Warwickshire IAS – Brickmaking and the Development of Canals in the Black Country
ZoomAn evening talk via Zoom by Elizabeth Thomson Register for Zoom access here More details on the WIAS website: https://www.warwickshireias.org
An evening talk via Zoom by Elizabeth Thomson Register for Zoom access here More details on the WIAS website: https://www.warwickshireias.org
Talk by John Kanefsky. This talk examines the adoption of steam power to industry in London between (roughly) 1780 and 1805, the date of John Farey’s survey of engines in the capital. It confirms that although steam power was less intensively applied in the Capital than some areas, steam engines were installed more widely there…
Camouflage and Deception at War An evening talk via Zoom by David Skillen Register for Zoom access here More details on the WIAS website: https://www.warwickshireias.org
Speaker: Brice Bozier The Victorian gasworks building for the Sudbury estate has recently been rescued and restored with the aid of a significant grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, but all the original equipment was lost. Learn how Sudbury Gasworks researched their missing gas producing retort benches and how in 2018 they started with…
The Enderby group - Start to Finish Talk by Dan Hayton The Gallery is through the archway and in the basement at the rear of the building. There is a lift from the main entrance.
Speaker: Sarah Howard (on Zoom) Sarah Howard is a heritage management professional who has worked for local and national government heritage services, the educational charity Council for British Archaeology, and more recently for the Environment Agency as their Midlands regional advisor on avoidance and mitigation of heritage impacts from the construction of flood alleviation schemes.…
A hybrid evening talk by Terry Merrygold In person at Warwick Prep School and online via Zoom Register for Zoom access here More details on the WIAS website: https://www.warwickshireias.org
Talk by Prof. David Perrett. Three months' travel in Eastern Australia and New Zealand revealed much of IA interest - from London-made beam engines to intact gas works and coal mines serving the Royal Navy along with steam ships and even a new Newcomen Engine The Gallery is through the archway and in the…
Britain’s first oil refinery - was it also the world’s first? Speaker: Cliff Lea It was in the 1840s that the Oakes family struck oil whilst sinking one of their coal pits at Riddings near Alfreton. Hear how the technical characteristics of this fluid – a fluid that was regarded as simply a nuisance at…