Diary October 2018 Mon 1 Ashburton Library: The Nostradamus of South Norwood Hill, Stephen Oxford, 11am Dulwich Library Film Club: Babylon (15|1980|UK|91 mins), 1.30pm BIS: Cellini's Gold Salt-Cellar, Dr Charles Avery, Oxford & Cambridge Club, 71 Pall Mall, SW1, 7pm CNHSS: Lapis Lazuli, Chris Duffin, ECURC, 7.45pm (to 31) London Month of the Dead SCLS: Steaming On: Train Travel on the UK's Preserved Railways, Paul Whittle, RURC, 7.45pm Streatham S'y: Being Leader of the Opposition on Lambeth Council, Tim Briggs, Woodlawns, 8pm (to 6) Theatre 62: The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, Wickham Theatre Centre, 8pm Tue 2 Age UK: Older People's Day 2018, Scratchley Hall, Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, 11am-4pm Silver Cinema: Patrick (PG|2018|USA|94 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Silver Cinema: Edie (12A|2018|UK|101 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm Handel in London: The Making of a Genius, Professor Jane Glover, Southwark Cathedral, 7pm LCI: London Bridge Redevelopment, Liam Farrell, 55 Broadway, 6pm LWT: Woodland Industry & Deptford Shipyards, Edwin Malins, Festa sul Prato, Deptford, 7.30pm DLC: The Heiresses (12A|2018|Spain|98 mins|subtitled), 7.30pm LMOD: The Future of Death, John Troyer, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm COPSE: Bumblebees, Nikki Gammans, United Church, Aberdeen Road, South Croydon, 8.15pm BBLHS: Bromley Workhouse: Sad Life of Amelia Dolding , Stuart Valentine, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: The John Gent Postcard Collection part 2, John Hickman, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: Oxted History, Jim Farrell, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Café Scientifique: Bats in Our Cities, Jo Ferguson, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm COPSE: Bumblebees, Nikki Gammans, United church hall, Aberdeen Road, 8.15pm Wed 3 TASCd: World War One: Poetry, Art and Music, Denis Moriarty, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Matinée Classics: Paris When It Sizzles (U|1964|110 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Gravitational Waves, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Silent Film Show, Ken Mayes, Pollards Hill, 2pm Gresham: Purposeful Business, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm A Time to Hallow the Heart Celebration, Little Holland House, 40 Beeches Ave, Carshalton, 7.30pm GSitP: Hypnosis: the State of the Science, Dr Devin Terhune, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm Kennington Bioscope: The Lost World (U|1925|USA|63 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm (& 5) Screen 25: Whitney (15|2018|USA|120 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Thu 4 National Poetry Day TASB: Power and Pageantry on the Thames, Peter Warwick, Beckenham Public Hall, 10.30am Silver Cinema: Patrick (PG|2018|USA|94 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm DLC: Apostasy (PG|2017|USA|95 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Gresham:Ethics in the Court Room, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Group 19: National & Courtauld Gallery Collection Links, Marc Woodhead, SAHQ, 7.15pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Caroline Palmer, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH: Investigating Legal Records, Dr Nick Barrett, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm Biggin Hill Society: Every Night Something Awful: The Story of ENSA, Delia Taylor, WI Hall, 8pm Fri 5 Lunchtime Recital: Students from Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm Vintage Film Show, Ken Mayes, Pollards Hill, 7.30pm CAS: Thermonuclear Fusion in Stars, Mark R Smith, RRS, 7.45pm Alternatively Speaking: Ask and It Is Given, Linda Sadler, 8pm (to 13) Streatham Festival Sat 6 RILKO Conference: Star Patterns & Sacred Sites, Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, 10am-7pm Apple Fest, Rickards Hall & Yard, 72a High Street, Edenbridge, TN8 5AR, 10am-2.30pm (& 7) Welcome Italia 2018, Royal Horticultural Halls, 80 Vincent Square, SW1, 10.30am-7pm (5pm Sun) LWT: Great North Wood Geology Walk, CP Park, Crystal Palace station, 11am Dracula Society: Vampires from Folklore to Film, Karl Bell, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Exploding Cinema, Cinema Museum, 7pm Downsview Players: Murder at the Music Hall, Downsview Methodist Church Hall, 7.30pm Sun 7 Autumn Fayre, Our Lady of The Annunciation church hall, Bingham Road, from 11am Historic Croydon Airport Trust: Open Day, 11am-4pm Shirley Windmill: Open Day, Postmill Close, Croydon, 12-5pm Kennington Talkies: Another Thin Man (15|1939|USA|102 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Harvest Songs of Praise, St Mary's Church, Farleigh, 3pm Stanley Halls: The Ayoub Sisters, 6pm Leave Em Laughing: Katia Kvinge, Rich'd Todd, Kishore Nayar, Will Andrews, Stanley Hall, 7.30pm Mon 8 ESFH: Burial Clubs: the Unfriendly Societies, Audrey Collins, Southwark Local History Library, noon Dulwich Library Film Club: The Hurricane (15|1999|USA|140 mins), 1.30pm RSPB: Hungary, A Jewel of Europe, Mary Braddock, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Rd, 2pm Phoenix Retirement Ass'n: Notable Women of Norwood & the Odd Bloke, John Hickman, 2.30pm Gresham: No Listening, No Music, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Croydon Council meeting, including discussion of new refuse collection system, Town Hall, 6.30pm RCTS: A Swiss Miscellany, Geoffrey Gould, ECURC, 7.30pm TLRS: Model evening: the Gerald Warner legacy kits, Adrian Batt, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm RSPB: Encounters with Venomous Snakes, Rolf Williams, Whitgift Sports C, Croham M'r Rd, 8pm Tue 9 DLC: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (15|2018|UK/USA|114 min|Babes In Arms), 11am Gresham: Maths Behind Chaos Theory, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Brexit: Sovereignty and Rights, Geoffrey Nice, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: Separating Sense from Nonsense When Our Health Is on the Line, Jonathan Jarry, 6.10pm DLC: The Rider (15|2017|USA|103 mins), 7.30pm Tooting History Group: Cinemas of Tooting, Balham and Streatham, Richard Gray, TURC, 7.30pm Purley Literary Society: Rubens: a Master in the Making, Dr Lois Oliver, PURC, 8pm SMLS: My Life as a Royal Protection Officer, Richard Griffin, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm NSLTC: John Gent Postcards, John Hickman & Carole Roberts, ECURC, 8pm Wed 10 Matinée Classics: Mother Wore Tights (U|1948|107 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Epidemics and Pandemics, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Talking of Trains: Surrey Iron Railway to Croydon Tramlink, Ray Puddy, Surbiton, 7pm Campaign fundraiser: Swimming with Men (12A|2018|UK|97 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Newcomen Society: Henry Ford visits Britain 1928, David Perrett, Farringdon, 7.45pm Screen 25: The Breadwinner (12|2017|Canada|91 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm SLS: My Life as Royalty Protection Officer to The Queen & Duke of E, Richard Griffin, SURC, 8pm IWA: Brewing along the Wandle, Alison Cousins, ECURC, 8pm Thu 11 TASC: 250 Years of the Royal Academy of Arts, Pamela Campbell-Johnson, ASCH, 10.45am DLC: Blackkklansman (15|2018|USA|135 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm FILMBOX: Phantom Thread (15|2017|UK|127 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (12A|2018|UK|121 mins|subtitles), 7.45pm BBHA: Presidential First Hundred Days from FDR to Trump, Anthony Badger, Christ Ch Hall, 8pm Fri 12 Lunchtime Recital: Daniel Maschetti piano and Flora Fontahelu violin, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm (to 14) Lewes Folk Festival MHRPS: History of the French Railways, Michael Bunn, West Croydon Baptist Church, 7.30pm Screen 25: Love, Simon (12A|2018|USA|110 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Ceilidh at The Halls: Jigfoot with Ian Nicholls, Stanley Halls, 8pm Sat 13 Churchill Theatre: Hooray for Hollywood, Bromley, 2pm MHS: Update on the Merton Priory Chapter House, John Hawkes, St James’ Hall, Merton, ’2.30pm DLC: A Passage to India (PG|1984|UK/India|David Lean|157 mins|Q&A with James Fox), 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Blinking Buzzards: Request Session, Buster Keaton Society, Cinema Museum, 4pm Sun 14 Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, 12.50pm Live & Let Die (PG|1973|UK|121m)/The Wild Geese (15|1978|UK|129m), Cinema Mus'm, 1.30pm Kennington Classics: Brooklyn (12|USA|2015|109 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 15 Dulwich Library Film Club: The Athlete (PG|2009|Ethiopia|92 mins), 1.30pm (to 29) Streatham Free Film Festival SCLS: 60th Anniversary of the Surrey Hills AONB, Ken Bare, RURC, 7.45pm Streatham Society: The Great Stink: Joseph Bazelgette's Story, Julie Chandler, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 16 WBLHG: Women’s Suffrage in Merton, Sarah Gould, West Barnes Library, 10.30am BFI London Film Festival: The Quake (15|2018|Norway|106 mins), Vue West End s'n 5, 12.30pm Shirley Library: The Battle of Little Bighorn, Michael Round, 2.15pm Gresham:Wordsworth and Coleridge, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Narrow Margin (PG|1952|USA|71 min), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm DLC: One Note at a Time (PG|2016|USA|95 mins|Q&A with Renée Edwards), 7.30pm (to 20) Churchill Theatre: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bromley, 7.30pm (& Sat 4pm) SMLS: Beetle Drive, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ESFH: Croydon Minster - More about People than the Building, David Morgan, ECURC, 8pm ODHS: Maxwell Knight: MI5’s Greatest Spymaster, Henry Hemming, URC, Blueh'se La, Oxted, 8pm Wed 17 Matinée Classics: The Woman in the Window (PG|1944|99 mins|USA), Regent St C, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Historical Perspectives (RHS), Tom Williamson, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Narrow Margin (PG|1952|USA|71 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm DLC: The Children Act (12A|2017|UK|105 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: A Quiet Place (15|2018|USA|90 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: The Bromley Boys (PG|2018|UK|106