Meetings and Presentations

Includes some events organised by others which may be of interest to HRA members. For most events, more details will be available nearer the time. Details of forthcoming meetings

NEW - West Brom Managment Meeting:

Enough is Enough - Programme
HRA Business Meeting Programme November 2011
HRA Midweek Meeting Hotel Booking Form
HRA Midweek Meeting West Bromwich 2011 General Booking Form

"Enough is Enough ! - Are we managing our collections or just storing junk ?"
Tuesday 15th November 2011 - West Bromwich Albion

How much rolling stock is there on your railway ? Does it all “belong” ? Have you issues with vehicles which rather let the side down ? Tired engines and coaches which are all too visible to visitors. Sidings which are crammed full of  vehicles ? Perhaps even confusions over ownership ?  If you have any of these problems, here is a date for your diary -

-          Current workload and existing workforce ….a thousand years of projects?
-          Collecting Policy, including disposal policy and the ethics of disposal
-          Some techniques to decide “what to keep and what should really go”
-          We are “Not Alone” - experience of professional museums and other transport collections
-          Collection Review - how to go about it
-          Resolving disputed ownership
-          Using the Railway Heritage Registers
-         What you are obliged to do as an HRA Member

PRESENTATIONS + SPEAKERS

VIP Contribution : Tim Fischer - former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former Chairman of Tourism Australia   Who will focus on “damaging impression of lines of decaying rolling stock”.

Helen Ashby - basically on the NRM “Foundry Lane Disposals” challenge (and taking forward from her flagging up this issue at the NRM Seminar in June)

Rob Shorland-Ball - on “We are Not Alone” similar experiences of Countryside Museums (see Email of 27.06)

Andrew Scott - on “Identifying the Stars and getting rid of the Misfits from your rolling stock collection  - some techniques to help decide what to keep and what should really go"

Chris Smyth - on the problems when ownership becomes unclear

Tim Bryan - on experience in Motor Museums and beyond

Peter Ovenstone - on “your obligations as an HRA member” Code of Conduct, Mission Statement

There will be an opportunity for Questions from the Floor at the end of each presentation.

In addition there will be two breakout sessions on specific subjects at the end of sessions 1 and 2 and a more general closing discussion at the end of Session 3.

Breakout session topics will be advised on the day. Possibilities include|:

"Are we in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater?"

" How far to follow the Museums Association model for disposals?"

HRA Autumn Midweek Management Forum
Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 November 2011

NEW - West Brom Managment Meeting:

Enough is Enough - Programme
HRA Business Meeting Programme November 2011
HRA Midweek Meeting Hotel Booking Form
HRA Midweek Meeting West Bromwich 2011 General Booking Form

Documentation and presentations from previous meetings are available from the Documents page.