Monday 29th April, 19:45 at the Small Hall, East Croydon United Reformed Church. This talk is by Tessa Boase, author of the book of the same name. Twelve years before the suffragette movement began dominating headlines a very different women’s campaign caught the public imagination: to save birds from the cruel fashion for feathered hats.…
Category: Talks
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: with Presidential Address
Thursday 25th April, David Sweet Hall East Croydon United Reformed Church, at 19:45. Followed, after refreshments, by the Presidential Address given by John Hickman “Croydon Lost and Found: Recent Researches on the Paintings of Evacustes Phipson”.
TALK: The Grand Theatre and its place in Croydon
This talk by Carole Roberts will look at the Grand Theatre sixty years after it closed: its performances and in the context of the other contemporary theatres of Croydon, two of which, the Davis and the Empire, also closed in the same year.
New programme up on the website
New programme details up on the website

Details of our talks, walks and other events are now published on the website. In another busy few months, there are talks and walks spanning the breadth of the Society’s interests: geology, botany, astronomy, entomology, and of course history, both local to Croydon and further afield. And again this year, the Society will be participating in the…
New programme up on the website
TALK: The World of Grasses

Wednesday, 13 July – Dr Maria Vorontsova Lawn grasses are small but they belong to the most important family of plants. Dr Maria Vorontsova, taxonomist at Kew Gardens, introduces herbarium taxonomy as carried out at Kew Gardens, its application to the study of evolution, and its relationship to our knowledge of British plants. The evening includes a practical…
Our Croydon Heritage Festival events
TALK: Northumberland
An illustrated talk about the county of Northumberland.