{"id":525,"date":"2024-06-24T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=525"},"modified":"2024-06-24T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:19:24","slug":"monday-24th-june-2024-730pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"THE HISTORY OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CROFTON BEAM ENGINES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center add-remove-bottom-space has-large-font-size\" style=\"text-transform:none\">Speaker: Jon Willis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                           <strong>Monday 24<sup>th<\/sup> June 2024 \u2013 7:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                                <strong>(Doors open from 7:00pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-12-121611.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-12-121611.png 315w, https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-12-121611-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The Kennet &amp; Avon canal opened in 1812 to provide goods to the growing cities of London, Reading, Bath and Bristol.&nbsp; John Rennie and William Jessop were two of the famous canal engineers closely involved.&nbsp; A major challenge was how to provide water to the summit of the canal at Crofton.&nbsp; Amazingly, the solution of a steam operated beam engine pump can still do the same job today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jon is an engineer who spent a large part of his career planning and developing railways to support the redevelopment of London Docklands.&nbsp; He lives in Bucklebury, retiring a few years ago as Head of Planning of the Crossrail\/Elizabeth line.&nbsp; He has been a volunteer at Crofton for 20 years and is a past Chairman of the organisation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center add-remove-bottom-space\">Bradfield Cricket Club Pavilion,<br> Heath Road, Bradfield Southend, RG7 6HH<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(Car Parking Available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">There is no entry fee, but a donation of \u00a34 per person towards expenses would be appreciated. No advance booking required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Organised by Professor Martin Parsons, Dorcas Ward, Bob Lyon, Chris Curry, Barnaby Bucknall and Gordon Patterson. For further information, contact Gordon on 07764 476361 or <a href=\"mailto:gnpatterson@btconnect.com\">gnpatterson@btconnect.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jon Willis Monday 24th June 2024 \u2013 7:30pm (Doors open from 7:00pm) The Kennet &amp; Avon canal opened in 1812 to provide goods to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastevent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-12-121611.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}