Meetings 2024

All meetings are held in St Lawrence's Community Hall, Hamilton Road, Sidcup, starting at 7.30pm. Please note the change in start time (no longer 7.15pm) from January 2024 onwards.

Parking is free after 6pm in the public car park opposite the church, off Main Road.

For visitors there is a fee of £5.00 which includes a drink and a biscuit.

We are pleased to welcome members, prospective new members and visitors to our monthly meetings.

2024

2 January: Vindication of Christmas: how the banning of Christmas led Crayford folk to take up arms for the King in the Second English Civil War, by Peter Daniel

6 February: Baildon Street: the blackest street in Deptford?, by Dr John Price

5 March: The History of the Metropolitan Police, by Dr Clare Smith

2 April: Erith and the River Thames, by Ken Chamberlain

7 May: Labouring Life on the Land in Lamorbey and Sidcup 1815-1939, by Andrew Walker

4 June: Operation Fortitude: 80th anniversary of D-Day, by Len Howell

2 July: Dirty Dartford, by Christoph Bull

3 September: History of the City of London, by Stuart Robinson

1 October: Samuel Pepys in London, by Laura Probert

5 November: Sidcup College 1891-1916, by Penny Duggan

3 December: Christmas Social