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Blue Plaque unveiling - Godfrey Issacs

The City Council has recently installed information boards to form a heritage trail and a blue plaque for Godfrey Issacs (Managing Director for the Marconi Company between 1910 and 1924) on the powerhouse/gym building at 1 Dunn Side within the Marconi development.

They will be holding an event for the Mayor of Chelmsford to formally unveil the plaque and the boards on the 10^th November at 14:30, this will include a tour of the powerhouse building and a tour of the heritage trail created from the installation of information boards in the area.

Members of the Marconi Veterans Association are invited to attend.

If you wish to attend please contact Nikki Spalding This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The marketing team will be taking photographs during the event, if you do not wish to be photographed during the event please also let me know.

Marconi / Science Events 2021

The Chelmsford Science and Engineering Society have just launched their 2021/22 programme.

This initially includes

Wed 27 Oct (evening): 150 Years of Science and Technology in Chelmsford, a talk by Prof Robert Iliffe (Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford). This will be an online event.
Wed 17 Nov (evening): CSES Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2021. Also an online event.
Sun 21 Nov (daytime): Marconi... Past, Present and Future, an exhibition by CSES, Chelmsford Civic Society and others at the Hylands House Open Day.
Wed 24 Nov (evening): The Role of Nuclear in Net Zero, a talk by CSES, ARU and the Bradwell B project. Our first 'hybrid' event with both in-person and online attendance options, and something we plan to roll out more widely.

Note that some details are still to be confirmed; the listings will be updated on the Chelmsford Science and Engineering web site in due course. Please do register your interest in the meantime by booking where appropriate.

2022 Newsletter Articles

If you have any articles / stories which would be of interest to our Members, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so we can include it in our 2022 Newsletter.

Alternatively you can post information to the MVA Secretary.

We try to compile the Newsletter during October / November to complete it in December, for publishing after Christmas.

Thank you
Mark Watson-Lee
Newsletter and Web site