This involves journeying to Epping to the north west of London at the end of the London Underground Central Line. There we will find the "Epping Ongar" heritage railway - lots of description at the website https://www.eorailway.co.uk/. Sunday 28 July is the last day of their Real Ale and Cider Festival https://www.eorailway.co.uk/events/real-ale-and-cider-festival/. As well as […]
Nothing on at the Hall! The plan is to meet at 6.45pm - 7pm outside East Croydon railway station. Walk through Pàrk Hill to Lloyd Park then Coombe Gardens, the viewpoint, Heathfield and finish at Coombe Road tram stop for the return to Croydon. Total distance approximately 4 miles. If you are delayed en-route please […]
If you're a folk music fan this is your opportunity to attend a week long festival held in beautiful Sidmouth, Devon in the company of COPSE members! Read all about […]
We will follow the coastline from Norman's Bay to Hastings, a distance of approximately 13km. Here follows an outline of what is planned and what you need to do to join me on this walk if you're interested. I will be going by train to the coast and will alight at Norman's Bay which is […]
Movie fun with Andrew and Sandra. Andrew says: Dear All. While Ken takes a break, Sandra and I are overseeing next Tuesday. We've have decided it will be a Film Night. Your participation is "Paramount" to its success. It will be like the literary (book) evening but centred around films (i.e. feature / cinema type). […]
This walk will form part of COPSE's 90th anniversary Challenge, overall visiting, appropriately enough, a total of 90 of Croydon's green spaces. On this occasion we'll focus on those in the Upper Central parts of the Borough. Full details of the Challenge are at the bottom of this page. You don't have to take on […]
This will feature music from Beethoven and new works from a BBC orchestra.
Way back in lockdown (shudder!) we Zoomed the Close To Home Quiz, complete with roundabouts, saving you all from going completely stir-crazy. Back in the Hall, we teased out even more of your local knowledge with Ken’s Kroydon Kwiz. Well now it’s back - this time with even more multimedia multichannel marvellosity, reincarnated as Ken’s […]
An interesting day awaits anyone who cares to meet outside the The Bookshop on the Heath, (a book shop next to Oxfam on Tranquil Vale/ Royal Parade on the edge of Blackheath this Saturday morning at 10am, (it is situated a short walk up from Blackheath railway station on the edge of the heath on […]
C. J. Schüler is a freelance writer, journalist and cultural historian specialising in travel, the arts, the environment, and European fiction in translation. In this talk he will expand on a subject close to his heart and ours in COPSE: the history of the Great North Wood that once covered large areas of South London […]
