WADIHS Watford & District
Industrial History Society
Outings




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
Flying Legends air show


Stoke Industrial Heritage Weekend
Friday 14 Setember - Sunday 16 September 2007
Based at Haydon House Hotel
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
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
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
Mushroom Green Industrial Hamlet, 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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