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Blll'lling Iuue WITH immaculate timing the Buildillc Conservation Trust has chosen to hold an exhibition. on "The Care of Buildings" at Hampton Court. Their brochure promises ''Special Daya at Hampton Court" which will highlight ".the ,PIOblemsand faults that can develop in buildincs." It helpfully adds: "If neglected these can rapidly become more serious and expensive to cure." The exhibition shows "processes, materials and products that are used today to bring faulty structures back to useful life . . . it also shows ways in which to protect bo~ses by a little care and fores1cht from the ravages of time and weather."And fire?
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ARCHAEOLOGY &HERITAGE GROUP.ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC Soc: 12th April 1986. "Chairmansrep-ott". it has probably
Looking back on 1985, I been a very busy year, since the very begining.
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Members have been considered even meetings arranged in the Midlands, albeit very poorly attended, even by our standards.
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So, what we must do is look, not for the reasons our members don't make good mixers, but to our own resources, the strengths and weaknesess of any Society lie in its ordinary membership, as well as the Executive Officers. We few members at this gathering, probably represent almost exclusively the sum total of realiY interested members, so far as meetings are concerned. For we have arranged Museu"'. trips, Site visits, Historic, Archaeological and National Trust days, without exception the most popular feature of any meeting just has to be the prospect of a good tuck-in,a glass or two of decent wine and a chat. Which probably explains one mystery to me, the popularity of the "DINNERCLUB".
Appalled at the high cost of a good enlargina hlens, the Edi.tor. trd·es his hano ar ome 1ens grinoing. nly 1t not that simple. The good old "South-Bend" lathe is 16asis lha~'·Viabe t ~arcf.l' 5 r le~~rnef~H to .fhe Etasi in 4iana naven •\ anv oerioa1.r:. cyclic rancfi~ variation to the m.)ti.on ror star rs.so ..lll.e. are hardlv. aocut to put ssrs l\'U~S out ot business are we.
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The Archaeology & Heritage Group 1986 Conference took place over the weekend of 11th to 13th April 1986 at the Crystal Palace Sports & Conference Centre in South-East London. Things got under vay with a Sherry reception, & after Dinner, Bernard Brandham presented a lecture illustrated by transparancies explaining the origins of the Horniman Museuia, & of some 0£ the work commissioned by the Musewa recently, Horniman vas a tea importer vho made a fortune by selling tea in "pre-packed" packages that were of guaranteed weight. He vas a great collector, &assembled 111AJ1Y items of interest from all over the World to display at his home "Surrey House" in Forest Hill. Soon the Collection grew to such an extent that he decided to build a proper IIUSewa which vas designed by the architect Harrison Towsend, & opened to the public in 1902. Bernard Brandham shoved a variety of photographs of the Musewa•s beginings; pictures of posters, & various other doccmients ~the turn 0£ the Century. We were then told about so111eof the 1110rerecent work 0£ the Husewa. In the 1970's, the remains of several up-draught kilns dating fro■ the 1st or 2nd Century A,D. were found in Highgate Woods. In conjunction with the I.L,E,A,, it vas decided to carry out an experi•nt to construct a .l'axsimily kiln, to atte■pt to re-create a Roman pottery using only materials & equip•nt that vould have been available to the original potters. The project vas a great success, & it vu found that the kiln worked effectively, & pots were made as they would have been some 1800 years ago. A selection of transparancies of artifacts nov at the Horni■an Museumwere then shown, These included photo~raphs of an Egyptian Neolithic tomb, llll.llllllly-formgranite figures & a burial mask. It vu pointed out that JRUChinfor■ation ■ay be obtained fro■ the study of such artifacts. We were then shown photographs of cera111ics fro■ around the World; a Greek black figure vase, a Peruvian doll, a Mexican Myan urn & a South American stirup vase. We also sav pictures of various masks & shadow puppets both ancient & 110dern. The traditional fol'lll of ■any such iteias has not chuged tor hundreds of years, although the 11aterials used uy have altered. The Horniman Museu■ bas a fine collection ot musical instruMents, & ve were shown photographs of a selection of thesef followed by images 0£ a variety of ethnic dolls & figures. Bernard Brandhu also let us see so■e illustrations ot 19th Century Slavic Bee-Houses & their painted decorations, together with so■e photographs 0£ Navahoe Aaerican Indian horse blankets. Although the traditional for■ 0£ these blankets has reuined constant £or centurys, recent exa■ples reflect Western cultural contact, & include scenes shoving motor-cars, le even pictures of Snoopyr, Following the A~V show, Bernard Brandhu discussed the possibility of creating an u-c:hive of "the high street to~" u being a vay of preserving a heritage ot history in the
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■ Continuing Friday evening's progra.ae, Clive Tmner preseted a triple projector A-V shov. This vas most iapressive, & vu not the "light entertaimaent to put you to sleep" that Clive said it would bel First sequence vas "I've got a thing about trains", This vas photographed at the Bluebell Line in Sussex, & expertly put together to 111Usicby_Johnny Cash. We vere then treated to a selection oE pictures oE Cathedrals oE England, & the shov vas concluded vith "A hoae oE my Own". This vas a sequence shoving house building today, courtesy oE Barratts Ltd. Altogether a 110st enjoyable evenings entertainment. On Saturday 110rning, the ConEerence continued with a talk by Higel Neil, Ero■ the Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit. This is probably the largest archaeological unit in the country, e■ploying about 175 people on a regular basis. We were told about soae oE the projects the G.M,A.U. is involved in. There are ■any interesting archaeological sites in the Manchester area, & a selection oE colour slides vere_projected illustrating some ot the G.M.A.U.'s vork. Projects include excavations at Castleshav io■an Pennine Fort, the Blackstone Edge project, the Castletield Project, the Greater Manchester Hill Survey, & excavations at the s_ite ot the "Bulls Head Inn", SalEord. A shot in the dark,Nigel NEIL from Manchester Museum Service,delivered a superb lecture on that City's heritage
Berna ·d Brandon ,Curator of "HORNIMANS-~USEUM" S.E.24.Who gave the fine talk -.;;1 the museums history,and its founder of "TEA-TIME"fame. (R) Clive T,Who attempted to persuade British Rail to go back to "STEAM"• ( L)
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It is particularly tascinating the way that Industrial Archaeology takes over tro■ io■an Archaeology within the Manchester area. It is hoped that an Archaeology & Heritage Group Conterence ■ay be arranged that will take place in Hancb~ster, perhaps in 1988. Further details in due course. Following on tro■ Nigel Neil; an expert in Coins, Peter Horris talked to WI about British Crovns; that is the live-shilling pieces. Re explained three main reasons tor the photographing ot coins, tor security, tor display, & tor study. We were then show a series of transparancies illwitrating Crovn coins dating from 1551, minted during the Reign of Iing Edward V1, through to a Crovn iainted in 1981, depicting the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer. The value of coins to collectors varies considerably. Probably the 110st valuable Crovn coin at present is inscribed "Tho■as Shaw ■ost hWllbly petitions" minted in 1663 during the ieign of Charles 11. These coins, of which only about a dozen survive, are nov worth about £40,000 each. Peter Horris gave us a most interesting talk, on a subject vhich vas un-tallliliar to ■any of those present. On Saturday afternoon the Annual General Meeting ot the Archaology & Heritage Group vas held, & following this we vere treated to an intoJ'll&l talk fro11 John Bardsley, Hon. F.R.P.S., a past President of the Royal Photographic Society. For John Bardsley, photography started in 1919 with a 6d cardboard c&111era;however this never worked properly & in 1921 he bought his first "proper" camera, a lodak Box Brovnie. It is now 65 years sine he got that ca111era,& he has just been bitten by tbe Photography Bugl
Days money took a real hammering DESPITE their name, hammered coins are not "beaten-up.. old coins, but the description refers to the way they were made: a round piece of silver or gold was placed between two coin dies, and struck by a hammer. The illustration. done by Hans Burgkmair in about 1500. shows how coins were minted in medieval times: silver was bought in by weight (top); melted and rolled into sheets which were beaten into the correct thickness
(centre); then. once cut into roughly round shapes (left) they were "hammered'" between carefully prepared coin dies (right). This was tht: way dll coins were minted. from the Greek and Roman coins to our own coinaie, until 1662 when new machinery was installed at the Mint in the Tower orLondon. and mass production of coins began. British coins did not have a date until Queen Elizabeth the First introduced them on sixpences and lower value coins, but dates were not introduced properly until 1662.
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The way to date early hammered coins is to look at the mint-dark, which is usually at 12 o'clock on both sides. A careful look at the Elizabeth 20shillings coin will reveal a small woolpack (as found in the House of Commons): this mark was used on coins minted between 1594 and 1596. Similarly. the half-groat (or twopence) of Henry the Eigth has the mint-mark WS on the tails, which indicates it was produced between 15471549. It portrays the King just
as most of us imagine hiin. fat and evil-looking - ifs just as well this coin was issued posthumously, as the mint-masters might otherwise have been for the chop! An evil practice ~arrie~ out by traders in medieval times was to clip a sliver off the coins that passed thr?ugh their hands; they claimed Checklist of British Monarchs from Henry the Eight they did this to check the Elizabeth the Second: fineness of the coins and also to protect against forgery; but Henry VIII, 1509-47 ......... . in truth they hoarded these Anne. 1702-14 .................. clippin~s until they had amas- Edward vr. 1547-53 .......... .. George I. 1714-27 ............. sed a mce pile of silver. - t_he Mar)·· 1553-54 ................. .. George II. 1727-60 ............ kings. to safeguard their C?tn· Phihp and Mary. 15."4-58 .... . George III. 1760-1820 ........ I age. intmduccd a ra1~cd• Elizabeth I. 15.58-1603....... . wording on the edge of thick· James I. 1603-25 ............... . George IV. 1820-30 ..... .. er coins. which read "De~u~ Charles I. 1625-49 ............. . William IV. 1830-37.... . et Tutamen" - a decoration The Commonwealth. 1649-6( Victoria. 1837-1901 .. and a safeguard. . EdwardVII.1901-J(I Look at the pound coins m Charles II. 1660-85 ............ . George V. 19!0-36 your pocket - do you se~ th_e James II. 1685, 1685-88....... . Edward VIII. I 936 same legend? You wont .. if WilliamandMary.1688-94 ... George VI. 193t>-5 • it's a '-cottish or Welsh com. · WilliamlII.1694-1702 ........ . Elizabeth. accede,
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Just as the Romans used mainly one silver coin (ths· . denarius) in the early Empire. so too only one coin was common in Britain until ahout 1279 the silv.:r penny. Interestingly. the din £sd came from denanus.
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Past PRESIDENT& irrepreswie~ Committee worker,John was full of enthusiasm for his hobby,
Simplicity ot aessage is one ot the hall-aarks ot good photography, & self discipline could be considered to be the proper way to produce Art. Ask yourself "Why do you take photographs?" "Is photography Art?" Think about illustration rather than record, & above all think about the pho• that you take. To SWll up, Gvill held up a plastic cup in his hand, & suggested that as an exercise one could "Define a plastic cup tor the purpose of photography", & that it would be interesting to photograph a plastic cup in variou.s vays as a test of one's photographic technique. Alter Gvill Oven's thought provoking talk, Veronica & Ji• Brown showed us soae colour slides ot Ibiza. Following lunch, Martin Reed, fro• Silverprint Li■ited brought along a selection of items from Silverprint's ■assive stock of quality monochrome papers, chemicals, & accesories. He also de110nstrated hov to 110unt photographs, & hov to cut a "vin40v" in J110unting board using a Dexter-type ~t cutter. First measure the iniag~ size ot the pictu~e to be 110unted. Mark tbe area to be cut vith a pencil, on the board.Should you aount the photo exactly in the middle of the mount, it vill not look right, so mount the picture just a fev M.M.s above the centre. Then cut the window vith a Dexter tool, or si ■ilar instrument. Align the "windov" over the actual bo&rd the picture is to be afixed to before sticking down the photo to aake sure of correct allignment, & that is it- a perfectly ■ounted photograph.
Dr Mike APTEDleft lectured on tr,e "TtNl;MOUTHovn Batteries' a sub.1e~t of n1s most recent invest1gat1ons. Martin Re~d rillt, represent1no SI v~Wrrint Cot the Landon oes 1m rter o vnusual bromide pa rs & other 1nterest1ng items. the cheerful faces enJoy1ng that Saturday DINNER BOOKNOWFOR19R7.
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~ilverprint Liaited aay lie.contacted on 01-480 6625, & they opperate an efficient mail-order service should you wish to purchase photo paper~, mounting.boards, chemicals or sundries. Clive Tanner then continared th~ afternoon with a selection of superb 6cm x 6cm colour transparancies of Cathedrals. These were first class, & lastly, John Adams talked on Roiaenesque& PreRoaenesque Churches in Northern Spain. John Adalls has aade a study of these Churches which date from the 9th & 10th Century A.D. & ve were shovn some colour prints of various examples. The aeeting was closed with a cup of tea & a chat, & the consensus of opinion was that we had had a superb Conference. Our siacere thanks to Victor J.Hepplethwaite, A.R.P,S., Conference organiser, Group Chairman, & Editor of "The Proof", The 1987 Confereace will again be held at Crystal Palace, on the weekend of 29th to 31st May 1987, So make a note in your diary nowl John Walden, L.R.P.S,
Gwyll 01,0n advocate of the phsyche,advances a very deep theory on ~he shape of the cup? My ½sec @f1•2 finds Gwyll ver¥ active in the darkened con erence hall.(phsyche too)
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BUBBLETROUBLE.J_i~ Brown.
What were they, I wondered, these circular marks on the print. A furious inspection of the negative gave me the answer - air bubbles. I had read about them of coursewe all have - but they were always some-thiny. that happened to the other guy. With my ultra careful processing there was no chance of bubbles on my films I small
But there they were - small circular marks on the negative that meant hours of spotting and as Murphy says "If you are going to get bubbles, they will be on your best p~ctures." With a rare bout of determination I vowed that they would not occur again. But how to avoid them 7 Wetting Agent, I thought - make sure the film wets prop-erly & and there is no chance of bubbles. Now, I like to use a Wetting Agent in the final rinse so it seemed like a good idea to empty the tank & let it drain, like washing up, without rinsing it.
When I c011e to load my next film to the tank (I'm in a hurry, of course, and in e changing beg) it stopped about two inches into the spirel. I can't remem~r whet I said, but it wes something like· "Oh dear, whet e pity". Then I remembered: Wetting Agent is hygroscopic - it picks up water from the etmosphere - and I hadn't rinsed the spirel. It seemed dry, but close exa•in-ation showed. "it to be very slightly sticky. Since thet ·day I have emptied the devel-oping tank but not rinsed it & made sure thet all treces of Wetting Agent are weshed of the ·spirel. Result 7 No more air bubbles & no more sticking films. Air bubbles always heppen to the other guy-dont t~y 7
Heritage 1;1cws HE village of Meriden, in Warwick~hire. is generally said to be at the centre of F.ngland (or at any rate . of :England and Wa.les). Acco~u!g fo a report by Solihull Council: m \\°nose domain_it is. ma_nyforeign tourists are disappointed because they can find ·nothing in it to demonstrate the filct except a mediaeval stone cross and a bicyclists' memorial stone. There is no visitors' car park and no "facilities to get a cup of tea or coffee for the weary traveller (sic)". So the council suggests, among other things, new parking bays for tourists_ at the village pond, tree-planting "to hide eyesores" (what eyesores?), and landscaping ot the main roads through the village. This is not good enough. There should be signposts all over the place indicating the way to the "Centre of England", and at the actual Centre a manned Interpretive Centre, with diagrams, charts and recorded "audiophone" lectures in six languages on the concept of environmental centrality. in the English countryside. · What these foreign toutjsts would really like are a few old tales and legendary features-for instance, a figure which appears at the Centre on Midsummer Eve. believed by the villagers to be the ghost of a Meriden girl ravished in the Middle Ages by a wicked baron with an interest in geography who had sworn to wreak his evil will at the exact centre of England. There might. on the other hand. be an Oracle at the Centre, on the analogy of Delphi. the "Navel of the Earth". Instead of ambiguous utterances, ·the Pythoness. a council leisure official. would give out useful information about local nature trails,/ places of "tourist in!t:r~st" and · bed and breakfastfac1hhes. All this would cost the Solihull Council money. But it would be returned a hundredfold from the pockets of foreign tourists as Meriden itself became a precious part of our English Heritage.
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The Group triP. to 6rist9l docks arranoeo by ~harlie Brown,o~r most active West ern member, turned out to be a battle against the storm, The largest c·ontinoent arrived eaoer and cneertul trom the London area-of ourse. hanks o· to thos ~lrdy membirs who di~ t3k~ the Journey tor the day.
The Waltham Abbey meeting under the care of Reg Mason Hon FRPS.provided great opportunit-ies tor the camera. Seen in the Museum an entire room of early carved wall panels,about 8inch square (20cm?)they dominated the rest ot the eJ$hibj.ts with their fine crattmanship. This STEREOpair be viewed tree
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A DAYlN FIESJLE A glimpse into many pasts. After several days of gazing at the Florence Duano, the Pont Vecchio arrl the ...~rks of Michelangelo, Titian, Rubens, Valesquez, Rapael etc etc, I decided to get a bit of fresh Tuscany air. Hanly ,as it is only half an hour by his (abt .25p) was a lovely village high on a hill above Florence called · Fiesole of which frequent ~ntion is mcde in guide books, so off I ~nt anned • with my M6 arrl lots of film, Helas,photo-graphically speaking, it ..as a bit of a disappoin~nt as cloods rung in the skies arrl the lack of sun \onlld result in lack of contrast in the photo-graphs of the grey stones of the ex. --cavations. It was in 1792 that a fanner, digging his field on the slopes near the village, discovered a section of staircase. He dutifully reported it to the authorities, who persuaded an eminent expert AbbeLanzi to evaluate the i.mp'.)rtance of the discovery. Unfortunately re declated it of little relevance arrl any "10rk was then stopped. Not till 1809, on the initiative of a Prussian Barron vonScherlersein ~re excavations restarted. Fran tren on the "10rk of excavation arrl discovery bas proceeded to this day.
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We ~ld hardly agree with Abbe Lanzi that the worderful ruins of Fiesole are of ''Little relevance" The first archaeological map designed by a local man, Angelo Bibi in 1815 shows an :i.rnµ)sing city,with a stronghold surroorrled by triple bourdary walls•
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M.ich of the recon-struction was no doubt a figment of his imagination. Nevertheless, after 200 years of digging ~ now have, within quite a small area, evidence of the presence of man on that hill since the cegining of the secorrl millenilllll B.C. am this presence appears uninterrupted throoghout the Bronze Age tmtil typical ''Villanovan" fragments bring u& to the threshold of the actual Etruscan Age. The site, at present, contains ~11 preserved remains of an Etruscan temple, an almost canplete Ranan amphitheatre, am equally ~11 preserved Ranan Bathes, dating fran the 1st century A.D. The many graves discovered in the aear close to the village have yielded a large munber of artifacts airl many every day life articles for which a tm.lsealllllwas b..tilt in the fonn of a temple. The objects are exhibited in 3 roans am are all tagged with precise arrl ample infonnation
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Chernobyl'deaths • in Bible' By Ian Ball in New York
A SCRIPTURE Revelations
text fr_om which speak of "a star called wormwood" causing a con• flagration and poisoning the waters so that "many men died." is being read and r~read by atheists and believ~ ers across the Soviet Unioh in the wake of the ChemQ• byl nuclear catastrophe.
Chernobyl is the Ukrai~ian word for wormwood. a bitter herb used in rural Russia as a tonic. Before the nuclear a1e came to the Ukraine and the banks of the Dnieper. womt• wood grew in abundance ~re hence the name Chemob:4; for the site of four power plantl. · The reference to .:_ in , Ukrainian - •·the star . called Chernobyl" occurs in Revelations chapter 8, verses 10, 11. In the authorised version they read: . And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from hea11en. burning as i·t u:ere a lamp, and it fell upon the third parL of the rivers, and upon the f oantaina of waters. And the 11ame of the star_ is called Wormwood: and tlw tliird part of the waters bP.came wonnwood; and many men diP.d of the waters, because they were made bitter. As a result, Ukrainian dictionaries are being pored over throughout Russia-along witn the relevant passage frorn::tHe scriptures in Russia~ Soviet citizens who wa~ check that .. Chernobyl" meilfi-' wormwood in Ukrainian. , ':-:: "With the uncanny sp~~ common to rumour in the Soviet Union, the discovery had sprelid across the Soviet land, conU-ibuting to the swelling body of lor~ that has shaped the public consciousness of the disaster at the Chernobyl atomic power plant in the Ukraine." the New York Times reported from Mol>cow.
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THe Bi~ho1> of Tlurham, Dr I IJavid .Jenkin~. ha~ pred(·hcd in York minster for rhe lir\l time sinte it caught firr a few dd.YS .tltcr his consecration there two yt•ars ago. lie seems to have learned little from that experience. He told the congregation that the writers of the Gospels were more ronrerned ~ith pas~ing on thrir faith than getting their facts right. "The story i~ important ( sicJ not for its historical acrnrac.v", he said, "still less its srkntilic dcsniption. It's important for its message" .. Studirs, he went on, have shown that the early Christians \,ere not bothered about histo!'ic.: acc-uracy the way people .,re today. but not many "studies". surely, were needed to ~how this. How could the early Christians have br.en concerned 1, ith scientific facts and historic accuracy? Such an attitude to the world, a beli<'f in "lacts" dbove all things, though we are supposed to take it for ~ranted now. scarcely existed in their
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Come to that, how manv prople are all that concerned about "historic accuracv'' now? Thr Bishop ~hould get about n10rr. listen to wh.tt "ordinary p<'oplc" arc saying. He would be surprised by their slight concern for historic accuracy, even about the events of their own lifetime. When was it I overheard someone on a bus main• tain that the Vietnam war was fought in Central America? The Bishop should also bear in mind that ~ome real scientists (not the old-fashioned Yirtorian rationalists he is thinking of) are beginning to doubt whether there are any "farts" in his sense of the word at all.
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FIGHTS ERUPTED outside Christie's Amsterdam salesrooms yesterday as large crowds queued to view the celebrated Nanking cargo, salvaged from the South China Sea wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman Geldermalsen.
llis search, using high tec::hnology equipment. bej!c1n following his acndent1al disc-overv of a free tradmg Cluoese Junk in 1983 from whith he and hi~ team brougbt up a 1640s .. t1111e capsule" of pol'C'ela1n "hit h threw new hght on an obscure .period of Chioei.e export \'\'art· and was sold, amid mud1 acclaim, also at Chr1sl1C''s 111 Amsterdam. "That really set mC' looking tor early vessels, though at the time I had no idea what I had found," said Capt. Hatcher who. witb his crew, expects to get 20 per rent. ofth~ sale pric~. The cargo is named after the pi.in• where it was Iran,-.. ,h1µpe1I en route from the kilns to CJnton. Dutch East India Companv rt•cords indil'att• that the• l;t'JdermalsC'n wa,; carryin,:: '.!03 thc·,h 1ncludrni: 171 dinnc•r ,-.er-
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Grou_pvisit to_WALTHAM ABBEY June 86.
He described the tradition of T UNDER THE TITLE OF WALTHAM ABBEYHoly Cross, the rise and fall o -AN IMPORTANT HERITAGE- REG MASON. Hon monastery and the structural c FRPS. GAVE A POTTED HISTORY AND SUGGESTED which had taken place over the ~ A VISIT IN NEWSLETTERNo: 7. After hearing that the West end This was duly put into effect thanks been strengthened Victor took an ava to the prior arrangements made by Mr light shot of our guide by leanin Mason who acted as leader. His · early the pillar. After initiation was in a school party and · camera against it was "Fix Tri-pods" to record no doubt his schoolmaster would be grat-ified which
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in the Abbey Church. My own first visit was in 1925 when encouraged by a passion-ate and elderly history mistress (who-could well have been a camp follower at the battle of Hastings) I walked the tidy way from Wanstead only to find the church locked and, not having the 6d required to unlock the verger, I had to turn round and walk back. However the Group's visit was much more successful and we were guided by Dr.Ken Bascombe of the Waltham Abbey Historical Society of knowledge of the
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There was a display of prints of the ruined Copt Hall by two members of the RPS. which reminded us of the splendid photographs of Waltham Abbey by Sydney Newberry FRPS in the Pictoirial History series of publications, Although Waltham Abbey was founded as a day's journey from London ( 15 miles) its historical importance tends to be over-looked which was certainly confirmed by this successful Group visit, I lived and worked in Waltham Abbey C then under the Waltham Holy Cross Urban District Council) for over 20 years and still find it a pleasure to visit and photog- raph ~ Incidentally Waltham Cross is quite a different place being named after the Queen Eleanor Cross and not the Holy one of Tovi.
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"to the Major the resident expert at the Abbey,to whom we ewe'A a debt of gratitude for the permission which was readily granted, L to R, Vic~or,& emerging fro; under all that photo gear is Bert Crawshawe then Reg Mason •next the Major to whomwe owe our thanks and just to make matters a little more confusi the OTHERGeorge TAYLOR.. •.
• Witch doctor wisdom meets the computer A PLEASANT · LOOKING, middle-aged man of imletenninate nationality left Heathrow I his week on a fhght to Papua \t>w Guinea and a mission to save the world. The man is Dr Conrad Gorinsky, the Polish-Amencanlndian expert on tropical rain forests and their occupants. He 1s a director of Bioresourc-es.a subsidiary company of Earthlife. the charity. whose raison d'etre is expressed in a line from one of their advertisements: " If we continue to waste the earth's resources as if there were no tomorrow. there could well be no tomorrow." Gorinsky is a conservationist dedicated not just to conserving endangered species but to conserving endangered information. He argues that as well as teeming with life. the tropical rain forests-which on rurrent form we will destroy within 30 ur 40 years-are teeming with knowledge. He backs up the ,1rgument with two different lines of reasoning. In general, the peoples of the ram forests would not have ~urvived for so long in such difficultconditions if they didn't · have a thorough understa.nding of natural medicine: "they are hving proof of the validity of their knowledge." And in particular there are plenty of examples of important medicines that were discovered in this way-aspirin came from the willow tree, vincristine ::i treatment for leukaemia) from a species of periwinkle in Madag~scar.
The torest where the periwinkle was found has pretty well di~ppeared, Gorinsky says. And the medical know-bow he is after is threatened not just by the lumberjacks and bulldozers: it is threatened by the march of literacy. In a-culture that is rapidly ceasing to be oral, an old witch doctor will die without taking on an apprentice, and what be knows will die with him. Unless, that is, he is button• holed in time by Gorinsky and his little solar-powered computer. Gorinsky will be away for six weeks, two in Papua New Guinea followed by two in the Solomon Islands and two more again in PNG. He is going alone, but two field direytors who WQrk under him are already there. and so is his enormous staff-the young men and women of Operation Raleigh. "Very special people." Gorinsky says, "very gogd -at getting the trust of the locals. They don't go in like Hooray Henries."
The other indispensable parts of the team are the four Osborne computers-" my butterfly nets." They are "essentially shop-available," but Gorinsky wants to enhance them, "use them as the chassis for a complete field data capture kit." and teach the natives to use them. "You don't have to be a computer buff, anyone can learn ifin a week." · Once gathered, the information will be sent back to Earthlife's database in London, and made available to botanists, biologists, chemists, agronomists, perfumiers.. there is ample room for frivolity," Gorinsky says-and businesses in general. for Bioresources is about commercialism as well as conscrvati,rn. "Conservation means nothin~:· Gorinsky has said, " unless '·ou can provide a guy with a livelihood."
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Go tor a •istinctiont A long tiMe ago, when I was still at school, I often used to see in my "Amateur Photographer" titles such as "Photograph by I.H.Hason, F.I.P.S." & it becanie 'IIY illlbition to one day achieve a loyal Photographic Society distinctioa for ayself. The years vent by, & I did nothing to realise this illlbition; but in 1,a4 I decided "It's about time I joi11ed the I.P.S.", so I wrote off tor an application fol'lll and after returning this with ay cheque I received a nice letter telling 111e that I had been accepted u a iaember of the Society. The next step was to do SOiie photographs to subllit for evaluation. The Licentiate is the euiest of the three distinctions, • is Naly the first step along the road towards a Fellowship. To obtain a distinction, you 1111.lSt satisfy the Council of the loyal Photographic Society of your "Competence & ability in still or aotion picture techinques".There are several ways of doing this; by sul>aitting transparanciea, colour or black & white prints, or exaaples of particularly skillfl.11 work by photographic technicians. I decided to aubllit a selection of aonocroae prints, each 11" x 14" & ■ounted between stiff heritage board with a window cut in the front to display the photographs. For the L.l.P.S., a subllission ot ten pictures is required; tor the A,I.P.S or F.I.P.S. you Ill.I.St send in tvelve pictures. It was aore difficult to decide vhat photographs to select than to actualy print them up, le I found it as hard to IIOU;Dtthe pictures u to produce the act1al prints. There is a saying "The easy bit is pressing the shutter release" - how tnie that ist I think that it is always a problem to guess just what the Judges are looking tor, so tor ay attempt at the L.I.P.S. I sent in photographs of a variety of subjects. The rest is history, as they say, and I was absolutly delighted when one 110rning ■y Wile said "Congratulations" le banded 111e a letter fro■ the loyal Photographic Society addressed to, Mr V.J.Walden, L.1,P.S. Hy next goal is to try tor the Associateship. I'• going to have to do ay best to try tor this fairly soon, as "Licentiate• is too had to pronounces
Tiae• change- in 1921 the 6c11x 9CJIInegative tor11at ot the Browie vas considered too saall for "Serious" use, but nov in 1986 tAe 6ca x 9c■ tomat is a purely a professional size. In 1926 or V he upgraded his equip111ent to a Zeiss plate ca111era, vhich cost c7.1os.Od, & about that ti11e built hi• ovn enlarger, using a 4½" optical condenser which is still in use in the (11111ch revised) home 111adeenlarger he uses today. In 1928, he 111ethis vile, & while studying Che11istry & Biology at Manchester University began to experiment vith flash ·photography. At first he used magnesiU111ribbon, but then flash powder vhich vas quicker & more effective. In the late 193O's, satchel lights came into use. These vere very large bulbs vhich burned for 1/5th of a second. This vas ot course not quick eno~gh to "stop" 1110ve111ent of the subject. During the War, John Bardlley was photographing a large Dinner-party using 4 satchel lights. As each bulb vent oft in turn, the diners moved their head.I around to look at each light in turn, & the reaulting photo shoved 175 headless diners: We were shown a selection of superb photographs of IIAllY subjects taken during t'le course of the last 60 years, & all present were treated to an excelent & entertaining talk. The next speaker on the agenda was Dr. Mike Apted, who has been involved vith the restoration ot the gun emplacements at Tyne■outh. Dr. Mike explained how he has researched the project, & how an exhibition has been staged at the site 0£ this costal defence battery. We were shown a sees ot "then" & "now" pictures of the battery, & the lecture vas both interesting & informative. ~olloving an excelent Saturday evening Dinner, Alan Young Chairman ot the Tonbridge Cillllera Club presented an A.V. shov as an after dinner entertainment. There were seven sequences &11 by members of the Tonbridge Camera Club, & they were all of excelent quality. After the slide show, the evening drew to a close with the shoving ot tvo movies provided by the· Egyptian Tourist Board; "Faces of Egypt" & TutenkA1111Ul"• Our first speeker on Sunday morning was the well .known photographer· fron Cambridge University, Gvill Oven. The subject of his talk vas "Pre-visualisation". He explained that there are different vays ot thinking, depending upon hov you approach your photography. It one is to define the difference between the Professional & the Amateur, it can be done thus: Amateurs take pictures that are significant to themselves. A• an amateur, you have the· licence to succeed or to tail. To take the photographs that~ want. A professional however has an external influence, & does not have "pc!rsonal meaning" as the prime moover. It you are working for s0111eoneelse, you 11Ust be successful, & what you do 11\lSt be of interest to vho;;;; you are working tor. "Pre-visualisation" is to see in your mind what you think you are going to do before you do it, In a way it is the ability to define precisely in word.I just what you vant to do. For example "photograph tvo coffee cups", This might make you think .. that pre-visualisation is restricting, but it need not necessarily be so. It is a typical c111ateur approach to consider the "art" first & the "craft" second, Pre-visualisation is the ability to i11agine the picture before you press the shutter release. This can help to ■ake technical problems "self solving".
The resurrection of Highgate• AS A RESULT of devoted efforts, Highgate Cemetery is. so to say, coming back to life. The total cost of pre• sent and contemplated repair and building work is around £300,000. to be paid from various grants and with much of the work being done by young people, otherwise une'mploycd, under the auspices of the Manpower Services Project. Experimental work has been started towards finding the best method of repairing the catacombs, while other restoration work goes ahead on the entrance chapels. The necropolis was laid out b:v the London Cemetery Company in the late 1830s as part of a general movement for the more sanitary and seemly disposal of London's dead, away from the over-crowded churchyards. It was planned and largely built by Stephen Geary (later interred there), who also dc>signed cemeteries elsewhere and the Holborn Wine and Spirit Vaults. Perhaps the most dramatic frdture of the Highgate CemelC'ry is the cataLOmbs and their ··· J'.gyptian-style approaches. Bl'fore Highgate got into the bc-nificent custody of the l'ricnds of Highgate Ccmclcry thc-w tombs were melancholy l'nough to make one suic.idal. I Egyptian entrance to the catacombs, Highgate Cemetery. Drawing onrc took a party of young television camera people there to by Geoffrey Fletcher. film ii. and it subdued them for Lachaise, but the silences of Nubian lion; Nero, the highly half a day afterwards. Highgate are enlivened by tire polished coloured gentleman: The short-lived Egyptian song of birds from leafy niches "Hutch" Lillywhite, the toptaste came in with Belzoni's of thorn and bramble (it is a hatted and side-whiskered · and more tha~ archaeological discoveries in place providing for life as well cricketer: Egypt, and produced such fanta- as death), whereas the chief 160,000 others, awaiting th~ :1ies as the vanished Egyptian sounds of the Parisian necro- general Resurrection. Hall in Piccadilly and the polis are of the distant children Highgate early became 1'a delightful shop and house still in the Buttes Montmartre. venue for sightseers. Today, 1it preserved in Hertford. A similar is highly organised to this end. fashion, inspired by the disWho are these arrayed in If funds are to be raised for <'nvery of the Tutankhamun white robes? Why, Alfred restoration and upkeep, this is tomb, produced several Egyp- Stevens. notable Victorian art• no doubt inevitable. Yet thert. is tian cinemas de luxe and the ist and sculptor: the great Fara- surely a novel way of fund-raisRlack Cat factory at Mornington day: gentle, melancholy Chris- ing hitherto overlooked: let us Crescent. tin a Rossetti; George sell Karl Marx, gravestone and Highgate has been compared Wombwell, circus proprietor all. with a certificate of authenand owner of the famous ticity, to the Russians. to the more urban Pere-
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OURHERITAGE IN THEMAKING: On saturday 19th July 86, members & heritage group of the Archaeology visited Hartley, near Dartford in Kent, Although fairly near London, Hartley is in the depths of the Kentish countryside, and at least two of our members didn't manage to find it I It was a lovely summer afternoon when we assemb_led at All Saint's Church a beautiful small Norman Church. This was duly photographed, & the parJv then walked the hundred yards or so along a leafy lane to the Sculptures Studio, The work of Nocholas David EAMES is impressive, & no doubt we will be hearing much more of this talentred sculptue in the years to come, His studio consists of a couple of outbuildings et the end of th~ garden,
Our Group spent a fascinating couple of hours learning of traditional & modern sculpture techniques, & being shown work in various stages of completion that was being made ready for a forth-coming exhibit ion. This is to take place at the Crypt Gallery, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, London,W.C. 1. between the 2nd & 16th September.
After leaving the Studio of Nich Eames, we went to the house of M Mrs Brian Tremain. Brian is a Fe of the Royal ·Photographic Society, is also Chief Photographer at the Bri Museum. We were all treated to a sple "al fresco" meal, sitting by the ga pond. Later on, members of the G watched A. V.& Video of some recent that the British Museum has been invo with ovflrsaas.
an excellent all, & our sincere Viviana Tremain for
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An exhibition of work by David Eames can be seen close to the British Museum Map below, MAP SHOWING MAIN BUS ROUTES AND UNDERGROUND STATIONS NEAR TO ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY.
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It mightbe thought thatthe storyof a profess'onal hotographer in a provincial cityduringthefirsthalfof . thecenuryandcomparatively unknown elsawhel8, would be onlyof I al interest, butI foundthislittlebook fa~inating.
We should not expect me to turn up regularly, like Scouts at their weekly assem the visits and meetings we arranged for the Group the past 12 Months have amoung the best to date, is more,thanks to our "PROG ~EC"they have received the publicity ever in the JOURNAL.
Its not all bad news thoµgh, ~11 the time our small band gets to make the kind of visit it most appreciates and after all if more than a dozen members turnout we should be falling over ourselves and our tri-pods.
Let us keep up this c_ra-c pace and achieve an even bet record for 198 6. Heritage even now one of the most co words in the English langua let's really --explore the .subj while its still popular.
The Nature Group are placed somewhat differently, you can always lose 50 or so members in a Cornfield or a wood. So perhaps we should consider ourselves most fortunate, taking into account our espeyial not to say peculiar interests in old buildings to name one· aspect, that we are generally few in number at our meetings. Which brings me to the main point I wish to raise, "Could it be that our Members, being observant and very particular, would much rather READ about Group exploits, than be part of them ?"
I believe our way ah as a viable Group of the Ro Photographic Society, sho be. A/. To establish a ro r so that members can obtain ev possible assistance in achiev a DISTINCTION for their photogr B/. To im rove the ualit of the Group Newsletter, Magaz or whatever you wish to c it, intecesting articles OK as a general filler, a perhaps to trigger off speciali interests of members, but "MEAT IN THE SANDWICH" just to be the "EXPLOITS". of 1 OUR members as individuals, their work and spare time, t interests and handi-work, 2/. the exploits of the G generally· As an ordinary "STAND-AL member, this is what "I" w be most interested in and I · that you will all agree me and make a special ef to try and achieve this in the difficult times ahead.
After all, getting frozen in a ditch or up to your knees in mud is not the best way to treat good camera gear, as John Walden will testify, incidently I still have a strange brown alluvial substance on my best camera case· that defies elimination that from the Groups very first visit to Tunbridge Powder Mills, Years ago.
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oncentrat.ed my report _ --:-o p, without reference· :-:-:.:~sism of Bath,as some ave expected,I hope to a Sub-Committee set-up soon review the Group "RULES & . "'GULATIONS.and any. other matters requiring attention. And now lastly but not least, my very especial thanks to those Officers who have given freely of their valuable time to this little backwater of the Royal Photographic Society, and remembering that they each and every one have private lives, a living to earn and jobs to go to.
far from earning critisism for small jobs perhaps not done or missed, we all should be very grateful that someone is prepared to put themselves out, even put their hands in their pockets at times, for the well being of a great institution which will one day hopefully be still part of the Great British Heritage of the future. To those unpaid unsung and much abused at times, workers RPS Group, at the back of every lets give our grateful thanks. Victor. AGM. 1986.
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WHAT CAN
WENT SO SMOOTHLY,( the
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IN
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year)
THE
FOOD,
"THAT DINNER" AND ALL OUR SPEAKERS. PARTICULARLY NEILL, OWEN. GLORY,
I
WILL
REMEMBER NIGAL
PETER MORRIS AND OUR OWN GWYLL A
LOOK BACK .AT AN
OUR
ILLUSTRATED
AND THEN PHILOSOPHY
INDUSTRIAL
HISTORY
LESSON
WHAT MORE COULD
A MAN WANT? TOGETHER WITH
ALL
THE
FUN,
WE HAD
OUR OWN COMPANY ! ROLL ON NEXT YEAR. VICTOR, ORGANISATION
THANK I
YOU
FOR ALL
YOUR
AM SURE WE A_LL ENJOYED
THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOUR. My Kindest Yours
Regards
sincerely
Clive Tanner.
!MEMBERS LETTERS
Very,very,many letters from Arthur Page ARPS detailing his not incon, siderable success in · .;o~~itions & exhibit!'_- ..,~ Good work Arthurbut next time please OONTHighlight the bits you want printed with that "DayGlo" pen. the camera only see·• s a SOLID black heavy line. For the record-Yes I db know Ha11 Place Bexley_, I supped with the Mayor at an Exhibitionoof lotal Came.ra C,l.ubs-when I won the A::lll.i"a l ,-,ver.t, to the ·-~u~d 6t mu~h ~n~shing .•
How this for a thought? When Group's request printed address labels,made by the Bath computer, for the posting .of Newsletters, The label is issued with the approp- riate postage stamp for - eprinted destinationeg: not exceeding 1009.) ~ ...st think of the impact & goodwi 11 it could have on ong suffering members no o mention repaired relations. My proposal for this sc eme at the last r.ouncil eeting was seemingly not understood ? Ed.
Mr V.J.Heppelthwaite • Dear Mr H. ~ · was glad to receive the Autumn 83 issue of "Proof" ,after being out of communication with the Group for more than a year. The fault no doubt lay with Headquarters. Your comments about extending the activities of the Group outside the Home Counties are wel-come. It can only come about if members in the regions are prepared to take some initiative, so perhaps I should stick my neck out and offer to organise something in this area, or help anyone else to do so. I have been lecturing on archaeology and tutoring pn training excavations for Bristol University Extra Mural dept: for almost a quarter of a century, so I am used to arranging meetings and field trips My position as Trustee of the Western Archaeological Trust and Delegate to countless archaeological organisations gives me wide contacts for arranging lectures or guided tours.It should be quite easy •••• etc:: etc; Yours sincerely Charles Browne. whilst a little old this letter underlines the willingness of (some)members to lend a hand to the Group and The Royal Photographic Soc.: with such lengthy delays built into publication of the official RPS JOURNALpoor attendances at meetings particularly away from the Metropolis,come as no surprise to the Chairman, The only answer seems to be more frequent news from the Groups DIRECT, but with postage even for a postcard at half-a-Crown apiece, & t-ORMALdelivery at just under three shillings & sixpence much more would have to be allocated to Groups by Headquarters •••••••
J
·Hon PROGRAMME SEC's REPORT.Sept 86. The group has had a very busy ti• since the lsat issue of "PROOF". We visited Derwins"OOWN" House, held our 1986 Conf-erence, visited & photographed Ha■pton Court Palace, Bristol Docks & S.S.GreatBritain", The ABBEY at Weltha■ , All Saints Church·,Hartler, .the Seu lptor Nicholas David Ea■es, & also Wlrt>SORCASTLE. Fantastic I · There are a couple of it•s to be addedto our forthco■ ing progra■n1e printed elsewhere in this ■agazine:
5p■•
SVAg,iiJ!:t ~~:tbefoos6~orJI: ij
Forest Hill,London SE23. Me■bers of the Archaeology & Heritage Group will be able to photograph artifacts fro■ the current exhibition. Strictly TICKETONLY. Details fr0111 John S~ce LRPS., phone 01-467-5325. ·• On display throughout Septe■eber &possibly October as well. The Archae-ology & Heritage Group 1986 Exhibition, atthe AVotCROFT ~seuin of Buildings, Stoke Heeth,Bro■sgrove,Worcestershi~. Why not co■e along & see the (;roup' s Exhibition ? (and eke your-self known to our inanon the spot-Dr Peter Pollit ARPS I Ed: ) The Museumis an interesting · ·place to spend the day anyway I The ltuseu■s Tel: Net is31886-313.63 for further deatils.
Spring 1987. {Date to be decided) site
of the dis-used
Gunpovder Factory,
This is a fascinating manufacturing
place,
explosives.
factory
to return
if you vould like
remember that
in·,
contact
Oont forget start
sorting
We vill
return
hovever,
V.H.
to the Ient.
to nature,
the site
"The public"
to see the remains of the
for further
details,
{01-4G2 3264)
the Archaeology & Heritage
Group is
somewhere that~
are
me. John Walden on 01-856 1026,
NEXTYEARSGroup Exhibition-
out your pictures
to enter
of you should submit at least
Nov is the time to
in the 1987 Exhibition.
Every -.ember of the Group is a photographer, darkrooms & start
in one rare vista.
A Group photo taken in Windsor Casj:~:
50 years
YOURGroup, so if you vant us to visit interested
nistory
near Tonbridge,
Por the last
phone Jim Brovn, L.R.P.S., Please
:
vhere once hundreds of people vor~ed
has been abandoned & alloved are not admitted,so
______ ,;
so each
one photograph-
printing! John Walden L,R.P.S.
&
every on
so get in those
Programme•
Saturday
11th October Provisional 1986 date for a visit to see & photograph the Church of Scotland, Pont Street, s.V.3• Details from Victor J. Hepplethwaite, A.R.P.S. telephone Orpington (0689) 23325•
sundaY 9th November 1986 Archaeology & Heritage Group visit to the Welsh industrial & Maratine Museum, Cardiff, south Wales to see the Exhibition "Civil Engineering in Wales" which features more than 400 photographs, bOth old & new. Meet at 2.30pm at the museum• Please contact John Walden, 01-856 1026 or Oven Gibbs 0222 626775 if you will be taking part in the visit. Sunday 14th December Archaeology 1986 & Heritage Group Christmas Meeting & Party. This will be held at the home of Mr & Mrs Alex ~immons; Bromley, Ient. Details from Victor J. Hepplethwaite, Orpington (0689)23325• Saturday
21st February 1987 Meeting/visit A & H Group
T.B.A•
Saturday
14th March 1987 A& H Group Meeting/visit
T.B.A·
sundaY
12th April 1987 A& H Group Meeting/Visit
T.B.A•
Wednesday 13th May 1987 l..date ,.:,r-1 .--.for ~ I-',..,a Group visit to see & photograph Provision;,l Westminster Abbey, London. We will meet at the Abbey at 6PM. Please confirm with John Walden 01-856 1026 if you wish tu c: >!!le01J.·ir,;;••
7,
■
Friday
::so i'/1.· Progralfflle 1987 Continued.
29th to Sunday 31st May 1987 This is the confirmed date for the Archaeology & Heritage Group 1987 Conference & get-together to be held at the Crystal Palace Sports & Conference •. .. Centre. If the Conference is only half as good as the last one it will be greatt This event is highly reco11111endeddon't miss it. Details from Victor J. Hepplethwaite, A,R.P,S. telephone Orpington (0689) 23325- book up early to avoid dissapointment.
Saturday
30th May 1986 2.3op.m. Archaeology & Heritage Group Annual General Meeting & Election of Officers. ·This will be held at the Crystal Palace Sports & Conference Centre, London S.E.19., during the weekend of our Conference.
Sunday 21st June 1987 A & H Group Meeting/Visit Saturday
T,B,A.
18th July 1987 A & H Group Meeting/Visit
T.B.A.
1st& 2nd/9th & 10th August 1987 Provisional date for the 1987 Archaeology & Heritage Group Exhibition, to be held at the Dutch Barn, Horniman Gardens adjacent to the Horniman Museum, 100, London Road, Forest Hill, London, S.E, Details from the Exhibition Hon. Secretary, John Spence, L.R.P,S. telephone 01-467 5325. This Exhibition is for work done by members of our Group. If you would like your photographs to be included they can be monochrome or colour, & should not be larger than 20" x 16" including mount. Sunday 23rd August 1987- A & H Group Meeting/Visit T.B,A. September 1987 The ~rchaeology & Heritage Group's 1987 Exhibition will be on display at the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings~ Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Saturday
19th September 1987 A & H Gr0up Meeting/visit
T,B.A.
Sunday 18th October 1987 A & H Group Meeting/Visit
T.B,A,
Saturday
14th Rovember 1987 A & H Group ~eeting/visit
Saturday
12th December 1987 A & B Group Christmas
T.B.A. Meeting/Party.
