Meetings/Events Calendar

NEDIAS  meets on the second Monday of the month, at 7.30 from September to May, and visitors are warmly  welcome to our regular talks. 

VENUE:  St. Thomas’ Church Centre, Brampton,   Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield S40 3AW (Directly opposite Vauxhall garage/ Bristol Street Motors)  

Next Meetings:

2025

8 September: Keith Small, ‘The English pottery industry’.  This talk will set the local North Derbyshire pottery industry within its national context.

13 October: Steve Flinders, ‘The story of the Ilkeston tramway, 1903-1931’

10 November: Philip Riden, ‘The Derbyshire iron and steel industry in the Victorian age and afterwards’

8 December: Mark Dawson, ‘Matthew Walker – The Christmas Pudding King’

2026

12 January: Cliff Lea, James Brindley and the Wet Earth colliery

9 February: Martin Rowley, The rise and fall of east midlands motor industry

9 March: Keith Bailey, The Cromford and high Peak Railway

13 April: Colin Stewart, Industrial Calke

11 May: Stephen Gay, Woodhead the lost railway

14 September: Nicola Ramsden, William Clifford, the Dronfield Inventor

12 October: Sonia Preece, Stainsby Mill

9 November: Alan Dulcamara and Kevin Turner, The history & heritage of the Sheffield to Tinsley Canal.

14 December: Dr Jonathan Aylen, Who really built the Merlin engine?

Download the current programme here

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