Name: Blackheath Society, Talk: Time and Place, Bennett Park
Start: 2025-11-17T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-17T21:00:00+00:00
Location: The Old Bakehouse Theatre, off Bennett Park

Blackheath Society, Talk: Time and Place, Bennett Park

A street with three blue plaques in the heart of Blackheath Village. Paul Wright will tell of the history of the street and past residents.
About this Event

This illustrated talk by Paul Wright is a repeat of the one which was sold out in July.

Exactly 200 years ago a Greenwich clockmaker called John Bennett acquired an area of land that was subsequently developed as Bennett Park and much of the eastern part of Blackheath Village that we know today. Paul will give a richly illustrated talk on the colourful Bennett family, the development of this part of Blackheath and some of the fascinating characters and institutions that have resided and worked in the street named after them including pioneers of astrophysics and documentary film making and a renowned saucy postcard artist.

Tickets £15 includes an interval drink.