Forest Hill History Online Talk

We had over 150 people attend our online talk on the History of Forest Hill on Monday 14th September 2020. The session was recorded and is available to watch here.

 

 

Some of the online resources mentioned during the talk:

• The Story of One Tree Hill - https://archive.org/details/storyofonetreehi00nisbrich
  
  
• Presentation on the Croydon Canal: https://www.slideshare.net/foresthill/croydon-canal-talk
  
  
• More about atmospheric railway systems: http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_events/atmospheric_railway.php
  
  
• Dartmouth Arms Colour Bar http://transpont.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-corner-colour-bar-pub-in-forest.html
  
  
• The man who posted himself. From QI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GpEzwEdZ0Y
  
  
• Michael’s t-shirt available to purchase: https://www.ukprintwear.co.uk/stanhope-original-515-c.asp

Could the Horniman Gardens bee any more friendly?

By Quetta Kaye

The new installation in front of the Horniman Museum has a variety of bee ‘hotels’ sited around raised beds of insect-attracting flowers in hexagonal (bee cell) frames, surrounded by a wildflower meadow. The centrepiece is a sculpture with nitrogen-dioxide absorbing properties, ‘Flower Girl’, created by Jasmine Pradissitto, a painter and physicist, who has been pioneering pollution-absorbing sculptures to address an increasingly Anthropocene world.

In the main part of the Gardens, the dry Prairie area continues to dazzle with its colourful display and frame of fluttering grasses.