Programme

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

Warwick Prep School Hall, Banbury Rd, Warwick, CV34 6PL

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

DateTopicSpeaker
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 themMembers
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 CarsTony 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