Winter Meetings
WINTER MEETINGS October 2025 –April 2026
All meetings are held on Mondays at the Methodist Church, St Edmunds Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF. Doors open at 7.00pm and the meeting starts at 7.30pm.
Non-members are welcome to attend. Nearest car park is Salt Lane, free after 7.00pm.
5 October 2026:
Roland Smith - Salisbury Station – its history and recent discoveries
Roland Smith is the now retired Assistant County Archaeologist for Wiltshire. He has been a professional archaeologist for over 40 years, working mostly in central southern England, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
2 November 2026:
Members' Evening:
This is the annual opportunity for you to tell us all about anything you have found in the
world of Industrial Archaeology. We will have a PowerPoint projection system
available. We can produce a PowerPoint slide show from your pictures or old 35mm slides if you give us sufficient notice. If you have something to say but no pictures
suitable for projection, we can pass documents or small objects around the audience. Though not
essential, it really would help if you can let the chairman know beforehand that you
would like a spot, and do confirm this when you arrive on the evening, thus avoiding
any embarrassment.
7 December 2026:
Dave Sabin - Devizes Wireless Station; Transatlantic signals and signal intellegence. Marconi's transmitter above Devizes is little known. It was meant to form a part of an Empire wide wireless system and
was accurately aligned to a station in Egypt, forming the first link of a proposed world network. David has used his
practical skills as a geophysicist to map the remains in the ground, while undertaking an impressive array of
documentary research.
4 January 2027:
Members Social Evening:
The evening will start with food nibbles and soft drinks. Please bring some items of
food, and an Industrial Archaeology story, perhaps supported by small objects, which we can view
after the repast and chat. The drink, non-alcoholic, will be provided. Obviously, we
do not need as much Industrial Archaeology as in October but please do bring
something, perhaps the smaller items you had not thought sufficiently important for
the November meeting.
1 February 2027:
Kayt Hawkins - Peptide analysis. peptide analysis. She will share her research on the contents of various vessels, and hopefully will be able to tell us whether the assumed child's feeding vessel from one of Cirencester's Roman cemeteries, that she has previously told us
about, was a feeding vessel.
1 March 2027:
Rod Poynting - Salisbury's bottled waters.
Rod has been collecting and researching containers for Salisbury's bottled waters and beers for much of his life.
5 April 2027:
Annual General Meeting followed by exciting videos and discussions.
The AGM is expected to follow the usual format in reporting on the year just finished, showing the state of the Society and then holding elections for the committee. This will be followed by something of interest but quite what has not yet been decided. As soon as it has details will be added here.