GLIAS – London’s Railways and Industrial Development
Speaker: Dr Richard Marks
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Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United Kingdom
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Berkshire IAG – Bracknell Before The New Town
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingBracknell is well known for being one of the ‘new towns’ built after the Second World War to relieve the pressure of housing and industry in London – but the…
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Somerset IAS – Shrewsbury Flaxmill/Maltings – the first iron framed building in the world (Online)
OnlineDr Barrie Trinder explains why the main mill at Shrewsbury Flaxmill/Maltings is a landmark in the history of construction. It is the first building in the world to have a…
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Somerset IAS – John Smeaton 1724-1792; the Making of an Engineering Genius
Silver Street Baptist Church Hall Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomOur speaker Dr Julia Elton, an engineering historian and honorary member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. John Smeaton is widely regarded as the founder of the British civil…
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GLIAS – Brixton Windmill
Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United KingdomSpeaker: Nicholas Weedon
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Berkshire IAG – Railways of Bracknell Forest and how they changed the Borough
St Mary's Church Hall 14 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RD, ReadingPart 1: Before World War 1 Colin Bird will give us the first of his talks about how the railways impacted the Bracknell Forest area. Non-members are welcome for a…
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Somerset IAS – The Future History of Coal Mining – How will England choose to remember? (Online)
OnlineDr John Tanner asks how England will choose to remember its coal mining heritage. Once the demand for domestic coal started to fall in the 1950s the number of pits…
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Cambridge IAG – Watermills and Landscapes of the Great Ouse
Pye Building Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge, United KingdomA talk by local Huntingdonshire historian Bridget Flanagan, and Keith Grimwade. They will describe how the local Geology affected the location and operation of the Watermills. Incidentally one Mill is…
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Somerset IAS – AGM and Quiz
Silver Street Baptist Church Hall Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomThe SIAS Annual General Meeting, which is usually very brief, followed by a light-hearted test of your knowledge of industrial archaeology. There is no charge to SIAS members, guests…
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GLIAS – Short-cuts from the Thames to the Channel
Alan Baxter Gallery 77 Cowcross Street, London, United KingdomWhy South London's canals failed Speaker: Alan Burkitt-Gray
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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…
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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,…