This month our speaker is Peter Bolt, Secretary of the Thomas Brassey Society. Peter will be talking about Thomas Brassey who was born at Buerton, Aldford a few miles south of Chester in 1805. Brassey’s career began as a trainee surveyor on Thomas Telford’s Shrewsbury to Holyhead road through North Wales. He learned a lot about civil engineering, became a quarry manager on the Wirral and then set up his own business as a railway contractor. Brassey was at the forefront of ‘railway mania’, building one third of all the railways in this country during his lifetime. He built railways all over the world, on almost every continent and, at the height of his career, employed an estimated 85,000 men in his global workforce.
This meeting is also our AGM, the proceedings of which will take about 10 minutes at the start of the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, 11 October at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy on Northwich Road.
