![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)
A talk on Waterloo, to mark the 200th anniversary.
Category: Talks
The Heritage Festival approaches…
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!
TALK: The Making of Penge
Monday, 18 April
Martin Spence’s talk about Penge’s transformation from rural solitude to railway suburb.
TALK: “Beneath the Strand and theatre-land”
Lyn Blackmore outlines the development of Strand and theatreland from an archeological perspective, providing insights into Anglo-Saxon London, AD400 to 886.
Annual General Meeting, with Presidential Address
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’.
TALK: “Stores, wars and theatres: the High Street Croydon 1901-1958”
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.
TALK: “Dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park”
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.
TALK: “…we will remember them”
![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.
TALK: The Last Monastic Herbal in England: Syon Abbey, before 1517
![Seal of Abbess & Convent of Syon Monastery [Wikimedia Commons public domain]](https://croydonnaturalhistoryscientificsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/syonsealno1.jpg?w=96)
Monday 23rd March
An illustrated talk by John Adams, Member of Syon Abbey Research Associates and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
TALK: Erith Forest
Wednesday, 11 March 2015.
Jane Sidell, Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage, talks about her research of the lost Bronze Age forest and the surviving stumps and roots.
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