CNHSS
Virtual Exhibition
“Our society is pleased to have contributed to one of three exhibitions that opened at Croydon Clocktower in Katharine Street Croydon on 1st February 2020 as part of the Museum of Croydon’s ‘What’s Your Croydon?’ project, the other exhibitions being from Good Wolf and from Play for Progress. Our exhibition, called Croydon through the lens of Charles Harrison Price, opened in the Atrium of the Clocktower. It is a collaborative project between Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society and the Bourne Society and has been very well received with many visitors leaving appreciative comments in our visitors’ book.”
-Carole Roberts, CNHSS
Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society has been involved in the study of science, local history and natural history, particularly as it applies to the Croydon area, for 150 years.
Drawing on the heritage left by some distinguished past members, the Society continues to maintain a museum and library, issue publications including Proceedings, and run a packed programme of talks, lectures, walks and seminars.
For more details and how to join please visit the CNHSS website
Croydon through the lens of Charles Harrison Price
At the beginning of the 20th century many professional photographers with studios in Croydon town centre supplemented their income from portraits, wedding and school group photographs by producing postcards of local views. One in particular, Charles Harrison Price (1870-1946) developed an especially broad catalogue that besides superbly composed topographical pictures included the vibrancy of air-side views of Croydon Airport – Britain’s major, and only international airport during the interwar years - the compassionate nurturing of injured military personnel during World War I housed in hospitals in local schools and the lives of their carers, popular town parades and celebrations, parks and open spaces, local actors and actresses, and newsworthy events.
For its forthcoming 150th anniversary Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society is exhibiting from its John Gent Postcards Collection a display of Charles Harrison Price photographs which allow a unique insight into life in the borough of Croydon during the first half of the 20th century.
Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society has been involved in the study of science, local history and natural history, particularly as it applies to the Croydon area, for 150 years.
Drawing on the heritage left by some distinguished past members, the Society continues to maintain a museum and library, issue publications including Proceedings, and run a packed programme of talks, lectures, walks and seminars.
For more details and how to join please visit the CNHSS website