Details of a packed programme of events being run by Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society as part of the ever-popular Croydon Heritage Festival.
Our Croydon Heritage Festival events
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TALK: Mapping the Geology of Croydon and East Surrey
![View Down the Chipstead Valley [Wikimedia, Creative Commons: Peter Trimming]](https://croydonnaturalhistoryscientificsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/view_down_the_chipstead_valley_-_geograph-org-uk_-_1225928.jpg?w=150)
TALK: Moated Sites in Surrey
![South Norwood Country Park, which contains remains of a moated site. [Wikimedia public domain: Pafcool2]](https://croydonnaturalhistoryscientificsociety.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/countrypark2.jpg?w=150)
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.
TALK: Vanished City
A second talk to the Society by Tom Bolton, this time on some of London’s lost neighbourhoods.
TALK: Puerperal Insanity in Brookwood Asylum 1867 – 1900
![L0027377 Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: an ironing room. Photograp Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: an ironing room. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?]. Photograph 1893 By: London & County Photographic Co..Published: [1893?] Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://croydonnaturalhistoryscientificsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/3e217c7562847c5aee5117889fe5.jpg?w=150)
Wednesday 14th October – Helen Gristwood Using evidence from asylum casebooks, Helen Gristwood examines the treatment of women admitted to Brookwood Asylum.
