GREENWICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY SPEAKER PROGRAMME

8^th April.  Julia Elton. Severndroog Castle and lighthouses. 

    Julia’s recent research on lighthouses has revealed a previously unknown link.

 

13^th May  Mary Mills.  George Livesey.  South London's revolutionary gas manager.

    His biography is the subject of her latest book

10^th June Mark Stevenson Recent work in local sites of interest.  

    Mark is Archaeology Advisor Historic England South London.

8^th July  Ian Craig ‘The Watkins family and Ship Towage on the Thames.    

     This will include information on preserved steam tug, Cervia.

9^th September Richard Allen.  The North Kent Line.

Among other things Richard has been studying work on the tunnel between Blackheath Station and Charlton.

9^th December Alan Burkitt Gray. Scheduling the Enderby winding gear.

            With, hopefully, news of success and further work.

 

All talks will be by zoom at 7 thirty bookings can be made on the Greenwich Industrial History Facebook page and information on how to get the link will be posted there in the week before the talk 

also.  SATURDAY 12th APRIL at 11.00 JOHN KENNETT of Eltham will be conducting one of his notable walks on the Progress Estate.  Meeting outside the Co-op at Well Hall at 11.00.  If you plan to attend, it is very helpful to let us, or John and Marion, know to expect you.