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Best foot foward A City Safari to Northampton 19th - 22nd April 2012 Led by Sue Constable Our visit will explore the landscape of the shoe industry and the development of the town as well as looking at ancillary industries such as tanning and engineering. There are several shoe factories still in production and we plan to include a visit to one of them (and we might have a glass of ale along the way!) Further details |
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Theodor Heuss Brücke, Mainz |
Power & Pleasure A City Safari to Mainz & Wiesbaden 10th - 13th May 2012 Led by Sue Constable Mainz the fortress and garrison town with a medieval centre but a 19th C industrial aspect at Mombach where Waggonfabrik Gebrüder Gastell was making railway carriages from 1845; Wiesbaden with the flamboyant neo-baroque railway station which once welcomed Kaiser Wilhelm II at his own platform; German pub food perhaps washed down with a metre of beer - what could be better? Further details |
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Way out (mid)West AIA Spring trip 28th May - 6th June 2012 An opportunity to meet members of the Society for Industrial Archaeology in the United States and to explore some of the industrial history in the mid-West. Discover the historic town of Madison, Indiana; join the SIA conference and tours in and around Cincinnati; travel north with us across Ohio to Detroit to learn more of the once mighty automotive industry in Detroit. Non-AIA members welcome. Further details |
Madison Indiana Former Railroad Depot
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 Fleetwood Steam Trawler Boston Seafire |
Gone Fishing A City Safari to Fleetwood & Blackpool 21st - 24th June 2012 Led by Peter Forsyth First a visit to the earliest planned community of the Victorian era, designed to be both a port and a bespoke seaside resort but which became best known as a base for the fishing industry. Then an exploration of Blackpool to see how it developed its tourist capabilities in response to the rise of industry and the holidaying patterns of working folk in the mills of East Lancashire. Further details |
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Roaming Round the Ruhr AIA Autumn trip 10th - 15th September 2012 Led by Sue Constable The Ruhr was the home of North Germany’s iron and steel industry. Based on local coal the whole valley from Duisberg to Dortmund became a conurbation of coal mines, coking plants, blast furnaces and steel works. To support this there was an extensive transport network including railways and canals and our trip will include aspects of all these features. Further details |
Zeche Zollverein coking plant |
