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SIHG Newsletter No 169 May 2009 DIARY Advance Notice the 34Th Series of SIHG Industrial Archaeology Lectures Tadworth Post Mill www.sihg.org.uk Tadworth Post Mill - the Tallest in the UK: in danger of falling down, but about to be repaired, see page 9. Photo: Mildred Cookson. Contents 2 Reports and Notices 3 Diary 4 The Surrey Iron Railway: a Contemporary Russian Description by Paul W Sowan 5 John William Grover (1836-1892) by Peter Tarplee 7 SERIAC 2009 - Talks and Visit 9 Tadworth Post Mill by Alan Crocker 9 Surrey Industrial History Group Officers SIHG Newsletter No 169 May 2009 DIARY Advance Notice The 34th series of SIHG Industrial Archaeology Lectures Will be held on alternate Tuesdays, 1930 - 2130, from 29 September 2009 at the University of Surrey (Lecture Theatre F). Enquiries to programme co-ordinator, Bob Bryson, email [email protected]. Maps at www.sihg.org.uk Free parking is available on the campus in the evening, in the main car park. Members fee £35 for the series, only £30 if paid by 30 June. Single lectures at £5, payable on the night, are open to all. 2 SIHG Newsletter 169 May 2009 Reports and NoƟces Details of meetings are reported in good faith, but information may become out of date. Please check details before attending. SIHG Visits details & updates at www.sihg.org.uk Saturday 11 July 1400 SIHG AGM 2009 + Conservation Award Presentation to Kempton Great Engines Museum Snakey Lane Hanworth Middlesex TW13 6SH. Followed by a talk about the engines. SIHG has expanded! Gordon Knowles has now retired from running his Thursday Morning Lecture Series at Leatherhead, but it is planned to continue, using guest speakers. It was therefore thought appropriate for the course at Leatherhead to continue under the auspices of SIHG. As seating is strictly limited, enrolment is for a whole course only; casual attendance is not possible. A leaflet is enclosed. We are still seeking a new Treasurer. This is a very useful & rewarding role & a relatively light task as SIHG is part of the Surrey Archaeological Society. The formal accounts are thus presented by the parent body, not by the SIHG Treasurer. Recording Factory Closures, Demolition of Old Machinery etc A good opportunity to record the history & to rescue traditional papers & machinery! If you hear of a factory which is about to close, please report it to us; contacts on page 19. The deadline for submitting copy for the next Newsletter is 10 July 2009. Submissions are accepted in typescript, on a disc, or by e-mail to [email protected]. Anything related to IA will be considered. Priority will be given to Surrey-based or topical articles. Contributions will be published as soon as space is available. Readers are advised that the views of contributors are not necessarily the views of SIHG. Website: www.sihg.org.uk Editorial Note Many thanks to all who have sent in contributions. Copy is needed urgently for the July issue of SIHG Newsletter! 3 SIHG Newsletter 169 May 2009 Other IA Organisations - Venues, Times & Contacts Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre: is off the B2139 between Arundel and Storrington, next to Amberley railway station in West Sussex. Free parking. Crossness Pumping Station:. Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, London SE2. £4 adults. Visits must be booked in advance on Tuesdays or Sundays, 0930 - 1530. Visits start at 1330. www.crossness.org.uk. Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society: small hall, United Reformed Church Hall, Addiscombe Grove, East Croydon at 1945. Contact Celia Bailey, 96a Brighton Road, South Croydon CR2 6AD, www.greig51.freeserve.co.uk/cnhss/. Crux Easton Wind Engine: 1 mile off A343, Highclere to Hurstbourne Tarrant, SU 425 564, 1100 - 1600, £2, www.hampshiremills.org. Docklands History Group: Museum in Docklands, No1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, London, E14 4AL, at 1730, www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk, . East London History Society: Latimer Church Hall, Ernest Street E1 at 1930. www.eastlondonhistory.org.uk Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society (GLIAS): Morris Lecture Theatre, Robin Brook Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, at 1830 Enter from West Smithfield, turn right after 2nd archway, then up small steps at front. www.glias.org.uk. Greenwich Industrial History Society: The Old Bakehouse, Age Exchange Centre (rear), 11 Blackheath Village, SE3 (opposite Blackheath Station) at 1930. £1. Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society (HIAS ): Underhill Centre, St John's Road, Hedge End, SO30 4AF at 1945; visitors welcome, free parking. Kew Bridge Steam Museum: Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middx TW8 0EN; open 1100. 0208568 4757, www.kbsm.org. Leatherhead & District Local History Society: Letherhead Institute, High Street, Leatherhead , at 1930 (coffee), £2. www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/ London Canal Museum: 12/13 New Wharf Road, N1 9RT, at 1930. £3 (£2 discounts). 020 7713 0836, www.canalmuseum.org.uk Lowfield Heath Windmill: Russ Hill, Charlwood, TQ 234 407. Guided Tours, 1400 - 1700, donations welcome. Mid-Hants Railway: Stations at Alton, Medstead & Four Marks, Ropley and New Alresford. www.watercressonline.co.uk Morden Hall Park Snuff Mill (National Trust): Phipps Bridge Tram Stop ½ mile or park at Riverside Café, off A24 & A297 south of Wimbledon and North of Sutton, 1200 - 1600. Museum of English Rural Life (MERL): Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX. 0118 3788660, www.reading.ac.uk/merl/ Newcomen Society London: Fellows’ Room, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD at 1745. Railway & Canal Historical Society: The Rugby Tavern, Rugby Street, London WC1, at 1830. www.rchs.org.uk Rural Life Centre: Old Kilns Museum, Tilford, Farnham, GU10 2DL, Wed - Sun, 1000 - 1700, £6, over 60s £5, children 5-16, £4. www.rural-life.org.uk. SPAB Mills Section: [email protected]. Sussex Mills Group: www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk/ The Spike: Warren Road, Guildford GU1 3JH, 100 - 1600, www.charlotteville.co.uk. Upminster Windmill: off A124 200m west of Upminster town centre, RM14 2YT, 1400 - 1700, www.upminsterwindmill.co.uk. Diary July 2009 4 Sat Surrey Industrial History Group Visit Brunel Tunnel Exhibition (at 1000) + Whitechapel Bell Foundry (at 1400) (fully booked) Organizer: Tony Gregory, [email protected]. 11 Sat SIHG AGM 2009 + Conservation Award Presentation to Kempton Great Engines Museum Snakey Lane Hanworth Middlesex TW13 6SH. Followed by a talk about the engines. Cumbria Group to Visit Surrey Friday 2 - Sunday 4 October 2009 SIHG is hosting a weekend visit to Surrey by the Cumbria Industrial History Group. Members of SIHG will be welcome to attend many of the events. Details from Alan Crocker, [email protected]. 4 SIHG Newsletter 169 May 2009 The Surrey Iron Railway: [???? - 1762] who served as an officer in the Russian a Contemporary Russian Description Navy. The British Library also holds copies of his booklet Essai sur les médailles plaqueées des anciens by Paul W Sowan published in London in 1809. His other known interests The Surrey Iron Railway, from Wandsworth to Croydon, include antiquities of the Black Sea shore, and was authorised by an Act of Parliament of 1801 (41 numismatics. Geo. III. Cap. 33), and, it seems, formally opened An English translation of the Russian text throughout for traffic in 1803. It was, of course, a horse- The existence of Waxel’s booklet was noted by Derek drawn tramway and evidently conveyed only goods Bayliss in his Retracing the first public railway first traffic. Somewhat surprisingly, it continued to serve published in 1981. Indeed, Derek had an English Croydon until 1846, although that town had had a translation made, by William Duck, who has made a locomotive-hauled service of trains provided by the copy available to me. Subsequently, I have acquired a London & Croydon Railway since 1839. second English translation. The Greater London Early descriptions in English Industrial Archaeology Society has expressed an interest This plateway, being something of a novelty for the in publishing the English text, and I am about to enter south of England, and the first railway to be sanctioned into discussion with the translators who, of course, own by an Act of Parliament, excited considerable interest. the copyright in their work; and with the British Library, Quite lengthy descriptions were published in 1805 in whose permission would certainly be required to reprint James Malcolm’s Compendium of modern husbandry; the plate. in 1809 in William Stevenson’s General view of the What does it say? agriculture of the County of Surrey; and much later, in In the mean time, it seems worthwhile putting on record 1831, in Joseph Priestley’s Historical account of the a brief outline of the contents of Waxel’s booklet. From navigable rivers, canals and railways throughout Great my own point of view, the text is disappointing, as the Britain (a reprint was issued in 1971). line from Wandsworth to Croydon called for no heavy Descriptions in German and Russian civil engineering works, and seems to have served no There was, indeed, international interest. In 1826 and significant mineral industries. If only Waxel had 1827 two Germans, Karl August Ludwig Freiherr von returned a few years later to record some details of the Oeynhausen and Ernest Heinrich Karl von Dechen, Surrey Iron Railway’s legally distinct extension, the visited England and wrote an account of railways seen Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway, and its during their tour, published in German in 1829. This Chipstead Valley embankment, Hooley cutting, work, translated into English, was republished by the limeworks at South Croydon and Merstham, and stone Newcomen Society in 1971. quarries at the latter place; but he didn’t! However, first off the mark was Leev Waxel [c. 1776 - However, the text will interest those wishing for details c. 1816] the title of whose booklet, published in Russian of the iron plates, stone sleeper blocks, road crossings, at St Petersburg in 1805, can be rendered as Description points for junctions and the economics of the concern.
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