Open Days at Wortley Top Forge. Contact : Gordon Parkinson 2817991 or Ted Young 01226 763896.
There some Society events and cooperations with events run by other people.
A new programme of Summer activities for the 2012 Season will be published in Spring 2012.
Sat. September 24th Down by the Riverside 52011 - 2012 Winter Programme
Sheffield programme
Events marked * are Society/Trust events.
Sheffield lectures will be at Kelham Island Museum and will begin at 7.30 pm, except where otherwise indicated. If you need directions to the Museum, please contact Derek Bayliss.
Upper Don Walk Trust event at Kelham Island Museum, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. Free entry. The Society will have a stall.
Thurs. October 13th J G Graves (businessman and benefactor)
Talk by Mike Spick to Victorian Society. 7.30 pm, at St Matthew’s church hall, Carver Street. Admission £2, which includes tea or coffee.
Mon. October 17th Annual General Meeting
Followed by Presidential Address
Tues. October 18th Saving a Century:
Victorian Society Golden Jubilee exhibition. to Fri. October 28th Winter Gardens. Free entry.
Mon. November 21st * Making pocket knives today
Grace Horne
Sat. November 26th South Yorkshire Archaeology Day 2011
10.00 am to 4.30 pm, at the Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield. Organised by South Yorkshire Archaeology Service. Fee £10, concessions £5. Advance booking strongly recommended. Details from David Marsh, tel. 0114 273 4223.
Mon. December 12th * Portland Works: past, present, and a future in the balance
Derek Morton and colleagues
Mon. January 16th * Shepherd Wheel: its history and restoration
David Crossley
Mon. February 20th *What does an archaeometallurgist do?
Rod Mackenzie
Tues. March 20th Water, weirs and wheels: preserving the past of Sheffield’s industrial museums
John Hamshere
The twenty-first Dr Kenneth Barraclough Memorial Lecture Joint meeting with the SMEA
5.30 pm for 6.00 pm, at the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria Hotel
Mon. April 16th * The technology of the country house
Marilyn Palmer
Mon. May 21st * The coal mines of Buxton
Alan Roberts
Barnsley programme
Sun. December 11th Christmas at Wortley Top Forge
A pre-Christmas event with Santa and many other attractions. 11.00 am – 4.00 pm.
The Barnsley lectures begin at 7.00 pm. Please note the different venues.
Mon. March 5th * The Thurgoland wire mills
Maurice Williams
The lecture will be at Salem Wesleyan Reform Church, Blucher Street, off Pitt Street, Barnsley
Mon. April 2nd Ten years of guided tours: the Newcomen engine at Elsecar
Richard Lamb
Joseph Bramah Lecture
Sponsored by Barnsley Council and presented jointly with the Society, to commemorate the great engineer Joseph Bramah (1749-1814), who was born at Stainborough. This year’s lecture marks the 300th anniversary of Newcomen’s first atmospheric engine.
The lecture will be at the Cooper Gallery, Church Street, Barnsley
Rotherham programme
Sat. October 15th Rotherham Local History Fair
Rotherham Minster, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. The Society will have a stall.
Sat. February 18th The Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation
Mike Taylor
Joint meeting with Rotherham & District History Society.
The lecture will be at 10.30 am, at the RAIN Building, Eastwood Lane, between the Markets and Rotherham College. Please note the new venue.
At lectures marked * there will be a minimum admission charge of £2.00 for non-members.
Programme Secretary (winter): Derek Bayliss. Tel. 0114 230 7693
Email v.bayliss@btinternet.com
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