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.…
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”.
VISIT: Keats House
Saturday, 20th April. Meet by the Oxfam bookshop opposite Hampstead Tube station (Northern Line) at 14:00. We expect to meet Rob Shakespeare, its Principal Curator, for the first time since he left the Museum of Croydon.
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.
WALK: Spring Flowers in Happy Valley and Devilsden Wood, Coulsdon
Sunday, 7 April Meet at 14:00 in the public car park beyond the Fox, off Coulsdon Road, TQ 318569. Led by Jane McLauchlin and Malcolm Jennings.
New programme up on the website
Details of our events through to April 2018 have now been posted on the website. Check out the programme and we look forward to seeing you soon…
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
Details of our events through to April 2017 have now been posted on the website. Check out the programme and we look forward to seeing you soon…
A weekend of walks and visits: Shirley Windmill, Coombe Conduit and Riddlesdown
Three events in one weekend, taking in Shirley Windmill, Coombe Conduit (Hampton Court), and botany on Riddlesdown.
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…
