16 FOURTH SAC CONFERENCE Proc. Analyt. Div. Chenz. Soc. Fourth SAC Conference J u l y 17-22, 1977, Birmingham Social Programme A full and varied social programme has been organised for the benefit of delegates and their guests at the 1977 SAC Conference, which is to be held at Birmingham. Information is given below about the tours and industrial visits, the Ladies’ Programme and various Conference functions.Tours Tuesday, July 19th A number of evening tours has been arranged, the first option being a steam-hauled dining excursion on the Severn Valley Railway. The Severn Valley Railway Company operates steam-hauled trains along 14 miles of line between Bridgnorth and Bewdley, both on the River Severn. Dinner will be taken in a Great Western Railway dining/kitchen set, built in 1932.The second tour is to the Fox Inn at Stourton for a wine tasting and the third is a 3-h cruise on the River Severn, beginning at Stourport-on-Severn, and during which there will be a buffet meal with wine. Tour No. 4 is to Malvern for a historical banquet at the Orangery, Mount Pleasant Hotel, and for Tour No. 5 transport has been arranged for delegates and their guests to visit theatres in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry.Wednesday, July 20th There will be six whole-day tours, one of these being to Harvey’s of Bristol. After visiting Harvey’s Wine Museum there will be a buffet lunch in the cellars and a tour of their modern production centre at Whitchurch. There will then be a visit to Brunel’s iron ship, the S.S. Great Britain, built in 1845, followed by dinner in Cheltenham.A tour of the Skol Lager Brewery at Wrexham has also been arranged and visitors will be able to enjoy a short visit to Chester before dining at a former stately home on the site of the Battle of Rowton Moor. The third tour begins with a visit to Berkeley Castle and after lunch at a hotel on the edge of the Cotswold Hills there will be a visit to the Falconry Centre.Tour No. 4, a visit to Warwick Castle and Charlecote Park, concludes with an evening spent at Stratford- upon-Avon and the opportunity to attend a performance at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The fifth tour will consist of a visit to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, The Coalbrookdale Museum housing Abraham Darby ’s Furnace, The Bedlam Furnaces, Blists Hill Open Air Museum, The Coalport China Works Museum, Tar Tunnel and the Hay Inclined Plane.In the evening delegates and their guests will partake of a grill at a nearby country inn and will then be taken to local hostelries where real ale is served. Industrial Visits Wednesday, July 20th delegates, in addition to the whole-day tours: The following visits have been arranged for Fisons Pharmaceutical Division, Lough- GKN Group Technological Centre Inco Europe Limited, Birmingham British Ceramic Research Association, Penk- Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke- borough hull, Stoke-on-Trent on-Trent Ladies’ Programme Monday, J u l y 18th A coffee party will be held in the morning.Committee members will then be available to act as guides for those wishing to have lunch in Birmingham and spend the afternoon shopping.There will also be an afternoon visit to Worces- ter, where arrangements have been made for a party to visit the Worcester Royal Porcelain Co. Ltd. Tuesday, J u l y 19th Two whole-day visits have been arranged, one to Blenheim Palace, at Woodstock, near Oxford,January, 1977 CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS and the other to ‘rutbury, a typical old English town near Burton-on-Trent. -\t Blenheim there will be a conducted tour followed by lunch in the Palace Restaurant.At Tutbury arrange- ments have been made for the party t o visit the Sheepskin Shop and factory a t the Old Mill. Lunch will be served a t a 14th century coaching inn and afterwards ladies may visit the ruins of the Anglo-Saxon Castle and also the Norman Priory Church of St.Mary. Thursday, J u l y 2 1st A whole-day trip has been arranged to Sudeley Castle, and there will be an afternoon visit to Aston Hall. Friday, July 22nd Visits to the Birmingham Art Gallery and the Botanical Gardens in the morning will be followed at noon by a sherry reception and lunch. A visit to Harvington Hall will take place in the afternoon. Conference Functions Various functions have been arranged for delegates and their guests, beginning on Sunday, July 17th, when sherry will be served with a cold collation. The following evening there will be a Grand Buffet. A Banquet has been arranged for Thursday, July Zlst, a t the Hotel Metropole in Birming- ham’s National Exhibition Centre, and will be preceded a t the Hotel by a Civic Reception given by kind invitation of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. As a conclusion to the Conference an ox and pig roast will be held in the grounds of the University on Friday, July 22nd.