Annual General Meeting followed by the monthly lecture:

Islington's Regency Renaissance

Speaker: Lester Hillman, Visiting Professor, London Metropolitan University Business School
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1

Lester Hillman will talk on the Regent's Canal and pivotal events for Islington exactly two hundred years ago. He will also explore evidence of any 'Regency Renaissance' in the borough today!

Lester is Academic Adviser to the Society. In the early 1970s he worked on the undergrounding of the power cables under the Regent's Canal towpath and the associated award winning heritage and amenity works. He has worked elsewhere on canal and rail infrastructure projects. He is a volunteer at the Islington based London Canal Museum  guiding towpath walks and boat tours. He supports the Regent's Canal Conservation Area Committee in Camden. He has lectured on canal history, written and reviewed publications. Over the last year he has made submissions on the transport provisions for the 2012 Olympic Archery at Lords next to the Regent's Canal and on amendments to the Regent's Park Conservation Area.