SIHG AGM(ZOOM)
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20th century
1901-2000
SIHG: Visit the Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner (RESCHEDULED)
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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.
SIHG Talk: Sources of Energy in SE England (Leatherhead)
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Talk by Tristan Asprey. Details to follow
SIHG Talk: 200 Years of Industrial Design - and why we love Retro (Leatherhead)
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Talk by John Colby-Griffiths. Details TBC
SIHG Talk: "Wind Tunnels and Slide Rules: Women Engineers of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough"by Dr Nina Baker, OBE (Zoom)
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SIHG Talk: "The History of Shepperton Studios" (Zoom) by Nick Pollard
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SIHG Talk: "In the Wake of the Narrowboat Cressy" by Alastair Clark (Leatherhead)
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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.
SIHG Talk: "Fore & Aft: The Purton Ships Graveyard" (Zoom) by Paul Barnett
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NOTE: this talk is on a Tuesday, due to speaker's unavailability most Thursdays
And now for something completely different - some maritime industrial archaeology.
SIHG Talk: "The Ramblings of a Railwayman" by Geoff Burch (Leatherhead)
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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.
SIHG Talk: "The wartime canal volunteers who called themselves ‘Idle Women’" by Alastair Clark (Zoom)
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The work women of the Land Army in World War 2 is well known. This talk tells the story of the less well-known women who volunteered in the 1940s to keep traffic flowing on Britain’s canals. However they may have referred to themselves, they were far form “idle women”.
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