Talks 2021-2022

2022 presentations:

– 17th December 2022: Tim Anderson, Charlton Music

– 19th November 2022: Charlton and the Tram, presented by Mark James, TfL

– 15th October 2022: 1951 Festival of Britain Pleasure Gardens – Battersea Park, presented by Helen Brown, landscape architect

– 17th September 2022: The Stained Glass of St Luke’s, presented by Churchwarden Joseph Spooner

 – 16th July 2022: Creating a museum and archive space at Charlton House, presented by Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust Chief Executive, Tracy Stringfellow

– 18th June 2022: Commonwealth & Gurkha Garden at St George’s Garrison Church, presented by Woolwich Garrison Church Trust Chairman, Tim Barnes

– 21st May 2022: Save Our Village Action Plan (SOVAP) presented by The Charlton Society Committee (at Charlton House). For presentation, please click here

23rd April 2022: Charlton Open-Air School, presented by George Burton. For presentation, please click here

To accompany George Burton’s presentation, please click here for further details regarding the Charlton open-air school, written in 1957 by Frank Jefferson who was head teacher at the school and oversaw the move from Shrewsbury Park to Charlton Park.

– 19th March 2022: Charlton House Gardens, presented by Kathy Aitken, Charlton & Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society (CABAHS).

– 19th February 2022: Charlton Histories of Home presented by Naomi Oppenheim 

– 15th January 2022: Charlton: Greenwich Riverside: Upper Watergate to Angerstein presented by Dr Mary Mills (virtual presentation)

2021 presentations:

 – December 19th 2021: Charlton Village in pictures & postcards by Carol Kenna (via Zoom): to view presentation, please click here 

– November 20th 2021: Prince Harry @ Charlton House by Seraphim Newman Norton (live presentation): to view presentation please click here

– October 16th 2021: Challenges Facing Woolwich by Cllr David Gardner (live presentation): to view presentation please click here

– September 18th 2021: Lewisham Nature Reserve by Jessica Kyle: to view presentation please click here

– July 17th 2021: Charlton, Past and Present through postcards & photos by Carol Kenna: to view presentation please click here

– June 19th 2021: Home for Heroes by Dr Michael Passmore: to view presentation please click here

– May 15th 2021: The Greenwich Gas Industry by Dr Mary Mills: to view presentation, please click here

– March 20th 2021: The Women of Well Hall Estate in WW1 by Lynne Dixon to view presentation, please click here

– January 16th 2021: The History of the Mulberry Tree by Dr Peter Coles to view presentation, please click here

The Charlton Society Committee