Members may well recall our speaker, Wally Webb, as a roving reporter for Radio Norfolk.   The Diamond Centre is a former school operated by Sprowston Council and houses a…

Lawrence Bennett, author, describes the pioneering long-range radio stations of Somerset. Somerset’s two main high-frequency point-to-point receiving stations were at Bridgwater and Somerton, with sister stations at Bodmin and Dorchester.…

Evening talk by Bob Gwynne, a former member of Staff at the NRM York. All welcome.

To mark the 200th Anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, this year’s EIAG Annual Meeting has been extended to allow for a series of short talks…

Bill Burns (from New York) asks was there really a Victorian Internet, (and how did we get from there to here?). The worldwide boom in undersea cables reduced message time…

Miller and millwright Martin Watts looks at Somerset mills in art and illustrations. Once a crucial source of power for industry and essential for agriculture, mills were often used to…

Our speaker is based in Bradford, and members may recall there were a number of connections between the Norwich and Bradford woollen industries.   Zoom meetings avoid travelling in the…

Evening talk by Michelle Bullivant, Archeologist and Local Historian All welcome.

Annual General Meeting followed by a talk by Chris Turland Always a popular speaker, Chris returns with another presentation looking at the once busy Ipswich shipyards. All welcome.

The Local Government Act of 1972 saw the boundary between Oxfordshire and Berkshire changed with many local areas being moved from Berkshire into Oxfordshire. Prior to this change the County…