The Charlton Society usually holds talks on matters of local interest, normally on the third Saturday of every month, either at St Luke’s Church or at Charlton House from 2.30pm. The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday 15 November 2025 at St Luke’s, Charlton Village, for our meeting and a talk on the Greenwich Theatre and Music Hall by local actor, Nick Day.

Please see below the full 2025 talks programme:

For the full schedule for 2024 please click here.

Where possible we also upload the presentations on to the website.

We look forward to welcoming you.

2023 presentations:

– 18th November 2023: The Conception, Birth, Life and Untimely Demise of the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies at Woolwich

– 21st October: the Work of Anita Strasser, Photographs, Stories, Exhibitions. For presentation, please click here

– 17th June 2023: A Walk along the Thames – photos since 1974, presented by Carol Kenna. For presentation, please click here

– 20th May 2023: Charlton’s Green Chain Walk, presented by Jane Lawson. For presentation, please click here

-15th April: The Eastcombe Estate, presented by Barbara Holland

–18th March 2023: Rev Abraham Colfe, presented by Julian Watson. For presentation, please click here

-18th February 2023: JMW Turner, Sandycombe Lodge, presented by David Meaden. For presentation, please click here

– 21st January 2023: Margaret Taylor, Eltham Street names. For presentation please click here

Previous 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)

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