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CIAS
: Events 2011-12
Autumn/Winter
Programme
10
Oct.
Monday
7.30
pm |
Subject:
- Industry before the Industrial Revolution: some archaeological
evidence
from the North East
Venue:
- St. Mary's Centre, Corporation
Road , Middlesbrough |
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Speaker:
- Dr Justine Bayley
The
lecture will concentrate on metal and glass working in Yorkshire,
Cleveland , County Durham and Northumberland but will compare what
is known from that area with information available for the rest
of the country.
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7
Nov.
Monday
7.30
pm |
Subject:
- Innovation in the Alum Industry..??
Venue:
- St. Mary's Centre, Corporation
Road , Middlesbrough
Speaker:
- David Pybus
The
received wisdom is that attempts by the alum industry to innovate
usually resulted in disaster, causing experiments to be abandoned
so the process at the end of the industry was roughly similar to
that at the start.
New
work shows that the alum industry was at several times at the leading
edge of scientific understanding and process development and was
influential in the development of modern science.
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5
Dec.
Monday
7.30
pm |
Subject:
- The Blast Furnace
Venue:
- St. Mary's Centre, Corporation
Road , Middlesbrough
Speaker:
- Ian Macdonald
The
lecture is based on the images of the working blast furnace and
the men involved prior to its closure in February 2010
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16
Jan.
2012
Monday
7.30
pm |
Subject:
- John Waddell, Railway Contractor
Venue:
- St. Mary's Centre, Corporation
Road , Middlesbrough
Speaker:
- Charles McNab
Who
was Paddy Waddell ? He was not just the contractor who started to
build a railway across the North Yorkshire moors, and never finished
it. He did finish the now abandoned railway along the coast from
Loftus to Scarborough . He was the builder of the Mersey tunnel,
the railway bridge at Sunderland, and other railway works around
Edinburgh and London . |
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13
Feb.
Monday
7.30
pm |
Subject:
- Nesham & Welsh of Stockton
Venue:
- St. Mary's Centre, Corporation
Road , Middlesbrough
Speaker:
- Alan Betteney
The
lecture will cover the history of the short lived ironworks, prefaced
by the family background in the Durham collieries together with
the story of their waggonways and the disasters that befell the
collieries.
The company was closely involved with the S&D Railway and built
an unusual bridge at Hartlepool . Nesham also dabbled briefly in
Cleveland Ironstone. All this and more is covered in this illustrated
talk.
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12
March
Monday
7.30
pm |
Subject
: - Redcar area
Gas Works
Venue:
- St. Mary's Centre, Corporation
Road , Middlesbrough
Speaker:
- David Tomlin
Coal
Gas was first produced at Redcar in 1857 to light the houses and
streets of the town. With the railway extension to Saltburn in 1861
a small gas works was built at Marske to supply that village and
also Saltburn. This was taken over in 1878 by the Redcar Gas Company
and the full title became the Redcar Coatham Marske and Saltburn
Gas Co. In 1922 the Redcar Urban District Council bought the gas company.
Unusually for a while the supply of gas was supplemented by gas
from the Warrenby iron works
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If
the weather conditions are adverse please check the local media
or
contact the venue to confirm that the meeting is still on.
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