All meetings are held in the Methodist Church, Loughton High Road, from 8.00pm on the second Thursday of the month, from September to May inclusive.
Guest visitors are welcome at all meetings on payment of a donation of £1.50.

2008

September: Thursday 11th An Introduction to the Windmills & Watermills of Essex. GEOFF WOOD The origins of milling and the rise and demise of the rural mills in Essex from Domesday to 1950.

October: Thursday 9th The Dagenham Murder: The Killing of PC George Clark in 1846. LINDA RHODES A costumed presentation on the notorious unsolved murder of a 20-year-old police officer.

November: Thursday 13th Revolting Councillors in East London 1921 CHRIS SUMNER Poplar was one of the poorest districts of London, with high unemployment, hunger and poverty. The protest by the Councillors led to thirty of them being sent to prison.

December: Thursday 11th A Festive Entertainment THE INGLEBY SINGERS A musical homage to Mrs Beeton with readings of seasonal extracts from the Debden House Cook-Book, and illustrations of Epping Forest in winter (with the usual free tea, coffee and mince pies).

2009

January: Thursday 8th DAVID WILKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE Victorian Station Architecture in Essex PETER KAY An illustrated talk on the history of the station buildings from Loughton to Ongar.

February: Thursday 12th Artists of the Epping Forest District TONY O’CONNOR The fine art collection held by the District Museum includes works by important artists who have lived in or been inspired by the locality.

March: Thursday 12th The History of Walthamstow NEIL HOUGHTON Walthamstow was described in 1848 as ‘the largest and handsomest suburban village near the metropolis, delightfully situated in the vale of the river Lea within the southern fringe of Epping Forest’.

April: Thursday 16th Old Loughton CHRIS POND A selection of views of the village and town that it became, from the Society’s collection of postcards and other sources.

May: Thursday 14th Annual General Meeting followed by The True Story of the Penny Post STEPHEN PEWSEY In the early 1830s, a Loughton schoolmaster, Francis Worrell Stevens, proposed an adhesive universal Penny Postage Stamp. However, Stevens has been ‘airbrushed’ out of British Postal history and Rowland Hill credited with the invention.

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