Friends of Havering Museum talk – The London Docks by John Lynch – Wed. 17th April

These FREE  sessions are for children age 6-11 and can booked online via Eventbrite (booking fee applies) or at the Museum.

The first session of our 5 sessions will introduce children to the concept of ‘oral’ history’. The theme of the workshop will be childhood, and we’ll be thinking about what childhoods were like in the past and what they are like now! We'll be decorating memory jars and using tablets as part of scavenger hunt and you'll go home with a prize.

Over the course of this 5-session programme, children will gain an appreciation for oral history as a source, learn digital skills, explore historical imagination, and gain familiarity with the many histories of East London and Essex, of which they themselves are a part, all while having fun and being creative during their summer holidays!

Workshops have been designed to be enjoyed as a 5 session programme however sessions can also be booked individually.

Please bring your own refreshments to the session.  Children must be accompanied by an adult.

This week's topic is -  Competitive events and tournaments

ADMISSION £3.  Admission includes entry to the Museum and refreshments.  Sessions take place from 1.30pm to 3.30 pm.

Bring your photographs and memories to share or just come to listen to others.

These sessions are sponsored by Mullis & Peake Solicitors LLP, Romford.

All are welcome to these friendly sessions.

Art Appreciation - Animals in Art

Wednesday 7th August 13:30 - 15:30

These are fun, informal and friendly and assume no previous knowledge. Attendees are encouraged to engage with a variety of artists within the designated topic and build up their repertoire in appraising art.

Admission £5 (inc. light refreshments)

Advanced booking advised.

These FREE  sessions are for children age 6-11 and can booked online via Eventbrite  or at the Museum.

Our second session will focus on stories; favourite stories, historical stories and local stories, and with the use of the archive and help of workshop facilitators, children will get the chance to use their imagination and design their own story with plot, setting and characters: will it be a day in the life at the docks’ ‘a day in the life of a nurse’ or ‘a day in the life of a musician?

Over the course of this 5-session programme, children will gain an appreciation for oral history as a source, learn digital skills, explore historical imagination, and gain familiarity with the many histories of East London and Essex, of which they themselves are a part, all while having fun and being creative during their summer holidays!

Workshops have been designed to be enjoyed as a 5 session programme however sessions can also be booked individually.

Please bring your own refreshments to the session. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

This week's topic is -  Being British

ADMISSION £3.  Admission includes entry to the Museum and refreshments.  Sessions take place from 1.30pm to 3.30 pm.

Bring your photographs and memories to share or just come to listen to others.

These sessions are sponsored by Mullis & Peake Solicitors LLP, Romford.

All are welcome to these friendly sessions.

These FREE  sessions are for children age 6-11 and can booked online via Eventbrite  or at the Museum.

This session will be the first of two which will focus on music, and using sound bites and photographs, investigate how it has changed over the years. You will discuss your favourite songs and music and have a chance to design your own historical music star, will it mod, punk or disco, give them a name and decide on the era did they came from? There will also be a chance for some dancing if you want to.

Over the course of this 5-session programme, children will gain an appreciation for oral history as a source, learn digital skills, explore historical imagination, and gain familiarity with the many histories of East London and Essex, of which they themselves are a part, all while having fun and being creative during their summer holidays!

When booking this music workshop, you must be available and able to commit to attending both sessions.

Please bring your own refreshments to the session. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

This week's topic is -  Music inspired nature

ADMISSION £3.  Admission includes entry to the Museum and refreshments.  Sessions take place from 1.30pm to 3.30 pm.

Bring your photographs and memories to share or just come to listen to others.

These sessions are sponsored by Mullis & Peake Solicitors LLP, Romford.

All are welcome to these friendly sessions.

These FREE  sessions are for children age 6-11 and can booked online via Eventbrite or at the Museum.

This session will focus on how music has changed over the years. Children will be given the opportunity to interview a past musician, write lyrics and put instruments together to make their own songs based on sounds from the past -Mod, Rock, Punk, Disco. This is the most ambitious of our five workshops, but will hopefully challenge children’s digital skills and historical imagination.

Over the course of this 5-session programme, children will gain an appreciation for oral history as a source, learn digital skills, explore historical imagination, and gain familiarity with the many histories of East London and Essex, of which they themselves are a part, all while having fun and being creative during their summer holidays!

When booking this music workshop, you must be available and able to commit to attending both this session and the previous week's.

Please bring your own refreshments to the session. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Friends of Havering Museum

Talk on Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast followed by a cream tea.

Thursday 29th August at 13.30

Price £7.50 for everyone

An alternative cake can be provided if requested due to dietary requirements.

Advanced booking and payment required.

Book with the Museum directly.

Gudied Walk - In the Footsteps of Heroes by Peter Owen

Monday 2nd Septemeber 11:00 - 13:00

Admission £5

A walk around the former RAF Hornchurch airfield looking at the remaining installations and talking about its role in WWI and WWII.

Advanced booking essential

Tickets are avaiable here via Eventbrite (booking fees apply)

Art Appreciation - Self Portraits

Wednesday 4th September 13:30 - 15:30

These are fun, informal and friendly and assume no previous knowledge. Attendees are encouraged to engage with a variety of artists within the designated topic and build up their repertoire in appraising art.

Admission £5 (inc. light refreshments)

Advanced booking advised.

This week's topic is -  Slavery

ADMISSION £3.  Admission includes entry to the Museum and refreshments.  Sessions take place from 1.30pm to 3.30 pm.

Bring your photographs and memories to share or just come to listen to others.

These sessions are sponsored by Mullis & Peake Solicitors LLP, Romford.

All are welcome to these friendly sessions.

Who lived where? What happened where? What are the Soho Noses? 

All to be discovered as we leisurely explore the streets of colourful and historic Soho.

We will stop at a Wetherspoon pub for  lunch, or bring your own for a picnic in Soho Square (no cover if raining).

An information sheet is available at the Museum.

Open to non Friends of Havering Museum at  £5 per head

FoHM members reserve your place via Eventbrite here

Non- Friends please book via Havering Museum direct.

Royal Remains & Tombs by Dr. Ian Browne

Saturday 21st September 2024

13:30 -15:00

£5 (inc. light refreshments)

A delve into how royal remains were treated in the past and their final resting places.

Advanced booking essential.

Tickets can be purchased here via Eventbrite (booking fee applies)

This illustrated talk of Romford will present an
overview of the town over 200 years. From its
dramatic growth in the 19 th Century with the
arrival of the railway to the modern shopping
centre of the late 1960s.

£5.00 (in light refreshments)

Friends of Havering Museum

Forgotten Heroes - Bomber Command

Thursday 17th October at 13:30

Free to Friends (£5 to non-members)

55,573 young men died flying with Bomber Command during the WWII. We will explore our local connections to Bomber Command and the men who served in defence of the realm.

FoHM members reserve your place via Eventbrite here

Non- Friends please book with  Havering Museum direct.

Military Ghosts talk by Ellen Owen

Thursday 31 October, 19:00 – 20:30

Be fascinated by the stories of military ghosts of the two World Wars and learn how ghosts are said to have helped the living and the living have helped the ghosts.  

Pre booking essential

Tickets £5 (including light refreshments) available at the Museum
or
book online via Eventbrite (booking fee applies)

Friends of Havering Museum

Collections Talk

Thursday 28th November at 13:30

Free to Friends (£5 to non-members)

A talk about the Museum's Collections with an opportunity for handling objects and learn how to preserve your treasures.

FOHM members reserve your place via Eventbrite here

Non- Friends please book via Havering Museum direct.

Thursday, 23 January 2025. 13.30 – 15.30

A great event to start the New Year exploring traditions and cockney songs
with Pearly King John Walters, his Queen and Prince. Let’s roll out the
barrel ...

ADVANCED BOOKINGS REQUIRED.  PAYMENT : CASH OR CHEQUE AT THE MUSEUM ONLY

£5 for refreshments,  £7.50 Non-Friends