Spring Meeting

We have booked the Farringdon Room at St.Bride Foundation for our popular Spring Meeting. When the late Alan Crocker was Chairman he started the Spring Meeting as an opportunity for members to present topics that might be of interest to the rest of the membership. These topics can be short or long talks, videos, demonstrations or anything that is linked in some way, however tenuous, to paper.

Holding the meeting on a Wednesday seems to work well for members and helps with cheaper train fares. We plan to start at 11am with coffee and finish at 5pm with a complimentary glass of wine, there is a break for lunch when delegates can visit the local hostelries or bring their own sandwiches.

Confirmed programme.

11.00 am      Assemble – Coffee & biscuits
11.30.am      Welcome – Daven Chamberlain
11.40 am      Peter Bower – “Balloons, Papermaking, Riots and Revolution” Papermaking and the early exploration of manned flight.
12.05 pm      Ellie Burkett – “Conversations about Shifu, woven paper cloth” Endangered material knowledge.
12.45 pm      Ian Christie-Miller – “Infra-red Light Sheets”

1.00 pm      Lunch – please make your own arrangements.

2.15 pm      Mark Cropper and Colin Cohen – “The Paper Foundation Collection and TH Saunders’ Illustrations of British Paper Manufacture, 1885″
3.10 pm     Nicola Walker – “Mount Stewart’s Felted Paper Bed-hangings”. The conservation of a rare survivor.”
3.50 pm     Mike Stanyon, Rowena Haigh and Sue Woolnough – “John Dickinson & Co., the General Strike and a Masonic Group.”
4.20pm      Closing Remarks – Daven Chamberlain

Talks will be followed by wine and nibbles at about 4.30pm.

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