Institute general meetings
Time |
Date
|
Event |
| 6.00pm | Thursday 24th November 2011 |
"Micro Generation" Charlotte Adam |
| 6.00 pm | Thursday 26th January 2012 |
"New Hartley Colliery Disaster - 16th January 1862" Norman Jackson FNEIMME |
| 6.00pm | Thursday 16th February 2012 |
“Fuelling the Future”. Paul R. Wood |
| 11.00am | Wednesday 7th March 2012 |
“Railways before Stephenson” - Les Turnbull MNEIMME |
| 6.00pm | Thursday 22nd March 2012 |
“What is left of the Durham Coal Industry?” – Colin Mountford (MNEIMME) with Malcolm Young |
| 6.45pm | Thursday 13th April 2012 |
Presidents Informal Dinner |
| 6.00 pm | Wednesday 19th April 2012 |
"Life on the Rocks" Prof. Stuart Monro - University of Edinburgh |
| 12.30pm | Friday 11th May 2012 |
Annual Golf Competition. Venue tbc |
| 6.00pm | Thursday 17th May 2012 |
"Felling Colliery Disaster - 25th May 1812" - Dr Eric Wade FNEIMME |
| 6.00pm | Thursday 20th September 2012 |
"Experience of a Mechanical Engineer in Overseas Mining" Garry O'Hagan MNEIMME |
| 6:45 pm | Friday 12th October 2012 |
Annual Presidents Dinner |
| 6.00pm | Thursday 18th October 2012 |
"Presidential Address/Prestigious Lecture" Proposed Frederick Wardle Smith |
Note: General Meetings – Meet in Nicholas Wood Memorial Library at 5.30pm for tea/coffee and biscuits. The paper commences at 6.00pm prompt in the Lecture Theatre. Papers should be approximately 40 minutes in duration with 15 minutes for questions. At 7.00pm a buffet is provided in the Nicholas Wood Memorial Library except when a Council Dinner is arranged.
Lectures are free and open to the public. No booking is required. Level access suitable for wheelchairs can be arranged, please call 0191 2332459.
In library 5.00pm for tea/coffee meeting commences 5.30pm prompt.
Thursday 1st December 2011
Thursday 2nd February 2012
Thursday 5th April 2012
Thursday 23rd August 2012
Stephenson Locomotive Society Lectures
Meet at 7.00 for 7.15pm, finish by 10pm. For further details contact John Irving on 01434 688946.
Visitors are most welcome at all of the Stephenson Locomotive Society meetings.
A collection will be taken to defray expenses.
Time |
Date
|
Event |
| 7.00pm | Friday 6th January 2012 |
"Travels in the 'Perilous' realms - preserved railways in the South of England" George Falkner |
7.00pm |
Friday 20th January 2012 |
"Scrapped or Survived - pre-grouping locomotives after 1923" |
7.00pm |
Friday 3rd February 2012 |
“Tyneside Electrics Part 3 - BR period and decline of the service, accidents and mishaps 1904-1967 and miscellanies.” Bill Donald |
7.00pm |
Friday 17th February 2012 |
“Centre Annual General Meeting and Members Evening ” - Agenda items and offers of contributions for members evening to Centre Secretary by Friday 3rd February please. |
7.00pm |
Wednesday 29 February 2012 |
“Thomas Elliot Harrison (1808-88) - an exemplary Victorian civil engineer” – Bill Fawcett |
| 7.00pm | Friday 2nd March 2012 |
"Kingman Canyon - USA Railroading in Arizona" David Fraser |
7.00pm |
Friday 16th March 2012 |
"Railways and Remembrance - an examination of the railways' role during the Great War and the ways in which they remembered their fallen employees " Ian McInnes |
7.00pm |
Friday 30th March 2012 |
"Minor railways of Northern Northumberland : the south west area" - Roger Jermy |
| 7.00pm | Friday 20th April 2012 |
"Trainspotting 1955-1958" - Les Turnbull |
| 7.00 pm | Friday 4th May 2012 | "Some Mid-70s Wanderings" David Sharp |
Robert Stephenson Trust Events 2012
"The Art of Robert Stephenson Exhibition"
Touring
For further information please contact rstrust@hotmail.com or go to www.robertstephensontrust.com