Sylvia. P Beamon
Qualifications
1974 - 1977 Cambridge University, Entrance obtained by a Mature State Scholarship (1 of 30 in the year) direct from the Department of Education and Science, London.
Obtained Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Archaeology and
Anthropology
1981 Master of Arts from Cambridge University conferred
Career Overview
1978 - 1980: Secretary for the Cambridge Preservation Society
1986 - 1990: Adult Basic Education Organiser for Bassingbourn Village College (11 Villages), Cambridgeshire County Council
Teaching Profile And Other Ctivities
1963 - 1977 Chairman - Royston Retreat Community Association founded by myself in 1962, now Coombes Community Centre
1967 - 1973 Committee member for Herts. C.C. Homeless Families
1967 - 1980 School Governor for Herts. C.C. and Minuting Secretary of Royston’s joint Lower Schools
1974 - 1984 Founder of Subterranean Britannica (Cambridge), then Editor and Publication Secretary of
Subterranean Britannica (Bulletin)
1977 - 1984 Chairman of the National Federation for Great Britain, Subterranea Britannica.
1975 - 2000 General Council member and representative from Great Britain on the Société Française d'étude des Souterrains Committee
1981 - 1985 Registrar of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society
1986 - 1995 Chairman of the Cambridgeshire Local History Society
1995 - 2000 Vice-Chairman and editor of The Review
1984 - 1997 General Council Committee member on the Council for Brit.Arch.
1992 -1997 Cambridgeshire County Council Advisory Panel on Archives
1994 - 2006 Royston Community Network Team [health issues] N.Herts.
1996 - date Reviewer/Consumer for the Cochrane Collaboration [Health]
2007 - date Founder with Museum Curator of Royston Town Trackers
teaching archaeology and history to children
PUBLISHINGS
Listed below are just a few publications of Sylvia Blemon who has authored four archaeological books, plus many research papers; organiser of international conferences; book reviewer; archaeological excavator; winner of two British archaeological awards; TV/radio contributor.
The Ice-houses of Britain Sylvia P. Beamon & Susan Roaf, Routledge, London, 1990
The Royston Cave - Used by Saints or Sinners? (Local historical influences of the Templar and Hospitaller movements), Cortney Publishers, Ashwell, Herts. 1992.
Exploring Royston Cave A Simplified Guide Sylvia P. Beamon with illustrations by Martin Kaszak. Published by Royston & District Local History Society, Royston, 1998.
Reprinted 2007.
Underground Mythology editor of six papers, two from Czech Republic.
Able Publishing, Knebworth, Herts. 2002. Paperback A4.
ARTICLES
Underground Mythology - Who, or What were the Knockers?' in Speleo no. 16, Bohemia Subterranea, 1994, Editor Vaclav Cilek, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 56-63.
'Sound [underground]' paper presented at the International Congress on Subterraneology in Mons (Hainaut) Belgium 2 - 4 August 1997 organised by Association Wallonne de Recherche et d'Etude des Souterrrains asbl. with aid from SO.BE.R.E.S. [Belgium] published in the Acts - Archeologie et Histoire en Milieu Souterrain, Mons, 1998, pp 45-49.
'Medically speaking, how safe are you Underground?' Paper presented at the International Symposium on Souterrains in Maastricht, Nederlands, August, 1995. Proceedings published by SOK, Maastricht, Netherlands 1999.
'Ice-houses in Cambridgeshire' in An Atlas of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon History ed. Tony Kirby and Susan Oosthuizen, Centre for Regional Studies Anglia Polytechnic University, 2000, pp. 57-58.
'From Frozen Mammoth Meat then - to Frozen Steak Today! (Early man's use of frost, snow and Ice') in Procs. of the Institute of Refrigeration, 2001/2002, Vol. 98, pp.87-100
'Ice-houses associated with Grottoes and Follies' in Subterranea Britannica Bulletin 32 April 2007, 31-36. Paper originally presented at the Folly Fellowship Conference c.1998.
'Strange Engraved stones from a wall in Burwell, Cambridgeshire' in Subterranea Britannica Bulletin 32 April 2007, 38- 39.
PUBLISHED ON CD ROM
Speleotherapy for Asthma, Beamon S. [lead person], Falkenbach, A. [Dr. Med, Austria], Fainburg, G. [Physicist, Perm State University, Russia], Linde, K. [Dr. Med, Munich University, Germany] Cochrane Collaboration Review, July 1999. [published in 5000 Medical Libraries worldwide]
Hydrotherapy for Asthma, [protocol] Beamon S. [lead person] Falkenbach, A [Dr. Med. Austria]. [Published on CD Rom, 2003]
