2024 – 2025
Evening Programme

LIVE – HYBRID MEETINGS
Live/Hybrid meetings will be held on the second Thursday of the month,
September, October, November 2024,
March, April, May, and June 2025,
at Warwick Prep School Hall, Banbury Rd, Warwick, CV34 6PL at 7.30pm.
Doors open at 7.00pm for refreshments.
(Join via Zoom if not able to attend in person!)
EVENING MEETINGS – CLICK HERE TO SEE MAP SHOWING VENUE & PARKING
ZOOM ONLY MEETINGS
‘ZOOM’ only meetings will be held on the second Thursday of the month,
December 2024,
January and February 2025,
starting at 7.30pm.
There are two advantages to this arrangement,
members & visitors do no have to turn out in bad weather and
WIAS is able to book speakers who would not normally consider travelling to Warwick.
Programme 2024 - 2025
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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12th Sep 2024 Hybrid | AGM and Members’ ‘Twenty’s Plenty’. An opportunity for members to deliver short (20 minute) talks on topics of particular interest to them | Members |
10th Oct 2024 Hybrid | 'Chipping Campden Silk Mill and its part in the Coventry Ribbon Industry' | Dick Cluley |
14th Nov 2024 Hybrid | ‘Daimler – Basic Engineering to Badge Engineering’ The Story of Daimler in the UK from the birth of the British Motor Industry to the 1960s when they were taken over by Jaguar Cars | Tony Merrygold |
12th Dec 2024 Zoom Only | ‘Candles at Christmas – A History of Price’s Candleworks’ | Martin Green |
9th Jan 2025 Zoom Only | 'The History of Colliery Ventilation' | Alan Hill |
13th Feb 2025 Zoom Only | ‘Gretna Girls and The Devil’s Porridge’ | David Skillen |
13th Mar 2025 Hybrid | ‘The Industrial Heritage of Earlsdon’ | John Purcell |
10th Apr 2025 Hybrid | ‘Victorian and Edwardian Industrial and Commercial Buildings in the West Midlands’ | Tim Bridges of the Victorian Society |
8th May 2025 Hybrid | ‘RAF planes that won the Battle of Britain were built on German machinery: How Jewish refugee engineer, Ludwig Loewy, was crucial to the war effort’ | Dr Jonathan Aylen |
5th Jun 2025 Hybrid | ‘The Wonder of Worcester Porcelain: a City Heritage Success Story PLEASE NOTE - THIS MEETING IS ON THE FIRST THURSDAY IN JUNE | Colin Millett |
Sales table & refreshments available – visitors most welcome.
If there is an event you would like us to mention please email with full details via this link.
Details and visits and trips organized by WIAS are contained on their own page via this link.

A simple guide on how to access ZOOM is available to download at this link