CROYDON EVENTS
10 June - 4 July
The next four weeks are packed with events in Croydon especially because of the Heritage Festival starting on 21 June and ending on 4 July. Here are the ones I am involved in organising or hope to attend.
Tuesday 10 June, 7pm
Matthews Yard
off Surrey St, Croydon, CR0 1AA.
Local
investment:
Are private developers the only option?
Croydon Radical History Network
presents a talk by Andrew
Fisher
local resident and author of the new book The Failed Experiment – and how to build an economy that works.
Andrew will explore issues around democracy, local economic development and the
public interest, from an economic and historic perspective, including a
discussion on the Westfield/Hammerson scheme for the Whitgift Centre. The talk
will be followed by discussion.
As
the venue is free please come early and have a snack and a drink before the
meeting starts.
The
book will be on sale along with second hand books on British economics and labour movement
history – so please bring some money.
For further information contact sean.creighton1947@btinetrnet.com; 020 8764
4301.
Wednesday 11 June. 7 for 7.30pm - 9 pm
Norbury Baptist Church Semley Road, Norbury, SW16 4PS
CCC Croydon Communities Consortium Public Meeting
A public meeting, led by the community, to air views and debate issues relating to the local area and the wider area of Croydon. Please book a free place: www.croydoncc.eventbrite.co.uk or call 07864 676 088.
Further information at : www.croydoncc.wordpress.com
ALL are WELCOME at any of our public meetings!
Email us at: CroydonNeighbourhoods@gmail.com Twitter: @CroydonNbrhoods Phone: 07864 676088
Friday 13 June
Time and venue to be notified.
Arts Network
Saturday 21 June. All day
Heritage Festival stalls event
North End, Croydon
Monday 23 June, 7pm
The Spread Eagle, 39-41 Katharine Street, CRO 1NX
Crystal Palace and the Edwardian Roller Skating Boom
Talk by Sean Creighton
The Edwardians loved anything involving wheels. Partly driven by American salesmen there was a boom in roller skating with over 500 rinks. The Crystal Palace rink played an important role in the boom. The boom ended as a result of over-capacity, economic downturn and the growth of interest in moving pictures.
Wednesday 25 June. 7pm
The Spread Eagle,39-41 Katherine St, CR0 1NX
Honouring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
and other black people through plaques
Talk by Jak Beulah of Nubian Jak Community Trust
Croydon Radical History and Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor Networks
Thursday 26 June. 7pm
St Augustine’s Church, St Augustine's Avenue,
South Croydon, CR2 6BA
Croydon’s Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace:
scientist and social reformer
Talk by Prof.
David Stack (History Department, University
of Reading), author of The First
Darwinian Left (2003) and an essay on Wallace and land nationalisation in Natural selection and beyond: the
intellectual legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace
(2008).
www.croydonheritagefestival.co.uk/Calendar/1041/Talks/Alfred-Russel-Wallace-as-Social-ReformerCroydon Radical History Network and South Croydon Community
Association
Saturday June 28. 2pm to 5pm
Harlow Hall, Oakhill.Stamford Rds, SW16 5RG
The Norbury History Weekend
A Norbury History talk & slide show by David Clark
A History talk & slide show on lower Streatham by John W.Brown
A History talk on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Sean Creighton
Supported with a table by the 4 Norbury Residents Associations
A table of local publications by the Streatham Society
Bookstall by Sean Creighton
Monday 30 June. 7pm
Fairfield Halls, Park Lane
200 years a slave: Croydon’s links with slave
ownership in the West Indies up to 1838
Talk by Nick Draper of Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project
Croydon Radical History Network
There will also be a display throughout the
Festival at Fairfield Halls.
Wednesday 2 July. 7pm
Matthew's
Yard, Off Surrey Street, CR0 1FF
Look How Far We've Come:
Commentaries On British Society and Racism
Documentary film presentationfollowed by discussion
Croydon Radical History Network with Kwaku,
history consultant and Look How Far We’ve Come project director
The book accompanying the film will be on sale
Thursday 3 July. 7pm
Matthew's Yard, Off Surrey Street, CR0 1FF
Freedom Riders Film - about American Civil Rights
Protest
Croydon Radical History Network with
Nu-Urban Image International Pictures
You need to book for this one as there is a charge to cover costs.
For a discussion on the link
between some of these events see my piece at
http://thecroydoncitizen.com/history/far-come-slavery-civil-rights-contemporary-racism
Bookstall
I will be running a bookstall at the Failed Experiment and Croydon Radical History and Edwardian Roller Skating talks. These will be my publishing imprint titles inc. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Jeffrey Green and my new pamphlet on John Archer, Black Mayor of Battersea 1913-14, and second hand books - history and political and social affairs.
Further information from Sean Creighton:
020 8674 4301; seancreighton1947@btinternet.com
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