EVENTS - TALKS AND WALKS

Modern buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich 1950-2000

is a book published in 2024 as well as an ongoing research project covering the rich mix of styles in the area. It focuses on post-war buildings, including Span estates and unique modernist homes designed by architects such as Patrick Gwynne, Peter Moro and Walter Greaves, as well as their Neo-Georgian counterparts as Charles Bernard Brown and Sir Albert Richardson.

Book and research-related events:

TALKS

Upcoming

20 November 2025 at Ravensbourne University, an RIBA event

22 October 2025 for the Greenwich Historical Society

To date

12 July 2025 for the Trienal de Architectura de Lisboa, Palacio Sinel de Cordes

27 May 2025 for Docomomo

14 January 2025 - The Architectural Embroideries of Teresa Forrest

at Blackheath High School

27 June 2024 - Public book launch talk at St Michael and all Angles Church

25 May 2024 - Private book launch talk at the Blackheath Quaker Meeting House

20 November 2023 for the Mycenae House Local History Group

19 October 2023 for The Greenwich Society at the West Greenwich Library

22 September 2022 at St Michael and all Angles Church

25 March 2021 for The Blackheath Society, online

GUIDED TOURS

31 May 2025 for Docomomo UK

15 May 2025 for the U3A

24 and 31 August 2024 for the 20 Century Society

23 May 2024 for Karakusevic Carson Architects

28 October 2023 and 20 April 2024 for The Greenwich Society

Yearly for Open House since 2021

2022 and 2023 for The Academy of British Housing, Baylight Fellowship (Open City)

20 June 2023 for the U3A

14 June 2021 for the Mycenae House Local History Group

Below are links for two of the talks and the public book launch recordings: