Category: Past Visits

William Blake, 1757 – 1827, was a painter, printmaker and poet. Largely unrecognised in his lifetime, he is now seen[…]

Guided tour of the beautiful 15th C stained glass windows in St Mary’s, followed by a Thameside pub lunch and[…]

An important inspiration for Charles Dickens, Rochester retains many mediaeval features, including houses in the High Street, the cathedral and[…]

Adam Aaronson has been at the forefront of contemporary glass artistry for some 40 years. We will have an afternoon[…]

Guided tour of Parham House, one of our finest Elizabethan Houses, with its collection of art, furniture and early needlework[…]

This critically acclaimed exhibition displays more than 75 of Claude Monet’s paintings of Normandy, Rouen, Paris, London and Venice, showing[…]

Visit to the imposing splendour of this Jacobean house, home to the Cecil family, the Marquess of Salisbury, for 400[…]

Guided Tour of Two Temple Place, an opulent neo-Gothic mansion built for William Waldorf Astor and visit to the Age[…]

Private tour of the major collection of contemporary  sculpture in the lovely grounds of Roche Court, a manor house near[…]

Well known as Downton Abbey from the TV series, Highclere Castle, home of the Earls of Carnarvon, also has an[…]

For a report on this visit click here. Blue Badge guided tour of the Palace of Westminster, including both Houses[…]

Visit to the beautiful gardens of Munstead Wood, the home of famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Followed by an optional[…]

Pashley Manor Gardens and Great Dixter, Kent Pashley Manor is a Tudor manor house with a quintessential romantic English Garden. […]

Private tour of William Morris’s celebrated Arts and Crafts home in Bexleyheath, The Red House.  Followed by a guided tour[…]

Pablo Picasso’s portraits epitomise the immense variety and innovation of his art. This major exhibition of over eighty works focuses[…]

Guided tour of the Garrick Club and its world famous collection of art, sculpture and memorabilia related to the theatre.[…]

Private tour of Longford Castle, garden and its important art collection, for which it has a special relationship with the[…]

Home to the Dukes of Marlborough and Churchill’s birthplace, Blenheim is one of England’s greatest houses. During our visit there[…]

Morning coffee and a private tour of the famous home and meeting place of members of the Bloomsbury Group, followed[…]

Guided tours of two heritage mills – Whitchurch Silk Mill and the nearby Bombay Sapphire Distillery, with its modern glasshouses[…]