For 2019, BIAS, the Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society, will be hosting the event. It will take place on Saturday 6 April 2019 at Saltford Hall, Wedmore Road, Saltford BS31 3BY, registration opening at 9.15am. The cost of attendance is £20 per delegate, to include lunch and hot drinks. Speakers include Geoff Wallis of the Avon Industrial Buildings Trust: ‘In Circles: Restoration Work on Brunel’s Swivel Bridge at the Bristol Docks’; Eric Lyons, of Risca Industrial History Museum : ‘The Black Vein Explosion of 1860 and the Miners’ Graveyard’, and Bias member Eric Miles of the Avon Valley Railway: ‘Sentinel – The Rise and Restoration of a steam shunter from Keynsham’s Somerdale Works.’

Delegates have the option of concluding the day with a visit, either to Saltford Brass Mill (subject to weather; numbers limited); Kingswood Museum, for which there will be a small admission charge; the Avon Valley Railway, or industrial Keynsham (a walking tour led by Mike Bone.