Talks and visits
PROGRAMME 2022-2023
SUMMER VISITS
Booking essential – email mhs@mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk
Friday 15 July
A Walk on Mitcham Common – with Melanie Nunzet
THIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURES FORECASTED!
Thursday 11 August at 10.30am
A visit to The Reform Club, 104-105 Pall Mall, London SW1 5EW.
The visit is £15 per person.
There is a Dress Code for this visit: Gentlemen are required to wear collared shirts, no jeans or trainers. Jackets are not required in August. Ladies are required to dress with similar formality.
Thursday 8 September at 10.30am
A Talk by Margaret Smart at 29 Murray Road, London SW19 4PD
William Morris, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Architecture Thereof
Possibly £5 per person (Fees to the National Trust)
Please use the side entrance and go through to the garden
(Coffee/tea and biscuits offered. Information panels indoors)
Talks at St James’s church hall restart in October.
8 October 2022
Michael Norman-Smith: ‘Wimbledon Common – how it was saved and the tracing of the descendants of those involved 150 years later’.
12 November 2022
AGM and Members talks
10 December
Roger Squires: ‘London Bridge over the River Thames’
14 January 2023
Adrian Waddingham: ‘Breakspear, the English Pope’
11 February
Edward Legon: ‘Anthony Sadler and the goings-on in Mitcham Parish’
11 March
Richard Smart: ‘The Salvation Army history in Merton’
Visitors are welcome to attend our talks.
You might also be interested in what other local history organisations are doing