We usually meet on the first Wednesday evening of each month, excluding January – but check our current programme. New members and visitors are very welcome. A £2 donation is suggested from visitors to our talks.
Our talks are held at the Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay (off Hertsmere Road), London E14 4AL, starting at 5.30pm for 6pm and ending at 8pm. This is in a converted West India Docks warehouse, just north of Canary Wharf. Should you arrive late and the Museum main door is closed, there is a staffed entrance called the ‘schools entrance’ at the back on Hertsmere Road – down steps and you need to knock.
The nearest stations are West India Quay (DLR), 300 yards, Westferry (DLR), 400 yards using easternmost exit, and Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line), 750 yards. Note that Lewisham-bound trains do not stop at West India Quay in the rush hour, so alight at Westferry (or you may go on to Canary Wharf (DLR) and catch a train back to West India Quay). There is a parking garage in Hertsmere Road.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Wed 6th February
EVENING TALK
Thames Discovery Programme
Gus Milne and Eliott Wragg
Wed 6th March
EVENING TALK
Maritime Greenhithe Part 2
by David Challis
Sat 23rd March
SYMPOSIUM
There She Blows!
Aspects of the London Whaling Trade
Museum of London, Docklands.
Booking Form (pdf, 115kb)
Symposium Programme (pdf, 78kb)
Wed 3rd April
EVENING TALK
Behind the Jubilee Flotilla
by Martin Garside from the PLA
Wed 1st May
EVENING TALK
Thurrock’s Tales of the Riverside
by Jonathan Catton Heritage & Museum Officer,
Thurrock Museum
Wed 5th June
WALK
Meet at 6 pm at Hanover Stairs Rotherhithe, between Canon Beck Road and Isambard Place, for a walk on the foreshore led by Gus Milne and Elott Wragg. The end point will be Fountain Stairs which are at the bottom of Wilson Grove. (Wellington boots needed.)
Wed 3rd July
Annual General Meeting
followed by a talk to be announced
Wed 7th Aug
WALK
A walk in Greenwich led by Mary Mills – details nearer the time
Wed 4th Sep
EVENING TALK
Improvement in the Environment of the Tidal Thames
by Nichie Jenkins or Tanya Houston
Wed 2nd Oct
EVENING TALK
Charles Dupin’s Writings on London’s Commercial Power, industries, port facilities and dockyards
by Alex Werner Head of History Collections
Museum of London
Wed 6th Nov
EVENING TALK
The Society of East India Commanders and the Poplar Fund
by Tony Fuller
Wed 4th Dec