Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust is gearing up for the spooky season, partnering with paranormal experts, mystery theatre companies, and independent producers for events aimed at the young and young at heart.

Our head gardener and Old Pond Garden mastermind Jason Sylvan has an ethereal plan for Charlton House’s front lawn garden beds – it involves hardy perennials, climate protection, and a bit of French inspiration.

Enjoy a guide to our June garden from our garden volunteers!

In recent weeks, we’ve unearthed some exciting documents and ephemera about Seely & Paget, partners both in life and in the 1930s art deco restoration of Eltham Palace.

If your Year 11 or Year 13 class is still looking for the right prom venue, why not book at Charlton House & Gardens?

With a long history at the House, at times as a sensory garden and as a small satellite kitchen garden, the prep garden today is a key hub of activity for our volunteer gardeners.

John Flamsteed is remembered as a key early resource in mapping the night sky, the first Astronomer Royal, the layer of the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, and… for burning at least 300 copies of his own work.

We’re in the running for a Greenwich Neighbour Growth Fund grant of £30,000 to help fix Charlton House’s broken heating system, and it is down to a community vote.

Regeneration work continues on the Grade I-listed Jacobean summer house found on the northwest corner of the Charlton House estate.

Just before Christmas, garden volunteer Kathy Aitken posed a question to Charlton and Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society members, asking what they think make the gardens at Charlton House unique.

One hundred years ago today, Victoria Cross recipient Cecil Harold Sewell’s father Harry Bolton Sewell unveiled the Maze Hill War Memorial, on the 11th of November 1922.

Vita Sackville-West wrote that “Of all fruits the pomegranate is surely one of the most romantic.” I would be willing to bet that most people walk through the Peace Garden gate at Charlton House without realising they have just passed under two “most romantic” pomegranate trees.

A very popular object on our Meet the Collection tour has been a mysterious face.

As we batten down the hatches and wait for the approach of ghouls, witches and trick or treaters, the Collections Team have been investigating a mysterious object; the question is, could it be magic?