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No 215 Aug 2017 1 www.sihg.org.uk Our Vice Chairman Pam Taylor presenting the 2017 SIHG Conservation Award Plaque to Norman Emblow, leader of the project to remove and reconstruct Deek’s Frimley Green Cycle Workshop. Vic Deeks was the last of the family to run the shop, which ceased trading in 2002. He died in 2007 and in 2011 his daughters, Judith and Ann, donated the building and its contents to the Rural Life Centre. Photo John Bourne 15 July 2017. Contents 1 SIHG AGM & Conservation Award 2017 to the Rural Life Centre’s reconstruction of Deek’s Frimley Green Cycle Workshop 2 SIHG Meeetings; Surrey Industrial History Group Officers 3 Venues, Times & Contacts of other organizations 4 Parson’s Steam Turbine by Bob Bryson 5 The PilgrimsProgress: The Pilgrims Way Motor Company by Peter Minett 8 World War 2 Tank Dug Up at Denbies Vineyard by Jan Spencer Newsletter 215 August 2017 2 SIHG Newsletter No 215 August 2017 Enquires to Programme Co-ordinator Bob Bryson: 01483 577809, [email protected]. SIHG Industrial Archaeology Lectures at Guildford alternate Tuesdays, 19:30-21:30 Education Centre, The Cathedral, Guildford (map: www.sihg.org.uk). Single lectures at £5, payable on the night, are open to all. The 42nd season starts on 10 October 2017 10 October The R101 Disaster and the Broken Elevator Cable Dr Bryan Lawton, Newcomen Society 24 October The River Thames Society and the River Thames Peter Finch, Chairman RTS 31 October History of Croydon, London’s Main Airport 1920s & 1930s Peter Skinner, Archivist, Historic Croydon Airport Trust 14 November Strange Planes Colin van Geffen, Aviation Artist and Enthusiast 21 November Tales and Trails of the Tillingbourne Valley Project Dr Anne Sassin, Surrey Hills 12 December Members’ Talks Evening - Free to all lecture attendees Short talks by members plus refreshments Thursday Morning Lectures at Leatherhead, 10:00-12:00, 5 October - 14 December 2017 Room G6 The Institute, 67 High Street Leatherhead KT22 8AH Non-member full fee £50 SIHG member £45. Please note that attendance is for the full course only 5 October Maidstone, Gravesend and Rochester Proposed Airports in Kent that failed to take off James Preston 12 October Development of Containerisation and the fall of the Pioneer British Companies Richard Mellor 19 October Regency Revels - the drama at the opening of the Regents Canal Lester Hillman 26 October (Half Term) 2 November (tba) 9 November (tba) 16 November The “Railway Man” Eric Lomax - The Beginnings of his interest in Railways Michael Bailey 23 November (tba) 30 November (tba) 7 December The BP Deep Water Horizon Incident Richard Rumble 14 December Members’ short talks New pattern of publication for the Surrey Industrial History Group Newsletter. The Newsletter is now issued quarterly, covering: February, March & April May, June & July August, September & October November, December & January Many thanks to all who have sent in contributions. Please send in reports or photos of holiday visits or thoughts on local, national or international Industrial Archaeology by 20 October 2017 for the next SIHG Newsletter! Any articles or images, whether long or just a a brief note will be appreciated - both by the editor and by the readers! Surrey Industrial History Group Officers Chairman, Lectures Organiser & Sales: Robert Bryson [email protected] Secretary: Hugh Anscombe [email protected] Treasurer: (vacant) Acting Treasurer: Robert Bryson ([email protected]) Vice Chairman & Membership Secretary: Pam Taylor [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Jan Spencer [email protected] SIHG is a group of the Surrey Archaeological Society, Registered Charity No 272098 - Castle Arch Guildford Surrey GU1 3SX Group President: Prof AG Crocker FSA Published by Surrey Industrial History Group, printed by YesPrint 3 Leafy Oak Workshops Cobbetts Lane Yateley GU17 9LW © SIHG 2017 ISSN 1355-8188 Newsletter 215 August 2017 3 Venues, Times & Contacts Most venues open 30 minute before the published time. Albury History Society: 20:00; Albury Village Hall, Inland Waterways Association (IWA): £10/£8; no prior The Street, Albury, Guildford, Surrey GU5 9AD; booking required; www.waterways.org.uk; 0203 612 9624. http://alburyhistory.org.uk/; Margaret Clarke, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Enginuity: 01483 202 294, [email protected]. 10:00-17:00, Ironbridge, Sat Nav TF8 7DQ, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre: 10:00-17:00; £11/ www.ironbridge.org.uk, 01952 433424 £10; Amberley Railway Station BN18 9L; Kent Archaeological Society (KAS): www.amberleymuseum.co.uk; 01798 831370. http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk. Ancient Technology Centre: 10:00-16:00; £6; Damerham Kempton Steam Museum: 10:30-16:00, £7/£6; Snakey Lane, Road, Cranborne, Dorset BH21 5RP; (behind school); off elevated section of A316, Hanworth, Middx; entrance 01725 517618, www.ancienttechnologycentre.co.uk. TW13 7ND; www.kemptonsteam.org; 01932 765328. Basingstoke Canal Society: 20:00; Parish Pavilion, London Bus Museum: see Brooklands. Recreation Ground, Station Road, Chobham, GU24 8AJ; London Canal Museum: Open 10:00-16:30; Talks 19:30, www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk/, contact - Malcolm £4/£3; 12/13 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RT; Brickwood, [email protected], 07437 200021. www.canalmuseum.org.uk; 0207 713 0836. BIAG, Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group: 19:30; London Museum of Water and Steam: £2-50; St Mary's Church Hall, Castle Street, Reading, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middx RG1 7RD; www.biag.org.uk. TW8 0EN; www.waterandsteam.org.uk; 020 8568 4757. Brixton Windmill: second weekend of every month, plus a Mapledurham, Watermill & House : £9-50/£8-00; 14:00- few extra dates; free; full tour must be booked in advance; 17:30; Sats, Suns & Bank Hols; Mapledurham, Reading drop in for short tour; Windmill Gardens, West end of RG4 7TR; www.mapledurham.co.uk/the-water-mill, Blenheim Gardens, Off Brixton Hill, London SW2 5EU; 0118 972 3350 or www.mapledurhamwatermill.co.uk, www.brixtonwindmill.org/. 07710717149. Brooklands: open Summer 10:00-17:00, Winter 10:00-16:00; Museum of English Rural Life (MERL): open Tue-Fri 09:00 £11/£9.90; Brooklands Rd, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0QN; -17:00, Sat-Sun 14:00-16:30, free/donation; Redlands www.brooklandsmuseum.com; 01932 857381. Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX, Brunel Museum: Walks from Bermondsey Tube; just turn up www.reading.ac.uk/merl/; 0118 378 8660. Wed 16:30, Sun 10:45; £9/£7. Boat & train from Embank- Museum of London Docklands: Mon-Sun: 10:00-18:00; no.1 ment tube station (not pier) for Brunel sites along Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL; the Thames; just turn up Tue/Thu/Sat 10:45; £9/£7 (+ www.museumoflondon.org.uk/docklands, transport costs). Museum: Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, [email protected], 020 7001 9844. London SE16 4LF; 020 7231 3840. Newcomen Society Birmingham: Thinktank, (Birmingham Bursledon Brickworks: steam days £6/£5, open days £4/£3; Science Museum), Millennium Point, Aston University, Coal Park Lane, Swanwick, Southampton SO31 7GW; Curzon Street, Birmingham, W Midlands B4 7XG www.bursledonbrickworks.org.uk; 01489 576248. Newcomen Society London: 17:45, free; http:// Chatham Historic Dockyard: newcomen.com; new venue - The Dana Studio, The Dana 10:00-18:00, £22/£19-50; Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ; Centre, 165 Queens Gate, London SW7 5HD. www.thedockyard.co.uk; 01634 823800. New River Action Group: http://newriver.org.uk/nr/; Council for Kentish Archaeology (CKA): 7, Sandy Ridge, Bob Hare, 020 8348 2710 / 07870 157 Borough Green, TN15 8HP. 703; [email protected] Crofton Beam Engines : 10:30-17:00; £8/£7; Painshill Park: 10:00-16:00; £8/£7, Crofton, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 3DW. Between Streets, Cobham, Surrey KT11 1JE; Crossness Pumping Station : 10:30-16:00, £8; The Old 01932 868 113, www.painshill.co.uk/. Works, Crossness STW, Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard : 10:00-17:30, site ticket, London SE2 9AQ; www.crossness.org.uk; 020 8311 3711. annual £28/£26; HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LJ; Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society (CNHSS): www.historicdockyard.co.uk; 02392 728060. 19:45; free? UR Church Hall, Addiscombe Grove, E Croy- Reigate Caves, Wealden Cave & Mine Society: don CR0 5LP; http://cnhss.co.uk; 0208 668 1431. some Sats, 10:00-16:00, £3/£2; Didcot Railway Centre: 10:30-17:00; £10-00/£9-50; Didcot Royal Gunpowder Mills: 10:00-17:00; Beaulieu Drive, Wal- Parkway railway station, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 7NJ; tham Abbey, Essex, EN9 1JY; £10.50/£9; www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk; 01235-817200. www.royalgunpowdermills.com/. Docklands History Group: 18:00, £2; Museum of London Rural Life Centre: open Summer Wed-Sun 10:00-17:00 + Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Bank Holiday Mondays, Winter Wed/Sun 10:00-16:00; Hertsmere Rd, Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL; £8-50/£7-50; Old Kiln Museum, Reeds Road, www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk; 01689 851982. Tilford, Farnham, Surrey GU10 2DL; Gatwick Aviation Museum: Open Friday, Saturday and Sun- www.rural-life.org.uk; 01252 795571. days; 09:30-15:30; £7-50; Vallance-Byways, Lowfield SPAB Mills Section: www.spab.org.uk/spab-mills/ Heath Road, Charlwood RH6 0BT; http://www.gatwick- STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway: aviation-museum.co.uk/; 01293 862417. 10:00-16:00, £8/£6-50; Kemble Drive, Swindon SN2 2TA; GLIAS, Greater London Industrial History Society: 18:00; www.steam-museum.org.uk; 01793 466 646. The Gallery, Alan Baxter Associates, 75 Cowcross Street Subterranea Britannica: www.subbrit.org.uk. (through the archway and in the basement at the rear Sussex Industrial Archaeological Society (SIAS) : of the building), Farringdon, EC1; info Tim Sidaway, www.sussexias.co.uk. [email protected]; www.glias.org.uk.