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CONTENTS

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Notices 2

Reviews 4

Books and Publications 10

Conferences and Courses 11

Lectures and Events 12

Exhibitions 14

Affiliated Society Meetings 14

NOTICES

Newsletter: Copy Dates

The copy deadline for the following issue of the Newsletter is 28 March

2014 (for the May 2014 issue). Please send any items for inclusion to

Laura Schaaf, 15 B Alexander Road, London N19 3PF or you can email

me at lauras47@hotmail.co.uk.

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LAMAS Lecture Programme

Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place in the Clore Learning Centre

at the Museum of London on Tuesday evenings at 6.30pm –

refreshmentsfrom 6pm. Meetings are open to all; members may bring

guests, and non-members are welcome. Please note: non-members are

asked to donate £2 towards lecture expenses.

14 January 2014

The Cheapside Hoard, Hazel Forsyth, Senior Curator, Museum of

London

11 February 2014

AGM & Presidential Address: Anglo-Saxon and Norman Royal

Palaces: the evidence of London, Westminster and Winchester, Prof

Martin Biddle, Emeritus Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford (6.15pm,

refreshments from 5.30pm)

11 March 2014

The More: Rickmansworth’s Royal Palace, Dr Heather Falvey,

Lecturer in Local History, Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge

8 April 2014

From Coal Sacks to Treasures: Roman Small Finds from

Excavations in the Walbrook Valley, Michael Marshall, Senior

Specialist, Museum of London Archaeology

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13 May 2014

686 Roman Hairpins from London, Glynn Davis, Archaeology

Collections Manager (Volunteers), London Archaeological Archive and

Research Centre, Museum of London

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LAMAS 158th

Annual General Meeting & Presidential Address

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Notice is hereby given of the LAMAS 158th

Annual General Meeting and

Presidential Address to be held on Tuesday 11 February at 6.15pm in the

Clore Learning Centre at Museum of London, London Wall. Light

refreshments will be available from 5.30pm. The AGM will be followed

by the Presidential Address by Professor Martin Biddle, entitled Anglo-

Saxon and Norman Royal Palaces: the Evidence of London,

Westminster and Winchester. Minutes of the Special General Meeting

and 157th

AGM, held on 12 February 2013, will be available.

The 158th

AGM Agenda is as follows:

1. Apologies for absence

2. Minutes of the Special General Meeting held on 12 February 2013

3. Minutes of the 157th

AGM, 2013

4. Annual Report and Accounts

5. Election of Officers and Members of Council

6. Appointment of Examiner(s)

7. Election of President

8. Any other business

Council would welcome nominations of anyone interested in becoming a

member of Council. These should be addressed to the Chair at the

address given on the back page of the Newsletter, or by email to the

Secretary (kthomas@mola.org.uk) to arrive no later than Tuesday 14

January 2014.

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LAMAS Local History Publication Awards 2013

It is ten years since LAMAS introduced the annual prizes for historical

publications by affiliated societies. The intention was that the annual

prize would act as a stimulus to the production of new research and

written histories London and Middlesex. Since 2011 the publications

have been divided between individual free standing books and societies’

journals, with separate prizes of £100 being awarded for each. A huge

volume of work has been produced and lodged in the LAMAS library

over the years and in the last three years seventeen of the affiliated

societies have submitted between them fifty-six publications.

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This year eight societies submitted seventeen separate publications. The

prize in the books section went to the first ever submission by the Friern

Barnet & District Local History Society for The Friern Hospital: The

History of a Victorian Lunatic Asylum, by David Berguer. In the journal

section the prize went to Hornsey Historical Society, a regular contributor

and a previous winner, for their annual Hornsey Historical Society

Bulletin 53, edited by Albert Pinching. The prizes were announced and

presented, as usual, at the Local History Conference in November (for the

full conference report see p. 8).

John Hinshelwood

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Transactions Volume 63

Did you receive your copy of Transactions (63)? If not, it may be because

you have underpaid your subscription over the last two years through not

updating your standing order from the old rate. If you think this applies to

you, please contact the Membership Secretary: 22 Malpas Drive, Pinner

Middx HA5 1DQ (020 8866 1677) or pat.a.clarke@btinternet.com

REVIEWS

LAMAS London Heritage Conference: 28 September 2013

This was the first such conference to be organised by the LAMAS

Historic Buildings & Conservation Committee - which acts as the London

agent of the CBA (in its role as a National Amenity Society dealing with

Listed Building Consent applications) and considers over 700 cases

annually from all over London. Jon Finney, the Committee Chairman,

took the chair. The morning sessions were arranged chronologically

Harvey Sheldon spoke first on the Roman Londinium Wall. Charles

Roach Smith saved a part found in 19th

century from demolition by the

City. More has been found since including the riverside wall – with a

good dendrochronological end date from its wooden piles, of 275AD. The

landward wall is poorly dated, and Harvey thinks the whole wall was a

single project. The design is consistent, Kentish rag footings (over piles

where needed), Cotswold sandstone edging to a plinth, then ragstone

walling with tile layers at intervals. It was capped with a limestone

wallwalk and external parapet. From a European viewpoint London was

an important centre for organising food supplies to north Germania, under

considerable threat in 3rd

century. The bastions came later, eastern ones

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by the Romans, the western ones probably medieval; northern bastions

are lacking.

Dr Justine Bayley spoke next on Two Middlesex Barns, at Ruislip and

Harmondsworth. Both had Saxon forebears but were handed on by the

Normans to French abbeys who controlled them to the end of 14th

century; Ruislip barn being rebuilt c.1300. King’s College, Cambridge

acquired the Manor in the mid-15th

century, only selling the farm and

barn in 1931 to the Council (now in Hillingdon). The barn is Grade II*

Listed and has recently been restored and adapted as a meeting hall.

Harmondsworth Manor became an endowment for Winchester College,

which rebuilt the barn in 1426-7. It stored wheat, barley and oats, and has

three threshing floors. It is the largest timber-framed building in England

(Grade I Listed). It was, and is, threatened by Heathrow expansion; after

the first threat EH restored it. They now own it; but the Friends of

Harmondsworth Barn, of whom Justine is secretary, run it.

The Fields of St Mary Spital, between Bishopsgate and Brick Lane were

developed for housing from the late-17th

century. Alec Forshaw said that

Fournier Street first became a Huguenot centre for silk weaving (beyond

the reach of City Guilds). At its west end Hawksmoor built Christ Church

- No.2 was the Rectory. No.4, of five bays, was grander than the terraces

beyond which are three storey, three bay Georgian houses with basements

and attics. Silk weaving did not survive mechanisation, and poverty set

in. A Jewish community took over, flourished and moved on to be

followed by a Bengali community. Then development threatened, some

buildings were lost, but, having many original features, refurbishment

won and brought gentrification. The immediate area is protected, but the

setting is encroached on all sides by big developments.

Kirsten Walker spoke about the Horniman Conservatory. John

Horniman (1803-1893) founded, and prospered in, the eponymous tea

business. On retirement he built himself Coombe Cliff Lodge at Croydon,

with a conservatory as large again. Messrs MacFarlane of Glasgow, a

foremost cast iron manufacturer, provided the material. John’s son,

Frederick, built the Museum, vesting it with the LCC, and it opened in

1901. Frederick then sold Coombe Cliffe. The conservatory was Listed

Grade II in 1972, the GLC pressing for its retention. After a fire in the

house the conservatory was dismantled in 1979, and stored. Agreement

was reached to re-erect it at the Horniman Museum. Some parts had to be

recast, and an entire wall made where the conservatory had butted onto

Coombe Cliff. It opened in 1989 and is seen by 750,000 visitors a year.

John Allan spoke on the Grade I Listed Finsbury Health Centre. Ten

years before the NHS, Finsbury established a municipal Health Centre.

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The architect was Lubetkin (1901-1990) who had trained in revolutionary

Russia. He came to London in 1931, and set up the Tecton architectural

practice. A demonstration project for a chest (TB) clinic led on to the

Finsbury Health Centre, which opened in 1938. A welcoming central

foyer had medical wings on either side and a lecture theatre upstairs. It

was seen as a beacon of hope in a deprived area. After the war it lacked

maintenance and the NHS proposed demolition. However restoration was

agreed in 1988, with John Allan soon doing the most urgent work. With

the launch of the Finsbury Health Centre Preservation Trust in 2012, he

can do more to recreate the original appearance.

In the afternoon Jon Finney introduced three significant large area sites,

each with modern developments which threaten their heritage.

Dr Mike Heyworth, Director of the CBA, spoke about Convoys Wharf,

which is to be redeveloped for housing. This, the CBA had no quarrel

with, but the site had been the Deptford Dockyard (1513-1869) with John

Evelyn’s house, Sayes Court, beside it. The CBA wrote a strong

argument for sympathetic redevelopment (British Archaeology, May June

2012, p65). It mentions highlights such as shipbuilding for the Armada

and the knighting of Frances Drake on the Golden Hind. Dominant on

site are the Grade II Listed Victorian slipway covers, but other remains

could be displayed to indicate the Dockyard’s extent. Lewisham have

received three proposals: two highly unsympathetic; and now a slightly

better one by Terry Farrell. Final plans should not be considered until

archaeological results are issued in 2014. The proximity and mutual

importance of the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage Site and the

Dockyard were stressed.

St Paul’s, Covent Garden, built a poor house in 1775-6 in a field by the

western boundary of the St Pancras parish. It is now known as the

Cleveland Street Workhouse. It has seen the Middlesex Hospital come,

been its Annexe, and seen it go. Only the Chapel and one Hospital façade

remain. Dr Ruth Richardson, a historian, told us how she helped save

the Annexe building, as a surviving workhouse and as a piece of

Dickensian heritage. Dickens lived nearby in 1828-31, knew it when still

a workhouse, and in her view makes several (disguised) references to it in

Oliver Twist. The Workhouse is now Grade II Listed, but related

buildings around it are not, and a fight to retain them continues. Ruth

Richardson covers more in her book: Dickens & the Workhouse, (Oxford

University Press, 408pp, ISBN 9780199645886 at £16.99).

Jon Finney referred to the Stanley Buildings and the major developments

around St Pancras Station. He then introduced David Jackson, Senior

Architect at John McAslan & Partners to give the final talk about King’s

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Cross Station. The station was built in 1852, St Pancras following in

1868. With growing passenger numbers a concourse spread out in front in

the 1970s. This has been replaced by a larger semi-circular concourse (for

50 million passengers a year) between the station and the Midland Hotel,

its spectacular roof following the curve of the hotel, but also blending

well with the original station. A new pedestrian bridge, with lifts,

connects directly to the platforms; but the much loved old bridge has

gone (to the Bluebell line). Otherwise the Grade I Listed station, with

some Victorian architecture as good as at St Pancras, has been splendidly

refurbished - its walls paramount, and its principal façade revealed.

Richard Buchanan, LAMAS Historic Buildings and Conservation

Committee (a full report of the conference will be published in a

forthcoming Transactions)

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LAMAS 48th

Local History Conference: 16 November 2013

The River and Port of London

The conference began with Gustav Milne, Director of the Thames

Discovery Programme, giving an overview of 1900 years of London’s

early river-related history: A Changing Port in a Changing World:

London’s Harbours from the 1st to the 18

th Century. Change was very

much the theme of his talk, underlining that London’s ports and harbours

at different periods shared little in common beyond the river Thames.

Whereas the Romans traded from man-made quays in what is now the

City, the Saxons ‘stranded’ their ships on the shore, near what is still

known as ‘The Strand’. This was a masterly overview, taking the

audience through the return to the City, and the expansion of trade in the

medieval and Tudor periods leading to London’s growth as a mercantile

port, complete with customs houses and monopolistic trading companies.

The talk was informed by the extensive archaeological investigations that

took place around Upper and Lower Thames Street in the 1980s and

1990s, all of which yielded rich new evidence about the way London

organised and handled its sea-borne trade in the past. This was a

stimulating and authoritative start to the day.

The next talk by Chris Ellmers, Reinvention and Change: the Port of

London from 1790 – 1938, looked at the later history of the Port of

London. Chris Ellmers is the founding director of Museum of London

Docklands and we were able to partake of his great knowledge about a

more complex topic than hitherto assumed. Docks were not constructed

necessarily for the greater good but for individual companies like the

West India and East India docks, both granted monopolies for 21 years in

1806. This led to the displacement of workers who then had to be

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compensated by public funds and fresh docks built. A pamphlet war

against monopolised docks ensued. Legal quays suffered the loss of trade.

The profits built on slave trade working the plantations tend to be

airbrushed out of history but after the emancipation of slaves and the

demand for free trade the monopolies were not renewed. New docks

such as the Royal Albert and Royal Victoria were constructed in place of

the monopoly docks and new warehouses replaced the former quayside

buildings. In 1909 the Port of London was created with authority to

acquire conservator and licensing powers and improve the docks such as

Tilbury and this was the state of play up till 1938.

John Hinshelwood introduced the LAMAS Local History Publication

Awards 2013 (see pg. 3) and the awards were presented by Eileen Bowlt.

The book prize was awarded to The Friern Barnet and District Local

History Society for The Friern Hospital: The History of a Victorian

Lunatic Asylum by David Berguer and the journal prize went to Hornsey

Historical Society for their annual Hornsey Historical Society Bulletin.

The first talk after lunch was Local History and the Environmental

History of the Thames 1960-2010 by Vanessa Taylor, Research Fellow

at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, who outlined the interaction of

organisations and stakeholders upon the Thames environment. The

matters to be dealt with are many; water supply, drainage, flooding,

pollution, sewage, navigation, recreation, eco-systems, and more. By way

of illustration, our speaker instanced the effect of summer heat, which can

produce a temperature of 21 degrees at the water’s edge; the discharge of

too much sewage at the LCC Modgen Works in 1963; a disastrous

leakage of awful effluent at Purfleet in 1969; proposals for an airport in

the estuary. Since the river cuts across, at the same time as it connects,

over twenty-four local authorities, the question of which authority or

interested party should make a particular decision gives much scope for

further problems. Efforts to construct a regional board of management, be

it Thames Conservancy, Thames Water Authority, National Rivers

Authority or other, always face the charge of threatening local

democracy. Protection and conservation societies press for their concerns

to be taken into account, societies like those for the Rivers Darenth and

Kennet, wildlife defenders, residents’ associations, dockland and

development groups. It is a constant balancing act to take all these aspects

into consideration. A new website to keep the general public informed is

coming.

The second speaker after lunch was Robert Jefferies, curator, Thames

Police Museum. His talk was entitled ‘Primus Omnium’: the world’s

first modern police force. In the 1700s the Upper Pool of London was

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extremely busy with at least 1,000 ships docked at the legal quays at any

one time. The ships were unloaded by men known as ‘lumpers‘ and a

great deal of theft took place during unloading. It was estimated that a

half a million pounds worth of cargo was stolen every year. Patrick

Colquhoun, a magistrate in Westminster wrote about this in his treatise on

policing the Metropolis and Captain John Harriott, master mariner,

magistrate and Justice of the Peace suggested a plan for tackling the

thefts. A meeting took place between the two men and Colquhoun gave

Harriott’s plan a structure and hierarchy, turning it into a police force.

The West India Quay merchants and plantation owners funded the

salaries of the police constables. The police force began on 2 July 1798 in

Wapping and at first only dealt with West India Quay. The watermen

police constables supervised the ‘lumpers‘ and were in turn themselves

supervised by ‘surveyors‘. The new police force was highly successful

and the service was extended from Blackfriars to Deptford. In 1878 the

original police headquarters needed extending and an old navy hulk

became the first ‘police station‘.

Dr Mark Jenner of the University of York entertained the audience with

an amusing talk on a serious subject - The Thames as a Provider of

Drinking Water c.1500-c.1830. Access to the river was obstructed in the

urban area by buildings and where readily accessible, involved much

labour in lifting and carrying, until Peter Morris’ water wheels were

placed under the northern arches of London Bridge in 1582, and had

sufficient power to pump water over St Magnus church. The populace

preferred to drink beer, some women actually claiming cruelty against

husbands who forced them to imbibe water. Subsequently waterworks

companies from Shadwell to Chelsea supplied water for domestic use.

Boulton & Watts engines increased efficiency in the late 18th

century and

23,419 London houses were receiving piped river water by 1804. Was the

water potable? Although privies and sewers discharged into the Thames

the water in the centre of the river was thought to be purified by the sun’s

glow and the agitation of the stream. The invention of water closets and

building of gas works added to the pollution and salmon numbers crashed

in the 1820s, but Thames water was comparable in quality to rainwater

collected in water butts that was always jet black owing to the dirt and

soot on the roofs.

The day ended with a talk by Mireille Galinou, formerly Curator of Art

at the Museum of London, who spoke about The Thames Beautiful – the

artist’s perspective. This fascinating talk began by outlining some of the

difficulties early artists faced in depicting London with its river. The

standard view point for early panoramas was the tower of St Mary

Overie, now Southwark Cathedral, but a lot of artistic licence was

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required if the view was to accommodate both Westminster and the

eastern side of the City. This produced an imagery bend in the river,

which appeared in many prints and paintings despite not existing, artists

merely reproducing previous views. This was another masterly overview

which also included the day’s most beautiful images: from Canaletto’s

stunning set-piece of the Lord Mayor’s show at a time when it took place

on the river; through to the work of Danish film-maker Nikolaj Bendix

Skyum Larsen, whose reflective extract from ‘ Portrait of a River ‘(2013)

ended the day. In between came many glorious images of the Thames,

underlining the point that without this astonishing piece of natural

landscape at the heart of the city, artists’ engagement with London would

be much impoverished.

Accounts of the 48th

conference by LAMAS Local History Committee

members: Eileen Bowlt, Patricia A. Clarke John Hinshelwood, Cathy

Ross, Eleanor Stanier and Diane Tough

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

Around Pinner Through Time, by Pinner Local History Society (2013),

Amberley Publishing, 96pp, £14.99, ISBN 978 1 4456 1888 3

This attractive book starts with that most essential ingredient for a local

history publication – a clear map marking the location of the places

mentioned in the text. Well done Pinner! All Amberley ‘Though Time’

publications depend upon the pictures and the collection here does not

disappoint, including among the early photographs a tinted Edwardian

postcard of the Waxwell and several paintings in full colour, one showing

the lower part of the High Street in 1820. There is a dramatic picture in

the Chalk Mines and another of what appear to be very high haystacks at

Headstone Manor, partially cut away as blocks of hay had been taken out

and sent to the London markets. A touch of humour appears with a

photograph of Dawson Billows outside the Queen’s Head with his bear

around 1912, matched by one of the present landlady with her dog in a

similar pose.

An introduction explains Pinner’s development from an important

settlement, with a church and fair, within the Archbishop of Canterbury’s

Manor of Harrow in medieval times, to a leafy Metroland suburb in our

own. Informative captions supply details of the various estates and tell us

something of the lives of the rural population.

Eileen M. Bowlt

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Harefield Through Time, by Geoffrey Hewlett (2013), Amberley

Publishing, 96pp, £14.99, ISBN 978 1 4456 0727 6

Geoffrey Hewlett has written a very compact history, from the earliest

times, which is then amplified by five illustrated walks around Harefield.

By-passed by systems of modern transport, Harefield remained a real

village until after World War Two. The river and canal, which kept

Harefield surprisingly industrialised until the early 20th

century, are now

important to its leisure activities. A strong link with Australia was forged

during World War One, and the continuing local celebration of this is

well brought out.

This book does not follow the usual format of Amberley’s ‘Through

Time’ series, - a sequence of loosely paired pictures, one old, the other

more recent, and in colour, with a concise historical introduction, and

depending heavily upon the captions for most of the information.

Here, the illustrations, though plentiful, take second place, and are

smaller than usual (the maps are too small to be of use except for the clear

and coloured outline of the walks). They are not always sufficiently

captioned. One wonders sometimes which building is referred to. Is the

interesting row of brickworkers’ cottages still there? And for some

pictures we are given no detail beyond the location. Read it primarily as a

history.

Patricia A Clarke

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London 1100-1600: the Archaeology of a Capital City, by John

Schofield (2011), paperback edition, is being offered once more at a 25%

discount. Orders may be placed online at www.eqinoxpub.com. Enter the

code LONDON (in capitals) at the checkout when prompted and your

order will be discounted from £25 to £18.75.

CONFERENCES AND COURSES

The City Lit

Archaeology Courses

Non-accredited archaeology courses for the Winter and Spring terms are now

available. For further information visit the City Lit website, www.citylit.ac.uk, or

contact Humanities on 020 7492 2652.

14 January - 1 April 2014

Archaeology: Key Archaeological Sites of Great Britain

Course code: HAY02. Tuesdays, 10.30am-12.30pm

Explore archaeological case studies from the Stone Age to the recent British past.

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29 April – 1July 2014

Archaeology of London

Course code: HAY03. Tuesdays, 10.30am-12.30pm

Explore the archaeology and history of London through class-based sessions and

fieldtrips.

7 June 2014

The Medieval port of London 1200 – 1500

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Museum of London

Accredited Ten-Week Adult Courses

For more information about costs and how to enrol call 020 7631 6316; email:

admin@history.bbk.ac.uk or see the Museum of London website:

www.museumoflondon.org.uk/London-Wall/Whats-on/Adult-courses

13 January – 24 March (spring term) and 28 April – 7 July 2014 (summer term)

Anglo-Norman London

This course covers the history of London during and after the Norman Conquest.

Course codes: FFH1325H4ACB (spring) and FFH1325H4BCB (summer) CB (CATS

points: 15; Level 4). Timings: Mondays, 6.30-8.30 pm. Location: Museum of London,

in partnership with Birkbeck College. Advanced booking required. Cost: variable

from £175.

28 April – 14 July 2014

Everyday Life in Medieval London 1000-1500 AD

Course code: FFHI174H4ACB CE (CATS points: 15; Level 4). Timings: Mondays,

6.30-8.30pm. Location: Museum of London, in partnership with Birkbeck College.

Advanced booking required. Cost: variable from £175. To enrol, visit the Birkbeck

website: www.bbk.ac.uk

LECTURES AND EVENTS

British Archaeological Association

Lecture Series 2014

Meetings are held at 5pm in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London,

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0HS. Tea will be served at 4.30pm. Non-

members are welcome to attend occasional lectures but are asked to make themselves

known to the Hon. Director on arrival and to sign the visitors’ book.

2 January 2014

‘The Labour of a Thousand Ants’: Gerard Baldwin Brown and the Conservation

Movement in Britain, Malcolm A Cooper

5 February 2014

The Romanesque Portal as Performance, Professor Manual Castineriras

5 March 2014

Late Medieval Beguinages in the Low Countries: A ‘Poor’ Architecture for

Semi-Religious Women, Thomas Coomans

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2 April 2014

The Staffordshire Hoard Project: the Current State of Knowledge, Chris Fern

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Church Monuments Society

Saturday 10 May 2014

An Excursion to Hertfordshire and Middlesex

The excursion will start and finish at Radlett Station (10am-5.30pm). Visits will be

made to: All Saints, Kings Langley; St Lawrence, Abbots Langley; The Church of the

Ascension, Bedmond; St Lawrence, Little Stanmore; St John the Evangelist, Great

Stanmore and St John the Baptist, Aldenham. The fee for the day is £30 for CMS

members and £35 for non-members. Further details and an application form are

available on www.churchmonumentssociety.org website.

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Institute of Archaeology & British Museum

Medieval Seminar Series

All meetings are held at the Institute of Archaeology, Gordon Square, Room 612 at

5.30pm. Further information from Martin Locker: martindavidlocker@hotmail.com

21 January 2014

Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave-goods of the 6th

and 7th

Centuries – a New

Chronology and its Implications, Dr Alex Baliss, Professor John Hines, Professor

Chris Scull

4 February 2014

Carolingian Brooch Fashions and the Construction of Social Identities in Late

Anglo-Saxon England, Rosie Weetch

4 March 2014

Aqueducts and Water Supply in the Post-Roman Towns of Spain, Javier Martinez

Jimenez

6 May 2014

Runestone Images and Visual Communication in Viking Age Scandinavia, Dr

Marjolein Stern

4 June 2014

Lecture to be confirmed, Professor Wendy Davies

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London Society for Medieval Studies

Meetings are in the Torrington Room 104, Senate House, 1st floor, 7pm-8.15pm.

Visitors are welcome. Contact the Secretary, Sarah Waidler, at sw544@cam.ac.uk, to

be added to the mailing list and see our website at

www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/130.

21 January 2014

Speaker tbc

4 February 2014

The Classic Versus the Bible: Theodolus’s Eclogues in French, Tony Hunt

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18 February 2014

Old Icelandic, Richard North

4 March 2014

Medieval Spanish, Rosa Vidal Doval

18 March 2014

Script Imitation: the Shock of the Old, Julia Crick

EXHIBITIONS

Museum of London

The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels

11 October 2013 – 27 April 2014

This major new exhibition investigates the secrets of the Cheapside Hoard. The

extraordinary and priceless treasure of late 16th

and early 17th

-century jewels and

gemstones – displayed in its entirety for the first time in over a century – was

discovered in 1912, buried in a cellar on Cheapside in the City of London. Through

new research and state-of-the-art technology, the exhibition showcases the wealth of

insights the Hoard offers on Elizabethan and Jacobean London – as a centre of

craftsmanship and conspicuous consumption, at the crossroads of the Old and New

Worlds. It also explores the mysteries that remain, lost among the cataclysmic events

of the mid-17th century: who owned the Hoard, when and why was it hidden, and

why was it never reclaimed?

See more at: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/exhibitions-

displays/cheapside-hoard-londons-lost-jewels

AFFILIATED SOCIETY MEETINGS

Acton History Group

Events on the 2nd

Wednesday in the month at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Church Hall,

admission £2. Contact Secretary David Knights, 30 Highland Avenue, Acton W3 6EU

(020 8992 8698); email: info@actonhistory.co.uk; website: www.actonhistory.co.uk

8 January 2014

Acton High School, Past and Present, Maureen Colledge and Guy Fiegehen

12 February 2014

London’s Lost Rivers Including the Stanford and Bollo Brooks, Stephen Mears

12 March 2014

Southall Manor House and Martinware Pottery, George Twyman

22 March 2014

Walk through East Acton Estate, Phil Portwood (venue and time to be announced)

Barnes and Mortlake History Society

Meetings are held at the Sheen Lane Centre, Sheen Lane, London SW14 8LP at 8pm.

The meetings are free for members (£2 for visitors). For further details please contact

the Hon. Secretary on 0208 878 3756 or visit us at www.barnes-history.org.uk.

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16 January 2014

The City Livery Companies, James Loch

8 February 2014

Origins of the Barnes Workhouse Find, Miranda Ibbetson (meeting to be held at the

hall of Barnes Methodist Church, Station Road, London SW13 0NH, 2.30pm)

20 February 2014

The Buildings of Richmond Park, Max Lancaster

20 March 2014

The History of Fulham Palace, Keith Whitehouse

10 April 2014

The History of Hampton Court Palace, Suzannah Lipscomb

Barnet and District Local History Society

All meetings are held in Church House, Wood Street, Barnet at 3pm on Mondays

(opposite the Museum). Contact Barnet Museum, 31 Wood Street, Barnet EN5 4BE

(020 8440 8066) or visit: www.barnetmuseum.co.uk for more information.

Bexley Archaeological Group

All meetings are held at Bexley and Sidcup Conservative Club, 19 Station Road,

Sidcup, Kent and excavations are carried out at the weekends (Mar-Nov). For further

information contact the Chairman, Mr Martin Baker, 24 Valliers Wood Road, Sidcup,

Kent DA15 8BG (020 8300 1752); email: martin.baker@btinternet.com; website:

www.bag.org.uk

Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society

The society meets at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Afton House, Bourne Place,

Chiswick W4, starting at 7.30pm, on the 3rd

Monday in the month, from September to

May inclusive. For further information please contact the Hon. Secretary, Tess

Powell, 7 Dale Street, London W4 2BJ or visit: www.brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk

Camden History Society

The society normally meets at 7.30pm on the 3rd

Thursday of each month, except

August. Venues vary; non-members welcome (£1). For further information please

contact the Hon. Secretary, Mrs Jane Ramsay (020 7586 4436) or visit:

www.camdenhistorysociety.org

16 January 2014

The Walbrook and its Tributaries, Stephen Myers (Local Studies Library, Holborn

Library, 32-38 Theobalds Road WC1X 8PY)

20 February 2014

Primose Hill, the History of a London Hill, Martin Sheppard (Burgh House, New

End Square, London NW3 1LT)

20 March 2014

Who Lies in Highgate Cemetery?, Joint meeting with Friends of Highgate

Cemetery, CHS members (Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, Highgate, N6 6BS)

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13 April 2014

‘The Story of Belsize‘, Part II, David Pearcy (Burgh House)

Chadwell Heath Historical Society

Meetings are held at 7.30pm on the 3rd

Wednesday of every month from September to

June. All meetings are held at Wangey Road Chapel, Wangey Road, Chadwell Heath,

starting at 7.30pm. Enquiries to 020 8590 4659 or 020 8597 1225; email:

chadwellheathhs@hotmail.com

City of London Archaeological Society

The society’s meetings are held at St Olave’s Parish Hall, Mark Lane EC3R. Doors

open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Light refreshments are available after the lecture.

Non-members’ admission: £2 (please sign the visitors’ book). For further details,

visit: www.colas.org.uk; email: mail@colas.org.uk; text/voicemail: 07964694128.

17 January 2014

Archaeological Investigations at Kings Cross Goods Yard, Rebecca Haslam

21 February 2014

Art and Archaeology, Roy Stephenson

21 March 2014

Coins in Roman Britain and What They Tell Us – have you a coin from Roman

London, if so bring it along, Ian Franklin

25 April 2014

Lions on Kumulua: Excavation of the Early Bronze Age and Iron Age Periods at

Tell Tayinat, Hatay, Turkey, Dr Fiona Haughey

16 May 2014

The Kings Yard: Archaeological Investigations at Convoys Wharf, Duncan

Hawkins

20 June 2014

Lecture to be confirmed

Cuffley Industrial Heritage Society

The Society meets at Northaw Village Hall, 5 Northaw Road West, Northaw,

Hertfordshire EN6 4NW, near Potters Bar and Cuffley. Talks start at 8pm (doors

open7.30pm). Talks are free to members (£3 for visitors). For more information,

contact David Freeman, 18 Homewood Avenue, Cuffley, Herts, EN6 4OG (01707

875481); email: treasurer@cihs.org.uk

The Docklands History Group

Meetings will be held on the 1st Wednesday of every month in Museum of London

Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, London E14 4AL, at

5.30 for 6pm (£2 for visitors). For further information and membership details, please

visit www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk

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Edmonton Hundred Historical Society

Talks are free to members (£1 for visitors), and are held at Jubilee Hall, 2 Parsonage

Lane, Enfield; at the Charity School Hall, Church Street, Edmonton N9 and at Bruce

Castle, Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17. Further details from Enfield Local Studies

Centre & Archive, Thomas Hardy House, 39 London Road, Enfield EN2 6DS (020

8379 2724); email: info@edmontonhundred.org.uk; website: http://n21.net/edmonton-

hundred-historical-society.html

Enfield Archaeological Society

Meetings are held at the Jubilee Hall, junction of Chase Side and Parsonage Lane,

Enfield, starting at 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). Visitors: £1 per person. For further

information please contact Ms Val Mundy, 88 Gordon Hill, Enfield, EN2 0QS. Email

valmunday@hotmail.com, www.enfarchsoc.org

Friends of Bruce Castle Museum and Park

Evening talks are last Wednesday of the month, 7pm for 7.30pm start. Munch and

Listen talks are on the 4th

Monday of the month, 12pm for 12.15pm start. Talks are

free and open to all (tea/coffee is available for a small charge). All meetings are held

at Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, Tottenham, N17 8NU. Details of the

programme are available from www.haringey.gov.uk/brucecastlemuseum or the

FoBC Secretary at Bruce Castle Museum (020 8808 8772). Car park on site.

Friern Barnet and District Local History Society

Meetings are held in St John’s Church Hall, next to Whetstone Police Station, in

Friern Barnet Lane N20, normally on the last Wednesday of the month, starting at 8

pm, free refreshments from 7:45 pm. Non-members are welcome (£2). For further

details, see, www.friernbarnethistory.org.uk or contact David Berguer (0208 368

8314), email: friernbarnethistory@hotmail.co.uk

22 January 2014

Postcards of the Easter Rising, Edward Margiotta

26 February 2014

The Bayeux Tapestry, John Neal

26 March 2014

The Turin Shroud, Colin Barratt

23 April 2014

A View of the New River, Rachael Macdonald

28 May 2014

John Donovan Memorial Lecture: Live in the Big Company, Dr Stan Gilks

25 June 2014

The Foundling Hospital of Barnet, Yvonne Tomlinson

Greenwich Historical Society

Meetings are held at 7.30pm (doors open 7.15pm) on the 4th

Wednesday of the month

at Blackheath High School, Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath SE3 7AG. Non-members

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welcome (donation of £3 per person). Enquiries: 020 8858 0317 or visit

www.ghsoc.co.uk

Greenwich Industrial History Society Meetings are held at The Old Bakehouse, Bennett Park, SE3. This is a small theatre in

the back of the Age Exchange Shop – which is in The Village opposite Blackheath

Station. There is no on-site parking – please do not park outside the Bakehouse, but

use the car park behind the station. Meetings start at 7.30 and non members are

charged £1. Information marymillsmmmmm@aol.com, 24 Humber Road, SE3.

Membership Steve Daly, s.daly05@btinternet.com.

Hayes and Harlington Local History Society

Most meetings are held at Botwell Green Library, Leisure Centre, East Avenue,

Hayes UB3 3HW at 7.30pm. The library closes to the public at 7pm and you are

advised to arrive by 7@25 for admittance and guidance to the first floor meeting room

Non-members are welcome. Further information from Mr Robin Brown, 107

Wentworth Crescent, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1NP (020 8848 7959); email:

hayescanal@hotmail.co.uk

Hendon & District Archaeological Society

Lectures start 8pm in the Drawing Room, Avenue House, 17 East End Road, Finchley

N3 3QE. Buses 82, 125, 143, 326 & 460 pass close by, and it is five to ten minutes’

walk from Finchley Central Station (Northern Line). Non-members welcome (£1.00).

Tea/coffee and biscuits follow the talk. For further information, see the website:

www.hadas.org.uk

14 January 2014

The Naval Graveyards of Greenwich, Malcolm Godfrey

11 February 2014

To be announced

11 March 2014

The Sandridge Coin Hoard, David Thorold

8 April 2014

Restoring House Mill, Brian James-Strong

Hornsey Historical Society

Lecture meetings are held on the 2nd

Wednesday of every month at the Union Church

Hall, corner of Ferme Park Road and Weston Park, starting at 8pm. A donation of

£1.50 is requested from non-members. Refreshments are available from 7:40 pm. The

doors close at 8:00 pm and latecomers are not admitted. For further information

please ring The Old Schoolhouse (020 8348 8429); write to the Society at 136

Tottenham Lane N8 7EL; website: www.hornseyhistorical.org.uk

8 January 2014

Fight the Good Fight: The Battle for the Survival of the Muswell Hill Schools,

Janet Owen

12 February 2014

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A View of the New River: 400 Years of Fresh Water for London, Rachael

Macdonald

12 March 2014

She Dared to be a Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Eleri

Rowlands

9 April 2014

Returning to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Dr. Tony Williams

14 May 2014

Treasures and the Tower of London, Garry Wykes

11 June 2014

A Virtual Tour of E J Lovegrove’s Late 19th-Century Estate, Jennifer Bell and

Lesley Ramm

Hounslow & District History Society

Meetings are held on Tuesdays at the United Reformed Church Hall, Chapel Road,

Hounslow, starting at 8pm, non-members £1.50. For further details contact Andrea

Cameron (0208 570 4264) or Liz Mammatt (020 3302 4036).

28 January 2014

Breweries Connected with the London Borough of Hounslow, James Marshall

25 February 2014

Victorian Millionaires and their Riverside Mansions, Keith Parry

25 March 2014

Jonathan Carr’s Bedford Park, Dr David Budworth MBE

29 April 2014

Brentford Old and New, Andrea Cameron

Islington Archaeology and History Society

Meetings are held at 8pm at Islington Town Hall, Upper Street N1. A donation of £1

is requested from non-members. Enquiries: 020 7833 1541; website: www.iahs.org.uk

Kingston upon Thames Archaeological Society

Meetings are held at 8pm at Surbiton Library Halls Ewell Road, Surbiton. Visitors

will be asked for a donation of £2 towards expenses. Enquiries to Hon Secretary

KUTAS, 21 Duffins Orchard, Brox Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, KT16 0LP, email

kutas.archaeology@gmail.com, website: www.kingstonarchaeology.org

Lewisham Local History Society

Meetings are held at the Methodist Church Hall, Albion Way SE13 6BT, starting at

7:45 unless otherwise stated. Visitors welcomed, donation of £1 invited. For further

information please contact Gordon Dennington, 62 Park Hill Road, Bromley BR2

0LF; email:Gordondennington@hotmail.com; website: www.lewishamhistory.org.uk

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Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society

Meetings are held at Leyton Sixth Form College, Essex Road, Leyton E10 6EQ and at

St John’s Church Hall, E11 1HH, corner of Leytonstone High Road and Church Lane.

For further details please contact Maureen Measure, Secretary, L&LHS (020 8558

5491); email: measure@btinternet.com; website: www.leytonhistorysociety.org.uk

London Natural History Society

Indoor meetings usually consist of talks, slide shows or discussions. Most indoor

meetings are held at Camley Street Natural Park, Camley Street, London NW1 0PW.

Visitors are welcome. For further information visit: www.lnhs.org.uk/program.htm

Merton Historical Society

Meetings are held monthly from October until April, on Saturday afternoons. For

further information please contact the Honorary Secretary, Mrs Rosemary Turner, 27

Burley Close, London SW16 4QQ; email: mhs@mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk;

website: www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk

Orpington & District Archaeological Society

Meetings are held in The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington, on Wednesdays from 8pm.

Non-members are welcome to attend, space permitting. For further information please

contact Michael Meekums or Janet Clayton (020 8302 1572); website:

www.odas.org.uk.

5 February 2014

The Repair of Windmills and Watermills, Gaelle Jolley

5 March 2014

The Green Man, Imogen Corrigan

2 April 2014

Excavations at Eynsford, Dr Brian Philp

7 May 2014

An East End Opportunity: Insights from a Victorian Pawnbroker’s Burial

Ground in Bethnal Green, Dr Rachel Ives

4 June 2014

Community Dig of the Roman Road, Newham and other ‘Discoveries’, Paul

Jardine-Rose

Pinner Local History Society

All meetings start at 8pm. Main meetings take place in the Village Hall, Pinner.

Visitors are welcome for a donation of £2. For further information please contact Mrs

Sheila Cole, 40 Cambridge Road, North Harrow, Middlesex HA2 7LD (020 8866

3972); website: www.pinnerlhs.freeserve.co.uk

9 January 2014

Wren’s St Pauls at 300, Vivien Kermath

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6 February 2014

The Underground at War, David Burnell

6 March 2014

Research Group Presentation

3 April 2014

Celebrating Shakespeare: How Anniversaries of Shakespeare’s Birth and Death

Have Been Marked, Richard Faulkes

22 May 2014

Followed by Frustrated Communication: a UK Charity, David Bays

Potters Bar and District Historical Society

Meetings are held at the Sixty Plus Room, Wyllyotts Centre, starting at 8pm prompt.

Vistors are welcome (admission £1). For further details please contact Sarah Bulling

phdhs.sjb@btinternet.com; websites: www.pottersbar.org/historicalsociety/index.htm

and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Potters-Bar-Museum/152855514809811.

28 March 2014

Samuel Ryder, Seedsman, Golfer and Friend of St Albans, John Cox

31 January 2014

Cromer: the Last of Hertfordshire’s Windmills, Robin Webb

25 February 2014

The Bayeux Tapestry – a Play in Three Acts, Gary Fisher

29 May 2014

Thomas Coram and Barnet’s Foundling Hospital, Yvonne Tomlinson

Richmond Archaeological Society

Meetings take place on Friday nights at Vestry Hall, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond,

commencing at 8pm. For further information please email

rihmondarchaeology@virginmedia.com; website: www.richmondarchaeology.org.uk

14 February 2014

The Origin of our Species, Professor Chris Springer

14 March 2014

The Tudor Mint at the Tower of London, Justine Bayley

11 April 2014

Roman Brooches Found in London and its Hinterland, Frank Pemberton

Richmond Local History Society

All meetings are held at Duke Street Baptist Church, Richmond, at 8pm (coffee from

7.30pm). Visitors: £2. Further information from the Secretary, Elizabeth Velluet (020

8891 3825); email: rich.hist@yahoo.co.uk; website: www.richmondhistory.org.uk

13 January 2014

Sir Joshua Reynolds and His House on Richmond Hill, Catherine Parry-Wingfield

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10 February 2014

Ham and Petersham: a Visual History, Sir David Williams

10 March 2014

St Margaret’s and the Impact of the Building of Twickenham Bridge and The

Great Chertsey Road, Paul Velluet

14 April 2014

Spencer Gore (d. 1914) and His Work in Richmond, Helena Bonett

Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Society

Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place at the Time & Talents Centre, The Old

Mortuary, St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe and begin at 7.45pm. Non-members

welcome for a donation of £2. For more information visit www.rbhistory.org.uk

Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote Local History Society

Meetings are held on Mondays at 8.15pm at St Martin’s Church Hall, High Street,

Ruislip. Visitors are welcome (£2 admission charge). For further information, please

contact the Society’s Programme Secretary on 01895 673299.

20 January 2014

A History of Harefield through its Maps, Keith Piercy

17 February 2014

Foreshore Archaeology and the Blitz, Gustav Milne

17 March 2014

‘There’s Nothing Like Dissecting to Give You a Appetite‘ – Dickens, Kevin

Brown

28 April 2014

The Royal Ordnance Factory at Hayes, Nick Holder

Southgate District Civic Trust

The Trust covers Southgate, New Southgate, Cockfosters, Palmers Green, Winchmore

Hill and Hadley Wood. Open Meetings are held twice a year at the Walker Hall,

Waterfall Road, Southgate, and Local History meetings are held five times a year at

the Friends Meeting House, Church Hill, Winchmore Hill. Non-members are

welcome. For further information, contact Colin Barratt (020 8882 2246); email

info@southgatedistrictcivictrust.co.uk or visit www.southgatedistrictcivictrust.co.uk

Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Society

All lectures are held on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm at The Housing Co-Op Hall, 106

The Cut, opposite the Old Vic (£1 for visitors). Light refreshments are served at 7pm.

For further details please contact Richard Buchanan, 79 Ashridge Crescent, Shooter’s

Hill, London SE18 3EA. For enquires please call 020 8764 8314.

14 January 2014

A Forgotten Treasure of Walworth – the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens,

Stephen Humphrey

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11 February 2014

Excavations at the Churchyard of St Mary Newington, Alexis Haslam

11 March 2014

Recent Local Archaeological and Historical Work, various speakers

8 April 2014

The Urbanisation of South London, Len Reilly

Spelthorne Archaeology and Local History Group

Unless otherwise stated, all meetings take place at the Methodist Church, Thames

Street, Staines and begin at 8pm. Members free, non members welcome (£2 please).

For further details please contact Nick Pollard (01932 564585); email:

nick.pollard@spelthornemuseum.org.uk; website: www.spelthornemuseum.org.uk

Stanmore & Harrow Historical Society

Meetings are held at the Wealdstone Baptist Church, High Road, Wealdstone, at 8pm

on the 1st Wednesday of each month (visitors welcome at a charge of £1). For further

information please contact The Secretary, info@Stanmore-Harrow-Historical.org.uk;

www.stanmore-harrow-historical.org.uk

15 January 2014

RAF Hendon Museum, David Keen

5 February 2014

More Bygones, Jeff Nichols

5 March 2014

Three Women of Pinner, Pat Clarke

2 April 2014

The Secret East End, Diane Bernstein

Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society

The Society meets at 8pm on the 2nd

Tuesday of the month from October to May in

the Theatre at Halliford School, Russell Road, Shepperton. The September meeting is

held in Sunbury. Non-members are welcome (£2). Any queries should be addressed to

‘Contact Us’ function of the Society’s website: www.sslhs.org.uk/?page_id=18.

21 January 2014

Turner and The Thames Valley, Catherine Parry-Wingfield

25 February 2014

Old Photos of Sunbury and Shepperton

18 March 2014

Littleton History, Peter Maynard

22 April 2014

Cameras and Corsets: dating old photos, Jane Lewis

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Borough of Twickenham Local History Society

Lectures are held at St Mary’s Church Hall, Church Street, Twickenham, at 8pm on

the first Monday of each month from October to June. Guests are welcome (there is a

small charge). For further information please contact the Secretary, Mr Rosemary

McGlashon (020 8977 5671) or visit our website http://www.botlhs.co.uk

3 February 2014

Suffragettes in Surrey, Irene Cockroft

3 March 2014

The Hampton Wick Train Crash 1888, David Turner

7 April 2014

Twickenham Pubs Part II, Ken Lea

12 May 2014

Caleb Whitefoord: the Man Who Made Peace with America, Dr David Allen

Uxbridge Local History and Archives Society

All meetings take place at Christ Church, Redford Way (off Belmont Road),

Uxbridge, starting at 7.30pm. For further information please contact Mr K.R. Pearce,

29 Norton Road, Uxbridge UB8 2PT; website: www.eddiethecomputer.co.uk/history

21 January 2014

The Great Barn at Harmonsworth, Justine Bayley

18 February 2014

Windsor Castle, Leslie Grout

18 March 2014

Vanished Pubs of Uxbridge, Tony Mitchell

15 April 2014

Old Photographs of Uxbridge

Walthamstow Historical Society Meetings are held on Thursdays at 7.30pm at the Trinity United Reformed Church, 55

Orford Road, London E17 9QU. Meetings are free to members, visitors are charged

£1.50. Website: walthamstowhistoricalsociety.org.uk

23 January 2014

Tower Hamlets – An Ever Changing Borough, Grahame Williams

13 February 2014

The Hugenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields, Sue Jackson

13 March 2014

The Docklands Light Railway, Dr Peter Spence

Wandsworth Historical Society

Meetings held at the Friends’ Meeting House, Wandsworth High Street (opposite

Town Hall) on the last Friday of the month at 8pm until 9.15pm (followed by tea and

biscuits). For more information, visit the website: www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk

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31 January 2014

New Discoveries from the Mithras Temple Site: the Archaeology of

Bucklersbury House/Bloomberg Place, Michael Tetreau and Jessica Bryan

28 February 2014

History talk to be announced

28 March 2014

Archaeology talk to be announced

25 April 2014

History talk to be announced

30 May 2014

Kings Cross Goods Yard: an Historical and Archaeological Approach, Rebecca

Haslam

27 June 2014

Streatham’s History Through its Built Environment, Brian Bloice

Wembley History Society

Meetings are usually held on the third Friday of each month at 7:30 pm. Meetings are

held at English Martyrs’ Church Hall, Chalkhill Road (top of Blackbird Hill, not the

Wembley Park Station end), Wembley, Middx, HA9 9EW. Car park at rear and buses

83, 182, 245, 297 & 302 stop nearby. Visitors are welcome. Enquiries: Hon Sec:

Linda Theobald (020 8200 0211); email Philgrant69@aol.com

West Drayton & District Local History Society

Meetings are held in St Martin’s Church Hall, Church Road, West Drayton, starting at

7.30pm. For further information please contact Cyril Wroth (Programme Secretary),

15 Brooklyn Way, West Drayton UB7 7PD (01895 854597) or website:

http://westdraytonlocalhistory.com

West Essex Archaeological Group

Meetings are held on the 2nd

Monday of the month in the Sixth Form Block,

Woodford County High School, High Road, Woodfood Green at 7.45pm. New

members welcome. For further information, please contact Anne Stacey, 20B Grove

Hill, South Woodford E18 2JG (020 8989 9294); www.weag.org.uk

10 February 2014

From Log Boat to Warrior: the Development of the Wooden Vessel in Northern

Europe, Elliott Wragg

10 March 2014

Presidential Address, Harvey Sheldon

14 April 2014

Local Military Archaeology, Guy Taylor

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12 May 2014

Ice Age Art, Dr Jill Cook

9 June 2014

Roman Invasion: What It Did to Britain, Ian Leins

Willesden Local History Society

The Society meets on Wednesdays from September to June in St Mungo’s Pound

Lane Centre, 115 Pound Lane, NW10 2HU, opposite the Bus Garage. For further

information please contact the Secretary, Margaret Pratt, 51 West Ella Road, London

NW10 9PT (020 8965 7230); website: www.willesden-local-history.co.uk

15 January 2014

The Changing Face of Justice in Willesden, Elsie Points JP

19 February 2014

Making Music in Kilburn and Willesden, Dick Weindling

19 March 2014

The Beauty of Gothic Architecture in Willesden, Julienne McClean

16 April 2014

Willesden and St Paul’s Cathedral, Fr Andrew Hammond

21 May 2014

40 Years of Willesden History, Irina Porter

The LAMAS Newsletter is printed by Catford Print Centre, P.O. Box 563, Catford,

London SE6 4PY (tel 020 8695 0101; 020 8695 0566)

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London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

Museum of London, London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN

Telephone: 020 7410 2228 Fax: 0870 444 3853

President Professor Martin Biddle

19 Hamilton Road, Oxford OX2 7PY

Chair of Council Laura Schaaf (020 7263 5441)

lauras47@hotmail.co.uk

15 B Alexander Road, London N19 3PF

Honorary Secretary

Karen Thomas (020 7410 2228)

kthomas@mola.org.uk c/o Museum of London Archaeology Service

46 Eagle Wharf Road, London N1 7ED

Honorary Treasurer

Martin Williams (020 7228 8261)

williamm@dircon.co.uk 606 Lumiere Apartments, St John’s Hill,

London SW11 1AD

Honorary Subscriptions and Membership

Secretary

Patricia Clarke (020 8866 1677)

22 Malpas Drive, Pinner Middlesex HA5 1DQ

Acting Honorary Editors, Newsletter Colin Bowlt and Laura Schaaf (contact Laura

Schaaf, see above)

Honorary Director of Lecture Meetings

Cheryl Smith (020 7527 7971) cheryl.smith@islington.gov.uk

Islington Head of Heritage

Honorary Publications Assistant

Karen Thomas (020 7410 2228) kthomas@mola.org.uk

c/o Museum of London Archaeology Service

46 Eagle Wharf Road, London N1 7ED

Production Editor, Transactions

Lynn Pitts (01926 512366)

5 Whitehead Drive, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2TP

Honorary Librarian

Sally Brooks (020 7814 5588)

Museum of London

Archaeological Research Committee

Secretary

Jon Cotton (020 8549 3167)

joncotton56@gmail.com

58 Grove Lane, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2SR

Greater London Local History Committee

Chair

Eileen Bowlt (01895 638060)

c.bowlt@tiscali.co.uk

7 Croft Gardens, Ruislip Middlesex HA4 8EY

Historic Buildings and Conservation

Committee Chair Jon M. Finney

j.finney2@ntlworld.com

65 Carpenders Avenue, Carpenders Park, Herts WD19 5BP

Publications Committee Chair & Reviews

Editor, Transactions John Schofield (0208 741 3573)

john@jschd.demon.co.uk

2 Carthew Villas, London W6 0BS