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.  In the past there were several royal palaces south of the Thames -  some of which remain, in part at least, and some of which have vanished.  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: To be confirmed

26th November: To be confirmed

December: No meeting