Practitioners and professionals who would like preview of the presentation on Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings at our ASCHB 2019 Conference could join the National Heritage Ironwork Group Free Event: Conservation of Architectural Ironwork 2-day CPD at Shrewsbury Flaxmill. Further details here

Later in the year on June 19th 2019, NHIG are holding Pigs, Puddlers & Patterns: An Introduction to the History, Manufacture & Repair of Cast Iron at Coalbroookdale Museum of Iron. Further details here
ASCHB Members will have seen the article in Transactions Volume 39 by Jackie Heath on the Conservation of the Iron Bridge, Shropshire 1779-2018

Details of our 2019 conference have been published on our Conference page. This year, our theme is Mills & Booms: The Conservation of Industrial Archaeology, Buildings & Sites in Industrial Use. We have lined up an array of speakers which promise a conference that will interest all our members as well as the wider conservation community:
Sir Neil Cossons, Shane Gould, Paul MacMahon, Michael Nevell, Henrietta Billings, David Went, John Tanner, Malcolm Tucker, Nick Hill, and Stephen Clarke.

Our February meeting is a debate on The Value of Posterity with a panel of speakers, see the Meetings page for details.

Read our Chair’s introductory document here

The Mason’s Company’s Inaugural Gilder Lecture ‘Stone & City’ will be on 23 October 2018 at St Andrew’s Holborn, and given by Adrian Paye of PAYE Stonework, who was recently involved in the reconstruction of the Temple of Mithras beneath the new award winning Bloomberg building.

We are grateful that long standing ASCHB member John Burton has obtained the Master’s permission to open up the talk to members of ASCHB, and further details are given here: The Gilder Lecture

 If any one does want to take this up, can they contact the clerk Giles Clapp on the email Clerk@masonslivery.org . The company does not handle cash, and a bank transfer would be required before the event, guided by the clerk.

This month’s meeting will be a Forum on the Insulation of Historic Buildings – come and hear the latest thinking on this difficult subject. The meeting will start early at 5.30pm for 6pm at our usual venue at The Gallery in Cowcross Street. For further details see our Meetings page here