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.

2009

September: Thursday 10th The Centenary of British Flight & The LeaValley Story LINDSAY COLLIER In July 1909, A V Roe made the first British Flight in an all-British built aeroplane with a British engine on Walthamstow Marshes.

October: Thursday 8th The History and Restoration of Hylands House NICK WICKENDEN Hylands House, near Chelmsford, is a Grade II* House built in c1730, but radically altered by both Humphry Repton and in the early Victorian period.

November: Thursday 12th DAVID WILKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE Jacob Epstein: Sculptor, avant-garde outsider, rebel and local hero. An illustrated talk which puts Epstein in his artistic and local context, coinciding with a Royal Academy exhibition.

December: Thursday 10th The Victorian & Edwardian Sunday School CHRIS POND Sunday schools were a cogent factor in social life a 100 years ago, and posed architects many problems. (With the usual free tea, coffee and mince pies).

2010

January: Thursday 14th The River Lea – From Luton to Leyton RICHARD THOMAS A journey from its source to Old Ford Lock, illustrated with modern and old photographs.

February: Thursday 11th The History of Chigwell JOHN REDFERN The history of the village, its people and buildings from early times to the 20th century.

March: Thursday 11th Crime & Punishment in Essex 1700–1900 JANE PEARSON From the mid-18th century the legal system in England and the brutal punishment of criminals began to change.

April: Thursday 8th The Home Front in Essex 1914–1918 WILLIAM TYLER How the shadow of the Great War fell upon every aspect of life in the county, from shortages and blackouts to air raids.

May: Thursday 13th Annual General Meeting followed by Who actually saved Epping Forest? RICHARD MORRIS A debate debunking some of the myths.

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