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TALK: “Who Did You See At Croydon’s Empire, Grand and Davis Theatres?”

A talk on the stars of the Davis, Empire and Grand Theatres, Croydon.

James Wright of MOLA talks on medieval stonemasons and their work.

Sunday 6 March – two great events, an industrial history tour of Purley Way and a visit to the site of the pioneering Croydon Airport.

Derek Morris looks at Shadwell and Ratcliffe in the Eighteenth Century.

Wednesday 10th February – Richard Savage Richard talks about these hard to find places, including the site at South Norwood dug by the CNHSS in 1972.

John Hickman gives a talk about William Stanley and the Stanley Halls.

Monday, 18 January 2016. A talk by Kathryn Waghorn about the major civil engineering works taking place at Victoria Station.

The diversity of the John Gent Postcard Collection, illustrated in a second talk by John Hickman and Carole Roberts.

A talk about the coach roads towards Brighton, their landscape and history. By retired Whitgift School teacher Geoff Hewlett.

The Society’s Focus meeting for the afternoon of November 28 this year is on the subject of Human Origins, with two highly distinguished speakers.

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