South East Region Industrial Archaeology Conference

researching the transport industry and infrastructure. He surprised many of the audience with the extent of the industry in Kent, particularly the steam motorcycle which ran on paraffin, petrol being very expensive even then. However, the machine’s Achilles heel was the hard water we all know in NW Kent, which caused the boiler to fur up rapidly!

The Society’s Industrial Archaeology Committee is new. If you have an interest in industrial archaeology and would like to join in its work please contact Mike Clinch 01322 526425 or mike@ mikeclinch.co.uk.
We intend to run a day in the latter part of next year centred on the paper industry, with particular emphasis on Kent. If you have any suggestions or would like to take part please let me know.