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Annual General Meeting, 15 May 2017

7.30pm at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 The Society’s 58th AGM will review the year’s activities and accounts. Following the business meeting there will be a chance to see a new short film about Thomas Layton’s book collection and James Wisdom will provide a briefing about the Society’s summer outing to […]

The History of Mortlake Crematorium

7.30pm, Monday 20 February 2017, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 An illustrated talk by Dr Brian Parsons, author of The London Way of Death. Opened in 1939, this was the first jointly-run municipal crematorium where tens of thousands of local families have commemorated their relatives and friends. The local authorities […]

The Valley of the Stamford Brook, 21 March 2016

7.30pm, Monday 21 March 2016, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Derek Chambers, using research undertaken for his recent MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology. He will be looking at the shaping of our suburban landscape.

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