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ORDINARY AND GROUP MEMBERS £18 paASSOCIATE MEMBERS £10 pa ( FOR THOSE

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PROGRAMME 444

OCTOBER 2018 - APRIL 2019

DIRECTORYAll general correspondence should be addressed to the Society at its Registered Office, 96aBrighton Road, South Croydon, CR2 6AD. For enquiries please contact Information as below.

ELECTED OFFICERS

President: John Hickman, 96a Brighton Road,South Croydon, CR2 6AD.

Vice Presidents: Jane McLauchlin, Ian Payne,Ronald Brooker, Celia Bailey.

Editor: Brian Lancaster, 68 Woodcote GroveRoad, Coulsdon, CR5 2AD. (020 3561 4549).publications@cnhss.co.uk

General Secretary: Tony Skrzypczyk, 96aBrighton Road, South Croydon, CR2 6AD. (0208406 4676)

Librarian: Paul Sowan, 96A Brighton Road,South Croydon, CR2 6AD.

Museum Curator: Chris Taylor, 14 The Chase,Coulsdon, CR5 2EG. (020 8668 9570).

Treasurer: Brenda Hawkins, 96A Brighton Road,South Croydon, CR2 6AD.

ORDINARY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL

John Greig, Brenda Hawkins, Mark Tyson, CaroleRoberts, Ken Woodhams.

SECTION SECRETARIES & OTHERAPPOINTED POSITIONS

Archaeology (Excavations): Jim Davison, (020 8680 7926)

Bulletin: bulletin@cnhss.co.uk

Company Secretary: Ian Payne, 96A BrightonRoad, South Croydon, CR2 6AD. (01737554449), co-secretary@cnhss.co.uk

Conservation Officer: Jane McLauchlin, seeMembership.

Curators of the John Gent Collection: JohnHickman & Carole Roberts. 96a BrightonRoad, South Croydon, CR2 6AD.

Entomology: Graham Collins (020 8688 4539).

Information: Email information@cnhss.co.uk ortelephone 020 8406 4676.

Membership & Subscriptions: JaneMcLauchlin, 96a Brighton Road, SouthCroydon, CR2 6AD.

Meteorology: Ian Currie, 96a Brighton Road,South Croydon, CR2 6AD.

Ornithology: Mavis Barber (01689 843297) and Phil & Marion Hodgson (020 8660 5571).

Programme Team: Brian Lancaster(Coordinator), Carole Roberts & Tony Skrzypczyk, 68 Woodcote Grove Road, Coulsdon, CR5 2AD.(020 3561 4549).programme@cnhss.co.uk

Sales Officer: Brian Lancaster, see Editor.

Web Manager: Mark Tyson, 96a BrightonRoad, South Croydon, CR2 6AD.webmaster@cnhss.co.uk.

The Elected Officers are Members of Council and they, with the Ordinary Members of Council, are all Directors of the Limited Company.

General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR): The Society’s Data Privacy Policy concerning holding and use of personal data isgiven in the Society’s Bulletin Issue 162 September 2018 and on our website www.cnhss.co.uk

Printed by Cherrill Print, 297 Brighton Road, South Croydon CR2 6EQ (020 8681 7826)

CROYDON NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY LIMITEDFounded in 1870 as the Croydon Microscopical Club

Headquarters and Registered Office: 96A Brighton Road, South Croydon, CR2 6AD.Website: www.cnhss.co.uk

The Society’s emblem is based on a bronze openwork disc found in 1893 in a Saxoncemetery in Edridge Road Croydon. It is a rare example of a fifth- or sixth- centurygirdle ornament or amulet and can be seen at the Riesco Gallery of the Museum ofCroydon.

The Society is a company limited by guarantee, without share capital, and registered in London No.922278, is registered charity No. 260739, and is recognised by the Croydon Education Authority as aneducational body.

SOCIETY OBJECTIVES

For the public benefit, to encourage the study of the sciences, especially the natural and local history andarchaeology of the Croydon area, by organising lectures, members’ talks, discussions, exhibitions, fieldmeetings and surveys, by issuing publications, and by maintaining a library and a museum.

The Society is concerned with original investigation, conservation, recording, curation, education, andincidental recreation.

MEETINGS

Unless otherwise stated, indoor meetings are held in the Small Hall of the East Croydon United ReformedChurch, Addiscombe Grove, almost opposite East Croydon Station, at 19:45.

MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

The Society’s own museum and library may be visited by arrangement with the curator and librarianrespectively (see DIRECTORY). Volunteers willing to help with cataloguing the geological andarchaeological collection are welcome. Members may borrow books from the library.

ORNITHOLOGY GROUP

The group is an informal part of the society and does not have a section secretary but remains active,meeting at least twice a month at various birding sites near and far, for example, at South Norwood CountryPark, Beddington Park, the Oare marshes in Kent and Pagham harbour in Sussex. For details contactOrnithology. It is necessary to inform the leader of each excursion in advance that you are going. Theplace of meeting is always the venue. There are no indoor meetings apart from when the programme ofoutings is planned.

ENTOMOLOGY SECTION

Graham Collins is the Section Secretary and he and Jovita Kaunang organise and hold meetings at the EastCroydon United Reformed Church in one of the smaller rooms. The meetings are informal and usuallyinvolve one or more short presentations, sometimes with video, as well as exhibits, such as photographsor specimens, books and equipment. Refreshments are served.

PUBLICATIONSIllustrated local history books and recent Proceedings

CROYDON BETWEEN THE WARS (2nd ed. 1993)...............................................................£4.75CROYDON IN THE 1940s AND 1950s (2nd ed. 2000) ...........................................................£6.75CROYDON OLD AND NEW, enlarged (1995) ........................................................................£6.75CROYDON FROM ABOVE (1999) .........................................................................................£6.75CROYDON’S TRANSPORT – through the ages (2001) ..........................................................£8.75A VIEW OF CROYDON: Postcards from the past (2011) .....................................................£10.9518(8) ANCIENT WOODS IN CROYDON (Jane McLauchlin), THE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OFA FAMILY IN COULSDON (Brian Lancaster) & ST GILES OPEN-AIR SCHOOL, CROYDON

(Grace M Rose, 2004) .................................................................................................£2.95

18(9) THE ARCHBISHOPS’ TOWN, THE MAKING OF MEDIEVAL CROYDON(Oliver Harris, 2005) ...................................................................................................£2.95

19(1) VICTORIAN THORNTON HEATH – THE STORY OF A VARIED LIFE(The autobiography of Joseph J Elliot, edited by Brian Lancaster, 2008) ..................£3.50

19(2) A FERTILE MIND, CUTHBERT WILLIAM JOHNSON: CROYDON’S VICTORIANAGRICULTURAL WRITER & PUBLIC HEALTH REFORMER

(Brian Lancaster, 2009) ...............................................................................................£3.50

19(3) GARDENERS AND GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH, THE LIVES OF THE REV.WILLIAM WILKS – OF SHIRLEY POPPY FAME, MARY SIBTHORP, ADDISCOMBE’SPIONEER ECOLOGIST (AND CAMPAIGNER FOR REFUGEES FROM NAZI TERROR), ANDGEORGE CLINCH, LOCAL ANTIQUARIAN

(Brian Lancaster et al 2010) ........................................................................................£3.50

19(4) GLOW WORMS, FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND SURVEYS 1993-2008.(Malcolm Jennings and Victor Wallace 2012) ............................................................£3.50

19(5) OF BRICKS AND MEN, RECOLLECTIONS OF HANDLEY’S WOODSIDEBRICKWORKS, CROYDON, AND OF LOCAL HISTORIAN JOHN GENT

(Edward Handley on his father’s brickworks and Paul Sowan on John Gent and on brick-making and brickfields in Croydon, 2012)..................................................................£3.50

19(6) THE DAWNING OF A NEW AGE; CROYDON AND THE ADVENT OF ITSELECTRICITY SUPPLY 1881 – 1898

(Ron Brooker 2013).....................................................................................................£4.50

19(7) THE HAPPIEST DAYS....?: LIFE AS SEEN THROUGH CROYDON SCHOOL LOG BOOKS’(Ron Cox 2014) ...........................................................................................................£4.50

19(8) WINDOWS ONTO THE POOR LAW: COMPARING THE CROYDON ANDGODSTONE POOR LAW UNIONS 1835 TO 1866

(Brian Lancaster 2015)................................................................................................£6.95

19(9) CONSUMED BY FIRE: THE DESTRUCTION OF CROYDON PARISH CHURCH IN1867 AND ITS REBUILD’.

(Brian Lancaster 2016)................................................................................................£4.50

20(1) STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: CROYDON’S SLAVE OWNERS AND HISTORIANS.(Ron Cox’s final talk to the Society, Sean Creighton on Croydon’s connections withslavery and Brian Lancaster on John Corbet Anderson, 2017) ...................................£5.00

The above books, and these and other Proceedings (details on request), can be obtained from theSociety. For postage and packing please add £1.50.

OCTOBER

1 Monday – TALK – “Lapis Lazuli”. A talk in which Chris Duffin will examine thegeological occurrence of lapis lazuli, its mineralogy and importance as a popular but expensive and high-status stone in Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Incan andWestern European decorative art, including its utilization as the basis of the artists’pigment ultramarine.

17 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

21 Sunday – ECOLOGY WALK – “Autumn in Bramley Bank and Littleheath Woods”.Meet at 10:00 in the Heathfield Car Park in Riesco Drive, TQ352638. Led by JaneMcLauchlin and Malcolm Jennings.

29 Monday – TALK – “Death on the Brighton Road: Execution Sites in South London”.Jon Newman, Archives Manager at Lambeth Archives, uses the nine mile journeyalong the old coach road between Kennington and South Croydon as a way of framingthe history of capital punishment in 18th and 19th century South London: from the gallows of Kennington and Thornton Heath to the gibbets of Brixton Hilland Smitham Bottom.

NOVEMBER

14 Wednesday – TALK – “Addington”, by Lindsey Ould, Borough Archivist forCroydon and Honorary Archivist of St. Mary the Blessed Virgin Addington. Addingtonis an ancient parish about four miles from Croydon with a Grade 1 listed church datingfrom c.1080. It became part of the County Borough of Croydon in 1928 but retainedits unique village atmosphere well beyond this time. This talk will provide an overviewof the development of Addington and an insight into some of its residents and buildingsof interest.

21 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

24 Saturday – Focus – our annual Focus Meeting which will this year concentrate onWomen’s Rights to Vote and Learn. As usual tea will be provided, and there will be a chance to pay subscriptions for 2019. At the David Sweet Hall ECURC startingat 14.30.

26 Monday – TALK – “Source and Serendipity: 50 years of Family History”, by Brenda Hawkins. Getting the best of both worlds: exploring the family historyrevolution and how old techniques may resolve modern problems. With a few happyaccidents thrown in.

25 Monday – TALK – “Living on the Edge of the Green Belt”, by John Grindrod. Thestory of the Green Belt told through social history and one family's experience livingon the edge of Croydon. John Grindrod is the author of Outskirts: Living Life on theEdge of the Green Belt, which has been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, andConcretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain. He grew up inNew Addington.

MARCH4 Monday – TALK – “A Varied Nursing Career”. Yvette McKinnel returns to give a talk

about her nursing career beginning from the start of the National Health Service andincluding nursing in the Royal Navy in Malta, in Netley Military Hospital and inQueen Alexandra's Hospital Royal Navy Nursing Service.

10 Sunday – WALK – “In the footsteps of Frank Lloyd and W.H. Mills”, led by PaulSowan. A short walk at Coombe. Meet at Lloyd Park tram stop at 14:00.

20 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

25 Monday – TALK – "Conan Doyle - the South Norwood Years", by BernardWinchester. Doyle lived in Tennison Road, South Norwood, from 1891 to 1894. Thistalk looks, with some humour, at his life and works during this period in the contextof his surroundings.

APRIL7 Sunday – ECOLOGY WALK – “Spring Flowers in Happy Valley and Devilsden

Wood, Coulsdon”. Meet at 14:00 in the public car park beyond the Fox, off CoulsdonRoad, TQ 318569. Led by Jane McLauchlin and Malcolm Jennings.

10 Wednesday – TALK – “The Grand Theatre and its place in Croydon”. This talk byCarole Roberts will look at the Grand Theatre sixty years after it closed: itsperformances and in the context of the other contemporary theatres of Croydon, twoof which, the Davis and the Empire, also closed in the same year.

17 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

20 Saturday – VISIT – “Keats House”. Meet by the Oxfam bookshop oppositeHampstead Tube station (Northern Line) at 2pm. We expect to meet Rob Shakespeare,its Principal Curator, for the first time since he left the Museum of Croydon.

25 Thursday – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – Followed, after refreshments, bythe Presidential Address given by John Hickman. David Sweet Hall, ECURC, 19:45.

29 Monday – TALK – “Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather”, by Tessa Boase, author of thebook of the same name. Twelve years before the suffragette movement begandominating headlines, a very different women’s campaign caught the publicimagination: to save birds from the cruel fashion for feathered hats. Leading the fightwas one remarkable Croydon woman: Eliza Phillips – elderly, widowed, articulateand indomitable. Tessa Boase tells the forgotten story of the early RSPB, and how ahandful of brave women fought against the plumage trade.

DECEMBER

3 Monday – CNHSS CHRISTMAS TALK – “In my Grandmother’s Footsteps”, byEleanor Redshaw. I am named after my Grandmother, Eleanor Higginson, who wasborn in the East End of London and I knew her well. She protested in London, wasarrested, went to Holloway Prison, did the Hunger Strike, was forcibly fed and was letout under ‘The Cat & Mouse Act’. Like her, I have been on marches and give talksabout the Suffragette Campaign.

19 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

27 Thursday – WALK – “The last walk of the year – Central Croydon history”, led byPaul Sowan. Meet at the Clocktower steps Katharine Street at 14:00.

2019

We wish our members a very Happy New Year. SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE NOW DUE - if not already paid we look forward toreceiving these as soon as possible please via the Membership Secretary as above.

JANUARY

9 Wednesday – TALK “The Regent’s Canal”, by Roger Squires. The Regent’s Canalwas built between 1811 and 1820. It connected the Grand Junction Canal’s PaddingtonArm, opened in 1801, to the Thames at Limehouse, where a new interchange dockalso was built. The presentation reviews the history of the canal and then takes theaudience on a journey along its length.

16 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

28 Monday – TALK – “The Other Byron Girl”. Brian Lancaster uses, among others, theletters that Eva Byron, Edmund's youngest daughter, wrote to her brother Eric in thefirst decade of the nineteenth century to illustrate the frustrations of a young womanwho envied the freedom of her three brothers.

FEBRUARY4 Monday – TALK – “The Blue-green Revolution: Why our Future Depends on our

Knowledge of Plants”. This talk by Dr. Tim Ridgway will be a discussion of mankind'shistorical and future dependence on plants, including the potential application of newtechnologies.

20 Wednesday – ENTOMOLOGY MEMBERS’ EVENING. Beginners Room,ECURC.

24 Sunday – ECOLOGY WALK – “Winter Trees in Kings Wood, Sanderstead, andwoodland management according to “A practicall treatise on Planting andManagement of Woods and Coppices” by S.H. Esq., Dublin 1794”. Meet at 10:00 atthe end of Kingswood Lane, Sanderstead, TQ354597. Led by Jane McLauchlin andMalcolm Jennings.