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?