Here are five ideas for things to do in London and Kent this weekend on a cultural theme.
Eynsford: World Garden Tour, Lullingstone Castle
Discover the array of floral delights of the World Garden available all weekend, and next. Find the world’s tallest fuchsia, all the way from New Zealand, which will be flowering its flamboyant blue-green flowers. Sweet box will also be blossoming along with many beautifully scented daphnes.
Visitors will also be able to explore the Plant Hunters Nursery.
Visit lullingstonecastle.co.uk or call 01322 862114 for further information.
Bromley: Women in Black, Churchill Theatre, until Saturday
Be prepared to be transported into a terrifying and ghostly world as you watch Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation of Susan Hill’s best selling novel Women in Black.
The powerful and deep performance provides the audience with an evening of relentless drama. The story follows a lawyer infatuated with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spirit of a woman in black.
Book tickets at atgtickets.com/bromley, call 0844 871 7620 or at the box office.
London: Costumed Tours, Charles Dickens Museum, Saturday
If you are looking for adventure this weekend and want to journey out, then travel into London and step back into the year 1839.
Charles Dickens has gone on holiday, and in his absence the housemaids invite you into his home. Step through the original door of 48 Doughty Street, Holborn, and be enchanted by the secrets of the young writer.
Walk in the author’s footsteps through his ‘house in town’, his only surviving London residence.
Visit www.dickensmuseum.com or call 020 7405 2127.
Greenwich: The Spirit of '45, Greenwich Picture House, Sunday, 3.30pm
Relive the last year of the Second World War through Ken Loach’s touching documentary this Sunday.
Relive history and view fascinating rarely-seen footage and be moved by this account of an easily forgotten time and the legacy that it left behind.
Call 0871 902 5732.
Greenhithe: John Challis, Waterstones, Bluewater, Saturday, 2pm
Best known for playing Boycie in TV’s Only Fools & Horses, television and stage favourite John Challis will be at Waterstones signing copies of his latest autobiography Boycie & Beyond.
The story covers his life between 1985 and 2012, and contains hilarious adventures, divorces, the moving death of his parents and much more.
Visit bluewater.co.uk
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