Lecture Programme

CIAS Autumn 2026 Lecture Programme

Meetings will be held at Marton Cricket Club, Marton Road, TS7 8JU. Meetings will also be available via Zoom and, where possible, with the agreement of the speaker, recordings will be available shortly afterwards on the CIAS website.

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A pictorial view of the last casting, to the mothballing, the rebirth of steelmaking under SSI and the chaos of the demise and eventual eradication of steelmaking on Teesside. In the time from 2008,Mike undertook to take as many images as he could and record as much as he could, this was his history and he wasn’t letting it go without a record.
Meeting ID: 812 8368 7945 Passcode: 501181

Tees Archaeology’s investigations along the extant trackbed of the Stockton and Darlington Railway within the grounds of Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees and at Heighington Station, Newton Aycliffe, the first railway platform and station in the world, have demonstrated the huge importance of the arrival of this railway not only to our area but within ten years to the world!
Meeting ID: 880 4316 5855 Passcode: 205741

The decision to install externally heated boilers, a design originating in the 17th century, for power generation at Robson, Maynard’s Redcar Iron Works constructing in the early 1870’s, set in motion a continuum of boiler defects and eventual explosions with fatal consequences. The subsequent Board of Trade Inquiry and its findings are described.
Meeting ID: 834 2903 9946 Passcode: 860709

Learn about the fascinating historical and geological context to the once booming metal mining industry in the Tyne catchment, together with an overview of the lasting environmental and ecological impacts of the industry. Showing some of the remediation work that the Tyne Rivers Trust and partners have been undertaking to tackle the problem.
Meeting ID: 870 2268 6055 Passcode: 019305

The Middlesbrough Winter Garden was an important cultural enterprise that was opened in 1907 as an alcohol-free space during the winter months and during its 32 years if offered its patrons regular musical concerts, exhibitions and plays. And all for the price of a penny! After it closed it all but disappeared from the towns memory, a plaque in Dundas Mews being the only record it existed.
Meeting ID: 883 7919 7427 Passcode: 318296

The remarkable discovery of RAF pilot George Fiddler Morley, found seated upright in the cockpit of his crashed aircraft more than eighty years after his final mission, captured national headlines. This talk explores Morley’s story and the fascinating world of aviation archaeology. From wartime crash sites, to the techniques used by archaeologists, historians and recovery teams. We’ll uncover how lost aircraft and forgotten airmen are being rediscovered and remembered.
Meeting ID: 850 8362 6990 Passcode: 609028

The 1882 explosion killed 36 workmen, and a heroic rescuer. The inquest decided that it was a pure accident, triggered by a fall of stone, and nobody was responsible. We will talk about the explosion and the very clear evidence that it resulted from coal dust ignition – as did many other fatal explosions from that era – and was preventable.
Meeting ID: 816 0224 1542 Passcode: 623452

A record of our previous events can be viewed here