Other events - Summer Meeting

Every year we organise a residential summer meeting - often overseas - and some years we will hold a similar meeting in the Spring or Autumn as well. These meetings are open to all members, who may bring their families and friends along too. (For a taste of this, see the account of a recent summer meeting in Brabant).

Meetings usually last for about four days, and take the form of visits, talks and social gatherings.

2008 Spring Meeting in Normandy

The 2008 Spring Meeting will be held in Normandy, from 21st-25th April.

The meeting will be based on the Cherbourg Peninsula, and will include visits to WW1 sites, lime kilns, remains of the Mulberry Harbour, steam engines at the mining museum at Molnay Littry, copper and pewter manufacturers, bell foundries and other subjects of interest.

2008 Summer Meeting in York

The 2008 Summer Meeting will be held North Yorkshire, from 7th - 11th July.

The meeting will be based on York. Details will be posted up on this website in due course.

Previous meetings

2007 Summer Meeting in Bohemia

The 2007 Summer Meeting in Bohemia included such highlights as:

• silver mine workings in the mediaeval silver sity of Kutna Hora - a world heritage site
• a brewery - in Pilsen of course!
• famous crystal glass-works
• former pumping station designed by William Lindley with original steam engines and spectacular sewer complex
• 1909 tram depot with large collection of historic vehicles
• preserved mining complex at Pribram with winding engines
• the Skoda Museum
• collection of steam locomotoves and narrow-gauge railway

2006 Summer Meeting in Bristol

This meeting included the Brunel Bicentenary Conference, at Bristol Temple Meads.

2006 Spring Meeting in Holland

Based at Venlo, close to the Dutch border with Germany, visits were arranged to sites on both sides of the border, including 'hidden' steam engines at Limburg and Brabant, a post mill, coke works, steelworks, sugar mill, canal sites with a boat trip.

2005 Spring Meeting in Cornwall

This meeting was designed to help celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Trevithick Society and to mark the nomination of the Cornish mining landscape for inclusion on the list of World Heritage Sites.

Visits included:

• Treffry Viaduct, Luxulyan, 1842
• Tour of china clay industry
• Visit to Eden Project
• Charlestown - the late 18th Century Smeaton-designed china clay and copper ore port
• Harvey and Copperhouse foundries, swing bridge and early railway remains at Hayle
• Valley of River Kennall with Gunpowder works
• Perran Foundry
• National Maritime Museum at Falmouth
• Cable & Wireless Museum at Porthcurno
• Annual Dinner of the Trevithick Society at Geevor
• Rosevale Mine at Zennor (dating from 1700s) - deep mine visit
• Levant mine with steam engine - surface mine visit
• St Just and Botallack Mine