Beer Festival - Day 1 Tickets bookable on-line or on the day £7 including free celebratory glass Refreshments available until 6pm Buy Tickets Here Beer Festival Tickets Sponsors include Redchurch Brewery, Herts and Essex Borders  CAMRA branch and the Rising Sun    

Tickets bookable on-line or on the day £7 including free celebratory glass Family Tickets £10.00 - Father's Day Refreshments available until 6pm Buy Tickets Here Beer Festival Tickets   Sponsors include Redchurch Brewery, Herts and Essex Borders  CAMRA branch and the Rising Sun  

Teddy Bears' Picnic 12:00 Noon  - 2:00 pm You can stay in the Garden until closing (6:00 p.m.) Bring a picnic to enjoy in The Gibberd Garden where there will be special activities for children and teddies. Usual entrance fees.  Donations for some activities, £4.00 for face-painting.  Details on the poster. No booking required.  

Gibberd Garden Sculpture Tour 5:30 for 6:00 p.m. start Enjoy The Gibberd Garden after the visitors have left to have a tour of the Sculptures in The Garden £15 to include light refreshments (Members of the Friends £12) Spaces are limited and pre-booking essential - via this link: Sculpture Tour Tickets Please note that it is a walking tour and the ground is uneven in places The tours last about an hour and will go ahead except in the event of exceptionally poor weather  

It's 1969 and a woman looks back on her life in London. From the Boer War to The Summer of Love, Flo Smith, daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow and grandmother recalls with horror, humour, tears and joy those turbulent times at home and in the world beyond her front door. The show is based on the book of the same name written by Christopher Saul and taken from the real-life audio recordings he made of his paternal grandmother, Flo Smith, when he was a drama student working on his dissertation. He sat in her cosy living room in North London, drinking copious amounts of tea and listening avidly while spool after spool of his tape recorder was filled with her recollections. Flo told of her Victorian childhood, her marriage to a young man who was later seriously wounded in the First World War, her struggle to put food on the table for her hungry children in the 1930s, and her harrowing experiences of the London Blitz. For the times, it was a common enough story and yet, for all that, a unique one too. "Funny, poignant, often both at once, Flo is both an engaging personal story and the best kind of history lesson” "Feisty, funny and frank” "an absolute gem” 27th August 2022, 2.30 - 4.30pm Adults £14 + booking fee Under 16 £9 + booking fee Booking via this link: Florence 'Flo' Smith Tickets