The Medway Industrial Archaeology Group (MIAG) maintain and manage the Old Brook Pumping Station in Chatham, Kent. The station has a dual role as an interesting former public utility of the 1920's and as a building to house a collection of exhibits relating to the industrial history of Kent and especially the Medway Towns.
MIAG is a voluntary group, with a small number of members. It has a management agreement with Medway Council to develop the Old Brook Pumping Station into an industrial museum illustrating the development of industry and public services in the Medway Towns.

MIAG's aims

Our recent local history of heavy industry has left many sites where those interested in our history can observe past methods of production, industrial building techniques and even working conditions. Some sites are also important for having played a part in technological breakthroughs. Unfortunately most sites are under threat through redevelopment of or through natural decay. Many derelict sites are an eyesore and should be redeveloped. Other disused buildings may be perfectly sound structures which with more thought could be adapted to new uses and at the same time provide a reminder to future generations of past industries and their architecture.
MIAG hope that they can play a role in encouraging the re-use of such structures or even preserving the major sites as industrial monuments in their own right. Many sites cannot be preserved or adapted. Where redevelopment has won the day it is important to ensure that they are recorded by photographic and other media for future reference. Sites of interest are disappearing constantly: two to go in 1985 were the Thames & Medway Canal basin at Strood (now infilled) and the last small cement works on the Medway at Holborough (now demolished).
In due course MIAG expect to produce a regular journal containing articles on local industry and reports of site recording work.A card index of all sites of interest in the county is being built up, with the intention of providing an input to the National survey of industrial monuments and of publishing an authoritative gazetteer of Kent IA.