News

• FODMs AGM Tuesday 27th June 12.00pm

  The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Discovery Museum will take place at 12-00 noon in the Turbinia Room (4th Floor) at the Discovery Museum

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• Energising Exhibits

  FODMs members currently run engines and carry out repairs and maintenance of exhibits and equipment within the museum.

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• FODMs Appeal for Volunteers

  We are a small group of retired, young at heart, enthusiastic individuals who use our collective engineering knowledge and experience providing support to Newcastle’s Discovery Museum.

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• 2017 Membership Renewal

  Note from The Secretary :

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• FODMs Spring Bulletin

  FODMs Spring Bulletin has been sent out to members - you can read it online here

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• Motor Cycles - Special Interest Group?

  Following the publication of my reminiscences last year on the motorcycling activities just around the corner from Discovery on Westgate Road

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• From Discovery's Reference Library "English Without Tears"

  The Reference library at Discovery contains some 14,000 artefacts, including engineering firms' brochures and publicity material, magazines, journals and books.

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• PROJECT : History of the Electricity Supply Industry in NE England

  The North East of England led the Country in the application of electricity to motive power in industry in the early years of the 20th Century.

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• Volunteers in Uniform

  Our members who help out in the Discovery Museum by repairing and cleaning exhibits, running the engines and taking our Arcs and Sparks tours now have a natty new polo shirt to wear whilst carrying out their activities.

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• Men And Sheds

  I have been asked by our chairman, Ian Burdon, to start a series of newsletter articles on this topic as an ongoing feature.

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