Last week, we welcomed our Team of staff, Volunteers and Trustees to Charlton House for our annual garden party…

Last week, we welcomed our Team of staff, Volunteers and Trustees to Charlton House for our annual garden party…

Charlton House welcomed GACO Greenwich again for their annual memorial event in our Old Pond Garden. 

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.

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.

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.