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AIA Bulletin 11-1 1983 ASSocrAroN FoR TNDUSTRTAL ARCHAEorocy Bu I lgt [n Volume 11 Number 1 Stephen Hughes works for the Royal Commission getting a steady stream of new surveys and and Welshpool to Newtown. In fact, this 34 on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales additional information deposited with the mile length consists of four completely as an Investigator of lndustrial Monuments For National Monuments Record for Wales, an different canals which have been linked in nine years he has been doing preparatory study archive which is meticulously indexed, kept at name only under modern ownership. The for a series of large volumes on the archaeology the Commission's Aberystwyth off ice: ob.iective of all four canals was to carry and of canals and early railways in Wales and Edleston House, Oueen's Boad, Aberystwyth, distribute lime for agricultural purposes from concentrated initially on the Montgomeryshire Dyfed SY23 2HP, telephone 0970 (STD) the lucrative quarries at Llanymynech Hill, Canal. In many lA circles he is now 438112, and can readily be consulted by the the carriage of this lime substantially out- affectionately k nown as' Mr Montgomerysh ire'. general public. stripping any through-traffic likely to emerge. One thing led to another and after writing a Two canals stretched out on either side of twenty-page article f or Montgomeryshi re Details of the Montgomeryshire project, Where, Llanymynech quarries from a common Collections in 1981, a gazetteer and extra you may ask, is the Montgomeryshire Canal? terminal nearby. illustrations were added and a thirty-two page The book contains a towpatfFtypemap of the booklet was published under the same title as entire length and this introductionary It also contains 29 pages of text, 24 photo the county magazine pier.e; The lndustrial paragra pn: graphs, 5 drawings {including the magni{icent Archaeology of the Montgomeryshirc Canal. fhe cut-away by Geoff Ward reproduced on this page entire print order (600) was taken up in eight The'Montgomery Canal' is today def ined as and 5 other maps. if you can get one (try months and it is currently being reprlnted, the line of waterway stretching from the writing to Stephen Hughes) they are f1.95 pending a new edition, which should appear in Llangollen Canal at Welsh Frankton in a including postage. However potential buyers 1984/5. southwesterly direction throu gh Llanymynech could have to wait for the reDrint Now if it should be thought that Stephen Hughes's Montgomeryshire enthusiasm is a thing apart from his general duties with Powis Estate Sawm il l, Welshpool RCAM (Wales) | hasten to say that far f rom (pwered by canal-water) this being the case, there are a host of 'colleagues' involved; Brian Malaws, lain Wright, Jane Durrant and Tony Parkinson, and on the showing so far, the Welsh Commission is heading the field in practical industrial archaeology. BCAM (Wales) must be recognised in lA high places, for when the CBA Industrial Archaeology Committee held their Crisis in Recording lndustrial Monuments meeting in November 1981 (reported in Bulletin 9/3) it was suggested that the various Royal Commissions might use their undoubted surveying and recording expertise to train lA students. Stephen was then able to ooint out that the Welsh Commission were already doing just that In fact they had arranged to administer the 'surveying and recording' component of the Institute of Industrial Archaeology lA Diploma Course for 1982-83, naturally along the Montgomerysh ire Canal. l And it came as no surprise that an MSC scheme was propced and eventually appro/ed to employ four RCAM (Wales) trained people to (in official language) survey and research Y": .^!t' indu3trial archaeological monuments on the ;. fc' Montgomeryshire Canal. This is now going .i::l ahead and will provide additional material for the revised edition of'the book'. A splendid story of enthusiasm and down-tc earth hard work by everyone concerned, not Copyright R. C. A. M. ( Wales ) least the Royal Commission itself which it COTTAGE AT BELAN LOCKS.WELSHPOOL,POWYS I J Wesl and Eest Elevations Soulh Elevalion F--:==;;-E:E Surveyed by AM TO,MJS JCI o 5m D'awn bv KO JCT The srrvey for the Institute of Industrial 3 Measuring Plans: It is helpful to use a different colour for dimension Archaeology's 198?3 Diploma Course has lines and arrows so as not to confuse the drawing, produced an excellent series of additions to the ln each room:- but write all dimensions in ordinary pencil. RCAM (Wales) archive including this Cottage at &lan Locks, Welshpool, a) Sketch the room at a large scale using corr b) Measure each wall systematically and book It has also resulted in a set of notes on ventional representations of doors, windows &c. each measurement Start with tape zero on the clrveying industrial buildings prepared by Brian Draw everything to be measured. Don't tryrto left hand edge of a wall and measure to the Malawrs and Tony Parkinson, and which are make your sketch a scale drawing, exaggerate right Apart from enabling you to read the tape reproduced below. small details to enable all the dimensions to be the right way up, it is easier to plot as scale rules fitted in clearly. lf a sketch becomes cluttered are usually graduated from left to right lf you Very Basic Notes on Industrial Building draw'details' at a large scale and note'see detail are measuring singlehanded it may be quicker on the main sketch. to fix a nail or pin in two opposite corners and Preliminary measure outwards from each pin to record the four walls, and then between them to get the It doesn't matter what units you measure in as diagonal. long as they are stated on the survey drawings, so that if necessary someone else can plot from your notes. Show feet and inches as (for examole) 612 (= 6lL 2 in.l or 14/- (= 14 feet 0 inches) &c. A dimension in the apparently simde metric system can be expressed in several ways; for example, to express 13200 metres and 0.765 metres you can write 13.2, u"-765 -16.5 Not this... metres; 1 320, 76% or centim€tr*; or use the British Standard system of 1 3 200, 765 millim€tres. Whichever system you use, be windowsill consistent fixed pin Survey Team: Always take running measurements where possible as this minimises movement, is Two people are better than one, three is best. more accurate, and is easier to plot The'leader/ books the measurements and directs operations; the second reads the tape or rod and c) Measure and book the diagonals; although will suffice, taking both serves as a check. the third (if available) holds the zero end of the :; -'j --'l )l one tape for the leader. Each team requires a tape ll Note the exact poinb measured. (20 m/50ft or longer), a2ml6ft folding rod or dimension lines and arrow heads in steel pocket-tape, several sheets of A4 size (A3 is different colours d) Measure and book extra details, eg fireplace better) paper clipped to a rigid board, an HB or alcore depths. wall-toglass distances at windors pencil, a red pencil and a rubber, But this... and wall thicknesses 2 e) Remember that you are trying to create a grid e) Supplement elevations drawings with The study. which was pres€nted by consultants of interlocking triangles with wall junctions at photographs. W S Atkins and Partners was commissioned by a their apexes When plotting, you are merely re consortium led by the Welsh Development creating this grid of triangles at a smaller scale Plotting: Agency. The other partners are British Water- and joining their apexes to form the plan of the uays Board, Shropshire County Council and room or building. 3) Bear in mind the purpose of your drawing and I nland Waterways Association. use an appropriate, recognised metric (or imperial) scale. Plot a scalebar on your drawing Opening of First Major Inland Trrmport Water t!- 'a so that if it is reduced or enlarged it is still way since 1905. Sir Frank Price, Chairman of i\ 'l \. a usable; simply stating :100 or 1 :96 or whatever British Waterways Board, recently unveiled a i on a drawing is not enough. commemorative plaque at Eastwood Lock Measure these Rotherham to open the improved section of the to give... b) Plot with a soft but sharp pencil on a stable Sheffield and South Yo*shire Navigation and material: Permatrace or similar is best, good which allows suitably designed craft of up to drawing card (not multi-layer like mounting- or 700 tonne pay-loads to navigate inland between \ watercolour-board) or cartridge paper is OK, Rotherham and the Humber Ports tracing paper is almost useless The Mayor of Rotherham, CouncillorJ Allott ?i-- ----7 then renamed the lock'Frank Price Lock' in l\ L /l c) Don't try to make a finished drawing straight recognition of his major contribution in leading t.. o away. You are producing a plotj a high quality the campaign in close co-operation with South drawing for publication or exhibition must Yorkshire thisrrilo fixed|r^vv i ,r' I be County Council and Rotherham and I traced on another sheet using the plot as a basis. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Councils, to :t:l:Tfll':isrF"rnsurvey notes X'\\ bring a modern, economic transport waterway i d) Build up each room using diagonals and wall to the industrial heartland of South Yorkshire, ,, lengths to form adjacent triangles; fit exterior The Scheme, which cost f 16 million has been l,/ dimensions to interior at door and window funded by central government and grants from u____ open I ngs.
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