The Society holds one regular meeting each month throughout the year, with the main meeting focussing on local issues. It also engages with other local groups at their events and is a participant in the Streatham Festival, the Furzedown Festival, the Wandsworth Festival and events organised by the Lambeth Local History Forum.
The Society, with its bookstall, is often present at other local events and at public meetings concerned with planning or development issues.
Help at events or with Society activities is always welcome.
Our meetings take place between 7:30pm and 9:30pm on the first Tuesday of each month at "St Leonard's Church , Streatham, London, SW16 1HS. This splendid Church is in the centre of Streatham, close to Streatham Station and Streatham Hill Station is also nearby. The church is served by numerous bus routes and the nearest tube station is Tooting Bec on the Northern Line.
Visitors are welcome to attend a meeting and there is no admission charge. Non-members and Visitors are requested to make a minimum donation of £1 to cover our costs.
Illustrated Talks
Tuesday 5th October 2021
John W Brown will give his annual lecture "Bygone Streatham" at 7:30pm at St Leonard's Church. Booking not required and refreshments available
John W Brown is a local resident, local historian, Streatham Society and St Leonard's Church Archivist.
Monday 25th October 2021 by Zoom
We are delighted to announce that Professor Lester Hillman will be giving a Zoom presentation on The Regent's Canal. Tickets now available
This was scheduled for 2020 as an in-person talk in the year of the bicentenary of the opening but had to be cancelled due to Covid.
Booking via the Streatham Society Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/streatham-society-31488784265
