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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. 

NOTE: this talk is on a Tuesday, due to speaker's unavailability most Thursdays

And now for something completely different - some maritime industrial archaeology.

Today's speaker Geoff has been a railway enthusiast since his schooldays.  At 15, he left school and started his career as an engine cleaner, working in the boilersmith’s shop and eventually becoming a top-link fireman based at Guildford Motive Power Depot. This gave him a privileged opportunity to work with a diverse group of drivers and locomotives until the final day of steam on the Southern Region, Sunday 9th July 1967.

In 1846, a patent was awarded to a new type of corn-mill - it triggered a series of court cases which ran for more than 20 years.  This talk tells the story of the invention and how the court cases provide examples of what makes an invention patentable in the UK today.