There some Society events and cooperations with events run by other people.
A new programme of Summer activities for the 2008 Season will be published in Spring 2008
Sheffield lecture events will be at Kelham Island Industrial Museum, starting at 7:30 p.m.. If you need directions to the museum, please contact Derek Bayliss (0114 230 7693). *A minimum admission charge of £1.00 will be requested from non members attending these lecture events.
Street map of Sheffield- Kelham Island is ringed in red
Sundays until Bonfire Night 2007 (4th November) 11.00am to 5.00 pm. Open days at Wortley Top Forge.
To arrange a group visit at other times contact Gordon Parkinson on (0114) 281 7991. Forge information line (0114) 288 7576.
AGM. Monday 15th October. Annual General Meeting followed by Presidential Address
Paul Farr - Our 30 Years Pearl Anniversary
CONFERENCE. Saturday 3rd November. South Yorkshire Archaeology Day 2007
10.00 am to 4.30 pm, at the Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield. Fee £10.00, concessions £5.00. Organised by South Yorkshire Archaeology Service. Details from Sam Dixon, (0114) 273 4223.
LECTURE. Monday 19th November. * Rockley Furnace - David Crossley
To mark 50 years of the Society's ownership of the Rockley site.
EVENT. Sunday 9th December. 11.00am to 5:00pm Christmas at Wortley Top Forge.
A Pre-Christmas event with Santa and other attractions.
LECTURE. Monday 10th December * Swedish iron for Sheffield Steel: Why pay more? - Rod Mackenzie.
LECTURE. Monday 21st January. * Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers - revisited. - Christine Ball.
LECTURE. Monday 18th February. * Building bridges: a Sheffield speciality. - Dr Alan Wood.
MEMORIAL LECTURE. Tuesday 18th March. From Cutlery to Steel City: Sheffield in the 18th century. - Professor David Hey.
The seventeenth Dr Kenneth Barraclough Memorial Lecture.
A joint meeting with the SMEA. 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm at the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield.
LECTURE. Monday 21st April * 'Convince Sheffield and convert the world' - a 150th anniversary celebration of the start of commercial Bessemer steelmaking. - Trevor Lodge.
LECTURE. Monday 19th May * Mining and Quarrying on Ringinglow and in the Porter valley. - Peter Kennett.
The Barnsley Programme
The Barnsley lectures will begin at 7.00 pm. Please note the different venues.
LECTURE. Monday 3rd December. * By tram from Beauchief to Barnsley. - Graham Hague.
The lecture will be in the Large Room, Central Library, Shambles Street, Barnsley.
LECTURE. Monday 31st March. Lime burning at the former Cawthorne (Barnby) canal basin and its early Victorian puzzles. Harald Taylor.
This is The Joseph Bramah Lecture. Sponsored by Barnsley MBC and presented jointly with the Society to commemorate the great engineer (1749 - 1814), who was born in Stainborough. The lecture will be at the Cooper Gallery, Church Street, Barnsley.
Joint meeting with Rotherham Local History Council
LECTURE. Saturday 16th February. The story of Sheffield's Industrial Museums. - John Hamshere (Executive Director Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust). The meeting will be at 10.30 am at Rotherham Central Library and Arts Centre.
Robin Fielder will be running a WEA class, Sheffield History fron the Start -- Life and Work, at two venues:
Woodseats Primary School, Chesterfield Road, Sheffield at 7.00 pm on Tuesday evenings from Tuesday 25th September, and
WEA Sheffield Learning Centre, 3 Vicarage Road, off Newhall Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield, at 1.00 pm on Wednesdays from Wednesday26th September
For further information contact Robin Fielder (0114) 258 0575.
Street Map of Rotherham - Library is Ringed in red
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