IHBC West Midlands - Sept CPD Event

Recreation, Replication, Translocation & Conservation of buildings at the Black Country Living Museum

Black Country Living Museum Woodside Library (within the Learning and Conference Centre)

Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ - Car park 2 

AGENDA:

09:30 - Arrival, coffee & registration

10:00 - Branch Welcome and Introduction to the Day

10:05 - Forging Ahead - Matthew Cowpe, Head of Collections & Interpretation, BCLM

10:15 - Recreation, Replication and Translocation - Simon Briercliffe, Researcher, BCLM

10:25 - Elephant & Castle - Simon Briercliffe

10:40 - Co-op Building - Clare Weston, Researcher, BCLM

10:55 - Woodside Library - Nadia Awal, Researcher, BCLM

11:10 - Questions to the Panel

11:15 - BREAK, followed by a walk around the Forging Ahead development

12: 30 - Material Matters: Forging Ahead - Elizabeth Thomson

13:00 - LUNCH, followed by a walk around the rest of the Museum

14:30 - Building Conservation at the BCLM - David Pitt, Conservation Manager, BCLM

15:00 - Questions

15:45 - FINISH

GETTING THERE:

By car

Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ - Car park 2.  Note this is a different entrance from the public entrance. Parking is free

By rail

BCLM is 1 mile from Tipton Train Station, which is on the Birmingham to Wolverhampton line operated by West Midlands Railway. 

By bus

A number of bus routes stop outside the Museum including:

• 229 Bilston to Dudley via Coseley, Sedgley (operated by Diamond)
• 11 Walsall to Merry Hill via Wednesbury, Dudley (operated by National Express West Midlands)
• 11 Walsall to Dudley via Wednesbury (operated by National Express West Midlands)

For bus information from Wolverhampton, Birmingham or other areas. Please visit the Network West Midlands website to plan your bus journey to the Museum.