23 October – PIP PIP – DAVID ROONEY
In February 2024, the Greenwich Time Service – the famous pips broadcast by the BBC – celebrated its centenary. In this illustrated and lively lecture, historian David Rooney, former time curator at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and author of About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks, will chronicle the history of the six staccato dots that have soundtracked a century of global history: announcing time from Greenwich to the world. He will also explain how the pips were almost killed off by the advent of digital broadcasting – and why, in the twenty-first century, we still want them in our lives.
27 November – MAKING A BOOK – ADAM POLLOCK
This talk, by Adam Pollock, will describe the journey, and its excitements, which led to his recent book, The Huguenots of Crooms Hill.
The Pevsner Guide described Crooms Hill as ‘the pride of domestic architecture in Greenwich’. From the mid seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, it housed a generally affluent Huguenot community, millionaires and merchants, bankers and bankrupts. Whilst many of their homes still survive, their stories have been rather forgotten and deserve telling.
PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW VENUE FOR THESE MEETINGS IS THE TRAFALGAR TAVERN, PARK ROW, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9NW.
DOORS OPEN 7PM. MEETINGS COMMENCE 7.30.
ALL WELCOME! GHS Members Free. Visitors £3.
We hold a lecture programme of at least seven lectures a year (open to all) and meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of the following months: January, February, March, April, (occasionally in May), September, October and November.
Our meetings are held at The Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9NW. Doors open at 7.00. Meetings commence at 7.30 and conclude at 9.00pm. We welcome non-members, from whom we invite a donation of £3 for each meeting.
Our new venue is well served by bus routes 129, 177, 188, 286, 386 running along Trafalgar Road.
There is FREE car parking after 6.30pm in the Park Row car park.
Membership of GHS is open to anyone with an interest in the history of Greenwich. Annual Subscription runs from 1 January to 31 December: Individual membership remains a very reasonable £15 per annum; or £18 for two persons at the same address.
If you require any further details, please contact Horatio Blood,
Hon. Secretary, GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
36, Greenwich Market, Greenwich, London SE10 9HZ
Email: info@warwickleadlay.com (stating GHS as the subject, please).