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 it at https://sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/about-us/. This year's full Programme has now been released. Click the picture to appreciate the huge scope and scale of this event.
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 […]
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 "interest" urban walk (which might include some bus travelling) visiting those three London Boroughs where I've previously lived (Barnet, Haringey + Camden) before "moving down […]
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 Lower Central parts of the Borough. Full details of the Challenge are at the bottom of this page. You don't have to take on […]
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 moved on from. However, this Tuesday evening will involve a light-hearted, quick-fire quiz, looking at some quirky and interesting facts concerning our recent General Election […]
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. Everybody’s welcome at the meeting and all your proposals are rapturously received – we rarely turn one down! If you can’t make the meeting please […]
This is another opportunity to walk the Upper Centre leg of the Green Spaces Challenge Walk. 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 […]