Following SIHG’s very popular Zoom on Heath Robinson’s World Word One “inventions”, I’ve decided to organise a museum visit. I was going to schedule this in the autumn, but as they have a special exhibition that ends in July, I’ve decided to schedule it earlier.
Talk by Tristan Asprey. Details to follow
Talk by John Colby-Griffiths. Details TBC
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The industrial revolution created both winners and losers. In this talk, we’ll hear about on three men who clawed their way to success during the industrial revolution - while their workers in both mills and mines endured lives of extraordinary hardship
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* Please note that this talk is on a WEDNESDAY evening.*
A talk describing the importance of the Dockyard to the Royal Navy and its recognition as one of the centres of the Industrial Revolution.
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In 1939 Tom and Angela Rolt set out to explore the canals of England in the narrow boat ‘Cressy’. The account of their cruise was a book called “Narrow Boat” and this inspired the national movement to preserve and cherish our inland waterways. Eighty years later Alastair Clark set out on a bike to follow the part of their voyage which followed the Trent and Mersey canal.
