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To celebrate this event the Society held a joint meeting with the Vicar and congregation of the church looking at both the history of this distinctive Waterloo Church and a review of the architectural issues of making church buildings relevant to today’s worshippers and communities.
To view a recording of the meeting see https://youtu.be/aTgR44Pnl14
On 28 February some 60 members of the Society were addressed by Wayne Bellamy, Station Manager of the Thames Lifeboat Station at Chiswick. A recording of this fascinating talk can be viewed here.
Frances Craig , the Putney Librarian, gave a fascinating talk about the library, its History and evolution to being a valuable community hub today.
To view a recording see below https://youtu.be/H_S1_hIGDjQ
On 13 April Kate Slemek, Managing Director of St George’s Hospital gave an excellent short talk, followed by a longer Q&A session to the Society. This was a most reassuring presentation of interest to those of us fortunate enough to be treated at this hospital. A recording of the talk can be seen here:
Following the AGM, travel writer and local resident John Gimlette gave the Society a fascinating talk on his travels in the extraordinarly large and diverse island of Madgascar. These are chronicled in his latest book ‘The Gardens of Mars, Madagacar an Island Story’.
As well as visiting every corner of the island, he journeys deep into its past in order to better understand how Madagascar became what it is today. Along the way, he meets politicians, sorcerers, gem prospectors, militiamen, rioters, lepers and the descendants of seventeenth-century pirates.
To see the presentation: