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Date
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18 MARCH 2013
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Time
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19:00 - 21:00
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Event Type
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Meeting
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The Butterley Company (1790 - 2009) - the Rise and Fall of an Industrial Superstar
Speaker: Gwilym Roberts CBE FREng FICE FIMechE (ICE past President)
Timings: 7.30 pm ( tea/coffee from 7.00pm, cash bar before and after the meeting)
Gwilym Roberts is a leading Engineer with a family connection to the Wrights who directed
Butterley for nearly two centuries. He is a past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
and has written several books on engineering matters and on the Wright family history.
His work on the Butterley Company is being published in book form.
The Butterley Company was formed in 1790 to exploit the rich strata of coal and ironstone that had been exposed in the canal tunnel under Butterley Hall. Through the production of coal, iron, steel, bricks and building materials and the manufacture of machines, bridges and structures it became one of the East Midlands’ largest and most successful companies. Controlled by the Wright family for most of its existence and employing some eminent and innovative chief engineers, the company was responsible for a number of pioneering landmark projects such as London’s first iron bridge across the Thames (1816), the superstructure of St Pancras Station (1868) and engines at Middleton Top, Derbyshire (1829) and in the Fens.
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Please note this is a chargeable event.
Admission £3
Tickets available in advance from Mike Kelley, 50 Beech Avenue, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 7EW
(please include sae or add 80p for Postage) or at the door if space available
Further details from 01773 760358 or at www.cromfordcanal.org.uk
CPD: this event qualifies for CPD
FOCC (Friends of Cromford Canal)
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