BRUNEL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST – as at 12/05/2006
DATE AND TIME
/ TITLE AND LOCATION / DESCRIPTION / FURTHER INFO /JANUARY
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
FEBRUARY
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
14 February
Open till 9.00pm / A Valentine's Day Journey through the Thames Tunnel & entry to Brunel Museum, Brunel Engine House, London / Tickets for a floodlit journey by tube train through the Tunnel of Love / http://www.brunelenginehouse.org.uk/shop/shop_categories.asp
Telephone: 020 7231 3840
Email:
26 February / Demonstration of a one-eighth scale
working model of the South Devon Railway’s vacuum operated line, The Grange, Midhurst / Vic Mitchell, founder of Middleton Press, is demonstrating the longitudinal valve over the slot in the pipe. He uses two vacuum cleaners, whereas Brunel built steam pumping engines every four-miles, thus eliminating locomotives.
An album of 170 illustrations entitled BRUNEL - A RAILTOUR OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS
compiled by Vic Mitchell will be published on 18th March. / Middleton Press, Easebourne Lane, Midhurst, West Sussex. GU29 9AZ
Tel: 01730 813169 Fax: 01730 812601
Email: www.middletonpress.co.uk
MARCH
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
9 March
11.00am and 1.00pm / Brunel-guided Walk, Paddington Station / Meet Brunel and walk in his world, listen to chronicles of his extraordinary life and experience his passion for Paddington while you move through the ages. Back in the present, discover the changes taking place at today's Paddington Waterside.
/ For more information email
11, 12, 18, 19 March
2pm & 4pm / British Assocation Science Week Guided Tour & Family Workshops, London (Brunel Museum).
/ Meet at Rotherhithe Tube Station for a scenic journey by tube train through the famous Thames Tunnel. Back to the Museum for Workshops to Make Your Own Thames Tunnel Peepshow / http://www.brunelenginehouse.org.uk/shop/shop_categories.asp
Telephone: 020 7231 3840
Email:
20 March / Julia Elton lecture on Brunel, Athenaeum Club, London / Athenaeum telephone 020 7930 4843
21 March
5.30pm registration
6.15pm lecture / From Brunel to Wallace & Gromit: the public image of the British engineer, London / Maitland Lecture delivered by Professor Sir Christopher Frayling. The Royal Society, 7 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 / Sharon Stephenson, Events Manager, IStructE, 11 Upper Belgrave Street, London SW1X 8BH
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7235 4535; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7201 9151; Email:
23 March (and various other dates throughout the year) / Paddington Waterside Partnership Walks and Events / Paddington Waterside Partnership offer a programme of free guided walks in the area including a Brunel guided walk which begins at his statue at Paddington Station. / http://www.paddingtonwaterside.co.uk/thepartnership/a_events.asp for details of dates and times
To book your place on a walk:
020 7313 1011
APRIL
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
3 – 7 April 2006 / BBC Radio 4- Great Western Adventure readings / Radio broadcasts, taking the form of five short stories inspired by a place created by Brunel, in celebration of his bicentenary.
Written by Richard Francis, Mavis Cheek, Hattie Naylor, Helen Dunmore and Steve May. / Missed the show on air? Listen again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml
4 – 24 April 2006 / Brunel Exhibition, Getty Gallery, 46 Eastcastle Street, London / The exhibition will illustrate some of Brunel’s major projects such as the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway but will also include later major engineering projects which owe much to his genius. For the first time the gallery will hang original vintage prints from the Hulton Archive alongside contemporary material to highlight the conservation work carried out by the Archive. / 020 7291 5380 www.gettyimages.com
5 April 2006
6.15pm / Brunel lecture by Jim Shipway ‘Brunel’s Life and Work’ at James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, Edinburgh / ICE Scotland event (with Newcomen Society) / ICE switchboard is open Monday to Friday 09:15 to 17:30
t: +44 (0)20 7222 7722.
7 April / ICE Southern’s Brunel event in Portsmouth / Unveiling monument to Brunel by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth - 11.30am; Reception and lunch Portsmouth University 1.00pm; Lecture “Brunel, His Achievements and his Legacy”
Speakers Angus Buchanan, Gordon Masterton (ICE President) and Andrew Ives (IMechE) President) Richmond Building Portsmouth University 3.00pm. Dinner HMS Warrior Portsmouth Harbour (black tie) 7.30pm / ICE switchboard is open Monday to Friday 09:15 to 17:30
t: +44 (0)20 7222 7722.
8 and 9 April
Actor performs at 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm and 2.00pm / Brunel at the Florence Nightingale Museum, London / The great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel will be at the Florence Nightingale Museum talking about his work and those “magnificent huts” that he designed to house the sick and wounded soldiers of the Crimean War.
Free with Museum admission. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
9 April
Starts 10.30am / Bicentenary Birthday Celebration, Pontypridd Museum / Organised by the Victorian Society, the Institution of Civil Engineers Wales and the South Wales Institute of Engineers to mark Brunel’s birthday. Following the opening presentation by Stephen K. Jones, the ICE Wales Chairman Chris Gray and SWIE
President Phil Hourahaine will present commemorative plaques on the Brunel landmark structures; Newbridge and Goitre Coed Viaducts, to Network Rail.
After lunch two vintage buses will take visitors to the Hetty Engine House of the Great Western Colliery, the coal of which steamed the Great Western Railway. / Contact Elaine Davey (Victorian Society);
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10 April for two weeks / Brunel, Railways and the Briton Ferry
Dock’, Briton Ferry Library / Exhibition / Contact Huw James, Briton Ferry Heritage Group, Tel: 01639 820955.
20 April
11.00am and 1.00pm / Brunel-guided Walk, Paddington Station / Meet Brunel and walk in his world, listen to chronicles of his extraordinary life and experience his passion for Paddington while you move through the ages. Back in the present, discover the changes taking place at today's Paddington Waterside.
/ For more information email
23 April
2.15pm / ‘Brunel: Gweithiau yng Nghymru -
Works in Wales’, Swansea / A presentation by Stephen K. Jones at the Dockside Room, National Waterfront Museum. / Tel; 01792 638950.
29 April
11.00am and 1.00pm / Brunel-guided Walk, Paddington Station / Meet Brunel and walk in his world, listen to chronicles of his extraordinary life and experience his passion for Paddington while you move through the ages. Back in the present, discover the changes taking place at today's Paddington Waterside.
/ For more information email
MAY
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
4-5 May / Brunel’s Tunnel – The Engineering Geology Legacy / The Symposium will explore the history of the development of Brunel’s Thames tunnel, the impact that geology has had on tunnelling, and the implications for future projects, followed by a dinner in the historic architectural surroundings of the Natural History Museum.
In addition, a unique day visiting the Brunel Museum, the Thames Tunnel and exploring the local geology. A trip to the Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe, south east London and guided tube journey through the Thames Tunnel.
Plus a coach journey from Rotherhithe to Gilbert’s Pit, Charlton, south east London to study the geology of the tunnel. / Alys Johnson
Conference Office
The Geological Society
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London, W1J 0BG
Tel: +44 (0) 207 434 9944
Delegates can also be registered through the Geological Society web site http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/pdfs/Brunel_lflt.pdf
Symposium £75; Dinner £65; Fieldtrip £50. Please enquire about concessionary rates for students and retired persons.
15 May
6.15 pm / Brunel Talk, Central Square Forth Street Newcastle / ICE North East event / ICE switchboard is open Monday to Friday 09:15 to 17:30
t: +44 (0)20 7222 7722.
18 May
11.00am and 1.00pm / Brunel-guided Walk, Paddington Station / Meet Brunel and walk in his world, listen to chronicles of his extraordinary life and experience his passion for Paddington while you move through the ages. Back in the present, discover the changes taking place at today's Paddington Waterside.
/ For more information email
JUNE
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
22 June
11.00am and 1.00pm / Brunel-guided Walk, Paddington Station / Meet Brunel and walk in his world, listen to chronicles of his extraordinary life and experience his passion for Paddington while you move through the ages. Back in the present, discover the changes taking place at today's Paddington Waterside.
/ For more information email
24 June – 2 July / Brunel Festivities Portsmouth / Activities in Brunel’s birthplace include talks by Adam Hart Davies, performance of a play by Timothy West and music from Evelyn Glennie. / Tel: 023 9268 1390
26 – 28 June / Brunel University
International Conference
Advances in Bridge Engineering / http://dea.brunel.ac.uk/downloads/research/events/AdvancesinBridgesConfProgramme.pdf
Mrs Carole Carr [e-mail:
Research Office Manager
Bridge Engineering Centre
School of Engineering and Design
Brunel University
Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH Tel: 01895 266 962 Fax: 01895 269 797
30 June / ‘The Great Western Express’ / Brunel commemorative steam trip from London Paddington. The train is due to arrive in Bristol at 14.30 and depart at 17.55. Departure from London Paddington is 10.30 and it arrives back at 21.30. Reading pick ups are 11.20 outbound and 20.40 return. Prices start from £65.00 in Standard Class. Optional extra of tour of Brunel’s original Bristol terminus at £10 per adult. Child discounts apply. / For a colour brochure or reservations call 0871 871 4119 for visit
www.past-timerail.co.uk
JULY
to 28 July / Those Magnificent Huts, Florence Nightingale Museum, London / New display on the history of the Renkioi hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 year ago. / E-mail:
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk.
18 July / Smeaton Lecture Stven Brindle on I K Brunel, ICE, London / ICE switchboard is open Monday to Friday 09:15 to 17:30
t: +44 (0)20 7222 7722
AUGUST
2 August7.30pm / Brunel in South Wales, Pontypridd Museum / Pontypridd Historical Society lecture by Stephen K Jones / Pontypridd Museum, Bridge Street,
Pontypridd
Contact Brian Davies on 01443 490748.
SEPTEMBER
7 – 8 September / BA Festival of Science, Norwich / ICE East of England event. Programme includes a debate at Norwich Football Club ‘this house believes that there has never since been a civil engineer of the stature of Brunel’ chaired by Gordon Masterton. Gala dinner to follow. / ICE switchboard is open Monday to Friday 09:15 to 17:30
t: +44 (0)20 7222 7722.
14-16 September / Brunel Festival, Neyland Library / Lectures and Brunel Heritage Exhibition at Neyland
Library. / See www.neyland.org.uk and
www.brunel2006.info for further details.
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