Watford Colosseum throws open its doors each year as part of Heritage Open Days and after missing it in 2016 we were keen make it along to one of the tours. These were clearly popular as a few dozen were waiting in the lobby for the 2pm tour. After being split into groups, we firstly…
Category: Culture
Wardown House and Park (07/09/17)
We’d seen adverts for Wardown House Museum and Gallery when we visited the excellent Stockwood Discovery Park. Both museums, run by Luton Culture, seem to have benefited from significant investment in the past few years, and have clearly worked hard to provide a rich and varied visitor experience for all ages. Wardown House, just north of…
Shenley Park: Music to Watch Flowers By (12/08/17)
At the end of July, Shenley Park hosted the ‘Music to Watch Flowers By‘ family music day in their Walled Garden. Shenley is surprisingly close to Watford – a 15-minute or so drive down the A41 and out the other side of Radlett. We trundled up from the field where we were parked with our…
Colourscape and Waddesdon Manor (04/06/17)
We’d seen someone post about Colourscape on at Waddeson Manor on Facebook somewhere and thought that it looked like a pretty cool event to go to and then promptly forgot about it! Luckily, we managed to remember in time to catch its last day. And we’re so glad we did as it’s really rather special. We…
Moving to Watford: One Year On (13/12/16)
It’s a year since we moved to Watford from London. But did we? We’re still having conversations with friends and colleagues over what really constitutes ‘London’. We both work in the capital and consider Watford – as it’s on the tube and a quick overland hop into Euston – still part of Greater London. Our commutes…
Imagine Street Theatre (03/07/16)
We had really wanted to catch some of the Imagine festival’s shows whilst they were running but one thing or another meant we could only sit in on the end of the Sigma show. It had drawn a decent crowd and because we were late arrivals, we couldn’t manage to get that close – this…