We will be welcoming Jacky Robinson to tell us about some women of the thirties, forties and fifties who defied convention … and also wrote a cookbook! Jacky is a keen cook and for over 20 years she has been running charity fundraisers with her sister by cooking and hosting fine dining meals in her own home. She also gives talks and runs events for her chosen charity. She is very interested in cookery and has an enormous collection of cookery books. Jacky loves to have an excuse to trawl through her cookbook collection and to spend happy hours researching the back story of some of the folks who wrote them. She started with Elizabeth David as she was an early inspiration…
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Richard and Mark from R’Markable Choir will join us this month to exercise our vocal cords and have some fun singing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know your crotchet from your quaver, come along and join in the musical merriment.
This year’s walk will be exploring the eastern section of the City of London. Meeting at Monument tube we will be discovering Leadenhall Market and some of the alley ways, churches and small open spaces in this area.
This year’s walk will be exploring the eastern section of the City of London. Meeting at Monument tube we will be discovering Leadenhall Market and some of the alley ways, churches and small open spaces in this area.
We will be welcoming Ana Sutherland to our June meeting and she will be telling us all about modern architecture on Blackheath’s Cator Estate. The talk will be followed by a walking tour on Saturday 27th June.
We will be welcoming Becky Laxton-Bass from Women in London to our July meeting to tell us about some of Lewisham’s influential women.
Becky was born in London and is passionate about history. Tour guiding seemed like the perfect job. Becky began guiding over 7 years ago whilst studying history at university and made it her full time job on graduation. The only downside was that she felt not enough women’s history was being discussed. So, in 2018 she launched Women Of London to challenge this. As the company founder she spends most of her time growing the company and managing tour bookings and requests. She still finds the time to host occasional tours and continue sharing the stories of women throughout history.
Join us for a tour with Ana Sutherland for a tour of modern architecture on Blackheath’s Cator Estate
Watch this space!
Watch this space!
Tessa Boase will be making a welcome return to Lee Green WI to tell us the story of London’s lost department stores.
Watch this space!