Speaker: Martin Buckland
Thursday 19th February 2026
7.45pm, The Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, Abingdon OX14 1NS
Join us as we hear from Martin Buckland on the fascinating history of Malting and Brewing in Abingdon.
This is an expanded version of a talk given by Bruce Hedge which now includes more details of the malting process, the transport of the raw and processed grains in addition to illustrations of the demolished and redeveloped maltings in Abingdon. The talk is fully illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs of the foregoing.
Maltings
Martin Buckland has been interested in Industrial Archaeology from the age of 4 when watching Great Western trains with his Dad at Iver where he was born. Nearly seven decades later he is involved as a volunteer with the Great Western Society at Didcot Railway Centre dressed as a Victorian Railway Navvy in the re-enactors team.
He gives talks at Abingdon Museum to primary school children about what it was like to live on a working narrow boat and leads walks along the historic and proposed routes of the Wilts & Berks Canal and another covering the rivers of Abingdon.
Martin Buckland