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Page Notices 2 Reviews 7 Books and Publications 13 Conferences and Courses 13 Lectures and Events 14 Affiliated Society Meetings 15

NOTICES

Newsletter : Copy Dates The copy deadline for the following issue of the Newsletter is 28 March 2012 (for the May 2012 issue). Please send any items for inclusion to Meriel Jeater at Museum of London, London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, or you can email me at [email protected]

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LAMAS Lecture Programme 2012 Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place in the Clore Learning Centre at the Museum of London on Tuesday evenings at 6.30pm – refreshments from 6pm. Meetings are open to all; members may bring guests, and non- members are welcome. Please note : non-members are asked to donate £2 towards lecture expenses.

17 January 2012 Mapping Roman London: from Site Context to Town Plan , Julian Hill, Museum of London Archaeology

28 February 2012 AGM & Presidential Address: Reconstructing Nonsuch: Evidence, Elevations, and a Model , Prof Martin Biddle, Emeritus Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford (6.15pm, refreshments from 5.30pm)

13 March 2012 Jimmy Garlick, the Mummified Man of St James Garlickhythe , Ellis Charles Pike, Hon Verger of St James Garlickhythe & Vintry Ward Beadle

17 April 2012 The Thames Tunnel: Eighth Wonder of the World? , Robert Hulse, The Brunel Museum

24 April 2012 VISIT: Spitalfields Charnel House (6pm)

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Visit to the medieval charnel house of St Mary Spital, Bishopsgate, led by Jane Sidell, Inspector of Ancient Monuments (London), English Heritage. This trip will gain access into the (usually inaccessible) remains of the charnel house, now protected in a room below the pavement of Bishops Square. Details on the history of the site and the building will be provided, and everyone will be able to view the remains up close. Sadly, there is no disabled access and there are steps involved. Advance booking required : spaces are limited to 25 people, so to book a free space on the tour, email: [email protected].

15 May 2012 The Walbrook: its Archaeology and History, a Water Engineer’s View , Stephen Myers, Water Engineer & author of Walking on Water - London’s Hidden Rivers Revealed

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LAMAS 156th Annual General Meeting & Presidential Address Tuesday 28 February 2012 Notice is hereby given of the LAMAS 156th Annual General Meeting and Presidential Address to be held on Tuesday 28 February at 6.15pm in the Clore Learning Centre at Museum of London, London Wall. Light refreshments will be available from 5.30pm. The AGM will be followed by the Presidential Address by Professor Martin Biddle, entitled Reconstructing Nonsuch: Evidence, Elevations, and a Model . Minutes of the 155th AGM, held on 15 February 2011, will be available.

The 156th AGM Agenda is as follows: 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of the 155th AGM, 2011 3. Annual Report and Accounts 4. Election of Officers and Members of Council 5. Appointment of Auditor(s) 6. Any other business

Council would welcome nominations of anyone interested in becoming a member of Council. These should be addressed to the Chair at the address given on the back page of the Newsletter , or by email to the Secretary ([email protected]) to arrive no later than Wednesday 25 January 2012.

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Local History Workshop: 28 March 2012 The last Local History Workshop on Getting the Best from the 1911 Census was fully subscribed and very well received. The topic proved to

3 be so popular that a waiting list was set up, in light of which the workshop is to be repeated on Wednesday 28 March 2012, at the Museum of London, between 1.30pm and 4.30pm. There are still eight places left, which will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Details of the workshop are on the LAMAS website and in the application form enclosed with this Newsletter . John Hinshelwood, Local History Committee

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LAMAS Publicity Officer Needed LAMAS Council is looking for a volunteer from the membership to help publicise the Society’s activities. As well as using traditional ways of promoting events, such as posters and emails, we are keen to make more use of online social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. The publicity officer would need to manage the LAMAS Facebook account and keep it up-to-date with all the latest news, lecture information etc. If you would like to help promote the work of LAMAS, please contact the Secretary, Jackie Keily (020 7814 5734), [email protected].

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LAMAS Library Book Sale for Members The LAMAS library consists primarily of runs of archaeological journals (British and foreign) which have been acquired via an ongoing exchange programme and which are currently housed at Mortimer Wheeler House. There is also a limited collection of around 600 books, some of which are in the Museum of London library and some in bookcases in the Museum’s Boardroom corridor. The subject coverage is mainly archaeology and London history and topography. The LAMAS collection is available for consultation in the same way as all other Museum library material, i.e. the collections are reference only and access is on weekdays by prior appointment.

The LAMAS library was previously housed at the Bishopsgate Institute but by 1976 discussions were afoot to move the library to the soon-to-be- opened Museum of London. A note in the Librarian’s files suggests that this was due to take place in January 1977, but there was no formal agreement between the Museum and LAMAS until 31 January 1985 when an agreement was signed by Nick Fuentes for LAMAS, and Max Hebditch for the Museum’s Board of Governors. The books placed on deposit were listed in two schedules and various terms were agreed, e.g. that either party could terminate the agreement with 12 months’ written notice on either side.

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As space at London Wall is now at a premium and there is an ongoing project to reduce the number of long-term loans held by the Museum, the Librarian has asked Council to consider several options for the future loan of LAMAS books. Council has agreed to Option One: cutting down on the periodical exchange program, weeding the existing collections, and disposing of much of the book collection which duplicates or falls outside of the Museum of London collecting policy. It has been agreed that the LAMAS books chosen for disposal will be offered for sale to members at the Archaeology Conference on 24 March 2012 (members not attending the conference will also be able purchase books). Sally Brooks, LAMAS Librarian

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Digitisation of Back Volumes of Transactions The first 38 volumes of LAMAS Transactions have been digitised and have been tested on a private part of the society’s website. The grant made by Council was unfortunately not sufficient to digitise all the volumes as the Transactions contained more pages than were roughly estimated. Council has now agreed the extra sum to complete the digitisation, and the remaining work will go ahead shortly. All the volumes up to 1985 will then be put on the website. Each volume will appear in Adobe PDF format as a single file that can be downloaded for free. We are considering the practicality and cost of providing an index on the website which allows downloading of individual papers, rather than an entire volume, but for the moment this is not being contemplated. Moderately fast computers will be able to download a volume quite quickly. More news on the progress of this work will follow in the next Newsletter and on the website. John Schofield, Publications Committee Chair

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Closure of the Reconstruction of the Temple of Mithras The 1960s reconstruction of the Roman Temple of Mithras on Queen Victoria Street in the City of London is being dismantled from November 2011, in advance of redevelopment of the site. The material from the structure will be used to create a more accurate reconstruction, positioned as near as possible to the location of the original temple, within its own fully accessible space. The new reconstruction will be available for visits in summer 2016.

The original temple was discovered by W. F. Grimes and excavated in 1954 by the Roman and Mediaeval London Excavation Council. The discovery of the marble head of the god Mithras on the last day of the planned excavation led to huge public interest and an extension to the

5 excavation. More sculptures were found, which now form the centrepiece of the Museum of London’s display about the temple. At the end of the excavation the temple was dismantled and put into storage. In 1962 it was reconstructed on a podium adjacent to Queen Victoria Street. The reconstruction has been on public display since then and has been visited by many thousands of people.

Whilst it is recognised that the reconstruction has been an asset to the City of London and a link to the discovery made in 1954, it also has some well-known failings. It is 90m from its original site, aligned north-south whilst the original was east-west, is 9m above its original level, is architecturally inaccurate and has been put together with modern cement mortar with crazy paving concrete flooring. The redevelopment of the site provides the opportunity for significant improvements in public appreciation of the reconstruction.

The new site owners Bloomberg LP will restore the temple to its original location on Walbrook, creating a much more informative and exciting interpretation, working with the City of London, English Heritage and Museum of London Archaeology. If you have any questions about the reconstruction of the Temple of Mithras please do not hesitate to contact me on 020 7410 2249 or [email protected]. Sophie Jackson, MOLA

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MOLA Becomes an Independent Charity On 1 November 2011 Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), split from the Museum of London to become an independent charity, regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. MOLA now has its own Board of Trustees, chaired by philanthropist and businessman Michael Hoffman. But the Museum of London and MOLA will retain strong links and continue to work together.

The Museum and MOLA retain close links via a partnership arrangement set out in a Memorandum of Understanding. This is to the clear benefit of both organisations and includes key areas of collaboration - on initiatives such as educational outreach, fundraising and public relations.

MOLA will continue to have its headquarters at Mortimer Wheeler House and share specialist expertise and equipment with Museum of London colleagues at London Wall. Museum of London Press Release

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Latest News from Pre-Construct Archaeology Pre-Construct Archaeology (PCA) are excavating at two sites in Bermondsey: Stevens Street and Abbey Street. The Stevens Street site lies to the northeast of Bermondsey Abbey. Here they have found the layout of the 18 th - to early 19 th -century Abbey House gardens and medieval quarry pits, which were probably dug for building materials for the abbey. The pits had damaged much of the archaeology underneath but there were traces of a possible Anglo-Saxon graveyard and a high status Roman building, such as a villa.

The Abbey Street site lies over the eastern remains of Bermondsey Abbey, which have been dug several times in the past (e.g. by the 19 th - century antiquarian J. C. Buckler; after World War II by W. F. Grimes; by the DGLA in the 1980s). PCA aims to find and record more of the abbey’s medieval masonry before it is preserved under new affordable housing planned for the site. PCA

REVIEWS

Following Finds from Site to Store: A Meeting on Aspects of Archaeological Finds in Memory of Penny MacConnoran Many LAMAS members will remember Penny who from 1976 until her tragic death in 2010, worked for the Department of Urban Archaeology (DUA) of the Museum of London and latterly for the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) as the archaeological finds manager supervising, training and mentoring numerous staff and volunteers (see Obituary in London Archaeologist vol. 12, no. 11). Over the years Penny helped organise and run a system that could process, catalogue and curate a vast array of incoming finds ranging from wood to wine bottles, often arriving by the van load. On the 10 September 2011, many of Penny’s friends and colleagues gathered for a conference at the Museum of London to offer personal and professional tributes to her.

Prehistoric and Roman Jon Cotton presented a summary of recent prehistoric discoveries including the wealth of material recovered from the Thames and its foreshore including a bone harpoon from Deptford, which proved to be a 17 th -century Eskimo bird spear presumably brought home as a curio. Another amazing discovery from the Bermondsey foreshore was an Iron Age dagger still in its sheath.

Roberta Tomber explained how Campanian wine amphorae, from the 1 st century BC until AD 79, were shipped as far afield as Britannia to the Bay of Bengal. Angela Wardle and Michael Marshall each discussed a

7 recent enigmatic Roman discovery: the first was two burials from the Upper Walbrook cemetery with leg irons, perhaps indications of a criminal or servile status. The second example was a small jar full of a various objects built into the wall of a late 1 st -century building at Walbrook House. It appears to have been a personal offering, perhaps with each member of the family contributing something to appease the ‘household spirits’. Sue Winterbottom described how the study of fragments of stitched goatskin from Drapers’ Gardens revealed that they were elements of a briefcase-type bag, similar to those used by a legionary optio or a tesserarius to carry the records of their century.

Saxon and Medieval Marit Gaimster discussed how some chance discoveries of early Saxon brooches and other items of female high status jewellery were apparently votive offerings. Lynne Keys reconsidered the evidence for interpretation for some the some of the Middle Saxon buildings (B3, B11 and B37) from the Royal Opera House (MOLAS Monograph no. 15) as iron smithies. She concluded that none of these buildings were smithies. It has always been believed that Saxon Londoners got all their iron ore from the Weald. However, this was apparently not the case as a recent PCA site in Abbey Street Bermondsey revealed Saxon iron smelting and smithing slag, including bog ore (a type of iron ore which forms by precipitation in freshwater environments). This discovery implies that there may have been local sources of iron ore within the Greater London wetlands.

Gus Milne explained how the excavation of London’s medieval waterfront reclamation dumps revealed a wealth of closely dated ceramics and other materials including shoes. These discoveries were the inspiration for the HMSO series of Museum of London finds volumes and the medieval pottery studies series . One of Penny’s research interests was shoes, something which, Jackie Keily explained, began by working with the waterfront finds. Beth Richardson explained that Penny had been involved with the processing of the assemblage over 500 examples of late 15 th -century shoes and pattens recovered from fish ponds adjoining Tooley Street, Southwark. This group is of particular interest as it is later in date than the material recovered from the London waterfronts (see above), so it fills a gap in the Museum’s extensive collection of footwear. Ian Riddler discussed Viking antler combs, pointing out that unpublished excavations around Christchurch Cathedral Dublin (est. c AD 1000) have revealed, as well as the expected 9 th -century Viking examples, some earlier 8 th - or 9 th -century Irish examples. This implies that there may have been a secular or monastic settlement in this area before the Viking invasion of c AD 831, which is traditionally seen as the foundation of Dublin. Francis Pritchard described how working with Penny processing

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Saxo-Norman cloth fragments from London ( Medieval Archaeology 1984) led to her career studying medieval textiles including Viking age material from Wood Quay, Dublin.

Post-Medieval, plus conservation and archive Jacqui Pearce, another finds specialist who started as work as member of Penny’s processing team, explained how she and Tony Grey have produced an illustrated online catalogue of MOLA’s 17 th -century clay tobacco pipe collection, available via the Museum of London’s website to help people identify their own material. Liz Goodman presented a paper by Rose Johnson and herself explaining how the conservation of leather by museum staff has evolved over the last 100 years from soaking finds in castor oil, to treatment with a cocktail of chemicals in the 1960s, then to the present system of freeze drying. Francis Grew (manager of the Museum of London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre - LAARC) explained how he and his staff curate material from some 8,500 archaeological investigations kept on 10km of shelving. They have been running a variety of successful volunteer inclusion programmes and have ‘exported’ this concept to other Greater London museums.

Aidan Walsh, a friend of Penny’s from her student days in Ireland, described how the National Museum of Ireland, which curates all the archaeological material from the numerous rescue excavations carried out during the last economic boom, has just set up an archaeological collections resource centre. This new centre marks a huge improvement in the standard of collections care which was partly inspired by LAARC and the work of Penny.

Reflections Penny’s time with the Museum of London marked a period when archaeology was seen as one of the core functions of the museum and new discoveries filled dynamic galleries. Then there were the publications, research, expertise and the careers that this wealth of material inspired. Sadly this is no longer the situation; the number of museum curators has been cut and MOLA is now being expelled from the museum (see Rescue News 113 and notice in this Newsletter ). I cannot believe that Penny would have approved of these changes. Bruce Watson

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LAMAS 46 th Local History Conference: 19 November 2011 Sporting London The 46 th Local History Conference explored ‘Sporting London’, an appropriate subject for the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Attendance was lower than usual but, despite that, the day turned out to

9 be one of the best conferences of recent years. This was the first time that participants were asked to fill in an evaluation form. 30% did so (a high rate of response) and fed back that the day exceeded their expectations, with excellent speakers and a good mix of talks.

The day began with an introduction and welcome from Laura Schaaf, chairman of LAMAS. She was followed by Eileen Bowlt , Birkbeck lecturer and LAMAS committee member, who spoke about Sports and Pastimes in Medieval London . This excellent overview covered a lot of ground: from sports which had a semi-military purpose, such as sword fighting with bucklers or archery, to more civilian activities such as cock- fighting or speed skating on the great marsh at Moorfields. A great source for this period is of course William Fitzstephen, who describes in detail some of the activities undertaken by London’s young men, but who is frustratingly silent about London’s young women.

Medieval sports were seasonal affairs and ‘unseemly games’ attracted disapproval, often justified. At the end of the 14 th century, there are incidents of unseemly ball playing around and inside St Paul’s Cathedral leading to broken windows. In the 1570s there was a small riot in Clerkenwell following the enclosure of open space previously used for public games. Gambling was common, and some sports attracted rowdy followings. This was a very well-illustrated talk, with some fascinating contemporary depictions of medieval sports drawn from illuminated manuscripts and misericordes.

Rosemary Weinstein , a former Curator at the Museum of London, then spoke about the change From Feats of Arms to Amateur Sports: Changing Attitudes to Exercise in Tudor and Stuart London . As ideas from Renaissance Italy fed through to England, so sport began to be seen less as military training, and more as an accomplishment in its own right, one that brought personal health and happiness. An influential figure in this change was King Henry VIII and Rosemary described the impact on London of his own sporting enthusiasms, which began with jousting and armour and later turned to royal (or ‘real’) tennis.

Her talk illustrated how easy it is to overlook the importance of sporting activities in historical buildings or sites. Both of Henry’s palaces at Greenwich and Whitehall included large areas to accommodate the king’s sporting and leisure interests: ‘large recreational complexes’, as historians have dubbed them. His father, Henry VII had a similar complex at Richmond. In the City, a Ralph Tresswell map shows a large tennis court off Fenchurch Street. In Westminster, Pall Mall reflects its early origins as a field for Pell Mell, an energetic form of croquet.

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Perhaps most fascinating of all was the history of archery in Finsbury Fields, north of the City. This was the place for archery practice and at one time the ground was riddled with archers’ mark (wooden or stone posts which served as targets), which carried rather charming names: ‘Star’, ‘Lion’, ‘Bain’s Needle’. Today, this history only survives in the name of the ‘Rosemary Branch’ pub, and a single surviving mark, ‘Scarlet’, now in the Honourable Artillery Company’s museum.

Before lunch the Local History Publication Award was presented to Twickenham Local History Society for The Coloured Mass: Art and Artists in the Twickenham Area from Tudor Times to the 21 st Century by David G. C. Allan. The prize for best journal went to the Friends of Hackney Archives.

The first speaker after lunch was Stephen Green , former curator of Lord’s Museum. His talk was entitled Cricket: The History of Lord’s from 1787 Onwards and he began by showing a portrait of George Finch Winchilsea, who founded Marylebone Cricket Club, along with Thomas Lord, a wine merchant who had moved to London from Thirsk. Lord and Winchilsea created the original ‘Lord’s’ in Dorset Square. This cricket pitch was also used by volunteer troops for drill practice and so in 1811 it was moved to St. John’s Wood. In 1814 Lord’s moved again to the present ground where they will soon be celebrating their bicentenary. The first Eton v Harrow match was played in 1805 and is still played at Lord’s today!

William Ward bought the lease of Lord’s in 1825 to save the club when Thomas Lord wanted to sell much of the land. In the same year the Pavilion and all Thomas Lord’s original documents were destroyed by fire. The first touring team to visit Lord’s was an aboriginal team in 1868. In 1877 the Middlesex Cricket Club was invited to adopt Lord’s as its county ground and the present Pavilion was built in 1890. During the talk several famous cricketers were mentioned, including W. C. Grace and Bernard Bosanquet, the inventor of the googly.

After cricket we turned to ‘Rowing as a way of life’: The Root and Branch of Rowing on London’s River . This talk by Christopher Dodd , founder and now consultant to the River and Rowing Museum, Henley- on Thames, clearly described how the sport of rowing grew out of the hard labour of watermen on the Thames. In 1715 Thomas Doggett founded the watermen’s prize of Doggett’s Coat and Badge for an annual race on the Thames between six young watermen who had completed their apprenticeships within the previous year. Although Doggett’s race is said by some to be the oldest continuing sporting contest in the world,

11 diary entries by Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn show that watermen enjoyed racing and water sports in the 17 th century.

Apprenticeship was hard and a licence as a waterman was only awarded when the candidate could demonstrate experience as well as strength and skill by rowing test courses against the tide. A waterman who had won a Badge and Coat race could use the fact to vouch for his reliability, and so enhance his trading credentials. In effect, the Coat and Badge was rather like the black cab system in London today.

Many different professional Coat and Badge races developed in the wake of Doggett’s example, and in the 19 th century gentleman amateurs began to hold regattas and boat races. The river provided a regular source of entertainment and many races and tournaments took place to the delight of audiences who watched from the public houses on the embankments. The various boat races on the Thames today involving teams of men and women in boats with up to eight oars are a far cry from the hard work involved by the individual oarsman of a working boat in the 16 th century.

After a break we moved on to Leaps and Bounds: young women gymnasts in East London, 1917 – 21 , described in vivid detail by Carol Bentley of the City of London Archaeological Society. This was no dry academic discussion, but a moving insight into the real lives of two young women, Caroline Barker and Mary O’Brian who were both born in 1901 and lived in the Brady Street area of Bethnal Green. This was one of the worst slum areas of the borough and a target for housing and educational improvement. The latter was provided by the LCC’s Somerfield Street Women’s Free Evening Institute, where a Miss Nellie Duschek taught gymnastics, according to the Swedish Ling System.

With the help of some evocative photographs, Carol outlined the details of Mary and Caroline’s lives as gymnasts – their sedentary daily jobs; their special gym clothes of pleated tunics and black stockings; the medals they won in the East London Girls Gymnastic Association competitions. But this talk was also rich in the historical background that led progressive thinkers such as Stewart Headlam and Mary, Baroness St Helier to place such importance on gymnastics. A photograph of a well- equipped LCC school gym complete with vaulting horse, ropes and climbing bars produced a murmur of recognition from the audience.

The last speaker of the day was sports journalist Murray Hedgcock of Barnes & Mortlake History Society. Mr Hedgcock spoke on London’s Olympic Yesterdays , covering the 1908 and 1948 London Olympics informatively and entertainingly. The illustrations selected were apt, and indeed decorative, in the case of body-builder Eugen Sandow and exotic Maud Allen who danced as Salome to boost 1908 Olympic funds.

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Murray captured the ethos of the two very different London Games. 1908 was ‘upper-class and experimental’: when English self-serving amateur rules were repeatedly challenged by new-world American assertiveness. The 1948 games, following the Second World War, were characterised by ‘austerity and improvisation’. Food was still rationed, and several international teams brought their own food supplements.

The 1908 London Games was financed by private enterprise as part of the Franco-British exhibition. The huge, whitewashed exhibition palaces erected at Shepherds Bush became known as White City; the stadium was the largest in the world at that time. Entrance fees were pitched so high that they had to be halved in order to fill seats, and public money eventually bailed the project out. By contrast, the 1948 Austerity Olympics, which were largely financed by ticket sales, made a profit! Gender ratio was another difference between the two games: 44 female to 1,979 male competitors in 1908 (1 in 45); against 385 female to 3,714 male athletes (1 in 10) in 1948.

The 1948 London Olympics made history as the first televised games, albeit only reaching the 88,000 TV sets that existed in Britain at the time. Ironically BBC TV now occupies part of the old exhibition site. The addition of the 2012 Olympics will make London the first city in the world to host the Summer Games three times. Murray Hedgcock’s well- received, fact-filled talk was a timely reminder of how the future may benefit from studying the failures and achievements of the past. Conference accounts by LAMAS Local History Committee members: Irene Cockroft, John Hinshelwood, Cathy Ross and Diane Tough

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

New Books

St Paul’s Cathedral Before Wren , by John Schofield (2011), English Heritage, £100 hardback, ISBN 978-1-84802-056-6

Discovery of the Roman Fort at Cripplegate, City of London: Excavations by W. F. Grimes 1947-68 , by John Shepherd (2011), Museum of London Archaeology, £15, ISBN 978-1-90758-608-8

CONFERENCES AND COURSES

Bexley Archaeological Group Archaeology Workshops To be held at Bexley-Sidcup Conservative Club, 19 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 7EB. To book a place, please contact Pip Pulfer (07961 963 893), email: [email protected]. For further information, visit www.bag.org.uk.

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28 January 2012 Ceramic Building Materials Workshop , led by Phil Mills Cost: £25 (non-members); £20 (BAG members)

25 February 2012 Glass Workshop, John Shepherd Cost: £20 (non-members); £15 (BAG members)

LECTURES AND EVENTS

Surrey Industrial History Group Industrial Archaeology Lectures Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford Lectures are on Tuesdays from 7.30-9.30pm. Single lectures are open to all at £5 each on the door. For more information, contact Bob Bryson (SIHG Lectures), 6 Wychelm Rise, Guildford GU1 3TH (01483 577809).

10 January 2012 The Lost Countryside: Images of Rural Life , Chris Shepheard

24 January 2012 The Role of the Surrey Archaeological Society , David Calow

7 February 2012 The History of the London Underground , Tony Earle

21 February 2012 Surrey Brickwork up to 1850 , Ian West

6 March 2012 Personality Clashes and Power Struggles in the History of British Radar, 1935- 1941 , Phil Judkins

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British Archaeological Association Lecture Series 2012 Meetings are held at 5pm in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0HS. Tea will be served at 4.30pm. Non- members are welcome to attend occasional lectures but are asked to make themselves known to the Hon. Director on arrival and to sign the visitors’ book.

4 January 2012 Gifts and the Richard II Inventory , Jenny Stratford

1 February 2012 Monumental and Multi-Lingual Inscriptions in the City of Ani , Tony Eastmond

7 March 2012 Medieval Building Stone , Tim Tatton-Brown

4 April 2012 Inventing Romanesque Sculpture: Patrons, Artists, Masons and Art Historians , Sandy Heslop

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Institute of Archaeology & British Museum Medieval Seminar Series All meetings start at 5.30pm at the Institute of Archaeology, Room 612, 31-34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY. For further information, please contact Michael Shapland via email: [email protected].

17 January 2012 Sword and Wielder in Early Anglo-Saxon Kent (Plus Sutton Hoo) , Sue Brunning

7 February 2012 Dublin Before Duiblinn: Combs and Early Settlement , Ian Riddler

6 March 2012 Landscapes of Government: Anglo-Saxon Assemblies , Andrew Reynolds & Stuart Brookes

AFFILIATED SOCIETY MEETINGS

Acton History Group Events on the 2nd Wednesday in the month at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Church Hall, admission £1. Contact Secretary David Knights, 30 Highland Avenue, Acton W3 6EU (020 8992 8698); email: [email protected]; website: www.actonhistory.co.uk

11 January 2012 ELGar 6666 – The John Compton Organ Company Limited, Kelvin Meredith

8 February 2012 Acton Postcards , Paul Lang

14 March 2012 Winnie the Pooh , Shirley Harrison

Barnes and Mortlake History Society Meetings are held at Sheen Lane Centre, Sheen Lane, London SW14 at 8pm on the 3 rd Thursday of the month from September to April. The meetings are free to members and £2 for non-members. For further details please contact the Hon. Secretary on 020 8878 4071 or visit us at: www.barnes-history.org.uk

19 January 2012 The Restoration of the Grounds of Chiswick House , Sarah Finch-Crisp

16 February 2012 Leigh’s Panorama of Brentford and Strand-on-the-Green , Val Bott

15 March 2012 They Lived in Sheen Lane , Mike Smith

19 April 2012 Mortlake Manor House , Helen Deaton

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Barnet and District Local History Society All meetings are held in Church House, Wood Street, Barnet at 3pm on Mondays (opposite the Museum). Contact Barnet Museum, 31 Wood Street, Barnet EN5 4BE (020 8440 8066) or visit: www.barnetmuseum.co.uk for more information.

9 January 2012 The Life and Times of Octavia Hill , Pamela Wright

13 February 2012 Agincourt , Anne Curry

12 March 2012 The Story of the Bow House , Pauline Brown

16 April 2012 People Linked with Nicholls Farm , Gillian Gear

Bexley Archaeological Group All meetings are held at Bexley and Sidcup Conservative Club, 19 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent and excavations are carried out at the weekends (Mar-Nov). For further information contact the Chairman, Mr Martin Baker, 24 Valliers Wood Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 8BG (020 8300 1752); email: [email protected]; website: www.bag.org.uk

Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society The society meets at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Afton House, Bourne Place, Chiswick W4, starting at 7.30pm, on the 3 rd Monday in the month, from September to May inclusive. For further information please contact the Hon. Secretary, Tess Powell, 7 Dale Street, London W4 2BJ or visit: www.brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk

Camden History Society The society normally meets at 7.30pm on the 3 rd Thursday of each month, except August. Venues vary. For further information please contact the Hon. Secretary, Mrs Jane Ramsay (020 7586 4436) or visit: www.camdenhistorysociety.org

16 February 2012 Charles Dickens and the Cleveland Street Workhouse , Ruth Richardson (Charlie Ratchford Resource Centre, Belmont Street, NW1 8HF)

15 March 2012 History and Significance of the Mary Ward Settlement , Karen Butti (Charlie Ratchford Resource Centre, 6.30pm)

19 April 2012 The Pre-fire (1834) Survey of the Palace of Westminster , Michael Port (Burgh House, Hampstead)

Chadwell Heath Historical Society Meetings are held at 7.30pm on the 3 rd Wednesday of every month from September to June. All meetings are held at Wangey Road Chapel, Wangey Road, Chadwell Heath,

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City of London Archaeological Society Society’s meetings are held at St Olave’s Parish Hall, Mark Lane EC3R. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Light refreshments are available after the lecture. Non- members are welcome to attend occasional lectures but are asked to sign the visitors’ book and make a £2 contribution towards expenses. For further details, visit: www.colas.org.uk; email: [email protected]; text/voicemail 07964694128.

20 January 2012 Londinum to Lundenwic, Saxon London and its Region , Lyn Blackmore

17 February 2012 Come Hell and High Water: Foreshore Archaeology and the Blitz , Gustav Milne

Cuffley Industrial Heritage Society The Society meets at Northaw Village Hall, 5 Northaw Road West, Northaw, Hertfordshire EN6 4NW, near Potters Bar and Cuffley. Talks start at 8pm with doors opening from 7.30pm. Talks are free to members and £3 for visitors. For more information, contact David Freeman, Honorary Treasurer, 18 Homewood Avenue, Cuffley, Hertfordshire EN6 4QG (01707 875481); email: [email protected]

10 January 2012 From Horsebus to Routemaster , Graham McQueen

14 February 2012 On the Face of It – A Century of Coal Mining on Screen , Ros Cranston

13 March 2012 The 1851 Great Exhibition to the 1951 Festival of Britain , Fred Peskett

10 April 2012 The Work of English Heritage and the Royal Commissions on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and Scotland in Rescuing the Aerofilms Collection , Verity Hancock

The Docklands History Group Meetings will be held on the 1st Wednesday of every month in Museum of London Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, London E14 4AL, at 5.30 for 6pm. Visitors are welcome to attend the talks, for a donation of £2. For further information and membership details, please call 020 7286 0196.

Edmonton Hundred Historical Society Talks are free to members (£1 for visitors), and are held at Jubilee Hall, 2 Parsonage Lane, Enfield; at the Charity School Hall, Church Street, Edmonton N9 and at Bruce Castle, Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17. Further details may be obtained from the Enfield Local Studies Centre & Archive, Thomas Hardy House, 39 London Road, Enfield EN2 6DS (020 8379 2724); email: [email protected]

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18 January 2012 Architectural Photography , Graham Dalling (Jubilee Hall, 7.45pm)

10 February 2012 Charles and Mary Lamb , Helen Walton (Charity School Hall, 7.30pm)

21 March 2012 Early Actresses , Marlene McAndrew (Jubilee Hall, 7.45pm)

19 April 2012 Johnny Walked Not Whisky but Beer , Ruby Galili (Jubilee Hall, 7.45pm)

Enfield Archaeological Society Meetings are held at the Jubilee Hall, junction of Chase Side and Parsonage Lane, Enfield, starting at 8pm. Tea and coffee are available from 7.30pm. Visitors are welcome (£1 per person). For further information please contact Ms Angie Holmes, Whithurst, 56 Tudor Road, New Barnet, Herts EN5 5HP (020 8449 5298); website: www.enfarchsoc.org

13 January 2012 Towns of South East England , Graham Dalling

17 February 2012 Galleys to Garum; Ancient Rome at Sea , Ian Jones

Friern Barnet and District Local History Society Meetings are held in St John’s Church Hall, next to Whetstone Police Station, in Friern Barnet Lane N20, normally on the last Wednesday of the month, starting at 8pm. Free refreshments are available from 7.45pm. Visitors welcome (£2 per person). For further details, contact David Berguer (0208 368 8314); website: www.friernbarnethistory.org.uk

25 January 2012 The History of Numbers , Stan Gilks

22 February 2012 The Arts Depot , Keith Martin

28 March 2012 Gypsies in Barnet , Hugh Petrie

25 April 2012 Treasures and the Tower of London , Garry Wykes

Greenwich Historical Society Meetings are held at 7.30pm (doors open 7.15pm) at Blackheath High School, Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath SE3 7AG. We welcome non-members, from whom we invite a donation of £3 for each meeting. Enquiries: 020 8858 0317.

25 January 2012 The Darker Side of Greenwich Hospital , Linda Cunningham

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22 February 2012 Pagoda 250 , Neil Rhind

28 March 2012 The Eastcombe Estate , Anthony Cross

25 April 2012 St Alfege Church, 1012 – 2012: A Thousand Years of History , speaker tbc

Greenwich Industrial History Society All meetings will be held at The Old Bakehouse (rear of), Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre, 11 Blackheath Village, London SE23 9LA, at 7.30pm. For further information about the Greenwich Industrial History Society and their meetings, please contact Mary Mills, 24 Humber Road, London SE3 (020 8858 9482).

17 January 2012 Iron Founding in the Weald , Jeremy Hodgkinson

21 February 2012 Rope-Making in London , John Yeardley

13 March 2012 Bricks and Brick-Making Locally , David Cufley

17 April 2012 Sugar and Soap , Peter Luck

Hayes and Harlington Local History Society Most meetings are held at the new library on Botwell Green at 7.30pm. Please note: the doors will be LOCKED after 7.30pm for security reasons. Further information from the Secretary, Mr John Walters, 7 St Jerome’s Grove, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 2PJ (020 8561 7555); email: [email protected]

Hendon & District Archaeological Society Lectures are held at Avenue House, 17 East End Road, Finchley, London N3 3QE, at 8pm on the 2 nd Tuesday of the month. For further information please contact Jo Nelhams, HADAS Secretary, 61 Potters Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN5 5HS (020 8449 7076); email: [email protected]; website: www.hadas.org.uk

10 January 2012 The Merchant Taylors’ Great Feast 1607 , Ann Saunders

21 February 2012 The Medieval Cellars of Winchelsea , Richard Comotto

13 March 2012 It’s All in the Bones , Jelena Bekvalac

10 April 2012 Conservation Techniques in Stone Masonry , Stephen Critchley

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Hornsey Historical Society Lecture meetings are held on the 2 nd Wednesday of every month at the Union Church Hall, corner of Ferme Park Road and Weston Park, starting at 8pm. Members attend free; non-members are welcome and pay £1 entrance fee. For further information please ring The Old Schoolhouse (020 8348 8429); write to the Society at 136 Tottenham Lane N8 7EL; website: www.hornseyhistorical.org.uk

11 January 2012 Images of the North Middlesex Photographic Society , Janet Owen

8 February 2012 From Mean Streets to Epping Forest , Chris Pond

14 March 2012 A New Story of Hornsey , John Hinshelwood

11 April 2012 The History of Highgate Gatehouse and its Theatre , John Plows

Hounslow & District History Society Meetings are held on Tuesdays at the United Reformed Church Hall, Chapel Road, Hounslow, starting at 8pm. For further details contact Andrea Cameron (0208 570 4264) or Liz Mammatt (020 3302 4036).

31 January 2012 The Saga of Staines Bridge , Joan Gardam

28 February 2012 Eel Pie Island , Michele Whitby

27 March 2012 Through the Arch: A Look at Historic St Bernard’s Hospital , Paul Lang

24 April 2012 Adrian Bury: His Paintings of Isleworth , Andrea Cameron

Islington Archaeology and History Society Meetings are held at 8pm at Islington Town Hall, Upper Street N1. All meetings are free. Enquiries: 020 7833 1541; website: www.iahs.org.uk

Kingston upon Thames Archaeological Society Meetings are held at 8pm in Mayo Hall, United Reformed Church, at the corner of Union Street and Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames (visitors will be asked for a donation of £1.50 towards expenses). Enquiries to 020 8547 6755; email: [email protected]; website: www.kingstonarchaeology.org

12 January 2012 Artefacts and Archaeology: A Hands-On Session , Julie Wileman

9 February 2012 The Black Death in London , Duncan Hawkins

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9 March 2012 The Hogmill Project , Rebecca Lambert

12 April 2012 Roman Staines , Nick Pollard

Lewisham Local History Society All meetings commence at 7.45pm and are held at the Methodist Church Hall, Albion Way SE13. Full access for people with disabilities. Non-members welcome. For further information please contact John Savill, 82 Longhurst Road, London SE13 5LZ (020 8473 1918); website: www.lewishamhistory.org.uk

Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society Meetings are held at Leyton Sixth Form College, Essex Road, Leyton E10 6EQ and at St John’s Church Hall, E11 1HH, corner of Leytonstone High Road and Church Lane. For further details please contact Maureen Measure, Secretary, L&LHS (020 8558 5491); email: [email protected]; website: www.leytonhistorysociety.org.uk

18 January 2012 Archaeological Excavations at Stepney Green , Jay Carver (Leyton Sixth Form College, 7.45pm)

London Natural History Society Indoor meetings usually consist of talks, slide shows or discussions. Most indoor meetings are held at Camley Street Natural Park, Camley Street, London NW1 0PW. Visitors are welcome. For further information visit: www.lnhs.org.uk/program.htm

17 January 2012 Bryophyte Workshop , Peter Howarth (Angela Marmont Centre, Natural History Museum, 6.30pm)

18 January 2012 Flights of Fancy , Brian Nobbs (Camley Street Natural Park, 7pm)

1 February 2012 London Garden City: Discussing Findings of the Research Project , Chloe Smith (Room 10, SALC, 5 th Floor, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, 6.30pm)

16 February 2012 The Rutland Water Osprey Reintroduction Project , Tim Mackrill (Room 10, SALC, 5 th Floor, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, 7pm)

Merton Historical Society Meetings are held monthly from October until April, on Saturday afternoons. For further information please contact the Honorary Secretary, Mrs Rosemary Turner, 27 Burley Close, London SW16 4QQ; email: [email protected]; website: www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk

21 January 2012 Merton’s Railways , David Luff (Christ Church Hall, Colliers Wood, 2.30pm)

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18 February 2012 The Crown Jewels , Garry Wykes (Christ Church Hall, 2.30pm)

17 March 2012 The National Archives , Melinda Haunton (Christ Church Hall, 2.30pm)

14 April 2012 Calico Printers , David Cufley (Christ Church Hall, 2.30pm)

Orpington & District Archaeological Society Meetings are held in The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington, on the 1 st Wednesday of each month (except August) from 8pm. Non-members are welcome to attend, space permitting. For further information please contact Pamela Zollicoffer, 46 Newbury Road, Bromley BR2 0QW (020 8402 4157).

1 February 2012 The Little Church at Dode , Douglas Chapman

7 March 2012 Nature in Ruins , Christopher Woodward

4 April 2012 Early Roman Quarrying and Building Stone Use , Kevin Hayward

Pinner Local History Society All meetings start at 8pm. Main meetings take place in the Village Hall, Pinner. Visitors are welcome for a donation of £2. For further information please contact Mrs Sheila Cole, 40 Cambridge Road, North Harrow, Middlesex HA2 7LD (020 8866 3972); website: www.pinnerlhs.freeserve.co.uk

5 January 2012 Sir Ernest Lemon: The Railwayman Who Equipped the RAF for War , Terry Jenkins

2 February 2012 The (Royal) Commercial Travellers’ School , David Crawford

5 April 2012 The History of Zoroastrianism , Malcom M Deboo

Potters Bar and District Society Meetings are held at the Sixty Plus Room, Wyllyotts Centre, starting at 8pm prompt. Vistors are welcome (admission £1). For further details please contact John Scivyer (01707 657 586); website: www.pottersbar.org/historicalsociety/index.htm

27 January 2012 The Great Bed of Ware , David Perman

24 February 2012 A Brief History of Timekeeping , Geoffrey Hollis

29 March 2012 From Eton Manor to the Olympics , Jim Lewis

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24 April 2012 Finding Our Path Through the Pages of Who’s Who , Christine Ruge-Cope

Richmond Archaeological Society Meetings take place on Friday nights at Vestry Hall, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, commencing at 8pm. For further information please contact Mrs Yvonne Masson, the Society’s publicity secretary, at 65 St Margaret’s Grove, East Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 1JF; website: www.richmondarchaeology.org.uk

10 February 2012 The City of Akhenaten and How It Was Uncovered , Chris Naunton

16 March 2012 Human Remains , Bas Payne

13 April 2012 Southwark Cathedral , Natalie Cohen

Richmond Local History Society All meetings are held at Duke Street Baptist Church, Richmond, usually at 8pm with coffee available from 7.30pm. Non-members are welcome, admission £1. For further information please contact the Secretary, Elizabeth Velluet (020 8891 3825); email: [email protected]; website: www.richmondhistory.org.uk

16 January 2012 The Brentford 1802 Election and its Richmond Connections , Christopher May

13 February 2012 The House of Richmond Park , Max Lankester

12 March 2012 Anne of Cleves and Richmond Palace , Elizabeth Norton

23 April 2012 Domestic Life in the Georgian Royal Family at Kew , Susanne Groome

Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Group Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place at the Time & Talents Centre, The Old Mortuary, St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe and begin at 7.45pm. For more information visit: http://kingstairs.com/rotherhithe/

Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote Local History Society Meetings are held on Mondays at 8.15pm at St Martin’s Church Hall, Ruislip. Visitors are welcome (£2 admission charge). For further information please contact the society’s Secretary, Susan Toms, 3 Elmbridge Close, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 7XA (01895 637 134); website: www.rnelhs.flyer.co.uk

16 January 2012 Cowley Through Time , Ken Pearce

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20 February 2012 The History of RAF Northolt , Mark Bristow

19 March 2012 The Restoration of Strawberry Hill , Anna Chalcraft

16 April 2012 Johannes Gutenberg and the Story of Print , Peter Balding

Southgate District Civic Trust The Trust is a local amenity society, covering Southgate, New Southgate, Cockfosters, Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill and Hadley Wood. It is also active in local history and publications. Open Meetings are held twice a year at the Walker Hall, Waterfall Road, Southgate, and Local History meetings are held five times a year at the Friends Meeting House, Church Hill, Winchmore Hill. Non-members are welcome. For further information, contact Colin Barratt (020 8882 2246); email [email protected] or visit www.southgatedistrictcivictrust.co.uk

7 March 2012 Hidden Streams of Haringey , Albert Pinching & David Dell (Friends Meeting House, 7.30pm)

Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Society All lectures are held on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm at The Housing Co-Op Hall, 106 The Cut (opposite the Old Vic). Light refreshments are served at 7pm. Visitors are always welcome but are asked to contribute £1. For further details please contact Richard Buchanan, 79 Ashridge Crescent, Shooter’s Hill, London SE18 3EA. For enquires please call 020 8764 8314.

10 January 2012 Results of the Archaeological Thameslink Project , Jo Taylor

14 February 2012 A Dream Come True: The History and Restoration of the Brixton Windmill , Richard Santhiri

13 March 2012 Symposium: Recent Archaeological and Historical Work , various speakers

10 April 2012 Excavations of Roman Workshops at 8-10 Moorgate , Alison Telfer

Spelthorne Archaeology and Local History Group Unless otherwise stated, all meetings take place at the Methodist Church, Thames Street, Staines and begin at 8pm. Members free, non members welcome (£1 please). For further details please contact Nick Pollard (01932 561585); email: [email protected]; website: www.spelthornemuseum.org.uk/friends/

Stanmore & Harrow Historical Society Meetings are held at the Wealdstone Baptist Church, High Road, Wealdstone, at 8pm on the 1 st Wednesday of each month (visitors welcome at a charge of £1). Members’

24 evenings are held at the same venue on the 3 rd Wednesday of the month. For further information please contact Mrs Sheila Lowe, 62 Walton Drive, Harrow HA1 4XA; website: www.stanmore-harrow-historical.org.uk

4 January 2012 Born in a Workhouse , Jean Grainger

1 February 2012 History of Mount Vernon Hospital , Brian Morgan

7 March 2012 The Thames Barge , Tony Earle

4 April 2012 Anthony Trollope – Postman and Travel , Colin Oakes

Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society The Society meets at 8pm on the 2 nd Tuesday of the month from October to May in the Theatre at Halliford School, Russell Road, Shepperton. The September meeting is held in Sunbury. Any queries should be addressed to Geoff French (Treasurer and Membership Secretary), 18 Burchetts Way, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 9BS (01932 245774); website: www.sslhs.org.uk

The Thorney Island Society The Society organises dinners with guest speakers and private visits to places of local interest. Members may invite guests to events. For information about the Society and how to book places for events, please contact The Thorney Island Society, 39 Westminster Mansions, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BP, email [email protected] or visit www.thorneyislandsociety.org.uk

25 January 2012 The Wellcome Trust (2pm)

9 February 2012 The Dickens Museum (2pm)

20 March 2012 The Vintners’ Hall (11am)

Borough of Twickenham Local History Society Meetings are held at St Mary’s Church Hall, Church Street, Twickenham, at 8pm on the first Monday of each month from October to June, and take the form of an illustrated lecture by a guest speaker. Guests and non-members are welcome (there is a small charge). For further information please contact the Secretary, Mr R.S. Knight (020 8878 7041); website: www.botlhs.co.uk

6 February 2012 The Naked Ladies of York House Gardens , Gaye Galvin

5 March 2012 Charles Dickens and the Richmond and Twickenham Connection , Lucinda Hawksley

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2 April 2012 Places in History , Bamber Gascoigne

Uxbridge Local History and Archives Society All meetings take place at Christ Church, Redford Way (off Belmont Road), Uxbridge, starting at 7.30pm. For further information please contact Mr K.R. Pearce, 29 Norton Road, Uxbridge UB8 2PT; website: www.eddiethecomputer.co.uk/history

17 January 2012 From Covent Garden to Cowley Grove: The Life of John Rich , Terry Jenkins

21 February 2012 Uxbridge and the Olympic Games , Ken Pearce,

20 March 2012 Uxbridge Past – Shops and Businesses , Tony Mitchell

17 April 2012 Murder in Denham 1870 , Pamela Reed

Walthamstow Historical Society Evening talks are held at Trinity United Reformed Church, 58 Orford Road, London E17 4PS. Afternoon and Saturday talks are held at The Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road, Walthamstow E17 9NH. Meetings are free to members (visitors pay £1.50). For further details please visit us at: www.walthamstowhistoricalsociety.org

12 January 2012 Victorian Sunday Schools , Chris Pond (2.30pm)

9 February 2012 By Horse and Trap Around Leyton and Leytonstone , David Boote (7.30pm)

8 March 2012 The Lea Valley Before the Romans , Ian Heritage (7.30pm)

Wandsworth Historical Society Meetings held at the Friends’ Meeting House, Wandsworth High Street (opposite Town Hall) on the last Friday of the month at 8pm until 9.15pm (followed by tea and biscuits). For more information, visit the website: www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk

Wembley History Society All meetings are on Friday evenings, beginning at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Lane (opposite Tudor Gardens), Kingsbury, London NW9 8RZ. Visitors are welcome, and any enquiries should be emailed to [email protected]

20 January 2012 My Little Bit of History , short talks by members.

17 February 2012 Why Glacier Way? , Joan Snow

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16 March 2012 60 th Anniversary Celebration , including several short talks (7pm - 10pm)

West Drayton & District Local History Society Meetings are held in St Martin’s Church Hall, Church Road, West Drayton, starting at 7.30pm. For further information please contact Cyril Wroth (Programme Secretary), 15 Brooklyn Way, West Drayton UB7 7PD (01895 854597).

31 January 2012 The Victorian Lady , Liz Calvert Smith

28 February 2012 Development of a Garrison Town: Windsor 1066 to the 19 th Century , Brigitte Mitchell

27 March 2012 19 th -Century Brick-Making in West Drayton , Peter Hounsell

West Essex Archaeological Group Meetings are held on the 2 nd Monday of the month in the Sixth Form Block, Woodford County High School, High Road, Woodfood Green at 7.45pm. New members welcome. For further information, please contact Anne Stacey, 20B Grove Hill, South Woodford E18 2JG (020 8989 9294).

13 February 2012 Review of the Ongoing Archaeological Work at Copped Hall

2 April 2012 Excavations at the Royal Mint , Ian Grainger

Willesden Local History Society The Society meets on Wednesdays from September to June in The Scout House, High Road (on the corner of Strode Road), Willesden NW10, at 7.30pm. For further information please contact the Secretary, Margaret Pratt, 51 West Ella Road, London NW10 9PT (020 8965 7230); website: www.willesden-local-history.co.uk

18 January 2012 More Willesden Images , Malcolm Barres-Baker

15 February 2012 Whodunit? A Kilburn Murder , Dick Weindling

21 March 2012 Brent Street Names , Len Snow

18 April 2012 Willesden Schools , Elsie Points

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