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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY 177 SUMMER NEWS 2016 THE BULLETIN OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY FREE TO MEMBERS OF AIA Restoration Grants G Lancashire Museums G Daniel Gooch 1929 NE Coast Exhibition G AIA 2015 report G Will’s Cigarette Factory From Maney to Taylor and Francis As AIA members will be very aware, the firm of firm which is also part of T&F and so of Informa. Maney of Leeds, with whom we set up a contract This is good for us as Routledge have long been to publish the Review many years ago, and who respected publishers of archaeology books – the INDUSTRIAL subsequently also took over our membership book I wrote with Peter Neaverson, Industrial administration, was sold in 2015 to the Taylor and Archaeology: Principles and Practice , was ARCHAEOLOGY Francis Group (hereafter T&F). To complicate published by Routledge so I am glad to know the matters till further, Taylor and Francis are part of name still exists. Under Maney, we benefited from NEWS 177 a much larger conglomerate, Informa, described IAR forming part of a package with other Summer 2016 on their website as ‘a leading business archaeology journals, MORE, which meant it was intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and taken by academic libraries who might not have Honorary President events business, creating unique content and subscribed to it on its own. T&F have similar Prof Marilyn Palmer 63 Sycamore Drive, Groby, Leicester LE6 0EW connectivity for customers all over the world. It is arrangements with their Routledge archaeology Chairman listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a journals and so we hope to continue to benefit Keith Falconer member of the FTSE 100. This is why the invoices this way. They intend to undertake extensive 32 Fromefield, Frome, Somerset BA11 2HE you will have received for membership come from marketing of our journal which will also be of Vice-Chairman Dr Michael Nevell Informa UK and not from T&F. benefit to us. Secretary Many of you will also be aware that the Journal publishing has moved into a world David de Haan transfer from Maney to T&F has not been without dominated by electronic access and we cannot AIA Liaison Office, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Coalbrookdale, Telford TF8 7DX its problems! We had no choice but to deal with escape this. Members have always had access to Treasurer T&F as our contract with Maney, which was the electronic version of IAR and will continue to John Jones handed over to T&F, has another year or so to run. do so if they follow the instructions for online Hines Farm, Earl Stonham, Suffolk IP14 5HQ AIA Council delegated negotiations with T&F to a access which should have been sent to you from IA Review Editors Dr Mike Nevell and Dr Ian West small group consisting of the treasurer, secretary, T&F. This involves the use of your email address IA News Editor the two editors of Industrial Archaeology Review and we hope that this will help AIA to build up a Chris Barney and myself, since with Peter Neaverson I set up list of email addresses of members which will The Barn, Back Lane, Birdingbury CV23 8EN Affiliated Societies Officer the original Maney contract. Negotiations have help speed up communications. Once you register Lynne Walker been protracted and our treasurer in particular with T&F online, you will have access to a wide Conference Secretary has put in many hours of work dealing with range of electronic resources. The process of John McGuinness individual AIA members and with affiliated 29 Altwood Road, Maidenhead SL6 4PB submitting articles or book reviews to IAR and Endangered Sites Officer societies who were having problems with their checking proofs when articles are accepted will Amber Patrick subscriptions. Originally, VAT was added to also become more standardised. T&F use a Flat 2, 14 Lypiatt Terrace, Cheltenham GL50 2SX subscriptions because that is chargeable on the production system known as CATS – Central Librarian and Archivist John Powell electronic version of our journal but, as this was Article Tracking System – which generates author Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Coalbrookdale, Telford TF8 7DX not made clear to start with, T&F have agreed to communications, copyright assignment forms and Publicity Officer waive this for a year. However, but eventually we stores manuscripts and proofs. This will enable Roy Murphy 3 Wellington Road, Ombersley, Worcestershire WR9 0DZ shall have to bear this cost and may have to authors to access their articles quickly, as is Recording Awards Officer increase subscriptions as a result. We sincerely required so often now for academic purposes. But Shane Kelleher hope that all the errors have now been rectified don’t stop submitting articles and book reviews Sales Officer and the membership database used by T&F is as your editors and the book review editor will Roger Ford Barn Cottage, Bridge Street, Bridgnorth, now correct. It is obviously easier if you set up a handle all this in the first instance and give you Shropshire WV15 6AF direct debit to pay your subscriptions rather than clear instructions on what to do. Council Members do this by cheque. Marilyn Palmer David Alderton (Heritage Alliance) Bill Barksfield (overseas trips) Industrial Archaeology Review (IAR) will now President and Book Review Editor Dr Robert Carr (BA Awards) be published under the imprint of Routledge, a Dr Paul Collins (Conservation Award & Partnerships) Tony Crosby Steve Dewhirst (Conservation Award) Kate Dickson (E FAITH) Bruce Hedge (Membership development) Heavy costs of closure Shane Kelleher Michael Messenger (Website manager) Ian Miller The closure of the Snibston Discovery Museum, in only provided economic benefit to the local Stephen Miles (Conference bookings) Coalville, which shut its doors in July 2015 after a community, but employment, volunteering Dr Tegwen Roberts Paul Saulter legal challenge failed, exemplifies the heavy cost opportunities and ‘frequent-visitor’ deals, Mark Sissons (Restoration Grants) and losses associated with closure. The particularly for local people. The workforce Mark Watson (TICCIH GB National Representative) Dr Ian West (Health & Safety) demolition of the Snibston site, is costing included staff and more than 40 volunteers, some Honorary Vice-Presidents £179,625. The council will also have to pay back of whom had physical, mental health or learning Prof Angus Buchanan Sir Neil Cossons the £146,146 that the HLF invested in the disabilities. On top of that, evidence shows that Prof John Hume museum and its collections. Moreover, about 1,000 people, of all ages with registered Liaison Officer redundancies that resulted from the museum’s disabilities, visited regularly with their carers. ” David de Haan, AIA Liaison Office, The Ironbridge Institute, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Coalbrookdale, Telford TF8 7DX. closure will cost £142,000. The true cost of losing a museum is hard to Tel: 01952 416026. The council’s original plan was to sell the quantify, but a spate of high-profile cases gives E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.industrial-archaeology.org land to residential property developers, but the the sector a more vivid picture of what it means, land has been deemed unsuitable for a housing not only in monetary terms, but also the loss of COVER PICTURE development in its current state. expertise and dedication of museum Kellingly Colliery early morning on the mine’s last working Brian Voller, the former chair of the Friends of professionals and volunteers that have worked day 18 December 2015 Snibston, says: “In an area of significant hard to protect and share the collections. photo Ian Castledine deprivation, the Snibston Discovery Museum not 2—INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS —177 Restoration Grants – update on current projects The current projects being funded by AIA The London Wildlife Trust at Hackney have complements funding that was awarded to restoration grants cover a broad spectrum of done much work on the restoration of the gas restore the building of this rare surviving rural works being carried out on Industrial house and other former water works buildings on rope and twine works. Archaeological sites and artefacts. Once again, this site and in April 2016 a formal opening will In Alston the South Tynedale Railway has our thanks go to our anonymous member who so be conducted by Sir David Attenborough and been given funding to convert and restore a generously provides the funding for these grants. other invited guests. See page 18 former NCB narrow gauge tamping machine for We are currently considering applications for use on the South Tynedale Railway. These 2016 funding as applications closed on 31 March. machines were originally built for tamping For full details look at the AIA website. underground track in coal mines and, with the end of deep mining in this country, few survived. Mark Sissons At the Tramway Museum Society’s Crich site work on consolidating the remains of a lead smelter on the edge of the museum has now been completed. Large amounts of undergrowth have been cleared and a new viewing platform and interpretive signs installed. Salt wagon frame being restored by the Llangollen Railway South Tynedale Railway Gullick Dobson tamper Workshops Photos: Mark Sissons In Cheshire a salt wagon from the Lion Salt In Dundee work on installing the Boulton & works has been overhauled and refurbished by Watt rotative beam engine in Verdant works is the Llangollen Railway, a nice case of funding now completed. With the project completed this given to one heritage organisation being spent will be the oldest steam engine installed in a mill with another. in the world. The Friends of the Thorpe Light Railway in County Durham are working on restoring the former Whorlton Lido 15in gauge railway and are now moving on to restore the locomotive Wendy and some of the coaches.