- 28 May 13 Keeping Greenwich Smart and Legal
- 28 May 13 Royal Borough Honours for Harold Marchant
- 28 May 13 Greenwich Society Pub/Wine Bar of the Year
- 1 Feb 13 How would you improve Greenwich Town Centre for pedestrians?
- 29 Mar 12 Perception of aircraft noise
- 9 Mar 12 Greenwich Peninsual West Masterplan - the Society's response
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- 16 Feb 12
Stockwell Street Talk
Hidden History of Stockwell Street - 6 Jul 11 Town Centre Pedestrianisation
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- 20 Jun 13 Greenwich Society Executive Committee Meeting
- 22 Jun 13 Greenwich Open Studios
- 25 Jun 13 Cricket Match
- 16 Jul 13 Greenwich Society Chairman's Committee Meeting
- 21 Aug 13 Greenwich Society Executive Committee Meeting
- 12 Sep 13 Greenwich Society Chairman's Committee Meeting
- 14 Oct 13 Visit to Temple Place
- 22 Oct 13 Greenwich Society Executive Committee Meeting
- 3 Nov 13 Annual Lecture
- 20 Nov 13 Greenwich Society Chairman's Committee Meeting
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History
Greenwich Society Plaque
Memorials
In tree planting year 1973, a tree was planted in a small garden created initially on a bombed site by the society on the corner of Crooms Hill and Burney Street. At the foot of the tree there is a memorial to the first President of the Greenwich Society - the Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis.
An offshoot of the Greenwich Society the 'Burney Street Garden Project' made a successful temporary garden on the large bombed area in Central Greenwich, which is now again in use. The Garden Project is commemorated by a carved inscrition on a marble memorial found on the site, by a plate commemorating the donation by the Duke of Edinburgh of an oak tree and a placque in memory of a local milkman - Doug Mullins.
In 2006-7 The Greenwich Society designed and donated a placque of black slate similar to a 'blue placque' in memory of a founder member - Dick Moy - for his work in Greenwich. It is fixed on the building which he restored and from which he operated.
The Wooden sundial
Miscellany
Meridies Media - an historical essay by Christopher Daniel
(Extract from the British Sundial Society Bulletin)
The Direct Vertical Noon Mark Mean Time Sundial at Greenwich