News and events for autumn / winter 2019 Bedfordshire | Cambridgeshire | Essex Hertfordshire | Norfolk | Suffolk This is just a selection of what’s on. Visit our website Book an event for more events and inspiration www.nationaltrust.org.uk/eastofengland Book online at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events or call our central box office to book events at the following places… Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire Blakeney National Nature Reserve, Norfolk Bourne Mill, Essex Brancaster Beach, Norfolk Blickling Estate, Norfolk Coggeshall Grange Barn, Essex Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate, Bedfordshire Dunwich Heath, Suffolk Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk Flatford, Suffolk Hatfield Forest, Essex Hertfordshire Heigham Holmes, Norfolk Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire Ashridge Estate Ickworth, Suffolk Ringshall, Near Berkhamsted, Haunted Ashridge Trail and Crafts Lavenham Guildhall, Suffolk HP4 1LT Monday 21 October – Friday 1 November, 10am – 4pm Melford Hall, Suffolk Ashridge in Autumn Things are getting spooky at Ashridge. Orford Ness, Suffolk Saturday 12 October, 10am – 2pm Meet some of the ghosts of people who’ve Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk A guided walk through Ashridge at one lived here in years gone by on our trail, of the most scenic times of year. Enjoy a before making your own Halloween craft Shaw’s Corner Shaw’s Corner, Hertfordshire kaleidoscope of warming autumn colour to take home. Ayot St Lawrence, AL6 9BX Sheringham Park, Norfolk as the leaves start to fall. £3 Adult £8, Child £5, B Outdoor Cinema - Pygmalion Sutton Hoo, Suffolk The Nutcracker’s Coming to Ashridge Sunday 15 September, 8pm (gates open 7pm) Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire Photography Workshops Make the most of the late summer weather Saturdays and Sundays from Willington Dovecote and Stables, Saturday 12 & Friday 18 October, 10am - 4pm 1 – 29 December, Thursday 26 & Friday 27 and enjoy an outdoor screening of Pygmalion Bedfordshire Feeling creative? Join local photographer December, 10am – 4pm in the beautiful garden at Shaw’s Corner. This Lyndsey Abercromby to learn how best Follow our Christmas trail through the is the first time the film has been shown at Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire to capture Ashridge’s autumnal hues with woods and receive a present at the end. the country home of the playwright, 80 years your camera. Refreshments and lunch will £3 since George Bernard Shaw was awarded an 0344 2491895 be provided. Oscar for the adapted screenplay. £99, B £16.50 To book events at the following places, please call the number listed… Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire 01442 851227 Elizabethan House Museum, Norfolk Dunstable Downs 01493 743930 Dunstable, LU6 2GY Lyvden New Bield, Northamptonshire Pumpkin Trail 01832 205358 Saturday 19 October – Sunday 3 November, Paycocke’s, Essex 01376 561305 10.30am – 3.30pm Jack O’Lantern has organised a big Peckover House, Cambridgeshire Halloween party, but his friends have all 01945 583463 become lost in Chute Wood. Help to find his Theatre Royal, Suffolk 01284 769505 friends and have the best party ever! Breakfast with Santa £2.50 Wreath Making Friday 13, Saturday 14, Friday 20, Saturday 21 Saturday 30 November – Sunday 1 December and Sunday 22 December Normal admission applies unless Adult Storytelling Evening Join us for an evening of wreath making and 9.15 – 10.15am and 10.30 – 11.30am otherwise stated. Friday 1 - Saturday 2 November festive shopping at Dunstable Downs. Spend a morning with Santa whilst enjoying B = Booking essential. Join us around a camp fire (weather Create a unique wreath for the holidays and a wonderful breakfast on the Downs. Enjoy Please book early to avoid disappointment. permitting) as we entertain you with spooky have exclusive access to our amazing shop the view and take part in some festive tales of yesteryear. Enjoy an atmospheric night after hours as well. activities, such as trails and small crafts. Family ticket includes two adults of good company and toasted marshmallows. Child £7.50, B and two children. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more events visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events Autumn / Winter 2019 3 Family Fungi Foray Tuesday 22 October, 10.30am - 12.30pm Sheringham Park Suffolk Norfolk Join us as we explore the fabulous world of Upper Sheringham, NR26 8TL fungi with a guided walk aimed at families with children. Mushrooms come in a International Garden Photographer of the multitude of shapes, sizes and colours and Year Exhibition Felbrigg Hall, there is a fantastic display in the woods at Saturday 31 August - Sunday 27 October, Felbrigg at this time of the year. Includes a dawn to dusk Gardens and Estate fungus craft activity. In the tranquil surroundings of the Bower Felbrigg, Norwich, NR11 8PR Adult £5, Child £3, B garden, the International Garden Photographer of the Year is the world’s Hall at Harvest Bird Spotting Walks premier competition and exhibition Saturday 28 September – Friday 4 October, Wednesday 18 September and specialising in garden, plant, flower and Fungi Festival 12pm – 5pm Wednesday 16 October, 1.30 - 3.30pm botanical photography. Showcasing brand Various dates in October Lavenham Guildhall Orford Ness Join us for our annual ‘Hall at Harvest’, when Join Trevor Williams from the North East new images from all over the world, this Mushrooms and toadstools are fascinating Lavenham, Sudbury, CO10 9QZ Orford we will be celebrating the many varieties of Norfolk Bird Club on a walk around the year’s exhibition will feature pictures of the and diverse. Investigate the world of fungi fruit, vegetables and flowers grown in the Felbrigg Estate. Spot and identify the many natural world at its best. and learn how to identify them by taking Human Cargo Overnight Photography Tour walled garden. See the hall beautifully species of birds that make Felbrigg their part in our annual foray or spend the day Friday 13 September & Saturday 14 September, Saturday 21 September, 5pm - Sunday 22 decorated by a team of volunteers and home. No prior bird knowledge is necessary. Fascinating Fungi Trail. with us for a more in depth look at one of 7.30 - 9.15pm September, 4pm celebrate this special time of year. £5, B Saturday 19 – Sunday 27 October, our workshops. Join Matthew Crampton, story teller, writer A very special chance to photograph Orford Dunwich Heath 10am – 4.15pm Foray £8 (2 hours), Day Workshop £24, B and singer as he tells true tales of Ness in the morning and evening light. Stay Dunwich, IP17 3DJ Enchanted Felbrigg Find out about the amazing mushrooms that emigration, slavery and transportation. He’ll overnight and continue photographing the Friday 6 – Sunday 8 & Friday 13 – Sunday 15 can be found at Sheringham Park at this time Family Survival School weave in Suffolk stories as he gives voice to following day. You’ll be guided and Bird Identification Walk December, 3pm-7pm of year. Find the clues and win a prize. Wednesday 23 October, 10.30am – 3.30pm those taken in distress across the seas – supervised by rangers from the site and a Tuesdays 10 & 17 September, 8am – 12pm Follow a winter trail through the gardens £2.50 Has your family got what it takes to including Lavenham’s Anne Baker and professional photographer who has been Whether you’re new to birdwatching or and enchanted woodland. Enjoy the survive in the wild? Make your own Mendham’s Henry Cable, two youngsters, photographing the site for many years. Their hoping to brush up your skills, our half-day opportunity to unwind, surrounded by weatherproof shelter and get a fire started cruelly exiled to New South Wales. combined knowledge and experience will walks, led by Suffolk bird expert Steve nature in all its winter glory. On your without using matches. Look for edible £15, B help you get the most out of the trip by Piotrowski, are a fantastic opportunity to journey, you’ll be able to enjoy lights, plants and learn how to navigate using a offering historical knowledge of the site and learn how to identify a wide range of birds crafts and storytelling. compass. Come prepared for a full day out Food for Thought Talks creative and technical advice. in varied habitats around Dunwich Heath. Adult £7, Child £3.50, Under 5’s free in the Norfolk backwoods! Tuesdays 19 & 26 November, 3 December, Lantern Walks Members £135, Non Members £142, B Light lunch provided. Includes free Survival Kit for 10.30am Monday 28 October, Friday 8 November, Friday £35, B participating children. A series of talks putting aspects of 15 November, Thursday 21 November, Saturday Bird Ringing Morning Blickling Estate Child £22, Adult £18, B Lavenham’s intriguing history under the 30 November, Monday 2 December, Tuesday 10 Saturday 12 October, 11am – 12pm Great British Beach Clean Blickling, Aylsham, NR11 6NF The Edge of Things microscope. Topics include Lavenham Boom December, Saturday 21 December, 6.30 – 8pm Spend an hour with volunteers from the Saturday 14 September 10.30am – 12.30pm Until Sunday 27 October and Bust (October 19), Priests and Purgatory Explore Lavenham’s illustrious past by Landguard Bird Observatory to witness Turn the tide on litter! Join us on Dunwich Annual Apple Harvest This year’s Trust New Art project draws (October 26) and the Magical Protection of lantern light with a local guide. Come in and conservation in action and learn all about Heath beach to support the Marine Tuesday 24 September inspiration from four volumes in Blickling’s Oxburgh Hall Buildings (November 2). Talks are followed warm up with some tea and cake afterwards. the bird ringing carried out on the Ness. Conservations Society’s 26th year of beach Join us in the orchard for our annual apple significant book collection, looking at Oxborough, PE33 9PS by a light lunch. £12, B cleans. Equipment provided but please bring harvest. Have fun picking our heritage them through a contemporary eye.