A sub-group of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History meets for the first time on Saturday 23 November 2013 at Chelmsford Museum. The two-hour session will begin at 2.30pm with a short business meeting followed by a number of short presentations on Essex Industrial Archaeology.
There has long been an assumption that Essex has little to offer the industrial archaeologist, but the county had a wealth of traditional industry - milling, malting, brewing, agricultural engineering, brick making etc - as well as more modern industries - silk, textiles, electrical engineering, radio communications - and a transport infrastructure to support these industries.
So in the city which boasts as being 'The Birthplace of Radio' and in its museum which celebrates Marconi, the Essex Industrial Archaeology Group meets.
The Society will be holding its second sale of surplus books and journals, and will have an entirely different selection for those who come to browse and buy at ridiculously low prices. (The first will be at the Flint Knapping lecture at the same venue on Saturday 16 November 2013.)
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