GLIAS – Short-cuts from the Thames to the Channel
Why South London's canals failed Speaker: Alan Burkitt-Gray
9 events found.
Meeting
Events
-
-
Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United Kingdom
-
Berkshire IAG – Celebrating 75 years of AWE
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingFor 75 years, AWE has proudly played a role of critical national importance: helping deliver the UK’s nuclear deterrent. In 1950, Aldermaston became the site of the UK Government’s Atomic Weapons Programme, initially named ‘High Explosive Research’, under the supervision of British Manhattan Project veteran William Penney. It was originally designated as the Atomic Weapons…
-
Somerset IAS – Coal Bunkering and Coal Lumpers of Dartmouth (Online)
OnlineDartmouth, Devon, was a significant coal bunkering port for steamships from the late 19th century, employing large numbers of tough, competitive workers called coal lumpers who manually loaded coal from barges/hulks into ships' bunkers, a dangerous but well-paid job until mechanization and changing ship types led to its decline around the First World War. For details about how to…
-
-
Suffolk IAS – More Items from the Collection
Ipswich Transport Mueum Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, United KingdomTalk by Keith Hillman. Keith has an extensive collection of tools and artefacts, and will display and describe some of these for us. All welcome.
-
Somerset IAS – The World War II Listening Stations of the South-West
Silver Street Baptist Church Hall Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomSpeaker Colin White has identified the locations and condition of around twenty-five World War II covert listening stations (known as "Y-Stations") in the West Country, many along the strategically important coastlines of the English and Bristol Channels. They collected vast quantities of encrypted enemy radio messages, which were the raw material for the codebreakers at Bletchley Park…
-
Berkshire IAG – A Hundred Years of Shopping in Reading
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingTalk by Ann Smith who will take us through many of our long forgotten shops. Non-members are welcome for a small fee of £3 to cover hot drink and biscuits.
-
-
Cambridge IAG – Industrial Architecture as Cinematic Stage: The Sequel !
Pye Building Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge, United Kingdom(Re)discover how some of cinema’s most influential filmmakers adapted industrial architecture as cinematic stage! This year, a dam and hydro-power theme as we revisit filming locations of two of cinema's most influential filmmakers: Jean-Luc Godard and Andrey Tarkovsky. A hybrid-meeting format: in-person (at Cambridge Museum of Technology), or live-online stream (remote participants will receive screenshare +…
-
Berkshire IAG – Tiles for the Abbey
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingA Medieval tilery and occupation at 40-68 Silver Street, Reading David Sanchez of TVAS will talk to us about the dig in Silver Street which found the remains of an old tile-making site Non-members are welcome for a small fee of £3 to cover hot drink and biscuits.
-
GLIAS – AGM + Broadcast Britain
Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United KingdomSpeaker: Dr Mark Pegg. NOTE: This, unusually, is on a Thursday, starting at 6.15pm for AGM, 6.30pm lecture