What's On and Things To Do Around Romney Marsh

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Company and RHDRA AGMs

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Model Trains and Beer Festival. Enjoy an array of model trains plus locally brewed ales and ciders

Come and meet Paddington at intervals on each day. Pre-booking train tickets is essential for our VIP departures

Interestingly designed densely planted small south facing garden making the most of the available space to create different areas and microclimates. Mixed planting within the constraints of the dry, windy coastal location to provide all year interest. Many grasses and Med. plants.

Martello Tower No. 24 in Dymchurch High Street is open to the public 2pm to 4pm every Saturday, Sunday & BH from 30 March 2018 (Easter) until 28 October 2018.

Runners up in Kent Life Garden of the Year. Tranquil 2 acre garden with a surprise around every corner, a series of garden rooms and a mixture of styles.

C14th Trieston House (not open) is a charming new ½ acre garden nestled in Romney Marsh. An extensive rose garden (over 200) sits alongside formal lawns and herbaceous beds where peonies, salvias, heucheras, hostas and friends jostle for attention.

Delightful C16 Kent Cottage (not open) nestles in romantic seclusion at the end of a drive. This enchanting 1 acre garden is a mixture of small mixed herbaceous borders, roses and much unusual topiary incl a wildflower meadow.

Experience a wild night out with a difference when you book a Dusk Safari this year! Journey to Kent’s authentic savannahs - alive with South American, Asian and African animals, whilst taking in the stunning sunset views, before enjoying a three course meal at the Port Lympne Hotel.

Bring Your Mini Makers To An Arty Party With Mister Maker Everyone’s invited to an Arty Party on Monday 28th May 2018, as popular kid’s TV presenter and everyone’s arts and crafts hero, Mister Maker, brings his live show, ‘Mister Maker Makes’, to Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve in Kent this May Half

Join us at the Port Lympne Hotel Wedding Open Day Come along to our second wedding open day of the year and receive a glass of bubbly on arrival as well as free entry into the beautiful, historic 4 *Port Lympne Hotel.

Experience amazing days out this May Half Term as you journey back in time! Discover Dinosaur Forest – a land inhabited by life sized prehistoric creatures!

Experience a wild night out with a difference when you book a Dusk Safari this year! Journey to Kent’s authentic savannahs - alive with South American, Asian and African animals, whilst taking in the stunning sunset views, before enjoying a three-course meal at the Port Lympne Hotel.

A family fun fair with Dodgems, Waltzer, Twister, the massive Freak Out, Ski Jump, also kiddie rides, inflatables, Candy Floss, Toffee Apples plus much more. Find us on Facebook and enter our competition, follow us on Twitter, A really fun day out, come along and have some fun.

Market Square Group is very excited to be hosting the inaugural Rye Food and Drink Festival. Located off the A259, next to the River Rother. Just a 10 minute walk from the train station, the Rye Food and Drink Festival will celebrate the best of local, regional, national and international products.

Every Thursday rye market 52 weeks a year, you can get your weekly fruit and veg, bakery, fresh flowers, olives, 5 star catering unit, cards and gifts, garden goods, household items, and lots of different clothing stalls for all ages, material and book stall, hats, socks and underwear, bedding, luggage, shoe stall, a

“A stage where every man must play a part …”. Bowler Crab bring you our twelfth full production to date: The Merchant of Venice, on tour across Sussex, Kent and London this June & July! The Merchant of Venice is an edgy comedy filled with romance, laughter and the odd tear.

A guided walk around Old Hythe, taking in the Town Hall, historic High Street, the Royal Military Canal, St Leonard’s Church, Ossuary and lots more….

Quiz Night Saturday 16 June 2018 at 7.30 pm At Winchelsea Beach Community Hall, Sea Road, Winchelsea Beach TN36 4NA Cash Prize for Winning Team Teams of up to six people £10 per person to include ploughmans, supplied by Winchelsea Beach Cafe Bring your own drink Raffle To book your team contact...

Many styles, large and small, secret walled gardens, spring bulbs, herbaceous borders and more, in the beautiful setting of the Cinque Port of Winchelsea. Explore the town with its magnificent church and famous medieval merchants’ cellars.

New exhibitions, Edy Craig: Women, Suffrage and the Theatre and The Shakespearean Lectures of Ellen Terry will be on display at Smallhythe Place celebrating the women of Smallhythe in the Suffrage movement. In 2018 we are exploring women’s history and suffrage through the anniversary of women gaining the vote.

Across the May half-term, we are running nature-themed arts and crafts for our younger visitors. Get creative making flower baskets from coloured card, paper birds and tree decorations. Shelter under the cow byre and immerse yourself in arts and crafts in the beautiful spring garden with our volunteers.

Convoluted relationships, mischief and transformation, East 15 Acting School bring the Bard to the boards with this timeless comedy.

Shakespeare’s humourous and heart-rending tale of unrequited love is brought to life on stage by East 15 Acting School.

Delve into the store for a peek of the delicate and lavish costumes once worn by Ellen Terry and her actor friends. With fascinating stories attached to each garment, costume tours are an opportunity to discover a rich theatrical history. Costume tours take place on Saturday afternoons at 1.15pm.

Quantum Theatre presents an enchanting adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s, The Reluctant Dragon - a touching, sweet and funny tale of bravery, friendship and derring-do for all the family. Performed in the open-air. Picnics from 12 noon.

A talk by Dr Naomi Paxton (performer, writer and researcher), exploring the work and legacy of the suffragist performers in the Actresses’ Franchise League, and the part that theatre and performance played in the campaign.

The Government continues to ignore the burning question of female suffrage. Women up and down the country prepare to avoid and evade the census as a protest and challenge to authority. "No Vote, no Census!" is their battle cry. Sunday 2 April 1911. Census Night.

Bonhams specialists Robert Smith, Jacqueline Adams and Tim Squire-Sanders will be holding a free valuation day at Smallhythe Place. Join us for a visit with a difference this June, as Smallhythe Place holds a valuation day with Bonhams specialists.

’Pretty much perfect feat of mimicry’ The Times. Based on the classic BBC sitcom by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Performed by David Benson and Jack Lane. ’Benson and Lane carry it all off beautifully’ **** Daily Telegraph.

I am part of a group of enthusiastic gardeners in a beautiful village of outstanding natural beauty called Postling near Hythe (CT21 4..). Every two years we open a number of our gardens to the public, to raising money for the upkeep of our lovely church. There will be a plant sale.

Set in beautiful countryside, our lovely mature cottage garden features many unusual herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees, including Cornus controversa Variegata and Crinodendron hookerianum. Small areas of woodland, kitchen garden, orchard and wildflower meadow.

Following the success from last year’s Open Garden, which raised over £36,000 for the Hospice, we are delighted to announce our Open Garden season for 2018.

A 1 acre family garden in a unique position. Mixed borders, with a wide range of shrubs and flowers providing a riot of colour throughout the year, flow into the more naturalistic planting which is adjacent to meadow areas and fruit trees.

English constitutional historian and presenter David Starkey, best known for Channel 4‘s ‘The Six Wives of Henry VII’ and ‘Monarchy’, presents this insightful talk on Henry VIII and history repeating itself in Henry VIII: The First Brexiteer? Henry VIII, like a colossus, bestrides the history of our country.

They rocked the folk/roots music scene as the rhythm section of Tanglefoot, a hard-working band with a massive presence and a fanatically loyal following throughout Canada, the US & Britain.

The reunion of this classic band came about after the discovery of some previously unheard live recordings in early 2011 that had languished in the back of a wardrobe for the last 25 years. Home Service is once again back in business.

Held on the 2nd Saturday of each month,Highbury Hall Craft Market offers a wide variety of Crafts and Produce from local artists,craftsmen,producers and retailers. All our Stallholders are from Kent & East Sussex and offer something for everyone.

This is a 5k suitable for all abilities. This is women, young women & children uniting with one purpose, to raise valuable funds for Cancer Research. THIS IS BEATING CANCER. 5k (or just over 3 miles) is an achievable distance for all ages and abilities.

10k is a great step up from our 5k events. Up the challenge and take part in the Race for Life 10k. Walk, jog or run. Raise valuable funds for research. THIS IS BEATING CANCER. 10k (or just over 6 miles) may sound a little daunting but it is an achievable challenge for anyone with a bit of training.

12 acres complement the magnificent Jacobean house. Terraced lawns lead through herbaceous borders, rose garden and formal lily pond to intimate Italian garden and large walled garden with delphiniums, potager, cut flowers and iris border.

Pett is the last village in the Sussex Weald before it sweeps down to meet the English Channel a mile away. Four gardens are opening in Pett Village in 2018, three opening for the NGS for the first time. The variety in the gardens, all within walking distance of each other, is extensive and intriguing.

SKIES + support. Artists performing: Skies.: Tickets avaiable.

Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family love them. Their house is full of pets. After a bizarre school trip unlike any other, Malcolm begins to understand animals more deeply than anyone. But will he end up the same as before? Because sometimes the hardest thing to be is…you.

There are four very different gardens open in the village this year including two new and interesting locations. At Orchard Drive, the owner has been busy planting out her new garden, an exciting project. In her own words A new garden based upon the good bones established by the previous owner.

Northiam Bonfire Society’s Midsummer Festival is on Northiam Playing Fields on Saturday 23rd June, and starts at 11am and carries on until the beer runs out!