WINTER MEETINGS 2008 - 09
All Meetings are held on Mondays at
the Salisbury Cycling and Social Club,
Salt Lane, Salisbury and start at
7.30pm. Non-members are very welcome
and we hope they will decide to join
the Society. A donation of £1 is
requested towards costs.
6 October: I.A. underground in
North Wiltshire
by Nick McCamley
The speaker has a wide interest in IA.
He has close connections with
underground structures and has a wide
knowledge of watermills on the Bristol
Avon around Bath. He gave a very
interesting talk to WANHS last year.
3 November: Member’s evening.
The annual opportunity for you to tell
us about anything you’ve found in the
world of Industrial Archaeology. We
will have a slide projector, overhead
projector and episcope available for
your transparencies and prints. Of
course if you have something to say
but no pictures suitable for
projection, we can always simply pass
documents round the audience.
1 December: Salisbury Maltings by
Douglas Jackson
The future of the area once occupied
by Williams Brother’ Maltings is yet
again being discussed in
the ‘Salisbury Vision’ to revitalize
the City. Some, at least, of those
proposing change do not realize how
short a time it is since Sainsburys
was constructed or what was there to
give the area its name. All will be
revealed.
2009
5 January: Members’ Social.
Please bring some items of food and an
IA story supported by pictures and
enjoy a seasonal session of IA
memories and discoveries. We will of
course concentrate on the stories
before the food and drink! The last
mentioned will be provided.
2 February: Turnpike Roads by Anne
Patterson
Anne researched this subject for the
Sarum U3A as part of a
project “Communications and Transport
in and around Salisbury”. It is nearly
30 years since the Society published
John Chandler’s monographs on this
subject so a fresh look at it is long
overdue.
2 March: The Line through the Peak,
by Chris Rouse.
The Midland Railway built the line
from Ambergate to Chinley in the
Derbyshire Peak District passing
through beautiful limestone hills,
which posed particular problems for
the Victorian engineers. The line from
Matlock to Rowsley is now a preserved
railway but the rest is just a walking
and cycling path.
6 April: Annual General Meeting.
The AGM will follow the usual format
with the business of the Society being
reviewed and elections held for the
committee. We then expect to have a
film of an old industry but have not
finalised the arrangements.
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