The great High Level station opened just 150 years ago on 1st August 1865 and played an important part in bringing millions of visitors to the area. Bernard Winchester gives an illustrated account of the origins of the railway and its stations, its chequered history, and its ultimate fate.
Monday, 27 July – Brian Lancaster gives a talk on the records of the Croydon and Godstone Poor Law Unions.
The Croydon Heritage Festival is back, and Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society is playing its part. Events are on between 20 and 28 June 2015 – get your diaries out now!
Monday, 18 April
Martin Spence’s talk about Penge’s transformation from rural solitude to railway suburb.
Lyn Blackmore outlines the development of Strand and theatreland from an archeological perspective, providing insights into Anglo-Saxon London, AD400 to 886.
The Society’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, 23 April 2015, at 7:45pm in the David Sweet Hall at East Croydon United Reformed Church. This will be followed by the second Presidential Address by Ian G. Payne, entitled ‘History & Circumstance’.
Monday, 27 April – Carole Roberts
This talk will include Grants and other High Street stores in the first part of the Twentieth Century, the effects of the First and Second World Wars on the High Street, the Grand and Davis Theatres.
Wednesday, 8 April – Professor Joe Cain, UCL
Professor Cain will discusses how the dinosaurs fit into the larger setting of the park and into the history of science.
![Croydon War Memorial, at the Town Hall [Hahnchen, Creative Commons]](https://croydonnaturalhistoryscientificsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/683px-croydon_war_memorial_-_north.jpg?w=100)
Monday 30 March
Society Member Ron Cox talks about the artists, funding, inscriptions and preservation of Croydon’s War Memorials.
![Lion's Mound, Waterloo, seen from below [Photo: Isabelle Grosjean, Creative Commons 3.0]](https://croydonnaturalhistoryscientificsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/waterloo_lion.jpg?w=150)
