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Our 2024 Tours and Events: The Merchants House Musicians, Magician Greg Chapman, Henry VIII and his groom of the stool, Lady Samantha, Owl Occasions, Tudor painting activity, display of Court Dress, Medieval and Tudor Plants. The King’s Heralds: Heralds and Heraldry talk by Dr Dominic Ingram

A selection of photographs of Charity and Community events held at Acton Court since our opening in 2001.

Photographs of past workshops gallery held at Acton Court since our first opening in 2001 

Our 2023 Tours and Events: Audio tours of House and Grounds. British Flower week, Flowers for a King weekend with The Tudor Players, The Merchants House Musicians.

Our 2022 Tours and Events: Audio tours of House and Grounds. The Tudor Players, The Merchants House Musicians.

Our 2021 Tours and Events: Audio tours of House and Grounds. The Tudor Queens. Heritage Open Day 2021, The Tudor Cook.

Our 2019 Events: June NGS Open Days; The Tudor Garden with Historic Gardener Mike Brown, make a nosegay with Organic Blooms, Nature and Wildlife with The Hawk and Owl Trust, Acton Court’s Bee Man, Organic Blooms, Owl Occasions and Chris Sperring. Garden and Tudor Music The White Rose and the Red: A Tudor concert with The York Waits and Deborah Catterall. Heritage Open Days 2019, The Odhecaton 1501 A Musical Revolution with In Echo.

Our 2018 Events: The Erebus Ensemble Directed by Tom Williams; Candlelit Tours with Lady Joan; Piva, Glorianna - An Elizabethan progress. Midsummer Charity Day: Henry’s Queens, Steve Goodfield, Hilary Pavey, Jim Reynolds, Lady Nade (pictured), Tudor Ensemble, Tudor Weapons and Lifestyles, Chris Sperring, Hawk & Owl Trust, Organic Blooms.

Our 2017 Events: The Lion and The Rose, Courtiers of Grace; Sounds and Sweet Airs, Sarah Deere-Jones with Phil Williams; Getting close to nature, Chris Sperring MBE, Scent and Symbolism, Organic Blooms.