Next local history group talk: Thursday 27 November, 7:30pm

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A reminder that the next local history group talk will be on Thursday 27 November, starting 7:30 at West Greenwich Library. 
 
The featured speaker is Lynne Dixon. Lynne researches and writes about women’s history. Her talk will be on The Women of Greenwich Project, it will include: the women who founded the Mother and Baby Hospital of Woolwich; the costume designer Natasha Korniloff (who lived on Egerton Drive and is best known for creating costumes for David Bowie); and the inventor Marie Celeste-de-Casteras Sinibaldi (who in the 1860s lived on Greenwich South Street). 
 
Lynne will speak for about 45 minutes and then there will be time for questions and discussion.




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