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2015 European Industrial and Technical Heritage Year - some of the recent projects.

The Coffin Works, Birmingham, on completion 2014

Lyon, France, Jacquard controlled looms

Tilburg, Netherlands, railway turntable shed

London Mill, Leek, interior

Tattondale Home Farm, Cheshire

See page 6 Newsletter 205 May 2015 2 Newsletter Contents Surrey Industrial History Group 2 AGM & Conservation Award, Farnham Pottery - invitation Conservation Award 2 Book Launch: Presentation The Dairies of James Simmons, Halsemere and AGM 3 Venues, Times & Contacts Farnham Pottery 3 Surrey Industrial History Group Officers Quennells Hill, Wrecclesham, 4 Diary 30 May 2015 - 31 July 2015 Farnham, Surrey GU10 4SL 5 2015 European Industrial and Technical Saturday 11 July 2015 Heritage Year at 14:00 5 Joseph Swan - the Ashtead, Surrey, connection See the full Notice & Pro- by Peter Tarplee gramme, pages 9-12. A copy of the programme will 6 300th Anniversary of the death of Thomas Savery also be available on the day. 6 Croydon Airport Society awarded Talk & tour of the Pottery Heritage Lottery Fund grant (& Refreshments!) 7 Selling SIHG books on ebay 7 A historic burn at the Rural Life Centre furnace by Gerald Baker & Pam Taylor 7 Kirkaldy Testing Museum is saved 7 How many Flemish steam engines are out there? 8 AGM & Conservation Award, Farnham Pottery - A special chance to visit programme Farnham Pottery, Wrecclesham An invitation proclaimed by Pam Taylor As you know, we give a conservation award each year to a project that aims to give a new life to a building or BOOK LAUNCH artefact of industrial interest. This year, we are pleased to be giving the award for the refurbishment that has The Diaries of James Simmons taken place at the former Absalom Harris pottery at Wrecclesham. Many of you will remember that the Paper Maker of Haslemere, bottle kiln at the pottery received the award in 2005; the 1831-1868 building was at the time in the hands of the Farnham Buildings Preservation Trust, and the kiln was con- INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY served to enable it to be interpreted for the public. Since ALAN CROCKER & MARTIN KANE then, the building has been purchased by Guy and Elaine Hains, and has been the subject of sympathetic consoli- The second, paperback, edition, dation work enabling it to function again as a pottery. to be published by SIHG, The work has been carried out with a great deal of care to maintain the original features wherever possible. will be launched on Many groups and individuals now use it regularly. Saturday 18 July 2015 at 14:30 We would like to invite you to join us for the presenta- at Haslemere Museum. tion of the award to Mr and Mrs Hains on Saturday, 11th July at 2pm. There will be a presentation about the Brief talks & a slide show conservation work and a tour of the pottery. Refresh- & refreshments! ments will be served. We shall also be holding our AGM, which is usually very short. Please come to All are welcome; but please let me support your committee, who work very efficiently to know if you wish to attend, run your society. [email protected] or 01372 454766. If possible, please let us know that you wish to attend so that the catering can be organized; send an email to [email protected] or phone 01252 715218. (Please note that there is no parking at the museum.)

SIHG is a group of the Surrey Archaeological Society, Registered Charity No 272098 Castle Arch Guildford Surrey GU1 3SX, Group President: Prof AG Crocker FSA

Published by Surrey Industrial History Group, printed by YesPrint 3 Leafy Oak Workshops Cobbetts Lane Yateley GU17 9LW © SIHG 2015 ISSN 1355-8188 Newsletter 205 May 2015 3 Venues, Times & Contacts for Other Organisations Please check venues and times carefully.

Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre: 10:00-17:00; £11/ KAS, Kent Archaeological Society: £10; Amberley Railway Station BN18 9L; http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk. www.amberleymuseum.co.uk; 01798 831370. Canal Museum: Open 10:00-16:30; Talks 19:30, Ancient Technology Centre : 10:00-16:00; £6; Damerham £4/£3; 12/13 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RT; Road, Cranborne, Dorset BH21 5RP; (behind school); www.canalmuseum.org.uk; 0207 713 0836. 01725 517618, www.ancienttechnologycentre.co.uk, London Museum of Water and Steam: Green Dragon Lane, Brooklands: open Summer 10:00-17:00, Winter 10:00-16:00; Brentford, Middx TW8 0EN; www.waterandsteam.org.uk; £11/£9.90; Brooklands Rd, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 020 8568 4757. 0QN; www.brooklandsmuseum.com; 01932 857381. Mapledurham, Watermill & House : £9.50/£8.00; 14:00-17:30; BIAG, Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group: 19:30; Sats, Suns & Bank Hols; Mapledurham, Reading RG4 7TR: £2.50; Garden Room, Watlington House, Watlington www.mapledurham.co.uk; 0118 972 3350. Street, Reading RG1 4RG ; www.biag.org.uk. Michelham Priory Watermill: most afternoons, £7.80/£6.80; Brunel Museum: Walks from Tube; just turn up Upper Dicker, Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 3QS; 01323 Wed 16:30, Sun 10:45; £9/£7. Boat & train from Embank- 844224. ment tube station (not pier) for Brunel sites along the Docklands: Mon-Sun: 10:00-18:00; no.1 Thames; just turn up Tue/Thu/Sat 10:45; £9/£7 (+ transport Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL; costs). Museum: Railway Avenue, , London www.museumoflondon.org.uk/docklands, SE16 4LF; 020 7231 3840. [email protected], 020 7001 9844. Bursledon Brickworks: Open days £5/£4, Thu £3/£2; Coal National Trust: Wey Navigations Office and Dapdune Wharf, Park Lane, Swanwick, Southampton SO31 7GW; Wharf Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4RR; www.bursledonbrickworks.org.uk; 01489 576248. www.nationaltrust.org.uk, 01483 561389. Chatham Historic Dockyard: 10:00-18:00, £17.50/£15; Chat- Newcomen Society London: 17:45, free; Fellows’ Room, ham, Kent ME4 4TZ; www.thedockyard.co.uk; 01634 Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD; 823800. http://newcomen.com. Crofton Beam Engines : 10:30-17:00; £8/£7; Crofton, Marl- Newcomen Society Portsmouth: 18:30; free; P1-11, Portland borough, Wiltshire SN8 3DW. Building, Universityof Portsmouth, Saint James’s Street , Crossness Pumping Station : 10:30-16:00, £6; The Old Portsmouth PO1; http://newcomen.com. Works, Crossness STW, Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, Nutley Windmill: Grid Ref TQ451291 From the A22 at the London SE2 9AQ; www.crossness.org.uk; 020 8311 3711. north end of Nutley, take the Crowborough road east for 1 Croydon Airport Visitor Centre: open some Sun, 11:00- mile to a car park on the left. 16:00, free; Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon CR0 The mill is a 400 yard walk from the car park (TQ456288). 0XZ. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard : 10:00-17:30, site ticket, Didcot Railway Centre: 10:30-17:00; £10.00/£9.50; Didcot annual £28/£26 HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LJ; Parkway railway station, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 7NJ; www.historicdockyard.co.uk; 02392 728060. www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk; 01235-817200. Rural Life Centre: open Summer Wed-Sun 10:00-17:00, Docklands History Group: 18:00, £2; Museum of London Winter Wed/Sun 10:00-16:00; £8.50/£7.50; Old Kiln Mu- Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Hertsmere seum, Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey GU10 2DL; Rd, Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL; www.rural-life.org.uk; 01252 795571. www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk; 01689 851982. SIAS, Sussex Industrial Archaeological Society : GLIAS, Greater London Industrial History Society: 18:30; www.sussexias.co.uk. Swedenborgian Lecture Theatre, Barter Street by King- Subterranea Britannica: www.subbrit.org.uk. sway Underground Station; www.glias.org.uk. Twyford Waterworks: 11:00-16:00, £5/£4; Hazeley Road, Greenwich Industrial History: 19:30, £1; Old Bakehouse, Twyford, Hampshire SO21 1QA; rear of Age Exchange Centre, opp Blackheath Stn, Bennett www.twyfordwaterworks.co.uk; 01962 714716. Park, 11 Blackheath Village, SE3 9LA; no parking. Upminster Windmill: some Sat/Sun 14:00-17:00, free/ Guildford Museum: Castle Arch, Guildford, Surrey GU1 donation; 3SX; Mons to Sats, 11:00-17:00 + Bank Holiday Mondays; The Mill Field, St. Mary's Lane. Upminster, Essex, RM14 www.guildford.gov.uk/museum, 01483 444751. 2QL; HIAS, Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society: 19:45, www.upminsterwindmill.co.uk; 0300 030 1803. free; Underhill Centre, St. John's Road, Hedge End, Hants Walking Tours of Guildford: Meet at Tunsgate Arch, High SO30 4AF; www.hias.org.uk; 01962 855200. Street, Guildford; 14:30; Honeywood Museum: open Wed-Fri 11:00-17:00, Sat-Sun, free, just turn up; www.guildfordwalks.org.uk. BH Mon 10:00-17:00, free; .Honeywood Walk, Carshalton Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, 10:30-18:00, SM6 3NX; 020 8770 4297. £11.50/£10.50; Singleton, Honeywood Museum Friends: 19:30, £3.50; Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0EU; www.friendsofhoneywood.co.uk; 020 8773 0185. www.wealddown.co.uk; 01243 811348. IWA, Inland Waterways Association: www.waterways.org.uk; 0203 612 9624. Kempton Steam Museum: 10:30-16:00, £7/£6; Snakey Lane, off hihg section of A316, Hanworth, Middx; entrance TW13 7ND; www.kemptonsteam.org; 01932 765328.

Surrey Industrial History Group Officers Chairman, Lectures Organiser & Sales: Robert Bryson [email protected] Secretary: Hugh Anscombe [email protected] Treasurer: (vacant) ([email protected]) Vice Chairman & Membership Secretary: Pam Taylor [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Jan Spencer [email protected] Newsletter 205 May 2015 4 Conservation Award Presentation to Farnham Pottery, see page 2

The Farnham Pottery circa 1950, watercolour by Sir John Verney.

The Pottery operated its own clay pits, had four working kilns and employed up to 30 men

Many thanks to all who have sent in contributions. Please send in reports or photos of holiday visits or thoughts on local, national or international Industrial Archaeology by 10 July 2015 for the next SIHG Newsletter! Any articles or images, whether long or just a brief note will be appreciated - both by the editor and by the readers!

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40th series at Guildford of SIHG Industrial Archaeology Lectures alternate Tuesdays, 19:30-21:30, will start in the Autumn Education Centre, The Cathedral, Guildford (map: www.sihg.org.uk). Non-member £40 full fee, SyAS/SIHG member £35. Single lectures at £5, payable on the night, are open to all. The full programme is on our web site and the application form will be included with the next Newsletter.

Thursday Mornings Lectures at Leatherhead, 10:00-12:00, Room G6 The Institute, 67 High Street Leatherhead KT22 8AH Non-member full fee £50 SIHG member £45. (Please note that attendance is for the full course only.)

Enquires to Programme Co-ordinator Bob Bryson: [email protected].

Exhibitions Until 31 December 2015 at STEAM, Reading A Railway at War - Exhibition The Role of the GWR and its Employees during WW1 Proposed Working Party at Vale End Pumping Station, Albury Volunteers wanted, please contact Alan Crocker Newsletter 205 May 2015 5 Joseph Swan - the Ashtead, Surrey, connection by Peter Tarplee

Following the article by Bob Bryson in SIHG Newsletter 204, I thought that there may be interest in a local link to Surrey. Mawson and Swan’s Dry Plate works was established in the Greville Works, Ashtead just before 1890. Greville Works was be- tween Greville Park Road (then known as Station Path) and North- fields. Mawson and Swan remained there until 1895 when the operation was taken over by Caddett & Neall Dry Plate Ltd. Cadett & Neall grew rapidly and by 1898 became the largest photographic plate manufacturer in the UK. They enlarged the works as well as building two new factories in West Hill, Ashtead. Eventually the company was taken over by Kodak who moved the operations to Wealdstone. Greville Works had various uses until the end of World War I when it was converted into a block of flats which still survive in Greville Close. [Anyone wishing for a little more information on the photographic manufacturing industries (and others) in Joseph Swan died in Warlingham, Surrey in 1914, having Ashtead may like to look at “Past Industries of Ashtead, been knighted 10 years earlier. Leatherhead and Bookham” by Peter Tarplee, published Incidentally, a collier named Joseph Swan was built in by the Leatherhead and District Local History Society.] Sunderland for the London Power Company in 1938. ¤

2015 European Industrial and Technical Heritage Year

The Council of Europe has declared 2015 as European relationships may lead to ‘twinning’ of similar projects Industrial and Technical Heritage Year, following a and ultimately to shared bidding for EU funding for campaign spearheaded by an informal network of small collaborative projects. To get the conversation started, voluntary organisations involved in the conservation, E-FAITH has suggested a number of themed steering protection, promotion and sometimes conversion of groups, for example, Factory Chimneys and Collective historic industrial sites. Members of E-FAITH include Memory; Dangerous Industrial Heritage (buildings at charitable trusts and non-profit organisations who aim to risk, contaminated sites etc); M3 May is the Month for rescue redundant industrial buildings, run small Mills; and Barges and Inland Navigation. Several independent museums, operate every possible kind of European countries have agreed to promote industrial mill, keep steam engines and locomotives moving, and heritage as a theme for their Heritage Open Days, and involve local people in understanding about and partici- others have commissioned touring exhibitions or confer- pating in the industrial heritage and associated social ences. We in the UK seem to be a bit slow in catching history on which their community is founded. on.

European Federation of Associations of Industrial and To find out more, and to download the branding materi- Technical Heritage, (E-FAITH), encourages small als and logo for 2015 European Industrial and Technical Heritage Year, visit http://www.e-faith.org/ or the voluntary sector (generally unstaffed) organisations to embryonic (English only!) website for the Industrial meet and network, sharing issues, challenges, best Heritage Year: www.industrialheritage2015.eu. To practice and solutions. It is hoped that 2015 will provide advise of any activities you are undertaking that could an opportunity to increase interaction between groups be promoted as part of the Industrial Heritage Year, or from all over Europe, through meeting in person or to join one of the steering groups, email Adriaan Linters through social media and e-communications. Informal at [email protected]. ¤ Newsletter 205 May 2015 6 300th Anniversary of the death of Thomas Savery

Thomas Savery (c. 1650–1715), was the In figure 1 the non return valve inventor of an early steam engine (1698): in the delivery pipe would be held closed by the weight of “A new invention for raising of water water above it. The steam and occasioning motion to all sorts of valve was opened to fill the mill work by the impellent force of vessel with steam and then fire, which will be of great use and closed again. Water would be advantage for drayning mines, poured or sprayed on the outer serveing townes with water, and for surface of the vessel, which the working of all sorts of mills where condensed the steam and they have not the benefitt of water nor caused a vacuum within. constant windes.” Atmospheric pressure would then push the water up the suc- tion pipe to fill the vessel. The next stage, in figure 2 the steam valve would be opened to allow steam pressure to build up in the vessel. This would tend to close the non return valve in the suction pipe and force the water out of the vessel and up the delivery pipe. The cycle would then be repeated.

Savery wrote an account of his engine under the title The Miner's Friend: Or, an Engine to Raise Water by Fire. The engine had no piston, and no moving parts except for the taps. It was not very powerful, but several were built, for example one controlled the water supply at . Savery’s patent meant that Thomas Newcomen had to develop his much more useful 1712 piston engine without a separate patent. ¤ JS "Savery-engine". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - References http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Savery File:Savery-engine.jpg#/media/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070814061819/http:// File:Savery-engine.jpg` www.mgsteam.btinternet.co.uk/engdev.htm

Croydon Airport Society awarded Heritage Lottery Fund grant (www.croydonairport.org.uk)

Croydon Airport Society (CAS) has received a Heritage you don’t have the time to get directly involved but Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £10,000 for an exciting would still like to contribute, the Society would still like project - ‘Revealing the Hidden Heritage of Croydon to hear your stories and memories of the Croydon Airport’. The grant will be used to recruit and train Airport and its impact on the local area - so please get in volunteers to meet the growing demands at the Croydon touch. Airport Visitor Centre. It will also help to keep it open Croydon Airport Visitor Centre is open on the first Sun- and will enable research in the Society’s extensive day of the month, every month, throughout the year. archives, making them more accessible through new There are additional Open Days for special events at displays and an online platform. various other times. Doors open at 11:00 and close at The Society is looking for volunteers to join the CAVC 16:00, last entry at 15:30. team and make the collection more accessible. There is a The address is Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon, range of opportunities which will shortly be advertised. CR0 0XZ. Full training will be provided on welcoming visitors, giving talks on the history of the airport and working The 119 and 289 bus routes stop right outside. with the archives. These meetings are to be held in early Free parking is available on site. ¤ evening sessions or at weekends from May to July. If Newsletter 205 May 2015 7

A historic burn at the Rural Life Centre furnace How many Flemish steam engines are out there? by Gerald Baker and Pam Taylor I have received a plea for information via the Association The builders of the half-scale Wealden iron furnace for Industrial Archaeology. The Flemish Association for were able to test their work over the weekend, 13th-15th Industrial Archaeology (‘Vlaamse Vereniging voor March this year. The furnace was lit during the after- Industriële Archeologie’, www.vvia.be) is trying to find noon of 13th, the bellows being operated continuously by out how many Carels-Van den Kerchove Steam engines the waterwheel until late on the afternoon of 15th, except are still existing in Europe and elsewhere. They found overnight. The furnace was fired using charcoal, money traces of export to many European countries, but also to for which was donated by the Wealden Iron Research Egypt, Turkey and Russia. Group. The purpose of the burn was to test the structure, The Carels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carels_Fr% in particular it was important to estimate the tempera- C3%A8res) and Van den Kerchove (sometimes ‘Van tures reached by various parts of the furnace for insur- den Kerckhove’) workshops in Ghent were famous ance purposes. Outside temperatures were recorded us- steam engines builders from the mid 19th c. until the ing a thermal imaging device throughout the time; it will second world war. They built mainly horizontal single be necessary to use a high temperature probe or i-r cylinder and compound engines, but also maritime en- device in the future to measure the internal temperatures gines and locomotives, later also steam turbines. Carels reached. was also the first company in the world to be granted a Visitors and volunteers were very interested in the burn; licence to build Diesel engines. of great delight was the “dragon’s breath” flame issuing If you know of any of these engines still existing in the from the stack and side door when the bellows were UK, please tell the Flemish Association for Industrial working. Although there was no intention of producing Archaeology at [email protected]. iron at this first attempt, a small amount of crushed ore was introduced to the chamber, partly to indicate the JS temperature reached. On clearing the chamber after- wards, molten remains were found. Analysis by the Wealden Iron Research Group (WIRG) of this indicated that a small amount of free iron had been obtained. Further burns will be undertaken once the insurance is Brunel Museum: Walks & Boat Trips satisfactorily sorted out. MAYFLOWER TO BRUNEL’S TUNNEL Meanwhile, a question that we would like answered, we 10:45 on Sundays and 16:30 Wednes- know that limestone was used in furnaces as a flux, but days from Bermondsey Tube can chalk be used instead? In the Weald it would proba- (Jubilee line) Just turn up – no booking required. bly have been easier to source chalk rather than limestone, BRUNEL’S LONDON Boat Trip, River Walk, so was it a suitable substitute? We would be glad of an Tunnel Descent answer. The furnace project received a grant from SIHG to 10:45 on Saturdays, Tuesdays, Thursdays complete the kiln, and received the SIHG Conservation from Embankment Tube Award in 2012. ¤ Just turn up – no booking required. Please note: assemble at tube station (not pier), (transport extra). *In partnership with London Walks. £9/£7.

Kirkaldy Testing Museum is saved www.testingmuseum.org.uk Open on the 1st Sunday of the month between 10:00-16:00, SIHG Membership Renewal 99 Street in Southwark just south of Modern. for 2015-16 is now overdue Entrance fee: £5/£4. Contact: [email protected]. Please make your cheque payable to The Kirkaldy Testing Museum preserves a unique Victorian ‘Surrey Archaeological Society’ and Materials Testing Machine of massive proportions in working send it to Castle Arch, Guildford GU1 3SX order in the premises built to house it. It tells the story of the Membership Form available online Kirkaldy family who ran the business for almost 100 years and or from SyAS, Castle Arch. the wider history of materials testing. You may also pay by Standing Order. Pressure from conservation organizations has saved this historic museum from being turned into a restaurant.

Selsey - The Tramway and the Carriage Homes - Selling SIHG books on ebay Walk - Saturday 20 June 2015 SIHG has 15 Books in Print (with another two to follow shortly). Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society: Selsey - At present, we have no active selling strategy, The Tramway and the Carriage Homes; a walking tour of so we are asking for help. railway carriage homes led by Bill Martin; meet at Selsey East Beach car park Are you an ebay enthusiast? GR. SZ 865 935 at 11:00; Would you like to take on the challenge (Bus Stagecoach service 51, depart Chichester of selling the Sihg books on ebay? Bus Station 10:05 alight at If so, please get in contact with Bob Bryson, Beach Road) Please book with Alan Green, [email protected] or 01483 577809 [email protected], 01243 784915.

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This is my tenth annual report as Chairman of the Surrey Industrial History Group. Group. History Industrial Surrey the of Chairman as report annual tenth my is This The first event of the year was as usual the South East Region Industrial Archae- ology insociety association Subterraneawith Britannica and Croydon. held in Our AGM was held on 26 July when at the the presentation old of school our house 2014 in plaque was presented Conservation Abinger to Mrs Shirley Award HammerCorke, for the was work the family had also carried made. out The on the pump house and the water towater Hall.Abinger The 39 with a talk on “The Peak Forest Canal and Thursday Railway” morning talks by at Grahamethe Institute Boyes. in Leatherhead The were again organised by John Bourne, who ran the meetings, speakers. The talks, held over both and the autumn and spring terms, commenced Margaret on Levett, who arranged 2 October a talk by Douglas with onIrvine “The History of RoadsBritain”. in the The autumn half those Stars the on and Clocks, the “Ships, entitled trip Museum Maritime found their way to the A visit special to the exhibition Frogmore in Paper mill the in term,spring this but visit poorlywas very supported. Hemel National Hempstead was planned for the Our Guildford series of winter lectures finished on 17 March with a fascinating talk on “Superseding the Seamstress; a history of the sewing machine” given by Dr Martin Gregory. The Leatherhead lectures concluded on 19 interesting talk by ThomasAlan on “Preserved Railways in theMarch USA”. with an During the year the group published two new titles. “The Origins & History the of Premier Cooler & Engineering Co Ltd of Shalford, Surrey” by and “Surrey Nigel Roads Turnpike from to Motorway” by Gordon Knowles. Bond SIHG and Surrey Archaeology excavation Tanyardsof Lock. Society each contributed £250 towards The work was carried out by the the Wey & Arun Canal Trust and a report on their findings been published.has An end of year highlight for the group was when Glenys and Alan Crocker were presented with the Margary papermaking at the SyAS SymposiumAnnual in February. Award for their display and Membership of demonstration the group of at the last 6members, Associate, 6and Institutional 4 eleven honorary; on last down year. count was 110, made up of 94 ordinary Our Newsletter and website up to date information on group activity and work I done by Jan Spencer would in maintaining both. I like would also like to tothank all the acknowledge the year the throughout members group the of work the of supported have who SIHG,above, mentioned especially my fellow committee members and those