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 […]
This is an opportunity to walk all or part of the “north leg” of the three walks making up the “Now 90!” Croydon Green Spaces Challenge Walk . (A repeat of the same walk first done on 14 July.) It’s getting on for 16 miles (let’s just say 14 “Barry miles”!) and takes in 31 green […]
Meet from 9.30am at East Croydon Station => 9.45am (approx) train to London Bridge => Northern Line tube to East Finchley => loo/coffee stop => from 11am, an eight mile […]
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 […]
Just when you thought it was all over . . . . Yes, there will be some back-focus on aspects of the recent past that we have probably felt we've […]
We’ll be planning a quarter-full of activities, both Outdoor Events and Club Nights, on Thursday. This is how we create our Programme and your chance to influence what we do. […]
