The technology of the blast furnace reached England at the end of the 15th century. This talk by Jeremy Hodgkinson explores how the Weald became the heart of the country’s […]
Talk by Laurence Scales. Engineering is a pillar supporting our comfortable lives. So what is its history? And in Britain, why does it, perhaps, have a social stigma attached? More […]
Talk by Carole Roberts and Phil Swallow. This story of the former house in Warlingham called Overhill covers the land on which it stood, from its time as part of […]
Martin Eales will explore the early ideas and evidence for the concepts of continental drift leading to the paradigm of plate tectonics. Early cartographers recognised that the continents across the […]
By the 20th century, North End was a major shopping and entertainment centre. Carole Roberts and Andrew Kennedy will look at how this happened and its key buildings past and […]
Talk by Lynne Dixon. After her marriage Annabel Dott lived in North Yorkshire, Woodside, Barnes and Wiltshire as she dutifully followed her vicar husband. But she had her own interests […]
South London was a technological hotspot from the 1850s through to the 1980s, with companies such as Telcon, STC, Siemens and AEI pioneering international telecoms, and with Decca developing hi-fi […]
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Join Lucy James, Gardening Services Manager at The Wilderness for an evening tour of the garden. Rev Wilks’s rhododendrons and azaleas will be a highlight as well as seasonal displays […]
East Croydon Community Organisation 