EVENTs
VISITS BY THE TRANSPORT HISTORY GROUP 2020
The provisional programme of visits for 2020 is attached here. Please note that these are provisional ideas. Bad weather, strikes and other circumstances make cause changes.
The next visit is to the National Brewery Centre at Burton-on Trent on 11 March. If social history (especially of workers and the pub trade), brewing history, vintage delivery vehicles, horses, stationary steam engines, steam railways and even pub games are among your interests then this is for you. We will have a 2-hour Kilderkin Guided Tour, where among other things we can get close and personal with the Museum's dray horses - watching them being prepared and, if the weather is good, having a ride on the day!
I attach the relevant flyer. There is a lunch menu. We may need to confirm choices nearer the day.
On Friday 24 April we have an outing to The Silverstone Experience, Silverstone, Northamptonshire. This is not just about cars! There are displays on the early history of the area, the wartime bomber airfield (lots on Wellington bombers), and the early amateur post-war motor sport boom right up to modern hi-tech motor racing. Superb virtual reality features enable you to experience a lap of the circuit and the chaos of a Grand prix start. You can even see how quickly you can change a wheel, and have a go at a WW2 Link Trainer. You can go outside for a healthy walk round the original racetrack. The visit has been timed so there may be some track activity for the Touring Car weekend.
Travel is by coach - there are only a few place left. Download the flyer here.
We are also taking bookings for the Blue Tunnel Three Rivers Cruise, Southampton on Monday 13 July. . This is a 3-hour cruise into the Solent visiting the Itchen, Test and Hamble rivers plus on-board Fish and Chips! Download the flyer here.
The provisional programme of visits for 2020 is attached here. Please note that these are provisional ideas. Bad weather, strikes and other circumstances make cause changes.
The next visit is to the National Brewery Centre at Burton-on Trent on 11 March. If social history (especially of workers and the pub trade), brewing history, vintage delivery vehicles, horses, stationary steam engines, steam railways and even pub games are among your interests then this is for you. We will have a 2-hour Kilderkin Guided Tour, where among other things we can get close and personal with the Museum's dray horses - watching them being prepared and, if the weather is good, having a ride on the day!
I attach the relevant flyer. There is a lunch menu. We may need to confirm choices nearer the day.
On Friday 24 April we have an outing to The Silverstone Experience, Silverstone, Northamptonshire. This is not just about cars! There are displays on the early history of the area, the wartime bomber airfield (lots on Wellington bombers), and the early amateur post-war motor sport boom right up to modern hi-tech motor racing. Superb virtual reality features enable you to experience a lap of the circuit and the chaos of a Grand prix start. You can even see how quickly you can change a wheel, and have a go at a WW2 Link Trainer. You can go outside for a healthy walk round the original racetrack. The visit has been timed so there may be some track activity for the Touring Car weekend.
Travel is by coach - there are only a few place left. Download the flyer here.
We are also taking bookings for the Blue Tunnel Three Rivers Cruise, Southampton on Monday 13 July. . This is a 3-hour cruise into the Solent visiting the Itchen, Test and Hamble rivers plus on-board Fish and Chips! Download the flyer here.
FURTHER AFIELD
South Stoke Historical Society
The next meeting in South Stoke Village Hall will be a talk by Judith Curthoys on Farming in South Stoke and Woodcote in the 18th Century. Meetings start at 8pm.
British Modern Military History Society
Meetings take place in the Main Hall, Woodcote Village Hall, Reading Road, Woodcote, RG8 0QY. Doors open 7pm, meetings start 7.30pm. Cost: £8 per talk, including light snacks and refreshments. A contribution to a military charity is made at each talk. To book a place and to avoid disappointment send an email to info@bmmhs.org and they will confirm availability.
The next talk is by historian Bill Pyke Sir John Slessor - Unsung Cold War Strategist, Architect of the British Airborne Nuclear Deterrence
Didcot Archaeological and Historical Society holds talks, usually on the second Thursday of the month. For details see www.ddahs.org.uk
South Stoke Historical Society
The next meeting in South Stoke Village Hall will be a talk by Judith Curthoys on Farming in South Stoke and Woodcote in the 18th Century. Meetings start at 8pm.
British Modern Military History Society
Meetings take place in the Main Hall, Woodcote Village Hall, Reading Road, Woodcote, RG8 0QY. Doors open 7pm, meetings start 7.30pm. Cost: £8 per talk, including light snacks and refreshments. A contribution to a military charity is made at each talk. To book a place and to avoid disappointment send an email to info@bmmhs.org and they will confirm availability.
The next talk is by historian Bill Pyke Sir John Slessor - Unsung Cold War Strategist, Architect of the British Airborne Nuclear Deterrence
Didcot Archaeological and Historical Society holds talks, usually on the second Thursday of the month. For details see www.ddahs.org.uk