Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group

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Welcome to the BIAG Site

 

BIAG Objectives

 

The Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group aims to encourage a wider appreciation of industrial archaeology and act as a stimulant to the study of the area's industrial heritage often little known even to local inhabitants and frequently disappearing without adequate recording.

 


I N D O O R    P R O G R A M M E

 2 0 0 7 – 2 0 0 8

 

 

    

Event  

Speaker

 

 

2007

 

 

Mon

17.09

THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, FARNBOROUGH – its site and future

 

Jim Russell

Mon

15.10

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMBERLEY WORKING MUSEUM

 

Brian Johnson

Mon

19.11

30th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING followed by

HUNTLEY & PALMER LOCOMOTIVE

NO. 1 and Members’ Evening.

 

 

Rex Hora

Mon

10.12

WATER MILLS ON THE RIVER KENNET

Brian Eighteen
 

 

2008

 

 

Mon

21.01

RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY

  Mark Casson
 

Mon

18.02

A HISTORY OF GROVE AIRFIELD

  Don Summers
 

Mon

17.03

THE MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY IN MAIDENHEAD

 

  Brian Boulter

Mon

21.04

THE CORNWALL & WEST DEVON INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE SITE

 

  Dennis Johnson

Mon

19.05

THE SCIENCE MUSEUM

Bob Townsend

        

MEETINGS  except where indicated are held at  MERL (The Museum of English Rural Life), Redlands Road, Reading [by kind permission of the Keeper]

Entry is by way of the main entrance through the porch on the central frontage of  the building.

There is NO access via courtyard gates marked ‘Museum of English Rural Life’.       

MERL is opposite the extended Royal Berks Hospital and at the corner of Acacia Road.  It has its own car park in front of the building – for access use MERL’S upper entrance off     Redlands Road. Additional car parking is generally available in Acacia  Road. All meetings begin at 19.30 hours except where indicated

MEMBERS FREE: for whom refreshments will be available at a small charge to defray the evening's expenses.  Non-members: £2.50 for each meeting [excluding  refreshments]

 

 

In addition members of BIAG are invited to meetings of the South East Region of the Institution of Civil Engineers. A full list of such meetings can be obtained from www.ice-southeastengland.org.uk

MERL itself has a programme of  events & exhibitions, some of which may be of interest to industrial archaeologists – including a series of Heavy Metal Workshops concerned with particular manufacturers. Details from MERL or www.merl.org.uk/news