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No 212 Nov 2016 1 www.sihg.org.uk 200 Years of Steam Locomotives Class 25 condensing locomotive of South African Railways, see page 10 Whittle and the Jet Engine - Alternative Perspectives Fig. 4 RR Derwent engine, see page 6 Newsletter 212 November 2016 2 Contents 2 Surrey Industrial History Group Officers 3 SIHG Leatherhead Meeetings 4 Venues, Times & Contacts 5 Whitgift Schoolboys’ and others’ visits to the Chipstead Valley Railway and the Kingswood tunnel under construction (part 2) by Paul W. Sowan 6 Whittle and the Jet Engine - Alternative Perspectives by Alan Thomas 7 New Online Guide to Dennis Bros Ltd by Surrey History Centre 9 & 11 Two Brewery Books 10 200 Years of Steam Locomotives by Peter Bosomworth report by Allan Wheeler 12 Diary November & December 2016 & January 2017 13 Re-Engineering Brooklands ENGINEERING SEASON AT THE V&A until 6 November 2016 www.vam.ac.uk/ (click <What’s On>) Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL The Engineering Season at the V&A celebrates the 'unsung heroes' of design that create and shape the built world. The exciting line-up includes a major retrospective of the engineering legend Ove Arup, a display highlighting the global impact of contemporary British engineers, a garden pavilion woven by a robot, and a packed events programme exploring some of the most advanced engineering taking place in the world today. 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 May 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! Please note that the diary section of the Newsletter now appears at the back, with reports and accounts of visits etc are now at the front. 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 212 November 2016 3 SIHG Newsletter No 212 November 2016 Enquires to Programme Co-ordinator Bob Bryson: [email protected]. 41st series at Guildford of SIHG Industrial Archaeology Lectures alternate Tuesdays, 19:30-21:30, 27 September 2016 - 16 March 2017 Education Centre, The Cathedral, Guildford (map: www.sihg.org.uk). Non-member £40 full fee, SyAS/SIHG member £35. Single lectures at £5, payable on the night, are open to all. The full programme, with exact dates, and application form are available online - www.sihg.org.uk/meetings.htm. Thursday Morning Lectures at Leatherhead, 10:00-12:00, 6 October - 15 December 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 November 3 Restoration of the Wey and Arun Canal – Alan Johnson, WACT 10 The Dennis Vehicle Company – Andy Goundry, ex Dennis 17 Motorcycle Development and Racing – Roger Bird, Brooklands Historian 24 The History of Smelly Gasworks – Ken Tythacott, SIHG December 1 The Construction of the Channel Tunnel – John Kennedy, ex W S Atkins 7 To Frack or not to Frack - Richard Rumble 15 Members’ talks 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London That Dreadful Fire: The Hand of God, a Great Wind and a Very Dry Season until 30 November at the Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury EC2V 7HH; 020 7332 1868/1870, [email protected] Open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: 09:30–17:00 also two Saturdays in November: 12th & 26th; Wednesdays: 09:30–19:30 Starting in a small bakery on Pudding Lane, the infamous Great Fire of London swept across the City of London over three days. Sir Christopher Wren’s flame-topped Monument stands in the City today, to mark this tragic event. Wooden buildings, stores of combustibles and overcrowding meant fires were a regular occurrence in 17th century London. Most were unremarkable. So when a chance fire started in a bakery on 2 September 1666, no one could know that it would wipe out most of the City of London. The exhibition explores the story of this devastation through Guildhall Library’s collections, including English and foreign accounts, sermons and public records. New Online Guide to Dennis Bros Ltd by Surrey History Centre from Di Stiff, Development Archivist Surrey History Centre The new online guide to the records of Dennis Bros Ltd has been prepared by Surrey History Centre and is now available on the Exploring Surrey’s Past website: http://preview.tinyurl.com/dennis-8. The guide gives a brief overview of the history of this most famous Surrey specialist vehicle manufacturer, along with how to trace records for a Dennis vehicle, a list of all the pertinent archive collections, a full bibliography, and useful web links. A range of Dennis postcards and pamphlets are still available from the Surrey Heritage online shop: http://preview.tinyurl.com/dennis-9. ¤ Dennis van for Sunlight Laundry, c.1935 (SHC ref 1463/GN/4/2/P5029) Newsletter 212 November 2016 4 Venues, Times & Contacts Leatherhead & District Local History Society (LDLHS): Most venues open 30 minute before the published time. meetings 20:00; £2; The Institute, 67 High Street, Leatherhead KT22 8AH; Leatherhead Museum, Ancient Technology Centre: 10:00-16:00; £6; Damerham Hampton Cottage, 64 Church Street, Leatherhead, Surrey, Road, Cranborne, Dorset BH21 5RP; (behind school); KT22 8DP; 01372 386348, 01725 517618, www.ancienttechnologycentre.co.uk. www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk; Anne of Cleves House: Tue-Sat 10:00-17:00, Sun-Mon 10:00- London Canal Museum: Open 10:00-16:30; Talks 19:30, £4/ 17:00; £5.20/£4.80; 52 Southover High Street, Lewes, £3; 12/13 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RT; Sussex BN7 1JA; 01273 474610. www.canalmuseum.org.uk; 0207 713 0836. Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) : London Museum of Water and Steam: www.industrial-archaeology.org/. Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middx TW8 0EN; Basingstoke Canal, Surrey & Hants Canal Society: 20:00, www.waterandsteam.org.uk; 020 8568 4757. free; the Pavilion, Recreation Ground, Station Road, Markfield Beam Engine and Museum: 11:00-17:00, cost? Chobham GU24 8AZ; www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk. Markfield Road, South Tottenham, London N15 4RB; Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group (BIAG): 19:30; www.mbeam.org; 01707 873 628. £2.50; Garden Room, Watlington House, Watlington Merton Historical Society: Street, Reading RG1 4RG ; www.biag.org.uk. www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/. Brooklands: open Summer 10:00-17:00, Winter 10:00-16:00; Michelham Priory Watermill: most afternoons, £7.80/£6.80; £11/£9.90; Brooklands Rd, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0QN; Upper Dicker, Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 3QS; www.brooklandsmuseum.com; 01932 857381. 01323 844224. Brunel Museum: Walks from Bermondsey Tube; just turn up Museum of English Rural Life (MERL): open Tue-Fri 09:00 Wed 16:30, Sun 10:45; £9/£7. -17:00, Sat-Sun 14:00-16:30, free/donation; Redlands Boat & train from Embankment tube station (not pier) for Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX, Brunel sites along the Thames; just turn up Tue/Thu/Sat www.reading.ac.uk/merl/; 0118 378 8660. 10:45; £9/£7 (+ transport costs). Museum: Railway Museum of London Docklands: Mon-Sun: 10:00-18:00; Avenue, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4LF; 020 7231 3840. no.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL; Bursledon Brickworks: Open days £5/£4, Thu £3/£2; Coal www.museumoflondon.org.uk/docklands, Park Lane, Swanwick, Southampton SO31 7GW; [email protected], 020 7001 9844. www.bursledonbrickworks.org.uk; 01489 576248. Newcomen Society Birmingham: Thinktank, (Birmingham Chatham Historic Dockyard: 10:00-18:00, £17.50/£15; Science Museum), Millennium Point, Aston University, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ; Curzon St, Birmingham, West Midlands B4 7XG www.thedockyard.co.uk; 01634 823800. Newcomen Society London: 17:45, free; Council for Kentish Archaeology (CKA): 7, Sandy Ridge, http://newcomen.com; new venue - The Dana Studio, Borough Green, TN15 8HP. The Dana Centre, 165 Queens Gate, London SW7 5HD. Crofton Beam Engines : 10:30-17:00; £8/£7; Crofton, Marl- Newcomen Society Portsmouth: 18:30; free; Portland borough, Wiltshire SN8 3DW. Building, University of Portsmouth, Saint James’s Street , Crossness Pumping Station : 10:30-16:00, £6; The Old Portsmouth PO1; http://newcomen.com. 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 Airport Society: www.historicdockyard.co.uk; 02392 728060. Visitor Centre: open some Sun, 11:00-16:00, free; Reigate Caves, Wealden Cave & Mine Society: Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon CR0 0XZ. Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society (CNHSS): some Sats, 10:00-16:00, £3/£2; 19:45; free? UR Church Hall, Addiscombe Grove, E Croy- Rural Life Centre: open Summer Wed-Sun 10:00-17:00 + don CR0 5LP; http://cnhss.co.uk; 0208 668 1431. Bank Holiday Mondays, Winter Wed/Sun 10:00-16:00; Didcot Railway Centre: 10:30-17:00; £10.00/£9.50; Didcot £8.50/£7.50; Old Kiln Museum, Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Parkway railway station, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 7NJ; Surrey GU10 2DL; www.rural-life.org.uk; 01252 795571.
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