Talk by Rachel Macdonald. An Edmonton Hundred Historical Society meeting. Doors open 7.30pm. Visitors welcome, £1 each.
Our AGM was originally planned for June but moved to this date due to coronavirus. We hope our speaker, Nick Dines, will still be available to address the meeting.
Our AGM will be over Zoom. Meeting details will be included with the Autumn newsletter which should be with members during w/c 17th August. We will also send the details out in the September monthly e-mail news.
Our speaker this year will be Nick Dines, Managing Director Concilio, who will be talking about the redevelopment of Edmonton Green Shopping Centre.
Talk by Carol Harris. Today, few people know the name of Humphrey Jennings, but anyone who ever watched a documentary about Britain in WW2 will have seen the Spitfire roaring over the cornfield, and the young woman singing as she works in a war factory. These and other classic Jennings images mould ideas and memories of that time. In this talk, Carol Harris will look at Jennings’ life and legacy, with extracts from his films, and his own writings as well as the memories of those he worked with.
Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly e-mail news updates.
Talk by Adam Corsini. Layers of London is an interactive map resource based at the University of London. The project has worked with partners including The National Archives, The British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and Historic England to gather together London’s most iconic maps and geo-reference them, enabling individuals to discover how areas have changed throughout history.
Additionally, the site encourages individuals to contribute their own content including local history, personal memories, and interesting facts to enrich the site with people’s own accounts and recollections of how areas have changed. In his talk Adam will present the site and demonstrate how it can be used and how people can get involved. The project can be accessed from layersoflondon.org.uk
Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.
Awaiting details.
Talk by Richard Thomas. Follow the building of this 400 year old 40 mile long wandering man-made waterway from Chadwell Spring in Hertfordshire to the Round Pond in Islington. It was created to supply Jacobean London with fresh drinking water when many of the population were having to consume untreated River Thames water.
Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.
Talk by Roger Squires. An Edmonton Hundred Historical Society meeting. Doors open 2pm. Visitors welcome, £1 each.
Talk by Nick Dobson. The Sixties saw London cast off the gloom of the post-war years and transform into the bright, swinging centre of style and culture. This illustrated timeline will provide a reminder of that groovy, swinging decade!
Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.
Talk by Nick Dobson. The Sixties saw London cast off the gloom of the post-war years and transform into the bright, swinging centre of style and culture. This illustrated timeline will provide a reminder of that groovy, swinging decade!
Talk by Mike Brown. An Edmonton Hundred Historical Society meeting. Doors open 7.30pm. Visitors welcome, £1 each.