Monthly Meeting

Presenter Mike Grundy: A beautiful early-Georgian Crescent, whose obliteration by a factory in the 1920’s triggered the legal protection of London’s other green squares and crescents. Also the title of London’s most intriguing party game, a place that has inspired artists from Walter Sickert to Frank Auerbach.

Presenter Jim Holmes: The slopes of Sri Lanka’s southern mountains are clothed in neat rows of low bushes that produce one of the country’s greatest exports. The famed ‘English Breakfast’ name is known the world over but the story of tea in old Ceylon is far less refreshing. Travel with me to meet the villagers