City Safari Newsletter 2001

Welcome to our first end of session City Safari Newsletter. We thought that it might be a good idea to keep in touch with City Safari regulars both old and new as well as to review the highlights of the year and to look forward to a lively 2002 as well.

2001 has seen our busiest year yet. We visited 4 new cities and enjoyed all kinds of weather from unseasonably cold in Berlin to a mixture of bright sun and showers in Copenhagen. As I am writing this I am conscious that our press date means that our late visit to Amsterdam has not yet taken place, although arrangements are well under way. In fact we were fully booked within three days!

London Bridge Station in 1844.

The Safari year began in London in March. Last year we held out first British-based Safari in Glasgow as an experiment to see who would be interested in a home city visit. We thought as the trial went well that we would visit London in 2001.

We were based in central London with industry and rivers as our theme. We spent the first afternoon in Southwark close to London Bridge looking at the ornate Hop Exchange as well as warehousing including what is now the Hay’s Galleria where the great Tooley Street Fire broke out. The day ended at the unique Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works, where we viewed the machine and had our briefing and a glass of wine in the basement – a somewhat unusual experience.

Saturday saw us in Docklands working our way east from Tower Bridge. We also visited the South Bank, travelling there through the world’s first sub-aqueous tunnel built by the Brunels between 1823 and 1843. We were able to visit the exhibition housed in the boiler house as well as enjoy a welcome cup of coffee.

It was also fascinating to see what remains in the Canary Wharf area as well as see the new developments. The Museum in Docklands is not yet open but it will be worth a visit after its opening in the autumn. Our day finished on another river, the Lea, at Three Mills where we were conducted round London’s only remaining tide mill which was built on a Domesday site. Thanks to City Safari regular, William Hill, who helped with the arrangements for our visit.

On Sunday we walked through one of London's early suburbs, Smithfield, to admire the remains of the meat industry, including Smithfield market and a number of cold stores. We then made our way through Clerkenwell to the Angel, Islington, familiar as a property on the Monopoly Board as well as the first coaching station out of London.

Ludwig Persius' pumping house

April saw us in the Hotel Unter den Linden in Berlin. As this was our second visit to the city we avoided the centre and looked at some of the suburbs which included Kreuzberg, and the Landwehr Kanal, as well as Köpenick, the old laundry quarter. As one of our themes was public utilities, we were able to make a special visit to the Friedrichshagen Waterworks where the original Borsig pumps have been preserved as well as the Landsberger Allee intermediate pumping station which is not normally open to the public.

Our last morning was spent in Potsdam which was a military town as well as a royal residence. Of particular note was the Dutch quarter, built in an appropriate style to encourage Dutch workers to settle there in the 18^th century. A splendid street market featured Dutch goods, such as clogs, cheese and bulbs, while barrel organs and bands entertained us. Our last stop was at the splendid moorish-style mosque on the banks of the River Havel, in fact a pumping station built in 1842 to pump water for the royal fountains at Sanssouci. Some participants also took the opportunity for some 'real' sightseeing at the various palaces and parks. Well there's no accounting for taste!

Telephone kiosk, Copenhagen
© Dan Hayton

We travelled to Scandanavia in June to look round Copenhagen. Despite the rain we managed to see a great deal of this historic capital, from the 18^th and 19^th century warehouses on the waterfront to the historic breweries of Carlsberg and Tuborg. At Carlsberg we were able to enjoy a beer but as brewing has now ceased on the Tuborg site we had to be contented with viewing a 26m beer bottle built as part of a promotional scheme. We also visited the idiosyncratic Burmeister and Wain company museum which tells the story of how a Scotsman and a German set up in business in Copenhagen in 1843 and whose company pioneered the use of diesel engines in ships.

One of the reasons for choosing Copenhagen as a destination was to be able to cross over the newly-opened Øresund Bridge.The combined road and rail bridge is 16km long and we took a train trip to Malmö to see at first hand the central cable-stayed span, 1km long. On a perfect afternoon, we were able to see the old town in Malmö as well as an arts centre created from a redundant electricity works and many other art nouveau buildings.

At the time of writing we are looking forward to our Safari in Amsterdam and have planned details of next year's trips which are included with this leaflet before they are announced to the general public. We are repeating, as near as possible, our first Safari to Paris, for those of you who missed that and we are also introducing four new destinations, some of which have been as a direct result of enthusiastic suggestions from regular Safari travellers

Vienna, an Imperial city, has many attractions including workers' housing, river and canal works as well as a splendid transport system - not forgetting the fabulous cuisine to be sampled. Both Cologne and Antwerp are smaller cities, but no less interesting for that while in the autumn we will be visiting my birthplace, Newcastle. Expect more trips down memory lane as we explore the quays and bridges by the Tyne as well as take a sea journey across the Tyne at South Shields!

Hope to see you soon

Best wishes

Sue

(and Paul and Daniel)

City Safaris are organised by Heritage of Industry Ltd, 80 Udimore Road, Rye, Sussex, TN31 7DY

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	Welcome to our first end of session City Safari Newsletter. We thought that it might be a good idea to keep in touch with City Safari regulars both old and new as well as to review the highlights of the year and to look forward to a lively 2002 as well. 2001 has seen our busiest year yet. We visited 4 new cities and enjoyed all kinds of weather from unseasonably cold in Berlin to a mixture of bright sun and showers in Copenhagen. As I am writing this I am conscious that our press date means that our late visit to Amsterdam has not yet taken place, although arrangements are well under way. In fact we were fully booked within three days!
London Bridge Station in 1844.	The Safari year began in London in March. Last year we held out first British-based Safari in Glasgow as an experiment to see who would be interested in a home city visit. We thought as the trial went well that we would visit London in 2001. We were based in central London with industry and rivers as our theme. We spent the first afternoon in Southwark close to London Bridge looking at the ornate Hop Exchange as well as warehousing including what is now the Hay’s Galleria where the great Tooley Street Fire broke out. The day ended at the unique Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works, where we viewed the machine and had our briefing and a glass of wine in the basement – a somewhat unusual experience.
	Saturday saw us in Docklands working our way east from Tower Bridge. We also visited the South Bank, travelling there through the world’s first sub-aqueous tunnel built by the Brunels between 1823 and 1843. We were able to visit the exhibition housed in the boiler house as well as enjoy a welcome cup of coffee. It was also fascinating to see what remains in the Canary Wharf area as well as see the new developments. The Museum in Docklands is not yet open but it will be worth a visit after its opening in the autumn. Our day finished on another river, the Lea, at Three Mills where we were conducted round London’s only remaining tide mill which was built on a Domesday site. Thanks to City Safari regular, William Hill, who helped with the arrangements for our visit.
	On Sunday we walked through one of London's early suburbs, Smithfield, to admire the remains of the meat industry, including Smithfield market and a number of cold stores. We then made our way through Clerkenwell to the Angel, Islington, familiar as a property on the Monopoly Board as well as the first coaching station out of London.
Ludwig Persius' pumping house	April saw us in the Hotel Unter den Linden in Berlin. As this was our second visit to the city we avoided the centre and looked at some of the suburbs which included Kreuzberg, and the Landwehr Kanal, as well as Köpenick, the old laundry quarter. As one of our themes was public utilities, we were able to make a special visit to the Friedrichshagen Waterworks where the original Borsig pumps have been preserved as well as the Landsberger Allee intermediate pumping station which is not normally open to the public. Our last morning was spent in Potsdam which was a military town as well as a royal residence. Of particular note was the Dutch quarter, built in an appropriate style to encourage Dutch workers to settle there in the 18^th century. A splendid street market featured Dutch goods, such as clogs, cheese and bulbs, while barrel organs and bands entertained us. Our last stop was at the splendid moorish-style mosque on the banks of the River Havel, in fact a pumping station built in 1842 to pump water for the royal fountains at Sanssouci. Some participants also took the opportunity for some 'real' sightseeing at the various palaces and parks. Well there's no accounting for taste!
Telephone kiosk, Copenhagen © Dan Hayton	We travelled to Scandanavia in June to look round Copenhagen. Despite the rain we managed to see a great deal of this historic capital, from the 18^th and 19^th century warehouses on the waterfront to the historic breweries of Carlsberg and Tuborg. At Carlsberg we were able to enjoy a beer but as brewing has now ceased on the Tuborg site we had to be contented with viewing a 26m beer bottle built as part of a promotional scheme. We also visited the idiosyncratic Burmeister and Wain company museum which tells the story of how a Scotsman and a German set up in business in Copenhagen in 1843 and whose company pioneered the use of diesel engines in ships. One of the reasons for choosing Copenhagen as a destination was to be able to cross over the newly-opened Øresund Bridge.The combined road and rail bridge is 16km long and we took a train trip to Malmö to see at first hand the central cable-stayed span, 1km long. On a perfect afternoon, we were able to see the old town in Malmö as well as an arts centre created from a redundant electricity works and many other art nouveau buildings.
	At the time of writing we are looking forward to our Safari in Amsterdam and have planned details of next year's trips which are included with this leaflet before they are announced to the general public. We are repeating, as near as possible, our first Safari to Paris, for those of you who missed that and we are also introducing four new destinations, some of which have been as a direct result of enthusiastic suggestions from regular Safari travellers Vienna, an Imperial city, has many attractions including workers' housing, river and canal works as well as a splendid transport system - not forgetting the fabulous cuisine to be sampled. Both Cologne and Antwerp are smaller cities, but no less interesting for that while in the autumn we will be visiting my birthplace, Newcastle. Expect more trips down memory lane as we explore the quays and bridges by the Tyne as well as take a sea journey across the Tyne at South Shields!
	Hope to see you soon Best wishes Sue (and Paul and Daniel)