Date/Time: Thursday, 14th December 2023 at 17:50 - 21:30
Location: London Canal Museum, 12-13 New Wharf Road, London, N1 9RT
Price: £14 per person. Member and guest £28
Event Organiser: Nigel Bartlett. 190 Church Road, London W7 3BP
The London canal museum was originally built by the entrepreneur Carlo Gatti as an ice well to store the ice he harvested from the Regent’s Canal and also that which he imported from Norway.
The museum will be decked out with atmospheric lighting and candles to get us in the festive mood.
The Camden Town Community Choir will be in the ice well and entertain us with two sets, performing many popular carols and some less well known ones. The acoustics are amazing!
There will be two demonstrations of ice cream making, Edwardian style. The museum’s tribute to Mrs Agnes B. Marshall, the Edwardian queen of ice-cream making, will be performing as the great lady and making Christmas ice cream using ice and salt without a freezer. Sweet mincemeat is the flavour of the evening!
A cash bar will be available offering beer and wine.
The gift shop will be open for Christmas shopping. It has a wide range of canal-related gifts on sale, including one of the largest collections of canal book titles in England. Spend £30 or more on your shopping and get a free drawstring bag!
A mince pie is included in the admission price.
Additional Booking Information
A short boat trip on the museum’s narrowboat, Long Tom, is included in the ticket price. Please specify your preferred trip times in order of preference. For example “20:00 19:30 20:30” means your first choice is 20:00, second is 19:30 and third is 20:30. The available trip times are: 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 and 21:00. Note that we may not be able to meet your first or even second choices, so please be as flexible as you can.
If you do not wish to go on a boat trip, please enter “None” and we will reduce your admission price by £4. This reduced price will be reflected in your request for payment from the event organiser, but the booking form and booking receipt email will show the full price.
Event Booking
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The standard, printable event booking sheet is downloadable here.