Midnight Apothecary Down The Shaft Christmas Party

The famous pop up cocktail bar at the Brunel Museum invites you to join them for a very special Midnight Apothecary Christmas Party Knees Ups down the Victorian underground tunnel shaft at the Brunel museum.

Join Tom Carradine the ‘Musical Hall and Cabaret artist aficionado’ for an underground night of raucous singalong. Above ground, warm your cockles around the campfire in Midnight Apothecary’s festively lit roof garden with deluxe hot rum toddies and toasted marshmallows. Delicious themed botanical cocktails and sizzling Christmas street food available on the terrace.

Spectacular new light and sound show in the shaft from Eventide productions.

Tickets

• Discounted party packages for groups of 10 available.
• Thurs 5 Dec, Thurs 12, Dec, Fri 13 Dec, Thurs 19 Dec. 5.30pm – 10pm.
• Tickets £15-40. Booking essential at https://midnightapothecary.designmynight.com

Down The Shaft Christmas Party packages

Christmas packages are available to take the hassle out of party bookings.

Tickets cost £40 and include entry to the tunnel shaft and roof garden, two delicious seasonal cocktails. street food, toasted marshmallows and all entertainment thrown in.

Groups of ten can book in advance at the bargain price of £375. Vegetarian, vegan and non-alcoholic alternatives are available so everyone is catered for. Tokens will be handed to each guest on arrival to trade in for cocktails and scrumptious food. 

A night to remember

 Let your host lead you in a traditional cockney sing-a-long on a grand piano with songs from the music hall era, WWI and II, the West End stage and traditional popular songs from across the decades. A good old-fashioned Christmas knees-up!  

Try the legendary botanical cocktails (and some very nice wine and local beer) to get you in the spirit and loosen up your larynx. Down on the terrace deliciously sizzling and seasonal street food from UpsideDown Catering will be available to keep your cockles even warmer. And to keep you in the festive spirit, there will be complimentary marshmallows to toast all evening. 

Tom will be performing three sets during the evening. Guests are invited to bring their cocktails up into the garden, their hot rum toddies into the underground chamber, their street food into both – we really are very relaxed. Blankets will be provided. These promise to be magical Christmas nights filled with festive mirth, merriment and marshmallows.  But hurry. Tickets are going to sell out like hot mince pies! Oh and please dress warmly – we can warm your cockles with a hot toddy or two but it gets blimmen’ chilly down our shaft!

Tom Carradine, already a fixture on the UK’s thriving vintage scene brings with him a bit of a cult following with his dapper chappie cockney-sing-a-long on the ‘ol Joanna