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Scottish Industrial History Vol 18 1996 SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY Volume 18 The Business Archives Council of Scotland is grateful to the following companies and individuals for their generous support of the Council's work: Bruce Lindsay & Co Ltd Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd Glasgow Royal Philosophical Society Holland & Sherry Ltd Livingston Development Corporation Macdonald Martin Distillers plc Scottish Life Assurance Company Smith Andersen Ltd SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY Volume 18 This volume is dedicated to Joan Auld, Archivist of the University of Dundee, tragically killed in a climbing accident in 1995. Scottish Industrial History is published annually by the Business Archives Council of Scotland and covers all aspects of Scotland's industrial and com­ mercial past on a local, regional and trans-national basis. The Editor of this volume is Vicki Wilkinson, The Royal Bank of Scotland Archives. Articles for future publication should be submitted to Richard McCready, Editor, Scottish Industrial History, University of Dundee, De­ partment of Modern History, Dundee DDl 4HN. Authors should apply for notes for contributors in the first instance. Back copies of Scottish Industrial History can be purchased and a list of titles of published articles can be obtained from the Editor. The views expressed in the journal are not necessarily those ofthe Business Archives Council of Scotland or of the Editor. © 1996 Business Archives Council of Scotland and contributors. The front cover illustration is of Workers at Bo' ness Pottery c.1910, and the back cover illustration is of Dunmore Ware Vases. (Reproduction by Cour­ tesy of Falkirk Museums) Printed by Universities Design and Print, 141 St. James Road, Glasgow G40 LT. SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY VOLUME18 CON1ENTS Page Joan Auld 5 M Moss The Life of Robert Cochran of Britannia and Verreville Potteries 8 HE Kelly The Millroad Street Pottery Calton: The Background - Thomas 21 Wyse and his Stoneware Shop, 1799-1814 G Quail James Hunter and his Partners 45 W S Harvey The Johnstone Mouse Trap Factory 52 D Drummond The Clyde Screw Steam Packet Company: An 1850s Venture Part II 70 F G MacHaffie Drydock disaster: Hanna Donald and Wilson and the floating 88 drydocks in Java, 1873-1879 W Donald Archive Report Number 11, Falkirk Museums History Research I 00 Centre EReid Business broadly conceived: Report of the Business Archives 104 Council of Scotland Surveying Officer, 1994-95 FRankin The Joan Auld Training Day I 08 P Milligan Summary Lists of Archive Surveys Deposits, 1994-95 110 Reviews 133 Joan Auld Michael Moss University of Glasgow Joan Auld, Archivist of the University of Dundee and a member of the Executive Committee of this Council died at the age of fifty-eight in September 1995 following a climbing accident in the Canadian Rocky mountains. Remark­ able as it may seem to those who knew her, Joan was born in London, but moved to Scotland shortly afterwards. When she left school Joan at first started out to be a radiographer and hated it, despite coming out top of the class. She set out each morning as if for work, hid her uniform in a hedge and went to a stables not to play with horses but to ride them. In due course she became a riding instructor at Crieff Hydro. To be a riding instructor you need an iron will and infinite patience - quali­ ties that Joan possessed beyond measure. Tiring of riding she then decided to become a primary school teacher, taking a diploma with distinction at Moray House. It was at this time she met and married Jim, who survives her. Seeking greater intellectual stimulation, she took a degree in Scottish History at Edinburgh Univer­ sity in 1973, financed in part by selling cakes and scones. Encouraged by Gordon Donaldson, then Professor of Scottish History at Edinburgh, she applied success­ fully for the post of Registrar of the Eastern Survey of the National Register of Archives (Scotland) based at the University of Dundee. As Registrar of the Eastern Survey Joan was sent out with a simple com­ mand to locate and list historical records of all sorts and descriptions in what was to become the Tayside Region. Apart from papers of the great and the good and some lawyers, very little had been done. Joan came to Dundee to find Jutopolis on its knees; old established textile firms and millwrights closed or amalgamated it seemed daily. Life was hectic and regularly records had to be rescued often literally from the refuse. Her achievement was formidable; records were saved and surveys completed throughout Fife, Angus and Perthshire. There were massive estate sur­ veys carried out with help from the SRO at Scone, Blair and Glamis - major contri­ butions to scholarship; but it was her work in saving the records of Dundee's once great textile industry that was so important. With neither a City archive nor an established University manuscript col­ lection, if records were to be preserved at all, let alone permanently, they had to be shoe-homed into nooks and crannies in the department or the Library. It had been hoped that the regional surveys would be the precursor to the establishment of a fully-fledged local archive service in Scotland. Cuts in public spending at the very time of local government re-organisation in 1974 prevented that. The service that emerged in the East was partial and could only cope, at least at first, with the records of local government. In this unpromising climate Joan, aided by the Scottish Record Office, set out to persuade a University, itself facing serious financial difficulties, 6 to establish an archive. As a result of her determined efforts, and to her surprise, she was appointed part-time archivist in 1976. From the outset Joan robustly advocated her cause. Speaking at her funeral John Bagnall, the University Librarian, declared, feeling the scars, 'loan's determi­ nation was unusual, and it sometimes conflicted with the views of those who were less prepared to struggle against the odds. Joan and I had a number of discussions on this topic, and I would like to be able to say that the results of these were equally balanced; however, I suspect that in reality Joan won more than she lost, simply because of her persistence and enthusiasm'. Enthusiasm was her hallmark; she wanted our written heritage to be preserved and as importantly to be accessible. She seized on the opportunity provided by the Manpower Services Commission Job Creation Scheme to take on unemployed graduates and use them to list records. loan's various careers ideally equipped her to train young people; there was noth­ ing that delighted her more or gave her greater fulfilment. With each twist and turn of the ever-gyrating policy of the MSC and its successors Joan steadfastly held on to her trainees, readily admitting how much she depended on them to provide a service to her readers. Curiously it was their presence throughout the day and the need for supervision that persuaded the University to make her appointment full­ time in 1978. Increasingly it was the use of records that concerned her. She had not gone to all that trouble and effort to rescue records if no one was going to make use of them. The challenge that faces archivists in all but a few university towns is that there is not sufficient academic demand. loan's solution was characteristic: if the academics will not come to me I will go to them. She started putting on courses for the History Department and encouraged undergraduates to use her collections in their dissertations. In a recent review of history teaching at Dundee, the depart­ ment made much of their close co-operation with the archives - testimony to her achievement. She also sought to take her collections to a wider community, play­ ing an active part in the Abertay Historical Society. Use of records inevitably brings in its wake problems of conservation. Records deteriorate if produced regularly and some are in such poor condition they cannot be consulted. Aware that Scotland lacked adequate paper conservation fa­ cilities to cope with the vast accumulation of papers that had been discovered since the 1970s, Joan was determined to set up a properly equipped unit at Dundee. In 1986 a small facility was established which quickly gained a reputation for quality and a very scientific approach. The Unit later became a free-standing part of the Library and with loan's help won a grant from the Scottish Higher Education Fund­ ing Council last year to provide a service to all archive and special collection de­ partments in Scottish universities. This was an important milestone and repre- 7 sented Joan's vision of the need for close collaboration and co-operation between repositories - best exemplified in her involvement with the Society of Archivists. In recent years Joan worked tirelessly to promote the importance to schol­ arship of university holdings of archives and rare books and to campaign for more adequate funding. This led to the formation of the Scottish Universities Special Collections Archives Group - SUSCAG. She lobbied hard for the allocation of funds by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council as recommended in the Follett report. These funds have helped secure the future not only of the archives and special collections at Dundee but of those throughout Scotland for the next three years. Last summer she was preparing to do battle once again for a continu­ ation of the scheme beyond 1999. In these negotiations one saw another side to Joan, behind the elfish twinkle a grim steely determination to win not just for her­ self but for the whole archive profession. It was this grit that gave her strength to overcome a serious back operation and a major climbing accident and on the rock took her across awkward traverses to gain the summit of a difficult face.
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