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A selection of meetings of interest to members.
Please note that these meetings are
organised by other groups etc.
Please check details before travelling.
2010
19th, 20th, 23rd
and 24th December 2009. Victorian Christmas Special
Trains.
Booking essential. Bluebell Railway. 01825 720800.
Wednesday 13thJanuary, 7.00pm. The year of the
Galleys – working life of the English Coast 700 years ago.
Chichester Local History Society talk by Dr Ian Friel, maritime historian.
£2 non-members. New Park Centre, New Park Road, Chichester.
01243 784915.
Email AGREENZONE@aol.com
Wednesday 20th January, 8.00pm.
Newhaven Fort, past and present.
Sussex Military History talk by Ed Tyhurst.
Function Room, The Royal Oak, Station Street, Lewes.
www.sussexmilitary.org.uk
Wednesday 27th January, 7.30pm.
Seaside Trams of Shoreham.
Volk’s Electric Railway Association illustrated talk by Nick Kelly.
£1.50 visitors. West Blatchington Mill Barn, Holmes Avenue, Hove.
Booking advised.
www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk
Thursday 28th January, 2.30pm.
Water supply in the Sussex coastal area from 1830 to 1974.
Hove Civic Society talk by Trevor Povey.
Courtlands Hotel, Hove. £2 non-members.
www.hovecivicsociety.org
Saturday 6th February, 5.30pm.
The Croft; Regency Seaside Architecture comes to Hastings Old Town.
Old Hastings Preservation Society illustrated talk by Dennis Collins.
Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse St, Hastings Old Town.
http://ohps.org.uk/hastings_history_house.php
Wednesday 10th February, 7.40pm.
British trams in colour.
Tramway and Light Railway Society presentation by Martin Jenkins.
£1.50. Deall Room, Southwick Community Centre, Southwick Street,
a short walk north of Southwick railway station. 01273 512839.
Wednesday 10th February, 7.30pm.
Chichester on film – a selection from the South East Film archive.
Chichester Local History Society talk by Alan Readman of WSRO.
£2. New Park Centre, New Park Road, Chichester.
01243 784915. Email AGREENZONE@aol.com.
20th – 21st
February. Branch Line weekend. Bluebell Railway. 01825 720800.
Saturday 27th February, 2.30pm.
The City in the 1860’s – a decade of new developments and dilemmas.
Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society Local History talk by Sue Berry.
United Reformed Church Hall, 102 Blatchington Rd, Hove.
www.brightonarch.org.uk
Wednesday 3rd March, 7.00pm.
Local architects at work in the City of Brighton and Hove, 1860-1914.
Nick Antrim, Co-author Pevsner City of Brighton and Hove.
Regency Society lecture series. £5 non-members. The Old Market, Upper Market
Street, Hove.
www.regencysociety.org
Saturday 6th March, 5.30pm.
Westward Ho! – the migration westwards from the Old Town in the 19th
Century.
Old Hastings Preservation Society illustrated talk by Christopher Langdon.
Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse St, Hastings Old Town.
http://ohps.org.uk/hastings_history_house.php
Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm.
300 years of Patronage – The Dukes of Richmond and the City of Chichester.
Chichester Local History Society talk
by Tim McCann, Goodwood Historian.
£2. New Park Centre, New Park Road, Chichester.
01243 784915. Email AGREENZONE@aol.com
Friday 12th March, 7.00pm.
Keymer Tile Works.
Polegate and Willingdon Local History Society talk by Fred Avery.
£2 visitors. St.John’s Church Hall,
High Street, Polegate. 01323 485971.
Thursday 18th March, 7.00pm.
West Blatchington Mill - past and present.
Hove Civic Society talk by Peter Hill.
Courtlands Hotel, Hove. £2 non-members.
www.hovecivicsociety.org
Saturday 27th March, 2.30pm.
Industrial Archaeology Miscellany.
Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society Local History talk by SIAS
Secretary Ron Martin.
United Reformed Church Hall, 102 Blatchington Rd, Hove.
www.brightonarch.org.uk
Saturday 17th April. Toy and
Rail Collectors Fair. Bluebell Railway.
01825 720800.
Saturday 17th April. Official
opening of Devil’s Hole Lock on the Wey and Arun Canal.
www.weyandarun.co.uk
Tuesday 20th April, 6.30pm.
Thomas Hawksley, 1907-1893, Water Engineer.
Newcomen Society lecture by Dr Bob Otter.
Room 0.27 in the Portland Building of the University of Portsmouth, St James
Street off Queen Street, Portsea.
Free parking in adjacent University car parks from 4.30 pm. Visitors welcome and
admission is free.
www.newcomen.com/brmeetings
Wednesday 21st April, 7.45pm.
Southern Steam in the 60’s.
Sussex Transport Interest Group talk by Terry Cole. £2.
London Road Station, Brighton. 01273 512839.
Sunday 26th April. East
Grinstead Bus Rally
http://freespace.virgin.net/ian.smith/buses/CBR/CBR01.htm
3rd - 9th September. Advance
notice of the Association for Industrial Archaeology Conference which is to be
held this year in Cornwall.
Please let
Malcolm
Dawes know if your society or contacts have a meeting which might be of interest to Sussex
IAS members for inclusion here and in future Newsletters. 
CAUTION!
Do please check details before travelling
Details of these meetings and events are only a guide
and are given here as a service
to members,
The inclusion of any item here does not imply any recommendation,
endorsement or otherwise by the society it's officers or members.
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