GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY
AUTUMN MEETINGS 2020
All meetings will be virtual, held
via Facebook Live, YouTube, Zoom or similar technology (technology to be
decided).
Video attendance will be free of
charge, live as they are delivered, and each meeting will be recorded for free
viewing afterwards.
For full details, see http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.com/ or see our Facebook group at https://tinyurl.com/GIHSoc
We hope to resume in-person meetings
in 2021, depending on current laws about meetings, but we want to continue to
make meetings available online at the same time.
There will be no charge for any GIHS meetings,
live or virtual, at least through to the summer of 2021.
Tuesday 13 October
Starting online at 19:30
Greenwich and Woolwich, the
birthplace of the global telecoms industry and the internet
The global network that we now call
the internet was built in factories along the river in Greenwich, Charlton and
North Woolwich. One of them is almost certainly the oldest working factory in
the industry. And the optical fibre technology that the internet uses today was
invented by an electronics engineer trained in Woolwich and North Woolwich.
Alan Burkitt-Gray, SE London-based
telecoms and technology journalist and secretary of GIHS
Tuesday 10 November
Starting online at 19:30
Greenwich Marsh to Greenwich
Peninsula – 300 years of regeneration
The Greenwich peninsula, now the home
to the O2, North Greenwich station, hotels, endless blocks of flats and tunnels
to the other side of the river, has been the scene of industry for a thousand
years – with tide mills and factories that made gunpowder, rope, soap,
linoleum, concrete and steel, not to mention the gasworks.
Dr Mary Mills,
industrial historian and joint chair of GIHS
Tuesday 8 December
Starting online at 19:30
The Eastern Telegraph Company’s first
cable system – the Red Sea Line to India
It’s 150 years this year since the UK
was first connected directly to India, via Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Aden
and the Indian Ocean. The cable was made in Greenwich – and the Aden-Mumbai
stretch was laid by the Great Eastern, the Brunel’s paddle steamer that was
built on the Isle of Dogs.
Stewart Ash, SE
London-based submarine cable consultant and historian
1 comment:
Hi there, I'd love to watch this as I worked at both Siemens (AEI Woolwich) at its closure in 1967 and STC Greenwich (the old Telcon Works)in Christchurch Way, SE10 for what was STC's Hydrospace Division, still involved with ships' cable-laying equipment. CS Faraday was moored up alongside my office there in 1976 but by then its hull was full of concrete. Also by then, armoured Submarine cable production had been moved to STC's Southampton works but light copper wire Sonar-buoy and Repeater production was still being done at the Greenwich site. Please could you send me the Zoom details. Thank you. Roland Silcox
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