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Diary June 2019

Sat 1 WHF/Wandsworth Society: A Slice of Wandsworth Town, David Kirk, Book House, SW18, 10.30am (to 9) Wandsworth Heritage Festival 2019 (to 24) Festival (to 30) Festival (to 9) Penge Festival: Penge Art Trail (& 2) Bioscope: 5th Silent Film Weekend, Cinema Museum, 10am-10pm (& 2) WHF/Wandsworth Prison Museum: Open Weekend, Heathfield Road, SW18, 10am-1pm & 2-5pm WHF/Emanuel School Archives: Historical Emanuel School & Grounds Tour, Tony Jones, SW11, 11am Penge Festival: Penge Festival Fete, Royston Field, Franklin Road, 11am-5pm St Peter's Gardeners' Big Lunch, St Peter's church, South , noon Screen25: Grasp the Nettle (doc|2013|UK|91 min|Pay As You Feel), Harris Academy, SE25, 5pm Penge Festival: Strictly Sherlock, Bridge House Theatre, 2 High Street, SE20, 7.30pm Sun 2 WHF/THG/CTA: Granada Cinema Tooting Tour, Buzz Bingo, 50 Mitcham Road, SW17, 10am Book/CD/DVD Sale, St John’s Church, Upper Road, , 11am Croydon Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm BVWTVM: Table Top Sale/Vinyl & Shellac Music Extravaganza, 23 Rosendale Rd, SE21, from 11am : Open Day, 12-5pm National Gardens Scheme: 35 Camberwell Grove, , SE5 8JA 12-6.30pm National Gardens Scheme: Choumert Square, Peckham, London, SE15 4RE 1-6pm Friends of Railway Park: Big Lunch Picnic, , 2-5pm National Gardens Scheme: 4 Cornflower Terrace, London, SE22 0HH, 2-5.30pm National Gardens Scheme: 101 Pepys Road, New Cross, London, SE14 5SE, 2-5.30pm National Gardens Scheme: 123 South Park Road, London, SW19 8RX, 2-6pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm VitalDanza: Exploration and Movements of Vital Multidiversity, Patricia Martello, Tara Yoga, 3pm Leave 'em Laughing, Stanley Halls, 7.30pm Compline: St Hild of Whitby, Ven. Moira Astin, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 3 Penge Festival: Teddy Bears Picnic, St Johns Church, 2 St Johns Road, SE20, 10.30am-12.30pm WHF/Clapham Society: Growth of a Victorian Suburb, Timothy Walker, Clapham South tube, 6.30pm Alternatives: Summer Sacred Chant, Illumina, St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, 7pm MHRPS: Railways of the Raj, Christian Wolmar, St Mary Magdalene, Canning Rd, E Croydon, 7.30pm Arts Society : Portmeirion: Welsh Italianate Fantasy, Matthew Williams, Civic Ctre, 7.30pm WHF/Putney S'ty: Putney Velodrome & Estate, Pat Heery, Community Ch, Werter Rd, SW15, 7.30pm CNHSS: The Big Croydon Birdwatch, John Birkett, ECURC, 7.45pm Streatham Society: Bygone Streatham: a Lost Corner of Wandsworth, John Brown, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 4 DLC: GI Blues (U|1960|USA|100 mins|Elvis Presley|Dementia Friendly), 11am WHF: 138 Years of May Day, Whitelands College, Holybourne Avenue, Roehampton SW15, 2pm Gresham: Treaty of Versailles, Margaret MacMillan, Museum of London, 6pm WHF: The Other Lavender Hill Mob, Sue Demont, Battersea Library, 6.30pm Caterham Local History Centre: A Country House at War, Jennifer King, Caterham Valley Library, 7pm DLC: Greta (15|2018|USA|99 mins), 7.30pm BBLHS: The History of Langley Park and Kelsey Park, Hazelle Jackson, Trinity URC, 7.45pm Crystal Scientifique: Gut Feelings & Your Microbiome, Grahame Danby, Antenna Café, SE19, 8pm Wed 5 TASCd: Captain Cook and the Enlightenment, Peter Warwick, Banstead Community Hall, 10am (to 23) Waterloo Festival RSM: Frenzy (U|1972|USA|116 mins), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Mergers and Acquisitions, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm WHF: The History of Putney's Cinemas, Philip Evison, Putney Library, 6.45pm DLC: Wild Rose (15|2018|UK|100 mins), 2.30 (subtitled) & 7.30pm Penge Festival: Organ Recital, Penge Congregational Church, 172 High St, SE20, 7.30pm GSitP: Pseudoscience in Veterinary Practice, Dr Danny Chambers, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Screen25: If Beale Street Could Talk (15|2019|USA|119 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm EEHAS: Merton Priory, John Hawks, St. Mary's Church Hall, Ewell, 8pm Thu 6 TASB: Vincent Van Gogh: Life and Letters, Lucrezia Walker, Hall, 10.30am Merton Historical Society: A Visit to Merton Priory Chapter House, John Hawks, 11am DLC: Fisherman's Friends (12A|2019|UK|112 mins), 2.30 (subtitled) & 7.30pm Friends of W'l: The Killick Family of Whitehall & Their House, John Phillips, Whitehall, Cheam, 2.30pm Gresham: Wellbeing at the Bar? Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm WHF/Battersea Soc'y: Growing Up in Wartime Battersea, Carol Rahn, RCA Dyson Building, SW11, 7pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Three Cane Whale, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm Kennington Talkies: For the Defense (A|1930|USA|65 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm ESFH Sutton: Adoption and Fostering 1850-1930, Louise Taylor, St Nicholas's Church Hall, 8pm Fri 7 Lunchtime Recital: Elizaveta Saul, Violin & Ana Manastireanu, Piano, , 1.10pm WHF: Wandsworth Prison in Fact and Fiction, Prison Museum, Heathfield Road, SW18, 5.30pm Diana: Your Soul’s Purpose on Earth, 6.30pm Community Kitchen: South Indian Supper Club fund-raiser, Shuba Rhao, 7pm Penge Forum: Inventing Remembrance, Martin Spence, Melvin Hall, Melvin Road, SE20, 7pm Outdoor Cinema: Bohemian Rhapsody (12A|2018|UK|134 mins), Whitgift Sports Club, 7 for 9.15pm Cinema Museum: Nueve reinas (Nine Queens|15|2000|Argentina|111 mins), 7.30pm CAS: Astronomy at UCL Mullard Space Science Lab, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, RRS, 7.45pm Screen25: If Beale Street Could Talk (15|2019|USA|119 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 8 Penge Festival: Men & Women in Sheds – Open Day, Kingsdale Road, SE20, 10am-4pm WHF/FoWC: Craig Telescope of , Greg Smye-Rumsby, Althorp pub, 10.30am Green Spaces Open Day, , 11am-4pm Green Spaces Open Day: Nature Talk, Meike Weiser, Croydon Central Library, noon Carshalton Carnival, , noon Purley Food and Drink Festival, High Street, Purley, 12-4pm Caterham Carnival, Westway Common, 1-5pm Green Spaces Open Day: Woodland Trust Talk, Croydon Central Library, 2pm Penge Festival: Penge Heritage Walk 2, Christopher O’Shaughnessy, 42 Thicket Road, SE19, 2pm Heritage: Victorian Passions from the USA, Mark Samuels Lasner, Surrey History Centre, 2pm WHF/Summerstown 182: Walk Garratt Lane! Geoff Simmons, Wandsworth Town Library, 2pm Kennington Vintage: Easy to Love (U|1953|USA|96 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm (& 9) Open Garden Squares (& 9) National Gardens Scheme: 41 Southbrook Road, London, SE12 8LJ, 2-5.30pm Dracula Society: Designing Posters for Horror Films, Graham Humphries, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Sun 9 Caterham Festival: Food Festival, Croydon Road, Caterham, 9am-5pm Penge Festival: Winsford Gardens Open Day, Croydon Road, SE20, 11am-4pm Penge Festival: Lower Chesham Allotments Open Day, 68 Chesham Road, SE20, 11am-4pm Penge Festival: Penge Street Art Walk, Penge East station, 11am-1.30pm Summer Fair, Primary School, , 12-3pm Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, Windmill Gardens, SW2, 12.50 for 1pm CNHSS: Happy Valley Early Summer Flowers, McLauchlin/Jennings, Tollers Lane/Drive Road, 2pm National Gardens Scheme: Blackheath Gardens, London, SE13 7EA, 2-5pm Friends of James Terry Court: Summer Fun Day, 90 Haling Park Road, South Croydon, 2.30-5pm Kennington Vintage: Easy to Love (U|1953|Australia|96 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Balham Society: Balham High Road, John Rattray, Balham High Road/Ritherdon Road, SW17, 2.30pm WHF/FoBP: Festival of Britain Pleasure Gardens Remnants, Albert Gate, , 2.30pm FOCC: A Thousand Years of History at Church, Ted Howard, Chaldon Church, teas, 3pm Caterham Festival: Time and Space, Free Spirit, St. Lawrence’s Church, Caterham, 6pm CINEPIANO: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (PG|1920|UK|63 mins|live piano), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Compline: Saints Cyril and Methodius, Rev Tim Pike, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 10 ESFH Southwark: Seven O'Clock and Not A Baby Bathed, Robert Holden, SLHL, noon (to 16) Carers’ Week activities, Carers Support Centre, 24, George Street, Croydon (to 15) Peddle My Wheels: Park Pop-up Bike Markets, 10am-4pm (10 Lloyd, 13 Park H, 14 , 15 Wandle) Phoenix Retirement Association: Social meeting, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow St, SE19, 2.30pm Caterham Festival: St Lawrence’s Hospital Burial Ground Talk & Tour, Liz Bonsall, ground entrance, 6pm TLRS: Trams in Southern Europe, Martin Eady, Vestry House, Richmond, 7.30pm Tue 11 DLC: Wild Rose (15|2018|UK|100 mins|Babes In Arms), 11am Gresham: Byron and the Age of Sensation, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm DLC: Loro (18|2019|Italy|151 mins), 7pm Caterham Festival: Stroll down Caterham High Street, Roger Packham, the Cedar Tree, 7pm THG: Locally Listed in Tooting, Libby Lawson and Philip Bradley, URC, SW17, 7.30pm NSLTC: Transports of Delight, Alan Walters, ECURC, 7.45pm (to 15) SLTC: Pomona by Alistair McDowall, Old Fire Station, 2A Norwood High Street, SE27, 8pm Ravensbourne Morris and Old Palace Clog, Jolly Woodman, Beckenham, 8.30pm Wed 12 RSM: Gigi (U|1958|USA|111 mins|35mm), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Croydon U3A: Make the Rest of Your Years the Best Years, Alan Wise, Freemasons Hall, 2pm FOWW: All About Badgers, Ian Tilbury, Library, 2.30pm South London Botanical Inst: Wonderful Weeds walk, Roy Vickery, Friends Meeting House, SW2, 7pm LRWF: Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story, Celeste Bell (daughter) & Zoë Howe, Brixton Library, 7pm PBE (to 15) Phoenix Players: Hidden Stories, Emmanuel Church Hall, West Dulwich, SE21, 7.30pm Kennington Noir: The Scarlet Hour (A|1956|USA|95 mins|35mm Film), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Screen25: Britain On Film: Protest! (12A|2019|UK|77 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Society: John Ruskin 200 Years On, Jon Newman, Baptist Ch, Half Moon Lane, 7.45pm Thu 13 London Wildlife Trust: Butterfly Walk, , 2pm DLC: Smiles of a Summer Night (12A|1955|Sweden|106 mins), 2.30 & 7.30pm Gresham: Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019 Guildhall, John Guy, Old Library, 6pm Slovene National Day Reception, National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, SW1, 6pm Kennington Talkies: Romance on the High Seas (A|1948|USA|99 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Caterham Festival: Ghost Walk, The Fleeting Brook, Caterham Barracks, 7.30pm SELFS: The Megalithic John Michell, Debbie Elliott, Old King's Head, off Borough High St, SE1, 8pm BBHA: The Secret Diaries of William Wilberforce, Professor John Coffey, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Fri 14 Arcelia: Pick Up the Pieces EP launch, Cinema Museum, 7.45pm CRMG: The Nearly Man: Wyn Morris 1929-2010, Paul Davies, St Mildred’s, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Screen25: Beats (18|2019|UK|101 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Ceilidh at The Halls: Cock and Bull Band with Micheal Catovsky, Stanley Halls, 8pm Penge Festival: Guided Bat Walk in Cator Park, Ishpi Blatchley, Cator Park, Aldersmead Road, 9pm Sat 15 BBHA: All-day Coach Outing to Rochester, etc, 8.45am PBE (to 23) Crystal Palace Festival Penge Festival: Walter De La Mare Walk, Christopher O’Shaughnessy, Moon & Stars, 164 High St, 10am Park Dovecote open day, 10am-1pm NWKFHS: The History of Borough Market, Julie Carver-Pierce, Bromley Methodist Church, 10.30am Wallington Music Festival, various venues, beginning at library, 10.30m Fair, Blanchmans Farm Nature Reserve, Road, 11am Surrey Heritage: Suffragette Planners and Plotters, Kathy Atherton, Surrey History Centre, 11am Hoodos: Bamstock Music Festival, Wandle Park, 11am-7.30pm Waterloo & S'bank Heritage Society: Lost Hospitals of SE1, Elaine Andrews, St John’s Church, SE1, 2pm Laurel and Hardy Society: Way Out West (1937|USA|65 mins) + shorts, Cinema Museum, 3pm Caterham Festival: Barn Dance, Rogues Gallery, Sunnydown school, 7-11pm LRWF: Arch Garrison in concert plus support, Clapham Library, 7.30pm Stardust: Songs from Stage & Screen, Croydon Philharmonic Choir, St Mildred's, Bingham Rd, 7.30pm Group 9.5: Miss Pilgrim's Progress (U|1949|UK|85 min|16mm), St. Gabriels Hall, Pimlico, 7.30pm Caterham Festival: Gilbert and Sullivan, Utopians Unlimited, St John’s Church, 7.30pm Cinema Ruskin: Shoot-out at Medicine Bend (U|1957|USA|87 min) & Ghost Camera, Ruskin Ho, 8pm Sun 16 Bookham Open Gardens, Great and Little Bookham, Surrey, free minibus transport 10am to 5pm Friends of Selsdon Woods: Summer Flowers, Malcolm Jennings, 11am National Gardens Scheme: 97 Arthur Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 7DP, 2-6pm National Gardens Scheme: 40 The Crescent, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 6BJ, 1-5pm National Gardens Scheme: 103 and 105 Dulwich Village, London, SE21 7BJ, 2-5pm National Gardens Scheme: 2 Springhurst Close, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 5AT, 2-5.30pm Kennington Classics: North by Northwest (PG|1959|USA|133 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Rush Common and Effra Farm, Alan Piper, Brixton Tate Library, 2.30pm Caterham Festival: After Sundown Jazz duo, St Lawrence’s Church, 7pm Compline: Jeremy Taylor, Rev. Philip Kennedy, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 17 Ashburton Library: Alice in Wonderland and her Lost Boys, Mary Crichton Stuart, 11am Network Rail: Norwood Junction Remodelling Proposals, St Chad’s Church, 5 Whitworth Rd, 4-9pm Streatham Society: AGM & Review of the Past Year 2018-19, The Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 18 WBLHG: Brewing in the Wandle Valley, Alison Cousins, West Barnes Library, 10.30am Network Rail: Norwood Junction Remodelling Proposals, S Nwd P'ry School, 34 Crowther Rd, 5-9pm Gresham: Weimar Republic, Richard Evans, Museum of London, 6pm DLC: Eighth Grade (15|2018|USA|94 mins), 7.30pm ESFH Croydon: History of , Peter Skinner, ECURC, 8pm Caterham Festival: An English History of Freedom, Andy Thomas, St Mary’s Church Hall, 8pm Wed 19 BBHA: Visit to Memorial Museum, 11am Network Rail: Norwood Junction Remodelling Proposals Drop-in, Stanley Halls, SE25, 11.30am-5.30pm RSM: Out of the Past (PG|1947|USA|97 mins|35mm), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Kennington Bioscope: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members’ Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Screen25: Mary Queen of Scots (15|2018|UK|124 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Thu 20 DLC/Rhythm & Views Film Festival: Amazing Grace (U|2018|USA|88 mins), 2.30 & (subtitled) 7.30pm Gresham: The Gray's Inn Reading, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm BIS AGM: Rooms & Views: Filming in Florence with Merchant Ivory, Sarah Quill, Burlington Ho, 6.30pm Peckham Society: Park to One Tree Hill Walk, Peter Frost, Clockhouse pub, SE22, 6.30pm Norwood Society: My House, My Street: Harold Road area, Ruth Hibberd, UNL, 7.30pm Kennington Talkies: Love Me or Leave Me (PG|1955|USA|119 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Caterham Festival: Ghost Walk, The Fleeting Brook, Caterham Barracks, 7.30pm FILMBOX: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (15|2018|USA|106 min), Langley Park, 7.30pm FILMBOX: Mary Queen of Scots (15|2018|UK|124 min), Langley Park, 7.45pm SLLHG: South Norwood, John Hickman, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Fri 21 Lunchtime Recital: Tom Little, Organ, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm Mic Dixon: War School (2018, UK, documentary), Cinema Museum, 6.45pm Live in Concert, T-Rextasy, Stanley Halls, 7.30pm FOHM: Songs of Summer concert, Carshalton Opera, etc, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm CAS: ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover, Andrew Coates, Junior Hall, Royal Russell School, 7.45pm Screen25: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (PG|2018|USA|117 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 22 Sutton: Summer Trees in Beddington Park, 10am Network Rail: Norwood Junction Remodelling Proposals, Primary School, 34 Crowther Rd, 11am-5pm Open Afternoon, Lumley Chapel, Cheam, 2-4pm, Andrew Skelton talk at 2.30, 3, 3.30pm (& 23) Croydon Minster: Flower Festival & Summer Fair (Sat only), from 11am (& 23) Open Studios - Celebrating Frank Dickinson, Carshalton Artists (& 23) London Transport Museum & TfL: 150th Anniversary of the District Railway Celebrations Music Is Life, Martin How, Croydon Minster, 4pm DLC/Rhythm & Views Film F'l: Teddy Pendergrass-If You Don't Know Me (15|2018|USA|106 min), 7pm Midsummer Classics, Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Trinity School Concert Hall, 7.30pm Caterham Festival: East Surrey Choral Society Summer concert, village Hall, 7.30pm Sun 23 Inside Croydon: Midsummer Wildlife Ramble, Peter Alfrey, Croydon, 10am Penge Festival: Jumble Trail, 11am-5pm Caterham Festival: Caterham Mummers, begins The Harrow, Stanstead Road, 2pm National Gardens Scheme: Lyndhurst Square Group, London, SE15 5AR, 1.30-5pm National Gardens Scheme: Court Lane Gardens, Dulwich Village, London, SE21, 2-5.30pm National Gardens Scheme: 12 Overbrae & 209 Worsley Bridge Road, Beckenham, 2-5pm French Sundaes: La Haine (15|1995|France|98 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Caterham Festival: Frankenstein and Coma, Prospero Theatre School, The ARC, 4 and 8pm Penge Festival: Jazz at The Bridge House, Jo Harrop & Guest, 7pm Compline: Farleigh Voices, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 24 Caterham F'l/U3A: The Strange Lives of Roy Orbison & Del Shannon, Michael Grillo, Cm URC, 2.30pm (to 30) South Norwood Community Festival Last Tuesday Society: Cunning Folk, Owen Davies, Viktor Wynd Museum, 6.30pm CNHSS: The Great Fire of London, Andrew Warde, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 25 The Innocence of Edith Thompson, Rene Weis, FW Paine Museum, 24 Old London Rd, Kingston, 7pm RBLHS: Tour of Foot Tunnel and Ferry, Ian Blore (Members Only), 7.15pm DLC/Croydon Pride: Rafiki (12A|2018|Kenya|82 mins), 7.30pm Wed 26 RSM: Carmen Jones (U|1954|USA|105 mins), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm ESFH Lingfield: Young Charlie Chaplin and his Lambeth, Ian Porter, Community Centre, 2.30pm SLHG: Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry, Phil Revnell, All Saints, , 2pm OAS: Journey to the Sun, Helen Mason, St Francis of Assisi Church Hall, , 7.30pm FILMBOX: Shoplifters (15|2018|Japan|121 mins|English subtitles), Langley Park, 7.30pm FILMBOX: The Favourite (15|2018|Ireland/UK/USA|117 mins), Langley Park, 7.45pm Screen25: Capernaum (15|2018|Lebanon|126 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm LHS: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Gardens, Victoria Maytom, 14 Knight’s Hill, SE27, 8pm Thu 27 DLC: Styx (12A|2018|Germany|94 mins), 2.30 & 7.30pm LCGB: Photos from the Peter Bland Collection, Bryan Cross, ECURC, 7.30pm FOHM: London 1914-39, Ian Bevan, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm Kennington Talkies: Calamity Jane (U|1953|USA|99 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm (to 6) Miller Centre: A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, 30 Rd, Cat'm, 8pm & Sat 2.30pm Fri 28 Lunchtime Recital: Liam Connery, Tenor, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm (& 29 to 1) Art Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Arts, South East Cancer Help Centre, Purley, 10.30am-5pm Caterham Festival: Cabaret + Ceilidh = Cabareilidh! Glimmer theatre, Soper Hall, Caterham, 7pm Television’s Role in Liberating LGBT Lives, Terry Sanderson, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm LLHS: in the Great War, John King, Methodist Ch Hall, Albion Way, Lewisham, 7.30pm CRMS: Musical Cities of Europe, Rosemary Howard, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Screen25: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (15|2018|USA|106 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Wandsworth Historical Society AGM: Local History talk, TBA, Friends Meeting House, SW18, 8pm Sat 29 Caterham Festival: Model Air Show/Wrestling/Pillow Fights/LN of Proms, Westway Cmn, 10am-1030pm National Gardens Scheme: Paddock Allotments & Leisure Gardens, Raynes Park, SW20, 12-5pm (& 30) Open Studios - Celebrating Frank Dickinson, Carshalton Artists (& 30,6,7) Polesden Lacey Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, Polesden Lacey Open Air Theatre, 2.30pm Caterham Festival/Friends of Chaldon Church: Four Effect Quartet, Chaldon Church, teas, 3pm Croydon Bach Choir: Faure’s Requiem, St Mildred's, Bingham Road, 7.30pm Sun 30 South Norwood Community Festival: Party in the Park, SN Recreation Ground, 11am-7pm Countryside Day, Common British-Slovene Society; Annual Picnic, Oxford University Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay, 12-4.30pm Wonder Reels: What is Democracy? (2018, live music from Laetitia Sadier), Cinema Museum, 6.30pm Compline: Elizabeth Fry, Rebecca Pope, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm

July Mon 1 MHRPS: Queensland/New South Wales Railways, Tom Jedski, St Mary Magdalene, Canning Rd, 7.30pm Tue 2 Check seats at Caterham Festival/BWC: History of the Hop Pickers of Kent, Chris Stewart, St Mary’s Church Hall, 8pm DLC: High Life (18|2018|UK/France/Germany/Poland/USA|113 mins), 7.30pm BBLHS: Crime on the Thames: River Police & the Criminals, David Ferguson, Trinity URC, 7.45pm Crystal Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm SMLS: Summer Social, St Mildred's Centre, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 8pm South London Sinfonia in concert, St Mildred's, Bingham Road, 8pm (to 6) SLTC: Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre, Old Fire Station, 2A Norwood High Street, SE27, 8pm Ravensbourne Morris: , Queens Head/Imperial Arms, 8/9pm Wed 3 DLC: Amazing Grace (U|2018|USA|88 mins), 11am (Babes In Arms) & 7.30pm GSitP: Maths, Murder and Malaria, Dr Steven Le Comber, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Kennington Talkies: Pillow Talk (PG|1959|USA|100 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Screen25: Minding the Gap (15|2018|USA|93 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm EEHAS: Late Antique Surrey, Rob Briggs, St Mary's Church Hall, Ewell, 8pm Thu 4 TASB: How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine Art, Tony Rawlins, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am DLC: Rocketman (15|2019|UK|121 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Torrin Williams, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm FILMBOX: The Old Man and the Gun (12A|2018|USA|93 mins), Langley Park, 7.30pm ESFH Sutton: Hearth Tax & Other 17th Century Sources, Francis Howcutt, St Nicholas's Hall, 8pm Fri 5 Lunchtime Recital: Aus An, Piano, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm (to 7) Blackheath Morris Men's Anniversary Ale, Beckenham Argentinian Season: The Official Story, (doc'y|1985|Argentina|112 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm CAS: Astrobiology the Cradle of Life, Prof Nigel Mason OBE, Junior Hall, Royal Russell School, 7.45pm Screen25: Short Term 12 (15|2013|USA|95 min|Pay As You Feel), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 6 Old Village Fair, Grange Park, 12-4.30pm National Gardens Scheme: 15 The Avenue, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 7QA, 4-9pm Group 9.5: The Dark Man (U|1951|UK|76 min|16mm), St. Gabriels Hall, Pimlico, 7.30pm Sun 7 London Film Fair, Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, WC1, 8am-5pm Croydon Airport Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm Shirley Windmill: Open Day, 12-5pm CR3 Community Festival, the cricket pitch, Caterham Barracks, 12-6pm CNHSS: Museum Open Day, Chipstead Valley Primary School, Chipstead Valley Road, 1.30-4.30pm National Gardens Scheme: Camberwell Grove Gardens, Camberwell, London, SE5 8JE, 2-6pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Kennington Vintage: Star of Midnight (A|1935|USA|90 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Compline: St Ignatius of Loyola, Judith Brooks, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 8 Phoenix Retirement Association: Say it with Poison, Russell Bowes, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm Tue 9 Clapham Society: Around Central Clapham, Alyson Wilson, tube, 6.30pm Brookwood Necropolis Railway, John Clarke, F W Paine Museum, 24 Old London Road, Kingston, 7pm DLC: Birds of Passage (15|2018|Colombia etc|125 min), 7.30pm THG: Layers of London: Putting Tooting on the Map, Amy Todd, URC, SW17, 7.30pm Wed 10 Croydon U3A: The Eagle & Dan Dare Comics, Howard Smith, Freemasons Hall, 2pm FWWL: American Presidents, Joe Mendell, 2.30pm DLC: Tucked (15|2018|UK|79 mins), 7.30pm CNHSS: The Magic of the Mind, Michael Symes, ECURC, 7.45pm Screen25: Moon (15|2009|USA|97 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm FILMBOX: Filmbox screening & members social, Langley Park, 8pm Thu 11 DLC: Sometimes Always Never (12A|2018|UK|89 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Caterham Festival: A Step in Time, talk by an original Tiller Girl, The ARC, 7.30pm Fri 12 Caterham Festival: American Swing of the 1940s and 50s, Jo Harrop and band, Miller Centre, 7.30pm CRMG: There Was Morning and Evening, Liz Brereton, St Mildred’s, Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Screen25: Fisherman's Friends (12A|2019|UK|112 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 13 Croydon Pridefest 2019, Wandle Park Friends of Selsdon Woods: Butterflies with the Friends, 11am (& 14) National Gardens Scheme: 226 Conisborough Crescent, Catford, London, SE6 2SF, 11am-5pm Screen25: Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone (PGA|2001|UK|152 mins), Harris Academy, 1pm ESFH Richmond: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, 2.30pm Sweeney! (18|1977|UK|89 mins), Cinema Museum, 5pm Misty Moon: The Sweeney Reunion, Cinema Museum, 6.30pm Sun 14 Warlingham Rugby Club: Classic Car and Bike Show, Limpsfield Road, , 10am-4pm Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, Windmill Gardens, SW2, 12.50 for 1pm Croydon Mela 2019, Wandle Park, 1-8pm Friends of Grangewood Park: Picnic In The Park (stalls, history walk, dog show, etc), 1-5pm National Gardens Scheme: 2 Shardcroft Avenue, London, SE24 0DT 2-6pm French Sundaes: La Famille Bélier (12|2014|France|103 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Compline: The Author of Way of the Pilgrim, Rev Michelle Edmonds, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 15 Surrey History Trust AGM: Life & Loves of Ada Lovelace, Dr David Taylor, Surrey History Centre, 7pm DS: Committee meeting, CSC, 7pm Tue 16 WBLHG: History of Raynes Park High School, Sarah Gould, West Barnes Library, 10.30am DLC: Diego Maradona (12A|2019|UK|130 mins), 7.30pm ESFH Croydon: Never Thought of That, Lady Teviot, ECURC, 8pm Changing Times: The Dangerous Musician, Piers Adams, Cyprus Hall, Burgess Hill, 8pm Ravensbourne M's & Kettlebridge Clog, Blacksmiths Arms/Queens Head, /, 8/9pm Wed 17 Kennington Noir: Where The Sidewalk Ends (A|1950|USA|95 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members’ Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Screen25: Diego Maradona (12A|2019|UK|130 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Thu 18 Merton Historical Society: Secret Rivers Exhibition, Docklands Museum, Hertsmere Road, E14, 11am DLC: Gloria Bell (15|2018|USA/Chile|102 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Women & Cocaine: Queen Christina (U|1933|USA|100 mins|35mm), SLLHG: Ladywell and Brockley, Mike Guilfoyle, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Friends of Selsdon Woods: Bats and Moths with the Friends, 9pm Fri 19 CAS: Parker Solar Probe Mission, Dr Christopher Chen, Junior Hall, Royal Russell School, 7.45pm (& 20) Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, Bridge House Theatre, 2 High Street, Penge, SE20, 7.30 + 4pm Sat (& 20) Surrey Opera: The Barber of Seville, Rossini, St Mary Magdalene church, Canning Rd, Croydon, 7.30pm Screen25: First Man (12A|2018|USA|141 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 20 NWKFHS: Identifying & Dating Old Photographs, Tom Doig, Bromley Methodist Church, 10.30am (& 21) Lambeth Country Show Surrey Heritage: War and Peace in Surrey, 1914-19, Dorking Halls, 11am-4.30pm SLBI: Herbal Heritage: Forgotten Uses of Wild Plants, Roy Vickery, Waterloo Millenium Green, 2.30pm Croydon Dance Festival, Stanley Halls, South Norwood, 5pm Sun 21 National Gardens Scheme: 35 Turret Grove, Clapham Old Town, London, SW4 0ES, 10am-5pm Norwood Society: Stanley Halls to the Reservoirs and back, Stephen Oxford, Stanley Halls, 2.30pm Kennington Classics: The Sweet Hereafter (15|1997|Canada|112 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Compline: Ken Leech, Bishop Jonathan, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 22 Beddington Park Summer Lectures: Birdwatching London, David Darrel-Lambert, St Mary's, 7.30pm Tue 23 DLC: After Life (15|2019|UK|Ricky Gervais), 7.30pm Ravensbourne Morris & Pennyroyal Clog: Farnborough, Change of Horses/Woodman, 8/9pm (to 27) SLTC: Peter Pan by J M Barrie, Old Fire Station, 2A Norwood High Street, SE27, 8pm Wed 24 ESFH Lingfield: 1910 Lloyd George Domesday Survey, Paul Blake, 2.30pm GSitP: The Politics of American Conspiracy Theories, Prof Joe Uscinski, Star & Garter, 7.30pm FOHM: Lavender in South London, Alison Cousins, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm OAS: TBA, St Francis of Assisi Church Hall, Petts Wood, 7.30pm (to 3) Theatre Workshop Coulsdon: Henry V, Shakespeare, Coulsdon Manor Hotel, 7.45pm (not 28/29) Screen25: Birds of Passage (15|2018|Colombia etc|125 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm LHS: Beekeeping Awareness, Dr Paul Vagg, Old Library Centre, 14 Knight’s Hill, SE27, 8pm Thu 25 DLC: Late Night (15|2019|UK|102 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Fri 26 CRMG: The Three Tenors, Peter Haines, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Screen25: Wild Rose (15|2018|UK|100 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Wandsworth Historical Society: The Battersea Channel, Virgil Yendell, FMH, SW18, 8pm Sat 27 Surrey Heritage: Top of the Tudor Pops & Strictly Tudor Dancing, Surrey History Centre, 10am & 2pm Sun 28 CNHSS: Woods, Birds and Butterflies, McLauchlin/Jennings, Gangers Hill car park, Woldingham, 10am National Gardens Scheme: 4 Becondale Road, Norwood, London, SE19 1QJ 2.30-5pm Compline: Lennox Berkeley, Rev. Simon Jones, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 29 Caterham U3A: California Dreaming: Alcatraz to Grand Canyon via Route 66, Neil Sadler, URC, 2.30pm Tue 30 RBLHS: Tour (TBA, members Only), 7.15pm DLC: In Fabric (18|2019|UK|118 mins), 7.30pm Ravensbourne Morris: , Five Bells, 8pm Wed 31 SLHG: Discovering the Roman Road from Farleigh to Beckenham, Frank Mercer, All Saints, S'd, 2pm Screen25: The White Crow (12A|2018|UK|127 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm

August Thu 1 DLC: Woman At War (12A|2018|Iceland|101 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm (to 3) Quay Players: Bring It On: The Musical, Greenwood Theatre, SE1, 7.30pm (Sat 2.30pm) 7th City Lit Flicks Annual Film Festival 2019, Cinema Museum, 6.30pm Fri 2 Argentinian Season: The Son of the Bride (15|2001|Argentina|123 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Sat 3 National Gardens Scheme: 4 Franconia Road, London, SW4 9ND, 10am-5pm Sun 4 Croydon Airport Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm Shirley Windmill: Open Day, 12-5pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Compline: St Jerome, Mark Lanyon, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Tue 6 DLC: Britain On Film: Protest! (12A|2019|UK|77 mins), 7.30pm Crystal Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Ravensbourne Morris: Bromley, Two Doves, 8.30pm Thu 8 DLC: Vita & Virginia (12A|2018|UK|110 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Sat 10 Friends of Brompton C'y: Conserved Corpses: Egypt to Evita, Robert Stephenson, BC Chapel, 6.30pm Sun 11 Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, Windmill Gardens, SW2, 12.50 for 1pm Peckham Society: Central Peckham, Peter Frost, Peckham Rye Station, 2pm National Gardens Scheme: 41 Shelvers Way, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 5QJ, 2-5.30pm Compline: Robert Fitzroy, Nigel Platts, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 12 ESFH Southwark: Members' Presentations, SLHL, noon PRA: Some Milestones in the History of the National Trust, Peter Jones, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm Wed 14 Kennington Noir: Crossfire (PG|1947|USA|84 mins|35mm film), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Screen25: Apollo 11 (U|2019|USA|93 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Thu 15 MHS: A Walk in , Dave Lofthouse/Peter Hopkins, Morden Park House Register Office, 11am DLC: Yesterday (12A|2019|UK|116 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm SLLHG: More Bygone Streatham, John Brown, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Sat 17 NWKFHS: The Brushmakers Society, Ken Doughty, Bromley Methodist Church, 10.30am Sun 18 National Gardens Scheme: Gardenview, Westerham, Kent, TN16 3HL, 12-4pm Norwood Society: Southern Slopes of , Alun Thomas, Crystal Palace stn, 2.30pm Brixton Society: West Side of Brixton, Alan Piper, Police Station, 367 Brixton Road, SW9 7DD, 2.30pm Kennington Classics: Kitchen Stories (PG|2003|Norway|95 min), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Compline: St Jean Vianney, Father Stephen Hardaker, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Tue 20 WBLHG: Croydon Airport in WW2 and After, Peter Skinner, West Barnes Library, 10.30am OAS: TBA, St Francis of Assisi Church Hall, Petts Wood, 7.30pm Wed 21 SLBI: Tree Walk, Streatham Park Estate, Roy Vickery, Ullathorne/Thrale Roads, SW16 1NY, 2.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members’ Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Fri 23 Screen25: Us (15|2019|USA|116 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 24 BVWTVM: Music Afternoon, 23 Rosendale Road, SE21, from 11am Sun 25 CNHSS: Merstham Village and Gatton Park, Paul Sowan, Merstham Station, 2pm Compline: Johannes Kepler, Rev. C. Dowland-Pillinger, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Wed 28 Screen25: Us (15|2019|USA|116 min), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm LHS: The Victorian Gardener, Dr Judith Hill, Old Library Centre, 14 Knight’s Hill, SE27, 8pm Thu 29 National Gardens Scheme: 7 Spencer Road, Wandsworth, London, SW18 2SP, 5.30-8pm

September Sun 1 National Gardens Scheme: Royal Trinity Hospice, London, SW4, 10.30am-4.30pm (to 30) Lambeth Heritage Festival Croydon Airport Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm Shirley Windmill: Open Day, 12-5pm National Gardens Scheme: 24 Grove Park, Camberwell, London, SE5 8LH, 2-5.30pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Green, Bill Linskey, Costcutter, 10 Stockwell Green, SW9 9JF, 2.30pm Compline: Hannah Hurnard, Canon Ruth Martin, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 2 Vauxhall Society: The Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens, David E. Coke, Starbucks, Vauxhall Station, 2.30pm MHRPS: Bluebell Railway Carriages/OP4 at Horsted Keynes, St Mary Magdalene, Canning Rd, 7.30pm Tue 3 BBLHS: Members' Evening, Trinity URC, 7.45pm Crystal Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Wed 4 GSitP: Cancer Cures - Are We Nearly There Yet? Dr Alice Howarth, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 5 Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Julian Empett & Nicholas Ansdell Evans, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH Sutton: Using the Internet to Research Abroad, John Hanson, St Nicholas's Church Hall, 8pm Sat 7 BVWTVM: TV Open Day Event, 23 Rosendale Road, SE21, from 11am LHS: Late Summer Show, St Luke’s Church, West Norwood, SE27, from 2pm Sun 8 Friends of Selsdon Woods: FSW Open Day and Selsdon Community Fun Event, noon to 4pm National Gardens Scheme: 2 Littlebury Road, Clapham, London, SW4 6DN, 1-6pm Streatham Society: Henry Tate Gardens Tours, John Brown, North, 2pm & 3pm Compline: St Hildegard of Bingen, Rev. Col. P. Hewlett-Smith, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 9 Phoenix Retirement Association: Social meeting, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow St, SE19, 2.30pm RCTS: Mail Rail, Chris Taft, ECURC, 7.30pm Tue 10 THG: Members’ evening, Various speakers, URC, SW17, 7.30pm NSLTC: TBA, ECURC, 7.45pm Wed 11 FWWL 20th Anniversary: Monsters in Our Midst, Alan Payne, 2.30pm National Gardens Scheme: 4 Becondale Road, Norwood, London, SE19 1QJ 5-8pm CNHSS: Happy Valley - Past, Present and Future, Dominic North, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 12 TASB: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, Anne Haworth, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am Merton Historical Society: Visit to Post Office Museum, Phoenix Place, London, WC1X 0DA, 11am The Thames and Its Mysteries, Robert Stephenson, Guildhall Library, EC2, 2pm Fri 13 CRMG: Escenas Argentinas, Ray Picot, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Sat 14 ESFH Richmond: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, 2.30pm (to 29) Wandle Fortnight Herne Hill S'ty: Herne Hill Heritage Trail North, Robert Holden, H Hill Velodrome, Burbage Rd, 2.30pm Koyaanisqatsi (U|1982|USA|86 mins|music by We Stood Like Kings), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Sun 15 Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, Windmill Gardens, SW2, 12.50 for 1pm Clapham Society: Clapham High Street and Environs, Anne Wilson, Clapham North tube, 2.30pm Compline: John Robinson, Very Revd. Andrew Nunn, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Tue 17 WBLHG: Lines Bros. and Triang Toys of Merton, Sarah Gould, West Barnes Library, 10.30am (to 21) CODA: The Producers by Mel Brooks, , , 8pm ESFH Croydon: Stuart London, Ian Bevan, ECURC, 8pm Changing Times: Crop Circles of 2019, Andy Thomas, Cyprus Hall, Burgess Hill, 8pm Wed 18 Kennington Noir: Farewell, My Lovely (15|1975|USA|91 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members’ Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 19 BBHA AGM: Charlemagne, Dame Janet Nelson, Christ Church Hall, 7.30pm Norwood Society: My House, My Street: Woodland Hill Area, Ruth Hibberd, UNL, 7.30pm SLLHG: A-Z of Croydon II, Mike Gilbert, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Sat 21 Herne Hill Society: Herne Hill Heritage Trail Central, Robert Holden, Herne Hill Station, 2.30pm Open House London Sun 22 Shirley Windmill: Open Day, 12-5pm CNHSS: Fruits and Fungi, Jane McLauchlin and Malcolm Jennings, car park, 2pm Compline: St Mary Magdalene, Rev Ruth Chapman, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm Mon 23 CNHSS: The Life and Times of Old Palace, Janice Barter, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 24 RBLHS: The Surrey Docks, Terry Scales, Time and Talents, 7.15pm Wed 25 Clapham Society: Clapham in World War II, Derrick Johnson, Clapham Common tube, 2.30pm ESFH Lingfield: Creating a Family History Website, John Hanson, Community Centre, 2.30pm OAS: TBA, St Francis of Assisi Church Hall, Petts Wood, 7.30pm Thu 26 LCGB: The Story of the London & North-Western Railway, Stuart Dennison, ECURC, 7.30pm FoHM: An Unexpected Treasure, Sue James (Sutton High school), Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm Fri 27 CRMG: All the Right Notes, Andrew Keener & Peter Avis, St Mildred’s, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Wandsworth Historical Society: Local History talk, TBA, Friends Meeting House, SW18, 8pm Sat 28 NWKFHS: London's Sailortown in Eighteenth Century, Derek Morris, Bromley Methodist Ch, 10.30am (& 29) The Catford Arts Trail 2019, various addresses around SE6, 11am-6pm (also next weekend) Herne Hill S'y: Herne Hill Heritage Trail South, Robert Holden, All Saints’ Church, Lovelace Rd, 2.30pm Sun 29 Compline: Bram Fischer, Rev. Sara Goatcher, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 8pm

October Tue 1 BBLHS: Orchards Past & Present at Scadbury Park, Chislehurst, Ann Russell, Trinity URC, 7.45pm Crystal Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Wed 2 GSitP: Witchcraft and the Law in , Deborah Hyde, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 3 TASB: A History of Glass through the Eyes of the Artist, Jane Gardiner, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: The FB Pocket Orchestra, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH Sutton: TBA, St Nicholas's Church Hall, 8pm Sat 5 Friends of Selsdon Woods: Fungus Hunt with the Friends, 10am Dracula Society: Dracula and Classical Antiquity, Penny Goodman, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm (& 6) The Catford Arts Trail 2019, various addresses around SE6, 11am-6pm Sun 6 Croydon Airport Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm Shirley Windmill: Open Day, 12-5pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Compline: Harvest Songs of Praise, St Mary’s Church, Farleigh, 3pm Mon 7 MHRPS: TBA, St Mary Magdalene, Canning Road, East Croydon, 7.30pm CNHSS: The Isle of Wight: its Wildlife and Countryside, Malcolm Jennings, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 8 THG: St Clements Danes Almshouses, Garratt Lane, Keith Rea, URC, SW17, 7.30pm NSLTC: TBA, ECURC, 7.45pm Purley Literary Society: Mr Selfridge – Suffragette, Ian Porter, PURC, 8pm Wed 9 FWWL: Ford vs Ferrari, Tony Penn, 2.30pm Don't Go into the Cellar: Whitechapel Freaks, Assembly Room, Stanley Hall, 8pm Thu 10 BBHA: The Making of Martin Luther, Professor Richard Rex, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm Fri 11 CRMG: Members' Choices, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Sat 12 Merton Historical Society: Secret Rivers, Thomas Ardill, St James' Church Hall, Martin Way, 2.30pm Misty Moon: An Evening With The Bad Girls, Linda Regan, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Sun 13 Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, Windmill Gardens, SW2, 12.50 for 1pm Friends of : Autumn Glories of Brockwell Park, Clocktower, Brockwell Hall, 2pm Mon 14 Phoenix Retirement Ass'n: History of Beulah Spa, Stephen Oxford, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm RCTS: The West Highland Line, John Barrance, ECURC, 7.30pm Tue 15 WBLHG: Tally-ho! The Story of Coach Travel, Michael Norman-Smith, West Barnes Library, 10.30am ESFH Croydon: William Wilks’s Garden in Shirley, Gwendolen Powell, ECURC, 8pm Wed 16 BBHA: Visit to John Wesley's House, 11am PBE CNHSS: Entomology Members’ Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 17 Norwood Society: From Concretopia to the Green Belt, John Grindrod, UNL, 7.30pm (to 19) Phoenix Players: Urinetown, Stanley Halls, SE25, 7.30pm & Sat matinée 2.30pm SLLHG: House History in South London, Alan Piper, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Sat 19 NWKFHS: An Enumerator's Tale, Meryl Catty & Maureen Binks, Bromley Methodist Ch, 10.30am Cinema Museum: Home Movie Day 2019, 11am FOWNC AGM: The Cubitts & the River Thames, Chris Everett, Chatsworth Baptist church, 2.30pm Misty Moon: The Bill Reunion 4, Linda Regan, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Tue 22 Purley Literary Society: The Inexhaustible Mr Paxton, Russell Bowes, PURC, 8pm Wed 23 ESFH Lingfield: The History and Mystery of Maps, Tony Painter, Community Centre, 2.30pm RBLHS: Sea Shanties & Local Miscellany, Chris Roche, Time and Talents, 7.15pm Fri 25 CRMG: There Are Others As Well As Grieg, Eric Pridham, St Mildred’s, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Wandsworth Historical Society: Archaeological talk, TBA, Friends Meeting House, SW18, 8pm Sat 26 The Misty Moon International Indie Film Festival 2019, Cinema Museum, 7pm Sun 27 CNHSS: Fungus Foray in Littleheath Woods, McLauchlin/Jennings, Queenhill Rd, Selsdon, 10am Mon 28 CNHSS: The Nostradamus of South Norwood, Stephen Oxford, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 29(to 1)Friends of Old Palace: Open Day Tours, Old Palace, Croydon, 1.45pm Thu 31 LCGB: The History of French Railways, Michael Bunn, ECURC, 7.30pm

November Fri 1 Check seats at David Lean Cinema Sat 2 Friends of Selsdon Woods: Autumn Leaves with the Friends, 1pm Sun 3 London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally Croydon Airport Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 4 MHRPS: British Transport films, St Mary Magdalene, Canning Road, East Croydon, 7.30pm Tue 5 BBLHS: Names, People & Stories on a Beckenham War Memorial, Bob Digby, Trinity URC, 7.45pm Purley Literary Society: The Origins of Place Names, Anthony Thornton Smith, PURC, 8pm Crystal Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Wed 6 NHS Retirement Fellowship: Conan Doyle: the South Norwood Years, Bd Winchester, MPGC/CUH, 2pm GSitP: The Truth About Fat, Anthony Warner, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 7 TASB: Salvador Dali – Draughtsman or Designer, Julia Musgrave, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am Gruesome History of Bodysnatching, Robert Stephenson, Guildhall Library, EC2, 2pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Alexpander Karpeyev, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH Sutton: TBA, St Nicholas's Church Hall, 8pm Fri 8 CRMG: Rhapsody, Ken Dudley, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Sat 9 Lord Mayor’s Show MHS AGM: Merton Park Film Studios, Clive Whichelow, St James' Church Hall, Martin Way, 2.30pm ESFH Richmond: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, 2.30pm Dracula Society: The 45th Annual Bram Stoker Birthday Dinner, Civil Service Club, 7pm Changing Times: TBA, Cyprus Hall, Burgess Hill, 8pm Mon 11 PRA: Duties of Royal Family Personal Protection Officer, Richard Griffin, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm RCTS: Strictly Freight Only, Part 2, Brian Ringer, ECURC, 7.30pm Tue 12 THG: TBA, URC, SW17, 7.30pm NSLTC: TBA, ECURC, 7.45pm Changing Times: Rediscovering Health Technologies of the Ancients, Clive de Carle, B'ss Hill, 8pm Wed 13 FWWL: Bee Keeping, Tony Trinnick, 2.30pm Sat 16 NWKFHS: The History of the Royal Variety Performance, Dean Caston, B'y Methodist Ch, 10.30am FOWNC: Cherishing History, Nurturing Wildlife, Kath Church, Chatsworth Baptist church, 2.30pm Sun 17 London Film Fair, Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, WC1, 8am-5pm Tue 19 WBLHG: The Men of Raynes Park 1914-18, Peter Hutton, West Barnes Library, 10.30am ESFH Croydon: The Times They Are A-changin’, Ian Waller, ECURC, 8pm Purley Literary Society: Purley and Surrounding Districts in the Archives, Lynsey Ould, PURC, 8pm Thu 21 Nwd S: Westbrook Mission, T'n Heath: Tragedy, Scandal, Slavery, Stephen Oxford, UNL, 7.30pm BBHA: Whose Heritage? Professor Anthony Stockwell, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm SLLHG: More South London on Film, Tony Fletcher, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Fri 22 CRMG: Ravel with a Touch of Debussy, Graham Pryce, St Mildred’s, Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Wed 27 ESFH Lingfield: County & Local Sources at the Society of Genealogists, Sue Gibbons, 2.30pm RBLHS: TBA, Time and Talents, 7.15pm Thu 28 LCGB: Why are there no Tube Trains to Bushey Heath? Part 2, Keith Gower, ECURC, 7.30pm Fri 29 BBHA: Visit to The Cinema Museum, 11am PBE Wandsworth Historical Society: Members' Evening, Friends Meeting House, SW18, 8pm

December Sun 1 Croydon Airport Society: Visitor Centre Open Day, 11am-4pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 2 Dracula Society: Christmas Party! Winchester Room, The George, Borough High Street, 7.30pm Tue 3 BBLHS: A Beginner in Writing History, Tudor Davies, Trinity URC, 7.45pm Purley Literary Society: Turner and Constable – the Great British Paint-Off, Nicola Moreby, PURC, 8pm Crystal Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Wed 4 GSitP: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories, Dr Dan Jolley, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 5 TASB: It’s Not Just Tchaikovsky: the Music of Ballet, Nigel Bates, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Celtic Winter Music, Mick Sands etc, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH Sutton: Christmas Food & Drink, Simon & Sylvia Fowler, St Nicholas's Church Hall, 8pm BBHA: Artists' London, Mireille Galinou, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm Fri 6 BSS: Christmas Carol Service, St Andrew's-by-the-Wardrobe, London, 6pm Sat 7 BVWTVM: Music Afternoon, 23 Rosendale Road, SE21, from 11am Mon 9 PRA: Christmas Party, Silver Belles and Beaux, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow St, SE19, 2.30pm RCTS: Railways in All Weathers and at All Times of Day, Steve Sedgwick, ECURC, 7.30pm Tue 10 NSLTC: TBA, ECURC, 7.45pm Wed 11 FWWL: Lies & Deceit, Johnny Mindlin, 2.30pm RBLHS: TBA, Time and Talents, 7.30pm Fri 13 CRMG: Christmas Social, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Sat 14 Merton Historical Society: Story of the Huguenots, Joyce Hampton, St James' Hall, Martin Way, 2.30pm Tue 17 WBLHG: Christmas Heritage Themed Quiz and Discussion, West Barnes Library, 10am Thu 19 LCGB: TBA, ECURC, 7.30pm Norwood Society: Social evening with a Local History Flavour, UNL, 7.30pm SLLHG: Christmas Event, Keith Holdaway, Phoenix Centre, 8pm Wed 25 Christmas Day Thu 26 Ravensbourne Morris: Dancing at the Greyhound, Keston, 12.30pm

January 2020 Sun 5 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Thu 9 BBHA: Cleopatra, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm Fri 10 CRMG: Some Hungarian Fare, Gordon Thompson, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Tue 14 Purley Literary Society: Croydon’s Windmill and its Restoration, Frank Porter, PURC, 8pm Sat 18 NWKFHS: Catching Up With Family Search, Sharon Hintze, Bromley Methodist Church, 10.30am Fri 24 CRMG: Henryk Góreki, Brian Lancaster, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Tue 28 Purley Literary Society: To Be Announced, PURC, 8pm

February Sun 2 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Thu 6 BBHA Fish & Chip Supper: Music Hall/ Songs, Beck'm Youth Voices, Christ Ch Hall, 8pm Tue 11 Purley Literary Society: No 1 Landsdowne Road, Croydon, Piers Gough, PURC, 8pm Fri 14 CRMG: Slightly Off the Beaten Track, Paul Whittle, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Sat 15 NWKFHS: Dig for Victory, Russell Bowes, Bromley Methodist Church, 10.30am Mon 17 BBHA: Visit to Tallow Chandlers' Hall, 11am Tue 25 Purley Literary Society: To Be Announced, PURC, 8pm Fri 28 CRMG: These Are a Few of My Favourite Records, Bernard Smith, St Mildred’s, Addiscombe, 7.45pm March Sun 1 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Tue 10 Purley Literary Society: ENSA: Every Night Something Awful, Delia Taylor, PURC, 8pm Fri 13 CRMG: Schubert, Monica Bayley, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm Thu 19 BBHA: The Plague: 4000 BC to 2000 AD, Dr Tim Mason, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm Sat 21 NWKFHS AGM: Women at Sea - Surviving in a Man's World, Eleanor Monk, BMC, 10.30am Tue 24 Purley Literary Society:Les Parisiennes (to be confirmed), Anne Sebba, PURC, 8pm Fri 27 CRMG: Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Ian Bailey, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm

April Mon 1 BBHA: Visit to The Webb Estate, 10.30am PBE Sun 6 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Wed 22 Apply for FP Thu 23 BBHA: Henry VII and His Court, Professor Steven Gunn, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm Fri 24 Croydon Recorded Music Group: AGM

May Fri 8 (to 10) 75th Anniversary of VE Day Commemorations Thu 14 BBHA: Colonel William Light & the Duke of Wellington, Peter Longley, Christ Ch Hall, Beck'm, 8pm

June Thu 11 BBHA: The History of the Regents Canal, Dr. Roger Squires, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm

October Thu 15 BBHA: Henry III and Westminster Abbey, Prof David Carpenter, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm