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.
16 Sep 2024
Subject:- ICI Oil Works, Billingham – A Brief History
Monday 6:00 pm
Venue: Materials Processing Institute, Eston Road, Middlesbrough, TS6 6US.
Speaker:- Alan Betteney
Alan will give us a brief history of Oil Works followed by the development of petrol from coal plant which after WW2 was converted to produce plasticiser alcohols and later detergent alcohols a process in which he was involved, working on research and supporting the plant.
Meeting ID: 859 4578 1230 Passcode: 099572
14 October 2024
Subject:- The ingenuity of the millwright
Speaker:- Peter Morgan
Monday 6:30 pm
Acklam Green Centre, Stainsby Road, Acklam, Middlesbrough, TS5 4JS
Peter from Tocketts Mill presents a study of how the common problems posed in the operation of corn mills have been overcome, often revealing regional distribution owing to the influence of individual millwrights
Meeting ID: 879 3927 9347 Passcode: 713727
11 November 2024
Subject:- The Alum Folk
Speaker:- Peter Appleton
The Alum Folk follows on from the success of A Forgotten Industry, in which the history of alum making in north-east Yorkshire was described. Among the unused research material from that book were stories about people and their involvement in the alum industry. These brought to life the industry in a way that A Forgotten Industry was unable to do. Some of the longer-lived works left an extensive archive of documents, whilst the smaller, shorter-lived ones left almost no documentary evidence. The story of each works is told using the varying quantity and quality of surviving documents. Throughout the book, the emphasis is always on the people: their actions, their emotions, their relationships, their mishaps, in so far as the documentary evidence permits.
Meeting ID: 812 4695 8026 Passcode: 457458
9 December 2024
Subject:- Who was Paddy Waddell?
Speaker:- Graham Aldous
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
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
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.
A record of our previous events can be viewed here