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Newsletter 100, Spring 2013 © Hampshire Mills Group |
S.P.A.B. Mills Section in Spring 2013
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Why
join the SPAB? The Mills Section offers
opportunities to support vital maintenance and
restoration funding of windmills and watermills
whose volunteers or trustees are SPAB members; plus,
an enormous wealth of knowledge is on hand through
its long serving enthusiasts, encompassing
millwrights, mill owners, conservation workers and
researchers. At several events each year members
get the chance to meet, chew over problems and their
answers, updates and anecdotes and also to enjoy
days of presentations on recent conservation
projects,
current topics common to all and mill
maintenance workshops from millwrights,. There are
also annual mill tours (at home or abroad) giving
experiences of milling in all their diversities. In
short, The Mills Section forms the bedrock of
sharing living molinological knowledge. The first
of the 2013 events is the
Spring
Meeting
on
Saturday
9th March
which includes a talk by Elizabeth Trout from the
Mills Archive, plus
updates from Mills Groups and members - plus our own
David Plunkett who will be contributing to this with
items on various Hampshire mills (with slides),
and a selection of titles to purchase at the
Mills Archive Bookshop.
Starting at 10.30 (after a cup of coffee and
registration), followed by a wide variety of
presentations under the heading
Tales from the Mill,
which takes in Holgate Mill’s restoration; the
day’s events will be rounded off with a session on
watermills by renowned author and consultant
millwright, Martin Watts, ending at 4.30pm. The
cost for the whole day is £45 and the venue is:
The
Gallery, 75 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL . The full programme can be downloaded and you can
book online at
millsinfo@spab.org.uk,
or telephone on:
020 7377 1644. |
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Annual South West and Wales Regional Industrial
Archaeology Conference
Saturday April 20th 2013
is being held at
The Frys Club, Somerdale Road (off Station
Road), Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2AU
Bristol Industrial Archeology Society (BIAS) are
organising the conference this year and the day’s
line up of events include:
Speakers from each of the regional AIAs: Richard Sims, Mike
Chapman, Hamish Orr-Ewing, John Willows and Stuart
Burroughs who will talk on Crewkerne textiles,
Somerset coal, brewery buildings, Weymouth water and
the future of industrial museums, respectively.
There are two projected site visits, to Warmley
Museum and Brandy Bottom Colliery, plus a walk
around Keynsham to round off the day.
Contact Graham Vincent for details and to book.
grathetrain@gmail.com.
The BIAS
website is:
http://www.b-i-a-s.org.uk/
Richard
Sims is renowned for his books on the rope
industries which once encompassed Dorset, Hampshire
and Somerset, now being revitalised by the villagers
at East Coker who have restored the main Rope &
Twine works there.
The only knowledge
of Keynsham for many of us is that Horace Batchelor,
the self-styled pools winner, lived there – ah, the
heady teenage days with Radio Luxembourg’s whistling
and wavering airwaves with Horace advertising his
skill to help us win millions and carefully spelling
out K e y n s h a m, Bristol. Well, now’s the
chance to see and learn about this hitherto mystical
place in a guided walk after a fascinating set of
talks. – Sheila.
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