to current exhibitions in London. We look at paintings and, sometimes, sculpture and architecture and listen to music.

Sidcup Bid is proud to announce that this year’s Sidcup Fringe Festival will be held in the High Street, and on The Green, Sidcup Place – bringing businesses and the local community together over two days this summer!

Dartford Farmers Market held on the 3rd Friday of the month offers a variety of local produce including meat, bread, seasonal fruit and vegetables, jams and preserves, eggs and much more

Enjoy a cream tea and stroll around the garden. Books stall. All plant donations very welcome. Entrance 50p – just turn up. Wheelchair accessible.

Come along and enjoy some relaxing treatments by qualified therapists. Reflexology, various massage, manicures & pedicures, facials. Plus stall selling jewellery, body shop products and more. We also have lots of homemade refreshments. Admission is free. Fundraising for the 3rd New Eltham Guides

Traditional box, clipped hedging and reclaimed materials give structure to this informal garden surrounding a Victorian gardeners cottage. Colour themed beds contain grasses, perennials, shrubs and fruit trees. There is a small but productive vegetable garden, a pond, rare chickens and bees.

Come along and enjoy some relaxing treatments by qualified therapists. Reflexology, various massage, manicures & pedicures, facials. Plus stall selling jewellery, body shop products and more. We also have lots of homemade refreshments. Admission is free.

Chislehurst Farmers Market is held on the 3rd Sunday of the month and is open to the public between 10am and 2pm. The Farmers Market is held in a new location of Hornbrook House Car Park, High Street, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5AB.

We are holding a blood donation session at Sainsbury’s DHL Distribution Centre, Rennie Drive, Dartford, DA1 5FD on Monday 11th June 2018 and have appointments available between 13.00 - 16.00 & 17.00 - 19.00. To book an appointment please visit us at blood.co.

Bring you family and join us for a cycle ride in nature! Explore the RSPB Rainham Marshes Riverwall, and discover the wildlife and the amazing views! We will be exploring and enjoy wildlife, and playing lots of games along the way!

Come and learn about the changes taking place on the reserve throughout the seasons at our sessions designed especially for those educating their children at home.

Artisan Crafts Vintage & Gift Fair

Interactive world map of plants laid out as a map of the world within a walled garden. The oceans are your pathways as you navigate the world in one acre. You can see Ayers Rock and walk alongside the Andes whilst reading tales of intrepid plant hunters.

A secret haven with mature flower beds, vegetable beds, fruit trees and vines, heated greenhouse, wildlife area with pond, bird hide, chickens and beehives. Tours, pond-dipping and refreshments including cake made from our own honey.

An exciting urban community garden, with lots of unusual projects, in the London Borough of Havering. One of 200+ gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend.

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

Our fabulous Food Festival is back again on Saturday 9 June 2018 Save the date for St Christopher’s Food Festival 2018!

Front garden Mediterranean style gravel with sun loving plants. Rear ¾ acre garden in 2 parts. Semi-formal Japanese style area with two ponds, one Koi and one natural (lots of spring interest).

Developed over 14yrs, this large garden has a formal layout, with wide mixed herbaceous borders full of colour and interest, surrounded by mature trees, framing sunny lawns, a central box parterre and an Indian pergola. Ancient pear trees festooned in June with clouds of white kiftsgate and rambling rector roses.

When Stella sets off to visit London with her parents, Lord and Lady Saxby, she has no idea her life is in danger! Waking up three months later, only her Aunt Alberta can tell Stella what has happened.

One of the UK’s most exciting cross-cultural sporting occasions, the annual London Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival returns to London’s Regatta Centre on the slightly earlier date of Sunday 3rd June 2018.

Join us for an outdoor Shakespeare performance by The Three Inch Fools in the Grade I listed Walled Garden. Eastbury Manor House will be serving a variety of hot and cold refreshments from 6.15pm and the performance will start at 7pm.

A grade I-listed 16th-century manor house with walled and herb gardens enclosed by their original walls. One of 200+ gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend.

Triangular garden at the junction of three roads that forms part of a planned early Edwardian estate within an Article 4 Conservation Area. Residents’ garden fete on Sunday afternoon with stalls and homemade refreshments.

New field, large site, easy access , sits alongside Main A2 London / Kent. Very busy sale, unlimited space and car parking. Sell old or new, no booking required.

One tree field, fox hounds lane , Southfleet DA139LH. Massive field, big sale on Bank holiday Monday. Unlimited space, very very busy.

The UIM F1H2O World Championship Grand Prix of London is the British leg of the flagship series of single-seater inshore circuit Formula 1 powerboat racing The 6-metre long, 500kg powerboats will navigate turns at 90+mph and will hit speeds of over 150mph on the straights The Formula 1 class will be supported by

Afrorepublik feat. Wizkid + Mr Eazi Plus Yxng Bane. Artists performing: Afrorepublik .: Tickets avaiable.

Garden on a wharf beside the River Thames in East Greenwich, returned to nature in the late 1960s. One of 200+ gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend.

Bring your family, friends or make new ones. Feel great and have loads of fun while you help raise vital funds to support people with a learning disability. Mencap’s Capital Challenge is split into 4 different walking events each taking in a distinct and fascinating part of London.

We are pleased to announce our first event in Greenwich with Cutty Sark Gardens providing both the perfect historical backdrop and an established destination where locals and tourists congregate during the Spring and Summer months.

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

Step into the magical world of In the Night Garden and see Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka brought to life before your eyes with beautiful costumes, magical puppets, enchanting music and breathtaking projections. In the Night Garden Live takes place in its own purpose-built, family-friendly Showdome.

A wild, hidden, community green space and food-growing garden. Bushcraft activities and natural outdoor arts and crafts. Tea, coffee and cold drinks . One of 200+ gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend.

A great event for the Daredevil at Heart Take part in the experience of a lifetime where you will take to the skies on the wings of a plane reaching speeds of up to 130mph, whilst raising funds for vital care in the community.

Weekly market selling Crafts, Collectables, Italian Ladies Fashion, Greeting cards, Very collectable Dinky models, Handbags and much more. Light refreshments, Very yummy homemade cakes. Supporting SE Cancer Help Centre.

Shackleton’s Cat returns in 2018, as part of ETO’s award-winning strand of operas for young people. The opera features eight performers, including singers and players, an ingenious set, archive imagery and film, interactive songs, and a puppet cat.

Urban oasis, 85ft garden designed and planted by owners. Relying heavily on evergreen, ferns, foliage and herbaceous planting.

IVO GRAHAM: Motion Sickness (Preview)?  A feisty new hour about facing the future named after my fourth favourite Hot Chip song (and a beaut by Phoebe Bridgers).?  Ivo has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at The Apollo, As Yet Untitled, Live from The BBC and Fighting Talk.?

ZOE LYONS: Entry Level Human (Preview)??  Human beings are at an important turning point in history. We are no longer the most intelligent beings on the planet we have been usurped by our own machines. Are we all becoming entry level humans? Don’t ask Zoe she can’t work her own toaster.???  ??