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Programme for 2008 to 2009

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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