(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…

Dr David Lewis will tell us about this 16th century engineering project designed to supply fresh water to the castle   Non-members are welcome for a small fee of £3…

A 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…

Talk 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…

A 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…

Why South London’s canals failed Speaker: Alan Burkitt-Gray

Speaker: Dr Mark Pegg. NOTE: This, unusually, is on a Thursday, starting at 6.15pm for AGM, 6.30pm lecture

Dartmouth, 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,…

Speaker 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 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…