CIAS Autumn/Winter Lecture Programme 2024
PLEASE NOTE : Our usual venue at the St. Mary’s Centre has closed at short notice, we are currently looking for a new venue.
9 December 2024
Subject:- Who was Paddy Waddell?
Speaker:- Graham Aldous
Time and Venue:- TBA
Today we’re uncovering one of the curiosities of East Cleveland and the northern North York Moors, with a man who looks out on the evidence every morning from his bathroom window. It’s a tale of a Station Hotel where there was never a station; trains that never came, on a railway that never was… and all named after a man who never existed either.
Meeting ID: 853 1506 1557 Passcode: 559339
13 January 2025
Subject:- Boosbeck Industries
Speaker:-Angela List-Evans
Time and Venue:- TBA
In 1930 unemployment in East Cleveland reached over 90% and many miners and their families were destitute. In response to this, James and Ruth Pennyman of Ormesby Hall, along with other local landowners, created schemes and ways for miners to earn income. A new workshop was started to
teach the miners carpentry. They made furniture, known as Boosbeck Furniture and sold it locally, later moving to a showroom in North Ormesby. Come and find out about this fascinating subject and learn about the groundbreaking design that was a feature of Boosbeck Industries’ products.
Meeting ID: 882 4426 7632 Passcode: 720456
10 February 2025
Subject:- William Gileard Brown
Speaker:-Chris Corbett
Time and Venue:- TBA
The William Gileard Brown collection held by Teesside Archives includes a number of remarkable books; part journal and part scrapbook, they document his life and achievements as a railway yard foreman, churchgoer, inventor, local councillor and a member of numerous boards and committees, dedicated to improving life for local people. William’s connection to World War 1 concerns the creation of a truly stunning eagle lectern for his local church, St John’s at Haverton Hill, which also served as a war memorial
Meeting ID: 825 2720 5580 Passcode: 621093
10 March 2025
Subject:- Who’s Heritage?
Speaker:-Jon Warren
Time and Venue:- TBA
Whilst many former industrial sites in Europe, the US and even China are being preserved, reimagined and repurposed, the North East of England is being demolished and cleared at an alarming rate. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Teesside.
Why not preserve and repurpose our industrial sites? Why demolish instead? In this talk, Dr Jon Warren (author of Industrial Teesside Lives and Legacies) will focus on the demise of iron and steel on Teesside and how questions of heritage have been dealt with.
Meeting ID: 845 9793 4074 Passcode: 707001
14 April 2025
Subject:- AGM and Lecture
Time and Venue:- TBA
After the AGM, Jane Ellis will give a short talk on Transporter Bridges, other members’ contributions will be welcomed; please advise the Secretary in advance.
Meeting ID: 872 8708 9547 Passcode: 939187
CIAS Summer Events 2025
Please note that while we do not discourage non-members from attending our summer events, they are NOT covered by our Personal Accident cover insurance (through our membership of BALH) and they attend at their own risk. Also, it has come to our attention that members under the age of 16 and over the age of 80 are similarly NOT covered and would attend at their own risk.
11th May 2025
Sunday 11.00am
Tocketts Mill
Leader: Peter Morgan
Meet at Guisborough TS14 6QA
Following Peter’s recent talk on the ‘Ingenuity of the Millwright’, we will join him at Tocketts Mill to see many of the ideas discussed in action, as part of National Mills Weekend 2025.
The restoration of the water mill which started in the 1970’s has very close ties with many founder members of CIAS such as John Harrison and Alan Burgess being heavily involved.
7th June 2025
Saturday 10.00am (and 1.00pm)
Coate Moor Ironstone Mine
Leader: Simon Chapman
Meet at Bankside Farm, Kildale, YO21 2RT (NZ 6035 1003)
Members of the Cleveland Mining Heritage Society have been working on the site of the short-lived mid-1870s ironstone mine at Coate Moor for the last decade, securing underground access with the land owner, mapping the workings and recording the mining artefacts within.
For safety reasons, the maximum group size underground will be 8, although if there is sufficient interest a second afternoon trip will be possible.
Please contact the Chairman before the end of May 2025 to register your interest, and discuss the conditions likely to be encountered and the safety equipment required.
31st July 2025
Thursday 9:30am
Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station
Meet at Hartlepool Power Station/Tees Rd, Hartlepool TS25 2BZ
The advanced gas-cooled reactor was scheduled to start decommissioning in March 2024 but has been granted a two-year extension until March 2026, however, this visit is now highly likely to be your last chance to see the site operational.
Due to the sensitive nature of the site, pre-registration of visitors is required and photo ID is needed on the day. Please contact the Chairman before the end of May 2025 to register your interest.
16th August 2025
Saturday 2:00pm
Whitby Esk Energy
Leader: Stephen Larkin
Meet in the car park of BATA Country Store, Sneaton Lane, Ruswarp, Whitby YO22 5HL.
Ruswarp Hydro is a community-owned and volunteer-operated 50kW Archimedes screw hydroelectric turbine which generates sustainable power on the River Esk at Ruswarp, near Whitby. The site makes use of the old weir for Ruswarp Mill, which operated until 1989.
Please contact the Chairman so that the names and numbers attending can be given to the organisers. We have been asked to encourage car sharing.
CIAS Autumn 2025 Lecture Programme
15th September 2025
Subject:- Ironstone Mining in Rosedale post-1911
Speaker:-Elizabeth Marsh
Time and Venue:- TBA
When the Carlton Iron Co. Ltd. closed down the last of their Rosedale ironstone mines, the East Mine, in late 1911 it was reported that the supply of economically viable reserves was close to running out. Despite this the East Mine was reopened in 1912 and operated until 1926, initially by Lascelles and Shepherd (partnership dissolved in 1919) and then by Shepherd and Pringle (partnership dissolved 1928). This talk discusses the partners involved in these firms focusing on why they chose to take on a mine that had been abandoned as uneconomic and how they worked it up until final closure.
Meeting ID: 872 8917 8453 Passcode: 308045
A record of our previous events can be viewed here