Hogarth, Harlots, Moll Flanders... you've seen the paintings, watched the TV shows and read the books... now visit the places that London's REAL strumpets called home. 

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Allow your guide, 'The Baroness' to transport you back to the London of three hundred years ago  -  and into the steamy underworld of the Georgian sex worker.  

Meet the women that 'made it',  and those that ended up in the gutter; the high class courtesans and the gin-addled street walkers; the business-savvy Brothel Madams and the corrupted country girls. Hear the stories of the women that weren't often given a voice - in a trade that existed to serve men. What was it really like for them, and have we learned the lessons of the past?

Following our previous successful excursions into art we will be holding another painting workshop.

Join our favourite WI guide Kate Boyle for a walk around what can be seen of Roman London

It’s the AGM of Upper Chattering WI and Murder is on the Agenda! Come and channel your inner Miss Marple and work out whodunnit….

It’s the Annual Catford WI Post Christmas Quiz! Supper will be served and we will have our usual table prizes and coveted Wooden Spoons!

Our Elevenses group meets monthly at the cafe at Dunelm in the Bromley Road at 10am!

The Escoffier Rooms are the training restaurant for Westminster Kingsway’s chef training programme. The chefs are all final year students and they are some of the best in the country. Try their food at non Michelin prices with a tasting menu. A delicious pre Christmas treat!

Bring a team or just bring yourself to our Treasure Hunt around central London. Every entrant will get a small memento of their day. Should be great fun!

Opening a new season of theatre trips with Crazy for You at the Gillian Lynne theatre starring south London boy Charlie Stemp

Discover the sights and history of Bermondsey with Kate Boyle with a guided meander through Bermondsey

Following our successful painting class earlier this year we are holding a session for budding watercolorists. We will be painting seascapes

A private tour of Hampton Court included in a visit to the Tudor Palace. See the room not usually open and hear the backstairs tales.

Walking through the city centre from St Paul’s exploring the ancient nooks and crannies.

Another part of London which has seen huge changes in recent years. Join us for a Guided Walk around the Kings Cross Development. Afterwards we will have lunch and a visit to the London Canal Museum

Learn to Crochet. We will learn to make basic crochet squares and in the process we will make a blanket to donate to a charity. All welcome

Battersea Power Station has been completely redeveloped and is now London’s newest Shopping Mall. Join us for a stroll.

Join us for a circular walk from London Bridge exploring the industrial past of Bermondsey streets where warehouses, factories and Mission Halls are now connected to Loft living

Learn the art of Watercolour painting at our February Extra meeting

All are welcome to come along to the cafe at Dunelm on Bromley Road

Join us on a trip to Biggin Hill, the WW2 airfield which is now a museum.

Catford WI’s annual Quiz Night is back. Come by yourself or bring a team and challenge your post Christmas little grey cells. Price includes Supper

Our traditional walk through Lullingstone park should whet the appetite for Christmas Lunch at the visitor centre. Always a good day out with delicious food

What better excuse on a chilly winter evening than to try out some old fashioned Cocktails. Kay and Fiona will be hosting a celebration evening to get you in the mood for Christmas

Will meeting at the cafe at the Dunelm Store on Bromley Road. All members and anyone on the waiting list is welcome

Come along this evening for an evening of crafts. There will be Tiles to paint and Photo frames to personalise… could be the perfect Christmas gift!

George Major - Pearly King of Peckham,

The Crown Jewels are a collection of Pearly Kings’ and Queens’ suits and other fascinating and historically significant artefacts dating back some 179 years! Only known collection of its type.The museum celebrates the unique history and heritage of the cockney tradition and provides an enthralling insight into the evolution of old London cockney coaters and pearlies

A visit to the Museum in Epsom should be a treat.

Explore another corner of London with Kate Boyle.

'Our capital has a long, dark history of witchcraft and persecution?  On this theatrical walking tour you will discover just that as your guide, The High Priestess, welcomes you to her coven and unveils to you the dark, devilish and downright unjust history of witchcraft in London. 

Starting at Farringdon and ending at St Pauls Cathedral, you will meet some of the forgotten women who have been branded and persecuted as witches throughout the ages in our city -  from medieval healers and Elizabethan social climbers, to pagan priestesses and wartime mediums. They’ve come back, and they want their stories to be heard'.

Ever wanted to try your hand at Axe throwing? Now is your chance. Two dates have been booked on the 13th and 20th October.

While we are very pleased to resume normal in person meetings, this special zoom session with Lucy Lewis who was Britains first female Bomb Disposal officer.

Lucy has writtten a memoir called Lighting the Fuse which tells her deeply inspirational story - joining the military in the 1980s just as women were taking on more dangerous roles, Lucy's every move was watched and scrutinised. This didn't hold her back however, and this is how she broke through the ceiling, fought against sexism and achieved something no woman had ever done before.