Lost Cabaret – Tuesday 23rd July
One of it's last previews before heading up to Edinburgh join us for Almond Roca's Lost Cabaret:
This weekend – Open Day 13,14th July
Its the Wapping Shindig this weekend, why not come by Hermitage beforehand to visit our historic boats? We're open both Saturday and Sunday 10-4. With a cafe serving tea, coffee and cakes. For the kids among us, there's even an activity sheet.
Open Weekends for 2013
We hold "Open Weekends" at HCM several times a year where we invite everyone to come and say hello, and see the boats close-up. Do join us for tea, coffee and cake! ++ April 6th-7th ++ July 13th-14th ++ Sept 21st-22nd (part of ) ++ Dec 14th
Thames sailing barge ‘Will’ to visit for open weekend
We are pleased to announce that the historic Thames Sailing Barge ‘Will’ is going to be opening to the public this weekend 27th and 28th June alongside the tug Touchstone.300px-Sb-will TOUCHSTONE Our regular Archeologist and foreshore expert Mike Webber will be on hand in the pierhouse to talk to visitors about recent mudlarking finds, on [...]
Open Weekend 11am – 4pm, 23th and 24th June
Please join us on Saturday 23th and Sunday 24th June, between 11am and 4pm for our Open Weekend. There will be tea, coffee... and cake! Click here for directions
Jubilee Pageant – Key times
11:30 Vessels muster between Hammersmith and Battersea bridges 14:10 Queen arrives at Chelsea Pier 14:30 Queen boards Royal Barge. Steam train, Princess Elizabeth, whistles a salute from Chelsea Bridge 14:40 Jubilee Bells mark official start of Pageant 14:45 First vessel passes under Albert Bridge 15:00 Royal Barge joins flotilla, church bells ring out 16:15 HMS [...]
Pageant performance at HCM
At 1pm and 7pm on Sunday 3rd June, there will be a performance in the rigging of one of the historic vessels at Hermitage. A fine-art and circus collaboration, produced by the Cultureship and supported by Hermitage River projects, the performance will be visble from the banks of Wapping at Hermitage Gardens and is free [...]
HCM vessel to attend Diamond Jubilee Pageant
We're looking forward to the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on June 3rd. It will feature 1,000 boats and be watched by over a million spectators, as it travels down the river between Putney and Tower Bridge. Taking about 90 minutes to pass any given point, the flotilla will be over seven miles long and – [...]
Handmade at Hermitage
We are running a Cafe and Christmas Market on the moorings from Saturday 3rd to Sunday 11th December. We will be open from 10am-4pm and late night on Wednesday until 7pm. (we wont be open on Friday 9th).
Oral history and Open House at HCM
The Oral History Cafe (coffee, cream teas and home-made cake!) at HCM is open from 10th to 18th September, every day from 11am to 4pm, in the beautiful surroundings of Hermitage’s floating Pier House on the Thames. While you enjoy a cuppa and a cake, you can listen to tales and memories from A Sense [...]