Industrial Heritage Days Also known as East Midlands Industrial Afternoon Tours Industrial Archaeology Conferences (EMIACs), held every Tour 1: A walking tour round the centre of History Society six months and are open to anyone with an to view various industrial interest in the subject wishing to attend buildings lead by a local industrial history INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE DAY The first conference was held in 1970 with the expert. The walk is approximately 2 miles and idea and aim of enabling industrial lasts about 1½ hours. – EMIAC 95 archaeologists in the East Midlands to meet in Tour 2: Foxton Locks different locations, to consider and discuss (www.goleicestershire.com/outdoors/foxton.as Keeping One in Suspenders! topics of mutual interest. There is no formal px). Drive to Foxton locks car park in own car, Saturday October 6 2018 organisation. The affiliated societies are: car park charges apply (approx. 5 miles) to view Roman Way Community Centre, Market  Derbyshire Archaeology Society locks, former incline plane and museum Harborough, LE16 7PQ  The East Midlands Group of the Railway & (entrance fee not included). The lock gates Canal Historical Society have recently been replaced and this is an  Northampton Industrial Archaeology opportunity to see the restoration. Group Tour 3: Visit the Market Harborough Museum  Society for Lincolnshire History & (www.harboroughmuseum.org.uk) located in Archaeology the Old Symington Corset factory, close (ie  Leicestershire Industrial History Society within walking distance) to the Community  North East Derbyshire Industrial Centre. The museum celebrates Market Archaeology Society Harborough’s long history as a centre of trade Leicestershire Industrial History Society and industry in the heart of the Welland Valley The Leicestershire Industrial History Society at the crossroads between Leicestershire and (LIHS) was founded in 1969. It is the main . It also houses the famous voluntary organisation within Leicestershire for Treasure, one of the most important the study and preservation of the County’s iron age discoveries in Britain. Admission to the industrial heritage. The Society is currently Museum is free and it closes at 16:00 on Our EMIAC day will look at the industries which excavating and recording the former Califat Saturdays. flourished in Market Harborough, the coal mine site at Swannington. You are restoration of The Old Grammar School, and welcome to visit the site during today’s the canal system which linked the town before conference and on working days, normally the the railways to the rest of Britain. second Tuesday in the month. Market Harborough Program EMIAC 95 Booking form First mentioned in the 12th Century with its name 09:00 - 09:30 Setting up book stalls and Keeping One in Suspenders! derived from Haver Burgh (oat hill), and it could be displays. described as a medieval new town with a wide High Please complete this form and post it to the address Street and wide open town square to contain the regular 09:00 - 09:30 Registration. below by September 29 2018 together with a cheque markets, and The Old Grammar School (1614) which has made payable to LIHS. 09:30 - 09:35 Welcome by Chris Hossack, become a symbol of the town. During the English Civil EMIAC 95, 3, The Orchard, Groby, Leicester War the town was plundered by Prince Rupert, and in Chairman of LIHS. 1645 Charles 1 made the town his headquarters before LE6 0BA 09:35 - 10:30 Rosalind Willatts. “Market the Battle of Naseby. The cost of the event is £15 per person. Any queries As the road system improved with the introduction of Harborough: the industries of please e-mail [email protected] turn piking, the town prospered as an important horse- a market town.” We will e-mail you your confirmation. If you do not have interchange point and many coaching inns were 10:30 - 11:15 Mike Stroud. “The Symington e-mail or would prefer to receive a written confirmation established. Twenty six coaches a day and many wagons by post, then please enclose an SAE. Directions and passed through the Angel Hotel alone, and in its heyday Brothers ‘From Soups to travel options will be included in your confirmation. there was accommodation for 90 horses, more than any Suspenders.’” other place in Leicestershire. The town was linked to the Name (s):______canal network in 1809, and by 1850 the railway from 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee and comfort break. Address: Rugby had opened, followed by connections to main ______towns in the East Midlands. 11:45 - 12:30 Bryan Martin. “Rebuilding of The Old Grammar School.” Speakers ______12:45 - 13:00 EMIAC business meeting. ______Rosalind Willatts is a geographer with very strong interests in history and the landscape, both urban and 13:00 - 14 00 Buffet Lunch (including Post code______rural. For over 22 years she was the Conservation Officer vegetarian dishes). E mail:______at Council (its first) where she studied the character of the local area. 14:00 - 14:45 Mike Beech. “Foxton Locks Telephone:______Mike Stroud is a Historian with an interest in Social and and the Harborough Arm.” Political History, particularly the Industrial Heritage of Society: ______South Leicestershire and North Northamptonshire. He 14:45 - 16:30 Afternoon tours. has written several published articles and gives talks on Market Harborough is easily accessible both by car and I require display space local Industry. Public transport. The A6 trunk road passes close and the Bryan Martin is an architect who masterminded the Please specify the afternoon tour you would like to M1 (junction 20) is about 10 miles away. recent major refurbishment of The Old Grammar School, participate in: 1 (Walk) / 2 (Museum) / 3 (Foxton) involving many specialist crafts people in the process. Market Harborough is on the Midland main line and the Disabled car park space required? If so please give car Mike Beech has long been associated with Foxton Locks station is about a mile away from the conference venue. registration no______(You must and the development of the museum, and has a huge The town is also well served by local and long distance produce a valid disabled badge when you arrive) knowledge of all things Foxton. buses. Would you like to be informed about future EMIAC events by e-mail.? YES / NO