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Bristol Threatened History Society
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BTHS SYMPOSIUM 2008: BRISTOL’S EARLY INDUSTRIES

To be held on Saturday 25 October at the Chapel Lecture Theatre, St Matthias Campus, University of the West of England, Fishponds, Bristol.

This event is run in conjunction with the University of the West of England’s Regional History Centre.

Provisional Programme

10.00 Coffee and registration

10.30 Overview of Bristol’s industrial past  Bob Jones (Bristol City Council)

11.30 Coffee

12.00 Excavations at 1-2 Redcliffe Street: clothworking and metals  Richard Young (Cotswold Archaeology)

1.00 Lunch (café facility on site)

2.00 Eighteenth-century glassworks in Portwall Lane Reg Jackson (Bristol and Region Archaeological Services)

3.00 Tea

3.30 Glassworks in Avon Street  Ian Miller (Oxford Archaeology North)

4.00 Discussion and close

Tickets available at  £12.00 [lunch excluded] from Mike Ponsford. Contact Mike at m.ponsford@ipresent.co.uk or on 0117-9858109 to secure your place.