2009 - 2010

SUMMER BREAK

June 26th to August 30th
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry.
An Inland Adventure - Photographs by Robert Longden
During the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden produced a remarkable portfolio of high quality black and white images.  These photographs record the working life of the narrowboat people he encountered at the confluence of the Oxford and Coventry Canals, Hawkesbury Junction and Sutton Stop.  The exhibition will be supplemented with photographs by Stephen Pochin, great-grandson of Longden, and an artist and photographer in his own right.  These will convey the changes to the landscape and usage of the waterways in 2009.
Exhibition organised by Stephen Pochin in collaboration with the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

2010 - 2011

September 9th 2010
Annual General Meeting of the Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society.
Followed by ‘The Last Picture Show’: a showing of 35mm slides by members to reflect the work of WIAS over the past 21 years.

October 14th 2010
The Walsall Leather Industry.
Mike Glassson, curator of the Walsall Leather Museum, and author of several books on the leather trade: The Walsall Leather Industry.

November 11th 2010
Chance Brothers – Glassmakers of Smethwick.
Sarah Chubb, borough archivist for Sandwell Community History and Archives Service.

December 9th 2010
Aspects of the industrial heritage.
WIAS members who attended the AIA Conference in Cornwall.

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