Open Day Weekend – 14th & 15th September 2024
Sailing Barge "Will" is back for an Open Weekend, the last time was more than two years ago. The vessel is available for visitors to look at close up, as well as tour round the deck (with care). She is a working barge, but takes cargoes of guests now instead of goods as originally built [...]
Open Day 22nd June 2024
Gates open 11am to 2:30pm on Saturday ONLY this June Motor tug Touchstone will be open to visitors, there will be a pop-up cafe in the pier house and of course, the resident live-aboard boats to view close up, mainly Dutch and English river barges, with one Norwegian coastal vessel (Motor Ship Hans) and all in navigable condition with [...]
Open Days 16th & 17th March 2024
The first open days of 2024 will be similar to usual with a pop up cafe in the pier house and all the resident barges to look at close up. We also hope that one or other of the fire tenders usually moored at Lambeth Station opposite the Houses of Parliament will be here to [...]
Open Days 16th & 17th Sept 2023
This September we welcome the 3 vessels of The Cirdan Trust as part of their 40th anniversary. Queen Galadrial, (1937 Baltic Trader 32m x 6.4m x 2.4m draft) Faramir (1981 Bermudian Ketch 22m x 5.25m x 2.5m draft) Duet (1912 classic Yawl 20m x 3.4m x 2.2m draft) The Cirdan Trust was founded in 1983 to [...]
Open Day Weekend – 17th &18th June 2023
Gates open 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday. There will be the usual pop-up cafe and a visiting historic vessel mooring up at the visitor berth for people to have a close up look at. After a considerable absence from Hermitage (last visit was in 2015 ) VIC96 is steaming (literally firing up [...]
Open Day Weekend – March 18th & 19th 2023
Touchstone returns to Hermitage, fresh from drydock. Gates open 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday Motor tug Touchstone will be coming and will to be open to visitors, there will be a pop-up cafe in the pier house and of course the resident live-aboard boats to view close up, mainly Dutch and English river barges, with one [...]
Open Day Weekend – 17th &18th Sept 2022
Hermitage welcomes the historic vessel Havengore for the September open days weekend, in the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. It will be open to visitors during the normal open day hours of 11am to 4pm. Havengore was specially commissioned by the Port of London Authority in 1954 to act both as its flagship and principal [...]
Open Day Weekend – 18th &19th June 2022
After more than three years tug Touchstone returns to Hermitage Gates open 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday Motor tug Touchstone will be arriving from Chatham Historic Dockyard to be open to visitors, there will be a pop-up cafe in the pier house and of course the resident live-aboard boats to view close up, mainly Dutch and [...]
Open Day Weekend – 26th & 27th March 2022
The first open weekend of 2022 has sailing barge "Will" here, fresh from dry dock, winter repairs and maintenance. The vessel is available for visitors to look at close up, as well as tour round the deck (with care). She is a working charter barge, taking groups of people on private charters now, rather than [...]