Monday 21 May:  “From RAINBOW to RASTAMOUSE –  40 years of Working In Children’s TV”.   Local screenwriter Lee Pressman will be discussing and showing clips from many of the popular and iconic children’s television shows he has written  –   including … Continue reading →

Monday 16 April:  The Friends’ AGM, plus: Lambeth’s Victorian architecture Edmund Bird, Lambeth’s former Head of Conservation, will explore our Victorian public buildings.  He will focus particularly on the northern districts and public libraries, but will also cover housing, schools, parks, … Continue reading →

Monday 19 March: Birth Control: A revolution in our time As Philip Larkin put it in his poem Annus Mirabilis: “Sexual intercourse began/ In nineteen sixty-three”. Dilys Cossey, local resident and Durning Friend, will be talking about how her working life fitted … Continue reading →

Monday 19 February, 6.45 for 7.15pm. MR WALCOT’S GIFT TO THE PEOPLE OF LAMBETH For 350 years the Walcot charity has given a helping hand to low-income people in Lambeth.  Jon Newman, Lambeth Archives manager, gives us a history of … Continue reading →