Diary September 2018

Sat 1 Local History Fair Omnibus, 1 North Side, SW4, 10.15am–4.15pm (to 30) Lambeth Heritage Festival Month LHF: Cemetery’s Clapham Connections, Omnibus Theatre, SW4, 10.45am National Trust: Quacky Races on the Wandle, Snuff Mill, , 11am-3pm LWT: Walk, Great North Wood team, station, College Rd, noon LHF: Rink Mania in Edwardian Lambeth, Sean Creighton, Omnibus Theatre, SW4, 12.30pm LHF: Clapham Library to Omnibus Theatre, Peter Jefferson Smith & Marie McCarthy, 1.30pm Godstonebury Festival, Orpheus Centre, North Park Lane, Godstone, 12-8pm SCOG: 36 George Lane, Hayes, BR2 7LQ, 2-8pm Laurel and Hardy Society: The Live Ghost Tent, Cinema Musum, 3pm LHF: 1848 Common Chartists’ Rally, Marietta Crichton Stuart & Richard Galpin, 3.15pm Sun 2 NGS: Royal Trinity Hospice, 30 Clapham Common North Side, 10am-4.30pm ’s Art-Deco & Modernism Walk, Adrian Whittle, Streatham Library, 10.30am Streatham Kite Day, , 11am-5pm Historic Airport Trust: Open Day, 11am-4pm : Open Day, Postmill Close, Croydon, 12-5pm Crystal Palace Museum: Guided tour of the historic Crystal Palace grounds, noon Streatham Society: Henry Tate Gardens Tour, Lodge gates, Henry Tate Mews, SW16, 2 & 3pm NGS: 24 , , SE5 8LH, 2-5.30pm Kennington Talkies: After the Thin Man (U|1936|USA|110 min), Cinema Musum, 2.30pm S'y: South Herne Hill Heritage Trail, Robert Holden, All Saints’ Ch, Lovelace Rd, 2.30pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Compline by Candlelight: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Rev Martin Hayward, St Mary's, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 3 Shirley Library: Paintings of Croydon on a Few Bob a Week, John Hickman, 2pm Vauxhall Society: Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens walk, David Coke, Starbucks, Vauxhall Stn, 2.30pm LHF: Samuel Johnson and Vauxhall Gardens, Ross Davies, Tate South Lambeth Library, 7pm Save The Cinema Museum: Public Meeting, Cinema Museum, 7pm CPDS: TBA, Old Centre, 7.30pm Streatham Society: Artists' : Role played by Streatham, Mireille Galinou, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 4 Silver C'a: Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society (12A|2018|UK|124 mins), Odeon B'm, 11am Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Road, , SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Cathedral: The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History, Revd Dr John Binns, 7pm Cinema Museum Fundraiser: An Intimate Evening with Tom Burke, 7pm DLC: Pincushion (15|2017|82 min|USA|Q&A with actress Joanna Scanlan), 7.30pm BBLHS: Members’ Evening, co-ordinated by Mike Marriot, Trinity URC, 7.45pm (to 8) Chipstead Players: Chekhov’s The Sneeze, Courtyard Theatre, 8pm (& Sat 2.15) Cafe Scientifique: The Psychology of Dating, Rachel New, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm COPSE: Borneo, United Church hall, Aberdeen Road, , 8.15pm Wed 5 TASCd: Astors, Rothschilds, Sackville-Wests and Gardens, Caroline Rayman, Banstead Hall, 10am Matinée Classics: State Fair (U|1945|96 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm RISEfestival: Urban Arts Free Film Screening, Urban Xchange, 1 Lansdowne Road, Croydon, 7pm GSitP: Psychology of Conspiracy Theories, Prof Karen Douglas, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm (& 7) Screen 25: Lady Bird (15|2017|USA|93 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm (+ launch party 7th) Thu 6 DLC: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (15|2018|UK/USA|114 min), 2.30 (subtitled) & 7.30pm (to 22) RISEfestival: Official Urban Arts Tour, Cafe Nero, , 12.30pm (times vary) LHF: Lambeth and World War I: 1917 and 1918, Len Reilly, Cinema Museum, 6.30pm London Astronomers, Rebekah Higgitt and Rob Iliffe, Westminster Reference Library, 6.30pm LWT: Great North Wood Bat Walk at , Crystal Palace station, 7.15pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Mick Sands and friends, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm (to 16) Birmingham Heritage Week ESFH: The Great Exhibition, Jeff Page, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm Biggin Hill Society: Members' evening, WI Hall, Lebanon Gardens, 8pm Fri 7 LHF: Lambeth Palace Garden Open Day, Lambeth Road, SE1, 12-3pm (& 8) Exceptional Experiences Conference, Regents University, London Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London, Antony Clayton, Westminster Ref Lib'y, 6.30pm RISEfestival: Croydon Collection private view, RISE Gallery, St George's Walk, Croydon, 6.30-9pm Alternatively Speaking: The Life and Works of Rumi, Bob Sauer, 8pm RISEfestival:Meet The Artist, Hayley Welsh, Urban Xchange, 1 Lansdowne Road, Croydon, 8pm City Commons: Guided Bat Walk, West Wickham Common, 8pm Sat 8 Heritage Open Days (to 23) Wandle Fortnight RISEfestival: Street Art Jam, Park Street, Croydon, 9am Wallington Farmers' Market, The Old Town Hall, Wallington, 9am-1pm (& 9) Kennington Bioscope: Silent Film Weekend, 10am-10pm Green Community Heritage: Mit'm Heritage Day, Cricket Pavilion, 10am-4.30pm (& 9) WF: Capability Brown Society Festival Weekend, , Home Park Rd, 10am-7pm Heritage Open Days: Crystal Palace Subway, Crystal Palace Parade, times TBC Women of Southwark - The Untold Story Tour, Southwark Cathedral, 11am Wandle Fortnight: Earlsfield Wandle Wander, St Andrew’s Church, Garratt Lane, Earlsfield, 2pm ESFH: Aladdin's Cave: Archives in History Centre, Julian Pooley, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Sun 9 : Festival of the Great North Wood, , 10am-6pm RISEfestival: Graffiti Grannies, Saint George's Walk, Croydon, 11am NGS: 2 Littlebury Road, Clapham, SW4 6DN, 12-5pm Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, 12.50pm Not a Proper Child Book Signing, Nicky Nicholls & Elizabeth Sheppard, Southwark Cathedral, 1pm WF/SLBI: Plant Walk - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Wandle Park, Croydon, 2.30pm WF/Friends of Water Tower: Carshalton Water Tower open day, Pound St, 2.30-5pm HHS: North Herne Hill Heritage Trail, Robert Holden, Herne Hill Velodrome, Burbage Rd, 2.30pm Clapham Society: Around Park Hill, Alyson Wilson, Clapham Common tube, 2.30pm RISEfestival: The Global RISE of Urban Art, TMRW Café, 77 High St, Croydon, 7.30pm (TBC) Compline by Candlelight: Nicholas Ferrar, Rev Peter Hewlett-Smith, St Mary's, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 10 RSPB: Around the World in 80 Minutes, Chris Collins, Whitgift Sports Club, C'ham M'r Rd, 2/8pm Phoenix Retirement Association: Harp Concert, Keziah Thomas, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm RISEfestival: Meet The Artist Book Signing, Art & Craft, 46 Surrey Street, Croydon, 7.30pm Tue 11 DLC: Tully (15|2018|USA|95 min|Babes In Arms Screening), 11am Library: The Song is You: Jerome Kern, 2pm Revival Project: War Graves of St Luke’s Churchyard, Kev Barnes, St L’s, W'fe Hill, 5.30pm LHF: How Stockwell Lost its Green, Bill Linskey, 20 Eastcote St, SW9, 7pm DLC: Lots Of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (Not yet rated|2017|Spain|90 min), 7.30pm Tooting History Group: Members evening, various speakers, TURC, SW17, 7.30pm NSLTC: Members’ slides (traditional or jpegs), ECURC, 8pm Wed 12 Matinée Classics: Weekend in Havana (U|1941|USA|81 mins), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Kennington Bioscope: Au Bonheur Des Dames (1930|France|85 min), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm CNHSS: The Horniman Museum - a Personal View, Nigel Williams, ECURC, 7.45pm Screen 25: Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 (12A|2011|Sweden|100 mins), Harris Academy, 7.45pm Early Days of Rosendale Rd Estate, Bob Reeves, Herne Hill United Church Hall, SE24, 7.45pm Thu 13 TASB: 18th to 20th century Scottish Art, Rosalind Whyte, Beckenham Public Hall, 10.30am WF: Mapping the Mills - Walk 1, The Building Exploratory, Colliers Wood Tube Station, 10.30am TASC: Marie-Antoinette and Elizabeth Vigée Le-Brun, Marie-Anne Mancio, ASCH, 10.45am DLC: Summer 1993 (12A|2017|Spain|97 min), 2.30pm & 7.30pm LHF: Filling the Gaps: Women & Power in Lambeth Archives, Susan Shanks, Cinema M'm, 6.30pm RISEfestival: Urban Arts Free Film Screening, Urban Xchange, 1 Lansdowne Road, Croydon, 7pm Southwark Cathedral: Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of WW1, Elisabeth Shipton, 7pm Fri 14 Atlantis Japan AGM: 70 Victoria Street, 3.30pm Wandsworth Historical Society: Wandle Mills and Industries in Wandsworth, Earlsfield Library, 7pm Bat walk, Coulsdon Common, 7.15pm LHF: The Ups and Downs of The Marvellous Craggs, Edward Cragg, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm MHRPS: Bluebell Railway Projects, West Croydon Baptist Church, 7.30pm Screen 25: Ready Player One (12A|2018|USA|139 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 15 Southwark Cathedral: Stories of London: The River Thames - A Day of Talks, 10am-4.30pm WF: Farmlands guided tour, 105 Beddington Lane, Sutton, 10am PBE (& 16/22/23) Merton Arts Festival 2018, 11am-5pm WF/LWT: Open Day, CR4 4JS, 11am-1.30pm SCOG: Selhurst & South Norwood Allotment, Alvestone Gardens, Selhurst Road, SE25, 12-4pm Kenley Revival: Tour of Kenley Airfield, Marie Tulley-Rose, RAF Kenley Tribute, 10.30am & 1.30pm (to 29) Streatham Free Film Festival British Vintage Wireless & Television M'm: Television Day, 23 Rosendale Road, SE21, from 11am (& 16) Heathfield Ecology Centre: Green Heritage Fair, 11am-5pm (& 16) Birmingham Heritage Week: Wake Green Road prefabs open weekend LHF: The History of City & Guilds of London Art School, 124 Road, SE11, noon Herne Hill Society: Herne Hill Heritage Trail Central, Robert Holden, Herne Hill station, 2.30pm Cinema Ruskin: Lady on a Train (Deanna Durbin/1945) plus shorts, , 8pm Misty Moon: Please Sir! 50th Anniversary Cast Reunion, Cinema Museum, 8pm Sun 16 Greenacres Walks: The Woodridge Walk, Mike Gee, Woodside Park tube station, 11.45am WF/Friends of Carshalton Water Tower: Carshalton Water Tower open day, Pound Street, 1-5pm Brixton Sound: Black Music in Brixton Walk, Kelly Foster, Brixton Library, 1pm WF/Fds of W'le Pk: Tramlink & the Berlin Wall talk/walk, James Graham, Wandle Park Cafe, 2pm Rochester Kino: Cleo from 5 to 7 (PG|1962|France|90 min), Cine Lumiere, SW7, 2pm Kennington Classics: The Servant (U|1963|UK|115 min), 2.30pm Brixton Belongs: a Film Archive, Clapham Film Unit, Pop Box, 49 Brixton Station Road, 6pm The Haunted House Of Horror (15|1969|UK|88 min), Cinema Museum, 6pm Misty Moon: The Image (1969|David Bowie), etc, Michael Armstrong, Cinema Museum, 8pm Compline by Candlelight: Carl Jung, Rev David Butlin, St Mary's Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 17 LHS: Coach outing to West Dean Gardens Neighbours Walk, Len Reilly, Morley College, 6.30pm Kennington and the Chartists, Marietta Crichton Stuart, Durning Library, 7pm Vesta Tilley & Her World, Keith Fawkes & Richard Norman, Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, 8pm Streatham Society: Lost Lambeth Architecture, Edmund Bird, The Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 18 WBLHG: Reminiscences of Old Merton, Sarah Gould, West Barnes Library, 10.30am Gresham:Romanticism, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Friends of the Earth Film: Burned - Are Trees the New Coal? with guest speaker, ECURC, 7.30pm DLC: Sicilian Ghost Story (15|2017|Italy|122 min), 7.30pm ESFH: Palaeography with Reference to Genealogical Research, Elizabeth Danbury, ECURC, 8pm Changing Times: Crop Circles of 2018, Andy Thomas, Cyprus Hall, Burgess Hill, 8pm Wed 19 Matinée Classics: Drums along the Mohawk (PG|1939|102 mins|USA), Regent St Ca, 12 & 3.30pm WF/Wandsworth Society: Earlsfield to the Thames, Wandle Bridge, Penwith Road, SW18, 5.30pm Gresham:Tudor Painting and Politics, Simon Thurley, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Dark Mirror (PG|1946|USA|81 min|16mm), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, TBA, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm (& 21) Screen 25: Isle of Dogs, (12A|2018|UK/Germany/US|101 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Save the Campaign AGM, Braithwaite Hall, 8pm Thu 20 WF: Mapping the Mills - Walk 2, The Building Exploratory, Earlsfield Station, 10.30am Lambeth Heritage Festival: Lambeth and the NHS, Len Reilly, Cinema Museum, 2.30pm DLC: Shiraz (U|1928|India|97 min|silent with musical score), 2.30pm & 7.30pm BBHA AGM: The Black Prince: Hero or Villain? Dr. Michael Jones, 7pm Southwark Cathedral: Death on the Brighton Road, Jon Newman, 7pm SLBI: The Botany of Tooting Common, Roy Vickery, 7pm (exhibition from 2pm) Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm LHF: The Ups and Downs of The Marvellous Craggs, Edward Cragg, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Norwood Society: The History and Development of Brixton Market, Bill Linsky, U Nwd Ly, 7.30pm FOHC: The Back Doors to Death, Helen Barrell, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm SLLHG: Tulse Hill, Alan Piper, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Fri 21 King Con, Paul Willetts, Westminster Reference Library, 6pm Max Wall Society: We Think the World of You (12|1988|UK|94 min), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm (to 23) Tootopia Food and Drink Festival, Tooting Sat 22 People for Portland Road: AGM, Stanley Halls, 12 South Norwood Hill, SE25, 10am-noon (& 23) Open House London WF: Wandsworth Prison Museum open day, Healthfield Road, SW18, 10am-4pm (not 1-2) WF: Carew Manor Great Hall and Dovecote tours, Beddington Park, Church Road, 10am/noon/1pm (& 23) WF: Merton Priory Chapter House Open Weekend, Merantun Way SW19, 11am-5pm (& 23) WF/Friends of Carshalton Water Tower: Carshalton Water Tower open day, Pound Street, 1-5pm SLBI: Plant Walk, Roy Vickery, Garrards/Tooting Bec Roads,Tooting Common, 2pm Merton Arts Festival: Artists' Studios & Exhibitions Guided Walk , Wendy, Morden Hall Park, 2pm West Norwood Cemetery Tour, 2.30pm Cinema Museum: An Evening with Barry Cryer, OBE, 7.30pm Sun 23 CNHSS: Autumn Fruits and Fungi, Jane McLauchlin/Malc Jennings, Wood car park, 10am City Commons: Lumps and Bumps guided walk, Riddlesdown, 10am Renown Pictures: Morning 'Reel Streets' Ealing Film Locations Tour WF/LWT: exploration, Mill Lane, Carshalton, 10.30am-1pm (walk at 11.30am) WF/FOHM: Water Engineering in 18th Century Carshalton, John Phillips, Honeywood Wk, C'n, 2pm Tootopia: Greatest Tooting History Tour 2, Tooting Broadway station, 2pm Merton Arts Festival: Guided Tour of , Friends' Chair, Studio Sculpture Yard, 2pm Misty Moon: The Professionals Revisited, Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Compline by Candlelight: George Muller, Heather Harris, St Mary's Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 24 Gresham: Gothic London on Screen, Ian Christie, Museum of London, 6pm Women and the Stars, Dr Helen Klus, Westminster Reference Library, 6.30pm Living with Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects, Beliefs, Neil MacGregor, Southwark C, 7pm CNHSS: Addington, Lindsey Ould, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 25 The 1888 London Match Girls’ Strike and Annie Besant, Liz Robson, Library, 2.30pm Gresham: Antibiotic Resistance, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm Rochester Kino: Pink Flamingos (18|1972|USA|93 mins), Genesis Cinema, E1, 6.30pm DLC: Vagabond (15|1985|France|105 min) 7.30pm NSLTC: Members’ Slides, ECURC, 8pm Wed 26 GEMCS:Victorian and Edwardian Theatricality, Westminster Reference Library, 10.30am-5pm Matinée Classics: Gold Diggers of 1933 (PG|1933|96 mins|USA), Regent St Ca, 12 & 3.30pm ESFH: My Ancestor Should Have Been on the Census, Joan Hanson, Lingfield C'ty Centre, 2.30pm Travelling Through: Prefabs book launch, E'beth Blanchet/Sonia Zhuravlyova, Lower Marsh, 6-9pm RBLHS: The Gruesome History of Bodysnatching, Robert Stephenson, Time and Talents, 7.15pm LHF: Green Energy Today, Otero & Taylor, Room 16, Lambeth Town Hall, 1 Brixton Hill, 7.15pm Screen 25: Sicilian Ghost Story (15|2017|Italy|122 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm LHS: West Norwood Cemetery Bat Walk, Jo Ferguson, Old Library, 14 Knights Hill, SE27, 8pm FoHM: Alfred and Salamanda Saxophone Quartet, Honeywood Museum, 7.45pm Thu 27 DLC: Cold War (15|2018|Poland|88 min), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Gresham: Medieval Europe: Faith, Suspicion, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm LHF: A Licensed Pit of Darkness: a Bicentenary History of Old Vic, Jon Newman, Cinema M'm, 7pm LCGB: A Colour Rail Journey, Paul Chancellor, ECURC, 7.30pm Fri 28 LHF: Waterloo, Morley & , Elaine Andrews, St John’s, Waterloo Road, SE1, 1pm The Soul Of Mantra - Live! Deva Premal & Miten with Manose, Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm Screen 25: How to Talk to Girls at Parties (15|2017|UK/USA|100 mins), Harris Academy, 7.45pm Sat 29 We Love SE25: Community Conference, Stanley Halls, 12-4pm Shirley Methodist Church: Jumble Sale, 1.30pm CNHSS: Rolling Stones Part 6, Paul Sowan, The Fox, Keston, 2pm Clapham Connections Tour, John White, West Norwood Cemetery, 2.30pm Downsview Players: Murder at the Music Hall, Downsview Methodist Church Hall, 7.30pm Sun 30 TM: London Day Retreat, Regent’s University, Regent's Park, 10am-5.30pm LHF: Ghostsigns Walks, Sam Roberts (Mr Ghostsigns), Clapham North Station, 10am & 2pm Residents' Associations: Addiscombe Village Jumble Trail, 11am-3pm LHF: St Jude’s Herne Hill: a Victorian Church Repurposed, Peter Bradley, Brockwell Pk Hall, 11am LHF: Waterloo, Morley & the Blitz, Elaine Andrews, St John’s, Waterloo Rd, SE1, 2.30pm LHF: Relive the Blitz in Waterloo, St John’s, Waterloo Road, SE1, 2 & 3.30pm LHF: World Cocoa and Farmers Day Talk, Chocolate Museum, 187 Ferndale Road, SW9, 3pm Celluloid Sorceress: Tigerland (2000) and Phone Booth (2002) on 35mm, Cinema Museum, 3pm Compline by Candlelight: Therese Vanier, Rev Michelle Edmonds, St Mary's Church, Farleigh, 8pm

October Mon 1 CNHSS: Lapis Lazuli, Chris Duffin, ECURC, 7.45pm (to 31) London Month of the Dead SCLS: Steaming On: Train Travel on the UK's Preserved Railways, Paul Whittle, RURC, 7.45pm Streatham S'y: Being Leader of the Opposition on Lambeth Council, Tim Briggs, Woodlawns, 8pm (to 6) Theatre 62: The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, Wickham Theatre Centre, 8pm Tue 2 Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm LWT: Woodland Industry & Shipyards, Edwin Malins, Festa sul Prato, Deptford, 7.30pm Handel in London: The Making of a Genius, Professor Jane Glover, Southwark Cathedral, 7pm DLC: The Heiresses (12A|2018|Spain|98 mins|subtitled), 7.30pm LMOD: The Future of Death, John Troyer, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm COPSE: Bumblebees, Nikki Gammans, United Church, Aberdeen Road, South Croydon, 8.15pm BBLHS: Bromley Workhouse: Sad Life of Amelia Dolding , Stuart Valentine, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: The John Gent Postcard Collection part 2, John Hickman, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: Oxted History, Jim Farrell, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Cafe Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm COPSE: Bumblebees, Nikki Gammans, United church hall, Aberdeen Road, 8.15pm Wed 3 TASCd: World War One: Poetry, Art and Music, Denis Moriarty, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Matinée Classics: TBA (|19| mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Gravitational Waves, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Purposeful Business, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: Hypnosis: the State of the Science, Dr Devin Terhune, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm Kennington Bioscope: The Lost World (U|1925|USA|63 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm (& 5) Screen 25: Whitney (15|2018|USA|120 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Thu 4 TASB: Power and Pageantry on the Thames, Peter Warwick, Beckenham Public Hall, 10.30am DLC: Apostasy (PG|2017|USA|95 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Gresham:Ethics in the Court Room, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Caroline Palmer, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH: Investigating Legal Records, Dr Nick Barrett, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm Biggin Hill Society: Every Night Something Awful: The Story of ENSA, Delia Taylor, WI Hall, 8pm Fri 5 Alternatively Speaking: Ask and It Is Given, Linda Sadler, 8pm (to 13) Streatham Festival Sat 6 RILKO Conference: Star Patterns & Sacred Sites, Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, 10am-7pm (& 7) Welcome Italia 2018, Royal Horticultural Halls, London LWT: Great North Wood Geology Walk, CP Park, Crystal Palace station, 11am Dracula Society: Vampires from Folklore to Film, Karl Bell, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Downsview Players: Murder at the Music Hall, Downsview Methodist Church Hall, 7.30pm Sun 7 Historic Trust: Open Day, 11am-4pm Shirley Windmill: Open Day, Postmill Close, Croydon, 12-5pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Harvest Songs of Praise, St Mary's Church, Farleigh, 3pm Mon 8 ESFH: Burial Clubs: the Unfriendly Societies, Audrey Collins, Southwark Local History Library, noon RSPB: Hungary, A Jewel of Europe, Mary Braddock, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Rd, 2pm Phoenix Retirement Ass'n: Notable Women of Norwood & the Odd Bloke, John Hickman, 2.30pm Gresham: No Listening, No Music, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm DS: Committee Meeting, CSC, 7pm TLRS: Model evening: the Gerald Warner legacy kits, Adrian Batt, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm RSPB: Encounters with Venomous Snakes, Rolf Williams, Whitgift Sports C, Croham M'r Rd, 8pm Tue 9 DLC: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (15|2018|UK/USA|114 min|Babes In Arms), 11am Gresham: Maths Behind Chaos Theory, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Brexit: Sovereignty and Rights, Geoffrey Nice, Museum of London, 6pm DLC: The Rider (15|2017|USA|103 mins), 7.30pm Tooting History Group: Cinemas of Tooting, Balham and Streatham, Richard Gray, TURC, 7.30pm Purley Literary Society: Rubens: a Master in the Making, Dr Lois Oliver, PURC, 8pm SMLS: My Life as a Royal Protection Officer, Richard Griffin, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 10 Matinée Classics: Mother Wore Tights (U|1948|107 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham:Epidemics and Pandemics, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Screen 25: The Breadwinner (12|2017|Canada|91 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm SLS: My Life as Royalty Protection Officer to The Queen & Duke of E, Richard Griffin, SURC, 8pm Thu 11 TASC: 250 Years of the Royal Academy of Arts, Pamela Campbell-Johnson, ASCH, 10.45am DLC: Blackkklansman (15|2018|USA|135 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm BBHA: Presidential First Hundred Days from FDR to Trump, Anthony Badger, Christ Ch Hall, 8pm Fri 12 MHRPS: History of the French Railways, Michael Bunn, West Croydon Baptist Church, 7.30pm Screen 25: Love, Simon (12A|2018|USA|110 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 13 : Hooray for Hollywood, Bromley, 2pm DLC: A Passage to India (PG|1984|UK/India|David Lean|157 mins|Q&A with James Fox), 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Cinema Museum: Saving Brinton (Documentary|2017), Tommy Haines/Andrew Sherburne, 7.30pm Sun 14 Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, 12.50pm Live & Let Die (PG|1973|UK|121m)/The Wild Geese (15|1978|UK|129m), Cinema Mus'm, 1.30pm Kennington Classics: Brooklyn (12|USA|2015|109 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 15 SCLS: 60th Anniversary of the Surrey Hills AONB, Ken Bare, RURC, 7.45pm Streatham Society: The Great Stink: Joseph Bazelgette's Story, Julie Chandler, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 16 WBLHG: Women’s Suffrage in Merton, Sarah Gould, West Barnes Library, 10.30am Gresham:Wordsworth and Coleridge, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Narrow Margin (PG|1952|USA|71 min), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm DLC: One Note at a Time (PG|2016|USA|95 mins|Q&A), 7.30pm (to 20) Churchill Theatre: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bromley, 7.30pm (& Sat 4pm) SMLS: Beetle Drive, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ESFH: - More about People than the Building, David Morgan, ECURC, 8pm ODHS: Maxwell Knight: MI5’s Greatest Spymaster, Henry Hemming, URC, Blueh'se La, Oxted, 8pm Wed 17 Matinée Classics: The Woman in the Window (PG|1944|99 mins|USA), Regent St C, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Historical Perspectives (RHS), Tom Williamson, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Narrow Margin (PG|1952|USA|71 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Screen 25: The Rape of Recy Taylor (15|2017|USA|91 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, TBA, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 18 DLC: The Children Act (12A|2017|UK|105 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Gresham: State Torture, Joanna Bourke, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm FOHM: Edwardian Studio Photographic Techniques, Abby Matthews, Honeywood House, 7.30pm Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Norwood Society: Conservation in Croydon, Shane Roberts, Library, 7.30pm LMOD: Death Cafe, Suzette Field, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7pm SLLHG: The Manor of Norbury, Michael Gilbert, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Fri 19 Screen 25: Ocean's Eight (12A|2018|USA|110 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 20 Southwark Cathedral: Art of the First World War - A Day of Talks, 10.15am-4.15pm Carshalton Day of Dance LWT: Fungi walk at Streatham Common, Sylvia Myers, Rookery Cafe, 11am FoWNC AGM: William Wright DD, Samuel Wright, Chatsworth Baptist Church, SE27, 2.30pm LMOD: Facing Up to Death, Nick Reynolds, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7pm Cinema Ruskin: Waikiki Wedding (Bing Crosby/1937), The Range Busters (1940), R'n House, 8pm Sun 21 Group 9.5: Annual Show & Get-Together, Public Halls, Southdown Rd, Harpenden, 11am-7.30pm LWT: October Fungi Walk at Sydenham Hill Wood, Crescent Wood Road entrance, SE26, 11am Churchill Theatre: Illegal Eagles, Bromley, 7.30pm Mon 22 Gresham:Autism in the Workplace, Adam Feinstein, Museum of London, 6pm (to 27) Chipstead Players: Trap for a Lonely Man, Robert Thomas, Courtyard Theatre, 8pm (& Sat 2.15) Tue 23 Gresham:It from Bit, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm DLC: Faces Places (12A|2017|France|Agnès Varda|94 mins), 7.30pm Purley Literary Society: The Lancaster Bomber and Me, John Wilson, PURC, 8pm SMLS: The Isle of Wight, Wildlife & Countryside, Malcolm Jennings, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 24 Matinée Classics: Miss Sadie Thompson (PG|1954|90 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Dark Matters, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm ESFH: Institutions in the Censuses, Kathy Chater, Lingfield Community Centre, 2.30pm Gresham:Maths in War and Peace (BSHM), David Aubin, Museum of London, 4pm Kennington Bioscope: Another Evening of 9.5mm Films, Kevin Brownlow, Cinema Musum, 7.30pm FOHM: Black British Civil Rights Heroines, Tony Warner, Honeywood House, 7.30pm Screen 25: In The Fade (18|2017|Germany|104 mins|subtitled?), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm LHS: Prize-giving and Social, Old Library Centre, 14-16 Knight’s Hill, SE27, 8pm SLS: The , London, The Shows & the Stars, Dean Caston, SURC, 8pm Thu 25 Gresham: Modern Writers and Faith, Lord Harries, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm LCGB: British Light Railways, John Scott Morgan, ECURC, 7.30pm Saving Brinton (2017), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Fri 26 Institute of Mechanical Engineers Lunch: CP High Level Railway, B Winchester, Masonic Hall, noon Diana's: Theory of Everything, Diana Bailey, 7pm Sat 27 DLC: Puzzle (15|2018|France|103 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm The Misty Moon International Film Festival 2018, Cinema Museum, 7pm Sun 28 LWT: Autumn Wildlife Walk at Sydenham Hill Wood, Rachel Dowse, Sydenham Hill Wd, SE26, 2pm Celluloid Sorceress: Sparkle (15|1976|98 min|USA|16mm|Samira Ahmed Q&A), Cinema M'm, 3pm Mon 29 Gresham: Strategy and Democracy, Hew Strachan, Mercers' Hall, 6pm CNHSS: Death on Brighton Road: Execution Sites in South London, John Newman, ECURC, 7.45pm SCLS: Around the World in a Double Decker Bus, Richard King, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 30 Gresham: Bribery and Corruption, Nicholas Cooke, Museum of London, 6pm Haunted by Christ, Bishop Richard Harries & Revd Andrew Nunn, Southwark Cathedral, 7pm DLC: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (15|2018|USA|91 mins), 7.30pm SMLS: Exploring 18th Century London 1700-1719, Michael Gilbert, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: Medieval Pilgrimages, Catherine Ferguson, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Wed 31 Matinée Classics: Bell, Book and Candle (U|1958|100 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham:Performing Surgery, Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Summerstown182: Spooking Tooting Guided Walk, Tooting Broadway station, 6.30pm RBLHS: Aspects of Staffing 1869-2018, Pat Kingwell, Time & Talents, 7.15pm DLC: Possum (15|2018|USA|85 mins), 7.30pm Screen 25 Halloween Special: A Quiet Place (15|2018|USA|90 mins), Harris Academy, 7.45pm

November Thu 1 TASB: Chivalry, Art and Reality in the Great War, Tobias Capwell, Beckenham Public Hall, 10.30am FOHC: All Saints Candle Lighting Evening, Highgate East Cemetery, 4-7pm Gresham:The Age of the Reformation, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Lily Neill, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm (to 3) Mitre Players: Single Spies, Alan Bennett, Trinity School, Shirley Park, 7.30pm Looking for Charlie (2018), Q&A: directors Darren Reid/Brett Sanders, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm ESFH: Researching before Parish Records, Ian Waller, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm Biggin Hill S': A Humorous Account of 40 Years in Show Business , Keith Simmons, WI Hall, 8pm Fri 2 Alternatively Speaking: Seeing the Future with Astrology, Sue Farebrother, 8pm Sat 3 Southwark Cathedral: Poetry of the First World War - A Day of Talks, 10am-4pm LWT: Great North Wood Fungi Walk, Sam Bentley-Toon, Tennis Courts, Biggin Wood, SE19, 2pm Sun 4 Veteran Car Run, London - Croydon - Brighton Historic Croydon Airport Trust: Open Day, 11am to 4pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 5 Arts Society Bromley: TBA, Great Hall, Civic Centre, Bromley, 7.30pm CPDS: The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword, Centre, 7.30pm Streatham Society: Streatham at Westminster, Rt. Hon. Keith Hill, The Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 6 Gresham: Making Information Personal, Yorick Wilks, Museum of London, 1pm Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Gresham:Shakespeare's Stages, Michael Pennington, Museum of London, 6pm BBLHS: A Kent School Girl’s War, Mary Smith, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: The Humorous Side of Being an Actor, Jonathan Fryer, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Purley Literary Society: Here is The News and Other Happenings, Hilary Osborn, PURC, 8pm Cafe Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Wed 7 TASCd: 250 Years of the Royal Academy of Arts, Rosalind Whyte, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Ending World War I, David Stevenson, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: Do No Harm, but First, “Nature”, Britt Hermes, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm SLS: Henry VIII – Brought to Life, Tony Harris, SURC, 8pm Thu 8 TASC: Edward-Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Legacy, Alan Read, ASCH, 10.45am Gresham: Money: Root of All Evil? Richard Burridge, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Fri 9 MHRPS: Bluebell Railway's Project 27, Clive Emsley, West Croydon Baptist Church, 7.30pm Sat 10 Lord Mayor's Show from 11am; Firework display, 5pm Summerstown182: Walk of Remembrance, St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon Road, 11am ESFH: City of London Freemen & Stationers Co Liverymen, Andrea Cameron, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Dracula Society: 44th Annual Bram Stoker Birthday Dinner, Civil Service Club, 6.30pm Sun 11 Centenary Commemorations of the End of World War 1, Festival committee Mon 12 RSPB: A Year at Mote Park, Simon Ginnaw, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Road, 2 & 8pm Phoenix Retirement A'n: Gales, Greenhouses & Global Warming, Ian Currie, Phoenix Ctre, 2.30pm TLRS: TBA, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm SCLS: Traditional Textiles of Thailand, Jennifer Hughes, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 13 Gresham: Mathematics of Climate Change, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Nanomaterials, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm THG: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission: the Early Years, TBA, TURC, SW17, 7.30pm SMLS: The History of South Norwood Country Park, Janet Ambrose, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: A Very Special Villa: the Life and Times of Kensington Palace, Nigel Arch, URC, Oxted, 8pm Changing Times: Unleashing Power of Intuition, Barefoot Doctor, Cyprus Hall, Burgess Hill, 8pm Wed 14 Gresham: Volcanic Eruptions, Stephen Sparks, Museum of London, 6pm Celluloid Sorceress: Bad Company (12|116 min|USA|2002), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Kennington Bioscope: The Whispering Chorus (PG|1918|USA|86 mins|DeMille), Cinema M, 7.30pm Thu 15 Gresham: The Internet and the News, Steve Schifferes, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm BBHA: Fish & Chip Supper/ Britain on Film 1901-1978: Coast and Sea, Christ Ch Hall, 7pm Southwark Cathedral: God is No Thing: Coherent Christianity, Rupert Shortt, 7pm Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Norwood Society: The History of Beulah Spa, Stephen Oxford, Upper Norwood Library, 7.30pm SLLHG: Film in South London part 3, Tony Fletcher, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Fri 16 Misty Moon: The Vincent Price Legacy, Victoria Price, Cinema Musum, 8pm Sat 17 FoWNC: A Year in the Life of a Bee Keeper, Jean Azzopardi, Chatsworth Baptist Ch, SE27, 2.30pm Sun 18 LWT: Autumn Wildlife Walk at Sydenham Hill Wood, Rachel Dowse, Sydenham Hill Wood, 2pm Kennington Classics: Drive (18|2011|USA|100 min), Cinema Musum, 2.30pm Mon 19 Gresham: Classical Music, Noisy Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Streatham Society: The Unknown Warrior, Don Doncaster, The Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 20 WBLHG: World War 1: Forget-me-not, Michael Norman Smith, West Barnes Library, 10.30am Gresham: Glinka, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: The Romantic Child, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm FOHC: Votes for Women, Elizabeth Crawford, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm SMLS: The Old Palace Buildings and its Bishops, Janet King, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ESFH: Armistice Christmas, Barbara Elliott, ECURC, 8pm Purley Literary Society: Food Adulteration from Then until Now, Prof Anthony Dyan, PURC, 8pm Wed 21 Gresham: Infections and the Brain, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: Murder My Sweet (PG|1944|USA|92 min), Cinema Musum, 7.30pm SLS: The Salvation Army Choir, Leader Gerry Boniface, SURC, 8pm Thu 22 FOHM: Jane Seymour: the Haunted Queen, Alison Weir, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm SOLD OUT (to 24) Downsview Players: The Memory of Water, Downsview Methodist Church Hall, 7.30pm Sat 24 NSPCC: Christmas Fair and Tea, Sunrise Living, Russell Hill Rd, Purley, 2-5pm Mon 26 Gresham: Plastics from Potatoes, Andrew Abbott, Museum of London, 1pm SCLS: The Foundling Museum, Jane King, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 27 Gresham: Speech Processing, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm LWT: A History of Sydenham Hill Wood, Rachel Dowse, CWG, 28 Marsden Rd SE15, 6.30pm SMLS: 40 Years Without a Proper Job, Chris Hare, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: 1918 Revisited: How the First World War Ended, Prof David Stevenson, URC, Oxted, 8pm (& 28) Deva Premal, Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm Wed 28 Gresham: In the Beginning, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm RBLHS: A Talk on Albert McKenzie, Paul Keefe, Time and Talents, 7.15pm LHS: Competing at Chelsea Flower Show, Maggie Temple, Old Library Centre, Knight’s Hill, 8pm Thu 29 Gresham: The Theatre of Dionysus, Edith Hall, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Steampipes presentation, William Booth College, Denmark Hill, 6.30pm Gresham: Sexual Harassment at the Bar, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 7pm Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm LCGB: Why are there no Tube Trains to Bushey Heath? Keith Gower, ECURC, 7.30pm

December Sat 1 British Vintage Wireless & Television M'm: TV Display 11am, Recorded Music, Tony Clayden, 1pm FOHM: Carshalton Frost Fair, Carshalton Ponds, 1-6pm Sun 2 Historic Croydon Airport Trust: Open Day, 11am to 4pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Heathfield Ecology Centre: Grand Xmas Bazaar, Heathfield House, 12-4.30pm Mon 3 Gresham: Medical Training, Caroline Elton, Museum of London, 1pm Emerson College: The Deeper History of Christmas, Andy Thomas, Forest Row, 8pm Streatham Society: Christmas Evening (members only), The Woodlawns, 8pm (to 8) Theatre 62: The Ladykillers by Graham Linehan, Wickham Theatre Centre, West Wickham, 8pm Tue 4 Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Gresham: Childhood Malnutrition, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm DS: Christmas Party, the Winchester Room, The George, 77 Borough High St, SE1, from 6pm BBLHS: Played in Kentish London: Bromley's Sporting Heritage, Simon Inglis, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: Quiz, Jeff/Elizabeth Fleischer, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Purley Literary Society: 1066 and All That - the Bayeux Tapestry, Martin Heard, PURC, 8pm Crystal Scientifique: Christmas Science Quiz, Steven Henn, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, 8pm Wed 5 TASCd: In the Kingdom of the Sweets, Nigel Bates, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Dissecting the Consultation, Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Bioscope: The Virgin of Stamboul (1920|USA|70 mins|Todd Browning), C'a M, 7.30pm GSitP: How Cartoons Somehow or Other Get Drawn, Jeremy Banx, Star & Garter, 7.30pm SLS: Being a Concorde Pilot, John Hutchison, SURC, 8pm Thu 6 TASB: Parodies of Victorian Soc'y in Gilbert & Sullivan, Peter Medhurst, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am Gresham: Understanding Violent People, Joanna Bourke, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Clive Carroll, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH: Christmas on the Home Front, Mike Brown & social, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm BBHA: Richelieu - The Cardinal and his City, Brian Freeland, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Biggin Hill Society: TBA, WI Hall, Lebanon Gardens, 8pm Fri 7 BSS: Christmas Carol Service, St Andrew's-by-the-Wardrobe, London, 6pm Alternatively Speaking: The Columbian Exposition of 1893, Bernard Winchester, 8pm Sat 8 Christmas Festive Day of Dance, and , 11am–4pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Sun 9 Christmas Party, Brian, Diana et al, the Railway, West Wickham, 6.30pm Mon 10 RSPB: Local Government Ecologist, Iain Boulton, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Rd, 2 & 8pm Phoenix Retirement Association: Christmas Party, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm TLRS: TBA, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm SCLS: A Very Sweet Villa, Nigel Arch LVO, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 11 Gresham: The Romantic Lakes, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm ODHS: Christmas Party, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: Christmas Themed Musical Evening, Morven & Iain Rae, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 12 Gresham: Executive Pay, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm RBLHS: Biscuits, Chocolate & Jam, Jennie Howells, Time and Talents, 7.15pm Thu 13 Gresham: Carols from King's, Jeremy Summerly, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm OS LHRG: TBA, TfL HQ, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, SE1, 6.30pm FOHC: Gothic London, Clive Bloom, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm Fri 14 MHRPS: Christmas Meal, Banana Leaf restaurant Sat 15 LWT: GNW Winter Tree Walk at , Sam Bentley-Toon, Sydenham Hill station, 2pm The Greatest Variety Show Ever 2018, Terry Sanderson, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Sun 16 Kennington Classics: The Full Monty (15|1997|UK|88 min), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 17 CPDS: Balloon Debate, Old Coulsdon Centre, 7.30pm Tue 18 SMLS: Christmas Social, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 19 Kennington Noir: The Crooked Way (A|1949|USA|90 min), Cinema Musum, 7.30pm SLS: A Christmas Miscellany, Ian & Penny Bevan, SURC, 8pm Winterville Festival: The Deeper History of Christmas, Andy Thomas, Clapham Common, ?pm Thu 20 LCGB: A Look at the USA, Brian Garvin, ECURC, 7.30pm Norwood Society: Social Evening, Upper Norwood Library, 7.30pm SLLHG: Christmas Event, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Wed 27 Northwood Morris: Boxing Day Tour, Harrow Inn, 309 Farleigh Road, , 12.45pm

January 2019 Sun 6 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 7 SCLS: Confessions of a Guide Book Writer, Kev Reynolds, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 8 Gresham: Can Maths Tell us Where We Are? Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: The Lord Mayor's Annual Gresham Event, Guildhall, Old Library, 6pm Purley Literary Society: My View on Current Politics, Sir Simon Hughes, PURC, 8pm ODHS: Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Victorian Photographer, Judy Hill, URC, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: A-Z of West Wickham, Ian Bevan, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 9 Gresham: Gresham, London, and Europe, Ian Archer, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Steiner Schools, Andy Lewis, Star & G'ter, 7.30pm SLS: Tales of the River Bank, Jenny Hibbert, SURC, 8pm Sat 12 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Mon 14 Gresham: Sacred Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 15 Gresham: Search for Meaning on the Web, Yorick Wilks, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Our Dark Deep Ocean Planet, Jon Copley, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: World War 1 & 2 Items, Renia Jenkins, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 16 TASCd: Queen Victoria, Prince Albert & Their Art, Susan Owens, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Infections and the Nerves, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Fri 18 Churchill Theatre: Champions of Rock, featuring Meat Loaf and Queen, Bromley, 7.30pm Sat 19 Churchill Theatre: Chicago Blues Brothers, Bromley, 7.30pm Mon 21 SCLS: The Wildlife Aid Foundation, Dr Mike Berwick, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 22 TASS: Brangwyn's Architechture And Internal Design, Dr Libby Horner, SURC, 10.30am Gresham: Musorgsky, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm Purley Literary Society: No 1 Landsdowne Road Croydon, Piers Gough, PURC, 8pm ODHS: Jane Austen & Marriage: Fact & Fiction, Maureen Stiller, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: The Vanishing Maidservant, Ian Keable, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 23 Gresham: Corporate Governance, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm SLS: Pills from Plants & Modern Medicine, Professor Trevor Jones CBE, SURC, 8pm Thu 24 Gresham: Shakespeare and Atheism, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Dracula Society: Nosferatu (PG|1922|Germany|81 min), Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Tue 29 Gresham: Evolution since Gresham's Time, Steve Jones, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Colin Brown, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 30 Gresham: 50 Years of Lunar Exploration, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Stuart Image-Making, Simon Thurley, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 31 Gresham: The Children Act 1989, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm

February Sun 3 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 4 Gresham: Ruskin at 200, Malcolm Andrews, Museum of London, 1pm CPDS: Schools Debate, Old Coulsdon Centre, 7.30pm Churchill Theatre: Trust Fast Health, Dr Michael Mosley, Bromley, 7.30pm SCLS: The Titanic, the Ship and the Wreck, Rob Goldsmith, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 5 Purley Literary Society: My Life as a Royal Body Guard, Richard Griffin, PURC, 8pm SMLS: The Tale of the Tulip, Russell Bowes, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: The History of Transport 1770-1870, Stuart Denison, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Wed 6 TASCd: Faber and Faber - Its Designs and History, Toby Faber, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Gresham, Global Traffic and Trade, Nandini Das, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 7 Gresham: Varieties of Forgiveness, BStephen Cherry, arnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Gresham: Market Failures, D'Maris Coffman, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm SLS: The John Gent Postcard Collection Part 2, John Hickman & Carole Roberts, SURC, 8pm Sat 9 Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Misty Moon: The Bill Reunion 3, Linda Regan, Cinema Musum, 7.30pm Mon 11 Gresham: From String Quartets to Jazz, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 12 Gresham: Maths in the City, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Computer Vision, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: Beulah Spa, Stephen Oxford, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 13 Gresham: Infections of the Lung and Heart, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Mon 18 Gresham: The Annual Boyle Lecture 2018, St Mary-Le-Bow, 6pm SCLS: Fanny Burney, Surrey and the French, Sir Brian Urwin, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 19 Gresham: Psychiatry, Paul Fletcher, Museum of London, 1pm Purley Literary Society: Gardening in North Korea, Neil Miller, PURC, 8pm ODHS: The Great Fire of London, Alan Goldsmith, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: Rome to the Rockies, Dennis Jeanes, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 20 Gresham: Volcanoes and Society, Stephen Sparks, Museum of London, 6pm SLS: Donald Campbell Across the Lake, Philip Holt, SURC, 8pm Thu 21 Gresham: Justice Online, Joshua Rozenberg, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Mon 25 Gresham: Films of Robert Paul, Ian Christie, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 26 TASS: Same Old, Same New, Aliki Braine, SURC, 10.30am Gresham: Animal Parasites and Hosts, Tristram Wyatt, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: Travels with a Camera Crew, Peter Whittle, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 27 Gresham: The 'Lone Heroic Surgeon', Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 28 Gresham: Gender, Marriage and Divorce, Richard Burridge, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm FOHM: The Ponds - Houses and People 1860-1913, John Phillips, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm

March Sun 3 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 4 SCLS: The Story of the National Garden Scheme, Margaret Arnott, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 5 Gresham: Food Security, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm PLS: The Abyssinian Difficulty: Retracing a Victorian Expedition, John Pilkington, PURC, 8pm ODHS: English Coins and Tokens: 1066 to 1971, David Rudling, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: The World on her Bike, Pam Goodall, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 6 TASCd: Thomas Heatherwick, The Leonardo of our Times, Anthea Streeter, Banstead Hall, 10am Gresham: Astronomy from Gresham's Time, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: The Role of Investors, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm SLS: The Ellen McCarthy Sailing Cancer Trust, SURC, 8pm Thu 7 Gresham: Age of Pericles, Edith Hall, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Gresham: Politics and the Legal Profession, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Sat 9 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Mon 11 Gresham: Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, Margaret Willes, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Tue 12 Gresham: Maths in the Future? Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm SMLS: Land of the Pagodas (Burma), Christine Jarvis, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 13 Gresham: Brexit and the Future, Vernon Bogdanor, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 14 Gresham: Puritan Atheists, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 14 BBHA: 100 Years of Aeromedical Evacuation, Paula Kitching, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Sat 16 Dracula Society: TBA, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Mon 18 SCLS AGM: Magic Fit for a King, John Derris, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 19 Gresham: Deep Learning, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm Purley Literary Society: Bruges: It's More Than Just Chocolate, Melanie Gibson-Barton, PURC, 8pm ODHS AGM: TBA, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: Women with Attitude, Clare Walker, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 20 Gresham: Art and Aristocracy, Simon Thurley, Museum of London, 6pm SLS AGM: Whitgift String Quartet, led by Philip Winter, SURC, 8pm Thu 21 Gresham: Cruelty to Animals, Joanna Bourke, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Sun 24 Renown Film Club: Annual Festival of Film, the Alban Arena, Civic Centre, St Albans, 10am-7pm Mon 25 Gresham: Deep Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Conan Doyle: the South Norwood Years, Bernard Winchester, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 26 TASS: Great Lengths, Simon Inglis, SURC, 10.30am Gresham: Shostakovich, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm SMLS: Sweet Harmony, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 27 Gresham: Infections of Abdominal Organs, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 28 FOHM: A Trip Around South-East England by Train, John Parkin, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm

April Mon 1 CPDS: Visitors Debate, Old Coulsdon Centre, 7.30pm Tue 2 Gresham: Political Spending on the Internet, Lori Ringhand, Museum of London, 1pm Wed 3 TASCd: Art, Design and Suffragettes, Vivienne Lawes, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Thu 4 Gresham: Spiritual Quest Against Religion, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Fri 5 AS: The Mesmerist: How Hypnotism Came to Victorian London, Wendy Moore, 8pm Mon 8 Gresham: New Wave British Cinema 1960s, Ian Christie, Museum of London, 6pm Churchill Theatre: Rumours of Fleetwood Mac - Anniversary Tour, Bromley, 8pm Tue 9 Gresham: Dying in Today's World, Baroness Finlay, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: AI and Education, Rose Luckin, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 10 Gresham: Environment of Tudor London, Carolyn Roberts, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 11 BBHA: Henry VI and the Origins of the Wars of the Roses, Dr James Ross, Christ Ch Hall, 8pm Thu 16 Gresham: Text Mining, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: Annual General Meeting, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 17 Gresham: Mining Volcanoes, Stephen Sparks, Museum of London, 6pm Sun 21 Easter Sunday Tue 23 TASS: The Age of Jazz, Sandy Burnett, SURC, 10.30am Wed 24 Gresham: Does Finance Benefit Society? Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 25 Gresham: Meaning and Human Life, Richard Burridge, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm FOHM: The History of Ordnance Survey, John Dancy, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm Sat 27 Dracula Society AGM: The Mesmerist, Wendy Moore, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Tue 30 Gresham: 500 Years of Mathematics, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Pollution and Health, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm

May Wed 1 TASCd: The Rock 'n Roll Era: Pop Art & Swinging Sixties, Valerie Woodgate, Banstead Hall, 10am Gresham: Leonardo's Salvator Mundi, Martin Kemp, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 2 Gresham: Children and Medical Treatment, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Tue 7 Gresham: The Accompanist, Graham Johnson, Mercers' Hall, 6pm Wed 8 Gresham: Gresham's Exchange, Stephen Alford, Museum of London, 6pm BBHA: Transports of Delight? Passenger Experience of Yesteryear, Peter Enser, Christ C Hall, 8pm Thu 9 Gresham: The Abolition of God, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Sat 11 ESFH: Members' Meeting, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Mon 13 Gresham: Digital Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 14 Gresham: Danger Ahead With AI? Yorick Wilks, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: John Keats and his Friends, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 15 Gresham: In Touch with Patients, Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Mon 20 Gresham: Origin of Life, Nick Lane, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 21 Gresham: Prokofiev, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Earth from Space, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 22 Gresham: The Limits of our Knowledge, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Infections as We Age, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Mon 27 (to 1) Dracula Society: Nosferatu trip to Hamburg and Berlin Tue 28 Gresham: Creativity and Computers, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 29 Gresham: Maths gets Messy (LMS), Helen Wilson, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 30 Gresham: Aristotle's Lyceum, Edith Hall, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm

June Tue 4 Gresham: Treaty of Versailles, Margaret MacMillan, Museum of London18, 6pm Wed 5 TASCd: Captain Cook and the Enlightenment, Peter Warwick, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Mergers and Acquisitions, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 6 Gresham: Wellbeing at the Bar? Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Sat 8 Dracula Society: TBA, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Tue 11 Gresham: Byron and the Age of Sensation, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 13 Gresham: Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019 Guildhall, John Guy, Old Library, 6pm Tue 18 Gresham: Weimar Republic, Richard Evans, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 20 Gresham: The Gray's Inn Reading, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm

July Tue 2 SMLS: Summer Social, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Sat 13 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm

August

September Sat 14 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm

October Sat 1 (or 8) Dracula Society: TBA, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm

November Sat 9 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm

December