Eric Lomax – The Railwayman of War and Peace
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Talk by Dr Michael Bailey, President of the Stephenson Locomotive Society.
Part of the 41st Series of Industrial Archaeology Lectures in Guildford (SIHG Map
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Elstree: Britain’s Hollywood
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Talk by Bob Redman, Secretary Elstree Screen Heritage,
Part of the 41st Series of Industrial Archaeology Lectures in Guildford (SIHG Map
Matthew Boulton FRS – Industrialist Extraordinary
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Talk by Trevor Williams, Farnham U3A.
The Majestic Age of the Ocean Liner
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Talk by Richard Mellor, ex Union Castle Lines and P&O.
The Port of London Story
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Talk by Geoff Roles, SIHG, to Surrey Industrial History Group.
Talk by Adam Sutton: Late Iron Age/ Early Romano-British pottery. Title to be confirmed.
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'Revolutionary' Ideas: Seeing society in the ceramic technology of the Later Iron Age of Berkshire and Hampshire
Talk by Emma Corke: excavation at Cocks Farm Abinger 2016
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Emma Corke, site director of the field excavations at Cocks Farm, Abinger will be talking to us about the latest season of excavation . Magnetometry carried out by the Roman Studies Group showed a mass of features on the hill above the Roman villa site, and excavation has revealed both prehistoric and Roman activity.
Report back on past and current fieldwork
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Members of RSG will be reporting back both on post-excavtion work relating to Ashtead Roman villa (David Bird), Flexford (David Calow) and Church Meadow Roman settlement site (Nikki Cowlard), and recent fieldwork led by David and Audrey Graham.
Talk by Alexis Haslam: The inside story on running a commercial Roman archaeological site
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Alexis Haslam is a Senior Archaeologist with Pre-Construct Archaeology and has extensive experience of running commercial archaeological sites in London and the South-East. In 2015 he led the investigations on the animal husbandry site at NESCOT in Ewell, which revealed a landscape of Roman chalk quarrying with extensive ritual deposition. Alexis will be taking us behind the scenes of Roman-period commercial excavations in the Historic County of Surrey, including those in Borough High Street in Southwark.
Talk by David Staveley: Finding Roman roads
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David Staveley is well known to many of us in RSG. He is a computer programmer by day and in his spare time is an archaeological geophysicist studying Roman roads and roadside settlements in Sussex. David has carried out ground penetrating radar at Flexford and has used GPR to identify Stane Street beneath Church Street in Ewell (in conjunction with the Church Meadow Project). He is also the author of Snuffler, freeware geophysics software for earth resistance and magnetometry.
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