The Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum records the lives and experience and celebrates the achievements of people with mental health problems.

It was founded in 1247 as the priory of St Mary of Bethlehem; the site now covered by Liverpool Street station. By the fourteenth century it was already treating the insane. In 1547 it came under the control of the City of London as one of the five ‘Royal’...

The Museum of Croydon is a brilliant, fun place to spend a couple of hours, and to discover the real history of Croydon.

With its unique place in the history of science, Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, is one of the major visitor attractions in the South East. See the study where Darwin wrote 'On the Origin of Species', still as it was when he worked here, and stroll through...

Titsey is one of the largest surviving historic estates in Surrey. It dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, though the first impression now is of a comfortable early-nineteenth century house in a picturesque park, under the North Downs which hereabout rise to...

West Wickham Common, owned and managed by the City of London at no cost to the public, is a 10Ha (26acre) public open space. Located in the London Borough of Bromley, it forms part of a larger area of open countryside within the London green belt that link London...

Bromley Local Studies and Archives collects, preserves and makes available current and historic materials on the area of the London Borough of Bromley.

The museum began in 1980 and opened to the public in 1981. It was started by the archaelogical section of the Bourne Society with Lesley Keteringham as its first curator; there are still close links with the Bourne Society whose members provide many of the volunteers...

The hammer-beam roof of the Great Hall is Grade I listed. Carews lived here in Beddington from 1352. Sir Nicholas Carew KG was a companion of Henry VIII, but was executed as a traitor in 1536. His son Sir Francis created the first English outdoor orangery. The house...

The Shoreham Aircraft Museum was founded in 1978 by local enthusiasts, whose passion for the Battle of Britain period resulted in the establishment of a permanent display in 1988. The Museum houses hundreds of aviation relics excavated by the group over many years...