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Wednesday 15 March 7.45pm (ONLINE) : AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants
WAG AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants (online) Wednesday 15 March 2023 7.45pm: AGM. 8.30pm: Guest speaker - Dr Mark A. Spencer F.L.S Forensic Botanist and Hon. Curator (Plants), Linnean Society of London Layers of plants at the Thames Road Wetland,...
Get to know your local river
INVITATION to residents in the Horn Park, Mottingham Lane, Dutch House area. You may know the River Quaggy flows nearby, but how much do you really know about the river, its condition, wildlife, and how it can be improved? A new local project aims to...
Wednesday 18 January, 7.45pm (ONLINE) Green Lewisham: Our Treasured Open Spaces With Candy Blackham, author and photographer
Candy Blackham, writes extensively about parks and gardens in Greenwich and Lewisham, across London, the UK and overseas. Candy’s lockdown visits to green spaces across Lewisham borough led to her book Green Lewisham: Our Treasured Open Spaces (Clink Street...
20 July – Zoom Meeting: Deluge! The 1968 Great Flood and reducing flood risk today
Lewisham is London borough of culture 2022. 54 years ago much of the borough was hit by the Great Flood of 1968. Join QWAG’s July meeting for amazing pictures and fascinating recollections gathered from people across the borough - from central Lewisham, Ladywell and...
Stags of the River Quaggy Lewisham Natureman
Photo: QWAG / Paul de Zylva David Sperlinger shares how he used the pandemic lockdown to produce a Field Guide to Lewisham Natureman’s stag murals to be found across Lewisham, and available from QWAG. Lewisham’s very own Banksy Scattered across several boroughs in...
17 Nov – Zoom Meeting: Wild Swimming – a Personal View
Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum There has been rising interest in wild swimming. People speak of the health benefits as well as how to prepare and awareness of the legalities. In his talk for QWAG, Christopher will give his personal view of wild...
19 Jan – Zoom Meeting: Nature’s Recovery in Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham
The government is consulting on its Nature Recovery Green Paper. Boroughs will also soon start to help prepare Local Nature Recovery Strategies. Ahead of the global biodiversity summit (COP15) in spring 2022 the government is consulting on how to restore nature in...
16 Mar – Zoom Meeting: Amazing Eels! Overcoming the barriers they face
Community Eels Project Officer, Thames21 Eels are amazing, but they face immense struggles. Since the 1980s European eels (Anguilla anguilla) have declined by over 90 per cent. A main threat eels face is man-made physical obstacles in rivers. Having migrated over...
Get set for the last major restoration of the Quaggy
What If? Imagine being able to walk from central Lewisham to Lee Green, over the border into Greenwich and then on to Grove Park – all within a stone’s throw of a restored, fully functioning River Quaggy. That is the prospect if our ambitious ‘Quaggy Links’ project...
Jan 20 Zoom Meeting: Bromley Glassmill Millpond: Past, Present and Future
Jeff Royce, Chairman of the Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens will present on hopes for the remodelling and restoration of this waterbody in central Bromley. Jeff will also refer to Bromley Council’s draft Open Spaces Strategy. 8pm online via Zoom. The...
Mar 17 Zoom Meeting: QWAG AGM + talk on the Greening of south east London
Mark QWAG’s 31st year and discuss plans for 2021-22 and hear about the Greening of south east London from our special guest speaker, Catherine Ashcroft, who will present her plans to improve the ecology of the river side with ‘secret’ wildflower meadows on the River...
The 6th Great Quaggy Duck Race
Unable to race in 2020, ducks everywhere have been in training all year hoping to win the prized Kingfisher Trophy along with the title of fastest Quaggy Duck in London. Will the river run as fast as in 2018, or will it flow as slowly as it did in 2019? Find out for...
16 Sept: 30th Anniversary AGM + guest speaker Dusty Gedge
Wednesday 16 September, 2020 – Green roofs – from Deptford to London, Europe and beyond: A personal south east London story from Dusty Gedge, President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB)…
Quaggy Rocks!
We love the River Quaggy. We also love Blackheath pebbles, the smooth, black flinty rocks found in the river which reveal how the London area rose out of the sea came to be. QWAG members Paul Rainey and Pamela Zollicoffer explore a story as old as time – well, perhaps...
The right sort of hedge fund
QWAG has a growing interest in ‘hedge funds’ for a modest project with lofty connections writes QWAG’s Dave Larkin. “Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote…” Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer April...
Sounds of the City – 15th January 2020
Most of the time we perceive noise as a problem. From road traffic and aircraft to noisy neighbours, we're surrounded by sounds in towns. Professor Drever will challenge how we perceive the urban 'soundscape' and will introduce the idea of the 'Acoustic Ecology' of...
QWAG 30th birthday AGM + Wildflower meadows on the Quaggy – 18th March 2020
QWAG 30th birthday AGM + Wildflower meadows on the Quaggy Mark QWAG’s 30th birthday at our 2020 AGM. Celebrate with our famous buffet then hear from our special guest speaker, Catherine Ashcroft, on plans to improve the ecology of the river side with ‘secret’...
In Search of Plant Folklore – 20th May 2020
In search of plant folklore. Roy Vickery of the South London Botanical Institute, and author of Vickery's Folk Flora (2019), discusses his life's work collecting information on the folklore and uses of British plants. Bring your own memories of plants, their uses,...