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The Friends of
Honeywood Museum How to Join | Events for 2010 | Garden Party 2007 | Garden Party 2008 |
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The Friends of Honeywood Museum Registered Charity No. 1067131
Who are we? We are a charity formed to raise funds to support the work of the staff at Honeywood Museum. We have paid for many items for the house over the years. Most recently we have contributed to the very successful schools programme run by the staff at Honeywood by providing such things as a replica Roman helmet, utensils for a Tudor banquet, costumes and Victorian toys. We have helped to re-decorate the old scullery and a dedicated team regularly help with children’s workshops during the school holidays. The large, circular “Tudor” pavilion (tent) that appears in the garden in the spring, was also bought by the Friends. This is used in the summer for school groups and children’s workshops. With Honeywood gaining Museum status in 2008, The Friends of the Heritage Centre became The Friends of Honeywood Museum.
To do this we organise a series of talks each year, usually on local history, that are open to everyone. What else do we do? Voluntary Stewards We organise a volunteer team who help out in the house on special occasions. Fund Raising We raise money from subscriptions, talks and special events such as our annual summer Garden Party in the walled garden at Honeywood as well as our very successful annual Christmas show. Our second-hand book stall does a roaring trade outside the house on Sunday afternoons from April to October. Newsletter The Friends' Newsletter is published 3 times a year to keep our members up to date.
The Friends have recently bought this watercolour for the museum collection. It possibly shows the waterfront at Honfleur in Normandy, and was painted by Lily Kirk Edwards. Lily lived in Honeywood. She was the adopted daughter of John Pattinson Kirk and his wife Leah who bought Honeywood in 1883. Lily was an accomplished and recognised artist, known to have painted in northern France and Belgium .This view may be based on Honfleur in Normandy. This is the first painting of Lily’s Honeywood has seen
Also purchased recently is this splendid contemporary view of Carshalton High Street by Brian Burrage. One day someone will see the advertising board for spit-roasted chickens and chuckle at the price; probably sooner than we think! We have lots of historic local views but little in the way of modern ones to show our future generations what Carshalton was like at the beginning of the 21st century Thanks to Paul Williams for the photographs above,
Thursday 24th June 7.30pm at Honeywood Museum
Thursday 22nd July 7.30pm at Honeywood Museum
Thursday 23rd September 7.30pm
at Carshalton Library
Thursday 28th October 7.30pm
at Carshalton Library
Thursday 25th November 7.30pm
at Carshalton Library Come & Join UsMembership of the Friends gives you free admission to the house as well as reduced tickets to Friends’ and Honeywood events. The current Subscription is £6.00 for single membership and £10.00 for a family (2 adults and 2 children) per annum To print out our Membership Form click here: MS Word Document or PDF Document The members of the committee are:
Chairman: Mike
Bale
Contact us c/o
Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton SM5 3NX All images and text on this web site are Copyright © The Friends of Honeywood Museum 2010
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