Docklands History Group

The Group meets on the first Wednesday evening of each month (excluding January).  New members and visitors are very welcome.

Talks are held at the Museum of London in Docklands, West India Quay (Isle of Dogs) Hertsmere Road, London EC14 4AL starting at 5.30 pm for 6 pm and ending at 8pm. (Should you arrive late and the Museum main door is closed there is a manned entrance at the back on Hertsmere Road, down a few steps.)

Forthcoming meetings:

December 1st  

Christmas Social

January 2011

No meeting

February 2nd

Captain Cook’s Executors (the solution to a 230 year old problem) - a talk by Derek Morris

March 2nd

Thames Fishing Fleets from the 1780s to the 1820s at Barking Greenwich and Gravesend - a talk by Hugh Lyon

April 6th

A Right Royal River?  A History of the Crown Estate and the River Thames - a talk by Neil Jacobson Head of Coastal Operations of The Crown Estate

May 4th

Gravesend Sea School a talk by John D. Meadowcroft President the National Sea/College Training School Gravesend Association

June 1st

Wapping in the 18th Century - a walk led by Derek Morris

July 6th

Annual General Meeting, followed by What was happening in the docks and on the Thames in July 1911? - a talk by Sally Mashiter

August 3rd

Greenwich Peninsula - a talk by Mary Mills

September 7th

To be confirmed - a visit or walk

October 5th 

Imagining a Soundscape for the Earlier West India Docks - a talk by Chris Ellmers

November 2nd

Maritime Greenhithe - a talk by David Challis

December 7th

Christmas Social

For more information about the Docklands History Group, please visit the website (opens in a new window).