2025

  • 29th January: Informal members' meeting.   Guidance on drawing a family tree, by Joyce Hoad.

  • 26th February: Hammerwood Park: the amazing story of this 18th century house near East Grinstead - its decline and rescue from dereliction, given by its current owner, David Pinnegar.

  • 26th March: Some interesting accounts from the history of Croydon Minster, by David Morgan, its volunteer education officer and archivist.

  • 30th April: Mountwood: the story of a house in Addington Road, Sanderstead,  and its owners, from the 1920s until its demolition in the early 2000s, by Phil Swallow

  • 28th May: South London Palaces past and present (Part 2), by Dee Palmer - The talk will include information about these sites, with many illustrations.

  • 25th June: Two Edmunds: the King (841 - 869) and the Saint (1175 - 1240), comparing and contrasting their lives, by David Picksley

  • 30th July: Where did they come from?  The shopkeepers in Cranleigh Parade, Sanderstead, at the start of World War II, by Brenda Hawkins.

  • August: No meeting

  • 24th September: Chaldon Court: A Medieval Mystery?  Dated to 1366, what is known and unknown about this building next to the church in Chaldon, by Madeline Hawkins

  • 29th October: The Pacitti Family - Local 20th century ice cream vendors and much more, by Richard Pacitti

  • 26th November: History of the White Bear and Fickleshole Area by Joyce Hoad

  • December: No meeting


    2026

  • 28th January: Picture postcards of the Local Area by Roger Packham from The Bourne Society

  • 25th February: Stories behind some of the All Saints graves by Phil Swallow

  • 25th March: TBC