WADIHS outings

WADIHS

Watford & District
Industrial History Society

Outings

2010	Saturday 1 May 2010 Black Country Museum Tipton Road, Dudley Cosford Air Museum West Midlands Saturday 12 June 2010 Whitchurch Silk Mill on the River Test at Whitchurch and more here Milestones Museum Basingstoke, Museum of Living History Saturday 17 July 2010 Haynes International Motor Museum at Sparkford in Somerset Fleet Air Arm Museum RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovil, Somerset WADIHS weekend 1-3 October 2010 Based at Millfields Hotel, 53 Bargate, Grimsby. DN34 5AD. Tel 01472 356068. Read the full details (35 K Word document) before booking ! Possible attractions include: Saturday 2 October 2010 The Industries Buildings and Bridges of South Humberside Keadby "Scherzer" rolling lift bridge Keadby Canal railway drawbridge and signal box Horkstow suspension bridge (John Rennie - 1834) over New River Ancholme Appleby and Frodingham Railway Wrawby Postmill Barton-upon-Humber waterside and haven (Optional Extra) Barton-upon-Humber town walk Sunday 3 October 2010 Grimsby Docks and Town National Heritage Fishing Museum Grimsby Trawler "Ross Tiger" Corporation Bridge (bascule type lift bridge) Grimsby Dock walk to view surviving buildings and structures Victorian Grimsby - People's Park and fishing fleet skippers' houses Waltham mill, a six sailed tower mill of 1880 Organisers: Chris Jordan and George Crutcher Please register your interest with either organiser as soon as possible.
2009	Saturday 2 May 2009 Solent Sky Aviation Museum Calshot Spit Saturday 27 June 2009 Crich tramway village home of the National Tramway Museum Denby pottery tour, food, drink, factory shop Saturday 25 July 2009 Coventry transport museum the world's largest collection of British road transport Midland Air Museum at Coventry airport near Baginton National Waterways Museum at Stoke Bruerne WADIHS weekend 12-13 September 2009 Venue: The Royal Sportsman Hotel which is located in the centre of Porthmadog at the quieter end of the High Street. The main part of this Victorian Hotel was built in 1862. Sygun Copper Mine, 2 km from Beddgelert, is a Victorian copper mine that was closed in 1903. Gorseddau Slate Quarry The Gorseddau Tramway which was a 3 ft gauge railway built in 1856 to link the slate quarries around Gorseddau with the wharves at Porthmadog. The National Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu in the 19th century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic slate quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd. The museum has the largest working waterwheel in mainland Britain. Other options: walk up Snowdon take a trip on the lake railway Organiser: Chris Jordan
2008	Wednesday 9 April 2008 Bentley Priory Apsley Paper Mills Sunday 22 June 2008 Museum of Army Flying Middle Wallop Watercress Line Alresford, Hampshire Sunday 20 July 2008 Oxford Bus Museum at Long Hanborough Blenheim Steam Sawmill at Long Hanborough Combe Mill Didcot Railway Museum on a steam day WADIHS weekend 5-7 September Sheffield at the cutting edge A weekend of stone steel, streams and steam. Friday 5 September 2008 a.m. David Mellor cutlery works at Hathersage p.m. A walk to old millstone grit quarries Saturday 6 September 2008 a.m. Kelham Island Museum (if open) or Guided walk around central Sheffield to look at the buildings of the cutlery industry p.m. Shepherds Wheel an 18th century water powered "grinding hull" Sunday 7 September 2008 a.m. Abbeydale Hamlet p.m. Barrow Hill Roundhouse Organiser: George Crutcher
2007	Saturday 19 May 2007 British Empire & Commonwealth Museum Brunel's Old Bristol Station SS Great Britain Bristol Ferry Boat tour Sunday 17 June 2007 Snibston Discovery Park, Coalville Birmingham canal trip Saturday 7 July 2007 Imperial War Museum, Duxford Stoke Industrial Heritage Weekend Friday 14 Setember - Sunday 16 September 2007 Based at Haydon House Hotel Wedgwood Visitor Centre Stoke Museum Spode Museum Etruria Industrial Museum, Cheddleton Churnet Valley Railway Apedale Heritage Centre, Chesterton Brindley Water Mill, Leek Organiser: Chris Jordan
2006	Monday 22 May 2006 National Motorcycle Museum, Bickenhill, Solihull The Severn Valley Railway Lunch at Kidderminster Station Taking the 14:20 train to Bridgnorth Sunday 18 June 2006 The Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon The Forge Mill Needle Museum at Redditch and also the Bordesley Abbey Visitor Centre The Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings Sunday 23 July 2006 The Croydon Airport Terminal The Deal timeball tower and Maritime museum The Dover Transport Museum
2005	Friday 20 May 2005 The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Co Ltd Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre and Museum Friday 24 June 2005 The Wilton Carpet Factory The Army Signals Museum Blandford Camp The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum Friday 8 July 2005 St Edmundsbury Cathedral The Regency Theatre Royal The Greene King Brewery Sunday 24 July 2005 The Bluebell Railway Amberley Chalk Pits Museum White Cliffs Weekend 16-18 September 2005 Based at the Ramada Hotel in Dover White Cliffs Visitor Centre South Foreland Lighthouse Bleriot memorial De Bradelei Pier harbour tour on the Southern Queen guided tour of old dock Samphire Hoe Crabble Corn Mill Capel le Ferne Lunch at the Mariners, Quayside, Folkestone visit the harbour and cliff lift, Folkestone
2004	23 May 2004 Birmingham Jewellery Quarter The Pen Room RAF Cosford Aircraft Museum 27 June 2004 Leicester: Abbey Beam Engine Pumping Station The National Space Centre Guided open-top bus tour of Leicester 25 July 2004 Swindon Railway Museum Crofton Beam Engines 17-19 September 2004 Forest of Dean based at Clearwell near Coleford Bullo Pill, a Forest of Dean coal and timber port Lydney Docks Forest of Dean Railway at Lydney lunch at the Fountain Inn, Parkend Hopewell Colliery Dark Hill Iron Works guided by Keith Webb Forest of Dean Iron Mining Museum, Clearwell Caves, where ochre is mined Kingfisher Cruises Symonds Yat lunch and commentary Tintern walk
2003	11 May 2003 National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire Derby Industrial Museum 22 June Rural Life Museum, Gressenhall, Norfolk Mid Norfolk Railway, Dereham our visit 17 July 2003 BMW Body Pressing Plant, Swindon Milestones, Museum of Hampshire Life, Basingstoke 3 - 5 October 2003 Black Country: Red Cone Museum and Stuart Crystal Glassworks, Stourbridge National Lock Museum, Willenhall Leather Museum, Walsall Bumblehole via the Netherton Canal Tunnel (a walk through !) to Tividale Lunch at the Old Swan, Netherton Walsall Illuminations and Arboretum Cradley Heath, chain making The Bratch, Staffs. and Worcs. canal
2002	12 May 2002 Manningtree Nuclear Bunker, Mistley Secret Bunker (now closed) The Maritime Museum and Redoubt Fort, Harwich Thorrington Tide Mill 23 June 2002 The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey The Crossness Pumping Station The Thames Barrier 20 July 2002 Pinchbeck Engine and Land Drainage Museum, Spalding Crowland Bridge Heckington Windmill, Heckington, Sleaford The Battle of Britain Flight Museum, RAF Coningsby Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirby Sibsey Trader Windmill 4 - 6 October 2002 Nottingham: Lace Market Centre and guided walk around the Lace Market area Lunch - The Old Trip to Jerusalem Brewhouse Yard Museum Underground tour of the Nottingham sandstone caves Wollaton Hall and Park Nottingham Industrial Museum Great Central Railway - Loughborough to Leicester North Old Union Canal, Foxton (staircases of locks)

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