Meetings at Northaw Village Hall

5 Northaw Road West

Northaw EN6 4NW

(OS TL 280022)

Starting 8pm - doors open 7:30pm

Talks free for members and £3 for visitors

September 13th 2011

Leighton Buzzard Railway - the early days

and the future of LBR and the Museum Gateway

Project.

TONY TOMKINS Vice President

Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway

October 11th 2011

AGM (members only)

followed by a talk open to all

From Eton Manor to the Olympics

From the founding of the Eton Manor Clubs to the

2012 Olympics and the Lea Valley Industrial

Technology benefitting the Games Worldwide

JIM LEWIS Writer, lecturer & broadcaster

November 8th 2011

Paper making over 1800 years

and the role of Hertfordshire Paper Makers

NICK PEARSON Career Paper Maker

December 13th 2011

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's First Project

The Thames Tunnel

ROBERT HULSE Museum Director

The Brunel Museum

January 10th 2012

From Horsebus to Routemaster

Developments in London's public road transport

over 150 years.

GRAHAM McQUEEN Member of the London

Bus Preservation Trust

February 14th 2012

On the Face of It

A century of coal mining on screen

ROS CRANSTON Curator (non fiction)

BFI National Archive

March 13th 2012

The 1851 Great Exhibition to The 1951

Festival of Britain

Joseph Paxton's Glass Palace to Hugh Casson's

Vision

FRED PESKETT Chairman

Festival of Britain Society

April 10th 2012

The work of English Heritage and the

Royal Commissions on the Ancient and

Historical Monuments of Wales and Scotland

in Rescuing the Aerofilms Collection

VERITY HANCOCK

Aerofilms Project Manager

English Heritage http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/britain-from-above/

April/May 2012

Study trip—Details to follow

May 8th 2012

Thatching

Materials and Methods and the Industry Today

ROBIN WEBB Member of Hertfordshire

Building Preservation Trust

JuneSite Visit - details to follow