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Publicity for 2 FoDL events: Jon Newman talk, Tony Merrick walk

COMING TO THE DURNING LIBRARY

167 Kennington Lane, SE11

MONDAY 7th OCTOBER, 7.0 for 7.30 pm

"CHRISTIAN CHARITY OR SOCIAL CONTROL?
PUBLIC AND PAROCHIAL CHARITIES IN LAMBETH, 1700-1900."

200 years of charity - or was it social control? You may remember JON NEWMAN's talks on the Lambeth of William Blake, and on "Gentlemen of Leisure and Ladies of the Night". This should equal them in interest, if not in raciness.

Jon Newman is archives and library manager at Lambeth's Minet Library, and also archivist at Lincoln College, Oxford.

Open to all. Entry free. Drinks and nibbles (suggested donation £2 in aid of the library).

SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER, 2.0 pm

WALK IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S FOOTSTEPS

TONY MERRICK walks the walk: a couple of hours of very informative fun. The local historian from an old Vauxhall family, who entertained a full house at the Durning in September, will lead an actual walk round the young Charlie's Kennington haunts.

Meet at 2.0 on the steps of the Durning, where Charlie was invited to tea as a youth around 1910.

Open to all. Donation £2 in aid of the library.

Both events are organised by the Friends of the Durning Library.

(posted 7848 days ago)

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