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Pastor G6mez this period, which was also the time when mining exploitation started. INDUSTRIAL This anicle (translated by Elanca Martin) outlines Mining activity was at first usually limited to HAEOLOG the historical background and potential value of washing gold in alluvial deposits, where forced studying the sixteenth-century industrial native labourers used rudimentary technology. The NEWS rO7 archaeological heritage of two Honduran districts: original Spanish conquerors started to look for Santa Lucia Tegucigalpa and San Lorenzo other income sources when alluvial deposits Winter 1998 Guazucardn. both of which have documented became over-exploited and the indiginous soutces. population, already declining, came under the President protection of the Spanish Crown. Dr Michael Hanison In November 1995, the Honduran Institute of The discovery of silver deposits near 19 Sandles Close, The Ridings, Droitwich Spa WR9 8RB Anthropology & History (lnstituto Hondureno de Comayagua (then the seat of colonial government) Vice-President Antropologla e Historia) carried out archaeological marked the beginning of industrial mining Dr Marilyn Palmer School of Archaeological Studies, The University, Leicester surveys in San Lorenzo Guazucardn, in the exploitation in the country. lt was in 1569 that the LEl 7RH municipality of Ojojona, where a colonial mining first silver minerals in the district of San Lorenzo

Treasurer complex was found. 5urveys in nearby areas Guazucar6n were worked. Later discoveries, such Michael Messenger showed many remains of this type throughout the as Agalteca (1 576) and Santa Lucia Tegucigalpa 1tl4 take Road East, Roath Park, Cardiff CF2 5NQ central region of Honduras. (1 578), led to the creation of the Alcaldia Mayor Secretary The old mining districts of Santa Lucia de Minas de Tegucigalpa (the Mining Mayorship Paul Sillitoe Tegucigalpa and San Lorenzo Guazucardn are of Tegucigalpa) which covered several thousand 2 Oaken Clough Terrace, Limehurst Ashton-under-lyne, in over 14 indian Lancashhe OL7 9NY located on the high central lands of Honduras, square kilometres, including the outskirts ofthe actual capital city, Tegucigalpa. villages, a Spanish town and abundant mineral lA Review Editors Both districts are 1,000 metres above sea level, deoosits. Peter Neaverson and Dr Marilyn Palmer School of Archaeological Studies, The University, leicester with a warm climate and annual rainfall which In 1590, Honduras was visited by a commission LEl 7RH assures permanent water courses that can operate of the Spanish Crown with orders from Felipe ll to

lA News Editor hydraulic machinery. Pine trees dominate the area, find out about the possibility of transfening the Dr Peter Stanier and were used as construction timber for engines Spanish Navy of the Viceroyalty of Peru from 49 Breach Lane, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8LF and charcoal for blast furnaces. The geology of the Panama to Honduras. However, they also had Conference Secretary region is complex and rich in volcanic materials orders to visit the Tegucigalpa silver mines and Janet Graham and mineral veins of hydrothermal origins. report on their quality. 107 Haddenham Road. leicester [E3 2BG During the sixteenth century, the Spanish This commission documented 14 mining Affiliated Societies Liaison Officer Crown expanded its domains on the American complexes in the country, 1 1 ofthem in Santa Lucia Gordon Knowles continent through private initiative of its Tegucigalpa and three more in San Lorenzo 7 Squinels Green, Great Bookham, Leatherhead, Suney the KT23 3LE subjects. This was how Honduran territory became Guazucar6n. There were 1 72 black slaves and 79 pan of the colonial empire. Although the conquest forced native labourers employed in these Sales Officer Roger tord of Honduras began in 1524,it was not completed complexes, each of which processed the minerals Bam Cottage, Eridge Street Bridgnorth, Shropshire until 1550. Indian rebellions were common durinq of uo to five mines. All had blast furnaces and the WV15 5AF

Publicity Officer Anne Alderton 48 Quay Stee! Halesworth, Suffolk lPl9 8EY , GUATEMALA Fieldwork and Recording Award Oflicer ," HONDURAS I Shane Gould l"- Archaeology Advisory Group, Planning, Essex County EL\ N Council, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex CMl ILF SALVADOR Honorary Vice-Presidents HONDURAS Prof Angus Buchanan Sir Neil Cossons John Hume Stuart B. Smittl

Council Members D, Alderton Dr V. Beauchamp Dr R. J. M. Can M Coulter TEGUCTGALPA D. Cranstone J. Crompton tr I SantaLucia D. Eve (coopted) J. Harrison (co-opted) ,t i- A. Parkes J. Powell o P. Saulter (co.opted) 5 Warburton - - '- Guazucar5n i oJoJoNA ,' c. whittaker N. Wright (co-opted) \ --\a\t T. & M. Yoward (co-opted) , I I Liaison Officer ELSALVADOR t lsabel Wilon AIA ffice, School of Archaeological Studies, University of ) twcnaeeue Leicestel Leicester LEI 7RH. I 0116 252 5337 " Far 0116 252 5005, email: A|[email protected] , , COVER PICTURE ,

Re-excavation at the Lagan Canal's lock 12 at Lisburn, Nofthern heland (see page 14) Photo: Nl Envionnent and Heritaoe Seruice Location of the Santa Lucia Tequcigalpa and ian Lorenzo Guazucardn mining districts of Honduras

2 INDUSTRIALARCHAE9L9GYNEWS 107 majority had some kind of mineral processing mill. Three complexes had hydraulic mills for grinding the ore. Seven were operated by mules, in two the mineral was ground by hand, and only two complexes had no grinding mill. The machinery activated iron hammers, each weighing about 60 lb, which ground the minerals to a dust for further processing. The ground mineral was sieved and, depending on the quality, was separated from the ore by smelting or by amalgamation with mercury. This last method was first applied in Mexico after

1 555. The construction of hydraulic and animal- powered engines, furnaces and the use of the amalgamation method implied a technical knowledge that the first colonists did not have. lt was broughtto the area by Diego Xudez, a master engine-maker, miner and carpenter, who arrived in Honduras at the end of the sixteenth century. A document shows that a certain Diego Xudrez, official of engines, skilled in the exploitation of gold and silver mines, left Sevilla for Peru in 1569. Though it remains to be confirmed, it seems likely that this is the same person. Section of the watet canal, built with rubblework, at Blast furnace of the Guazucardn comolex ln 1574, Diego Xudrez was employed to make Guazucardn Photo: Pastor G6mez Photo: Pastor Gdmez the engines for the recently discovered mines of San Lorenzo Guazucardn, where he was also in charge of running the mining production. Before mines were still being exploited. He pointed out the historical documents related with them, and

1 580, he made two other engines for the Agalteca that a mill used by miners in Guazucar5n was the probable existence of remains that have been mines. The discovery of mines in Santa Lucia moved by mules, and another one in Santa Lucia preserved. Therefore, this would be a suitable area Tegucigalpa around that date also demanded his had a hydraulic mill. for preliminary research and a possible services. The ruins of a mining complex were found by conservation project of Honduran industrial In 1 580, Xu6rez and a Spanish partner signed the bank of the Ingenio River during the heritage. contracts to exploit a mining operation in Santa archaeological survey in Guazucar6n. These ruins Lucia Tegucigalpa, both men contributing black included a dam which altered the course of the slaves and sharing the right to exploit several river, canals for the water, the remains of a mines. Apparently, these enterprises encouraged hydraulic mill, some processing tanks and a Xudrez to settle there with his family. furnace, which the locals know as 'El Chimbo'. When the royal officials visited Tegucigalpa in The toponymy has kept the memory of the AD\IIERTISE IN 1590, Xudrez was the owner of a mining complex mining activites of that time in the area. An that included a hydraulic mill for mineral grinding, example of this is the name of the river where the IA NEWS a furnace, a forge and a mill for grinding wheat. ruins lie: 'Rio del Ingenio' (Engine River). In As his five slaves did not mine enough ore to utilise addition, the historian Mario Felipe Castillo points IA News reaches a wide his hydraulic engine to capacity, Xudrez offered out that the word 'chimbo' was once used for blast readership through direct his services to other miners of the area, for whom furnaces. The slag found around the oven of subscriptions, circulation to he processed ore by grinding and amalgamation. Guazucardn confirmed that its use was related to a,ffiliated organisations and This engine maker's knowledge determined the mineral processing. All the structures of the site use in libraries. rentability of the Honduran mining industryto such were made of cobblestone. brick and mortar. There an extent that the officials of the Spanish Crown are no visible remains of either the machinery or The market reached will be refened to the province as properous during the the roof of these structures because most were attractive to publishers, tour I 590s. made of wood. Other mining complexes in the area operators, heritage At the beginning of the seventeenth century, were not visited due to time limitation. consultants and visitor mining production declined for several reasons. In conclusion, two facts might relate these attractions. One was the lack of capital to invest in mines, ruins with the complexes of Guazucardn during the another was the difficulty in supplying mercury 1 570s. The first is that the complex described and Advertising rates range from from Spain due to the European wars, while a the mines of San Lorenzo Guazucardn are very as little as €3O to €17O for a labour shortage added a third problem to the similar, and the second is that the Ingenio River is full page. history of mining in Honduras. the only water supply in the area with enough flow proceeds Although no further documents about Zudrez's to activate hydraulic machines. In spite of that All contribute to the activities have been found, there is much possibility, we have to remember that Newson and costs of the Newsletter and information on Honduras' mining industry dirung Wells state that some mining complexes were still the work of the Association the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Linda working in this area in the seventeenth and which is a Registered charity. Newson, professor of King's College, London, nineteenth centuries. Therefore, the only way to Inserts may be mailed with IA states that in the middle of the senteenth century date this site is through archaeological research. News at a charge of f,25. some mining complexes were still worked around Although research ofthis kind has never been Guazucarin and Santa Lucla. William Wells, a done in Honduras, several elements underline its For further details, contact North American engineer who visited Honduras in importance in these mining districts: the closeness the Editor. the mid-nineteenth century, documented that some of both districts with the capital of the country,

INDUSTRIALARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 107 3 flax (Linum usitatissimum) from which linen has I A in the South Atlantic been produced in the British lsles. Phormium fibres are coarse, like those of hemp (Cannabis sativa) Henry Gunston and jute (Corchorus capsularis), both of which are stem fibre plants - as is European flax. The primary These notes are based on a working visit to Saint use for Phormium fibre was making rope and twine polypropylene, twine Helena and Ascension lsland during | 997, together and, until the arrival of most with infornation from the Saint Helena Heritage and coarse string used by the UK Post Office some New Zealand flax fibre from 5t Society and the Ascension I sland Historical Socief . contained ATUNTIC OCEAN Helena. The fibre was extracted from the leaves Saint Helena, one of the last remaining British by a process similar to that used for another leaf Dependencies, lies in the South Atlantic some 3,600 fibre pfant, sisal (Agave sisalana). Cut leaves, miles from Southampton and '1,700 miles from brought from the fields in bundles (usually on Cape Town. The island has no airfield, and it is Asnson donkeys), were fed into a mechanical stripper appropriate that the ship which links it with the which removed the outer leaf casing from the outside world, the 7,000-ton RMS Saint Helena, commercial fibre within. After scutching to remove reflects something of the atmosphere of the Union St Heens dirt and unwanted vegetable matter, the fibres Castle Line. Discovered (unpopulated) by the were washed in water and spread out on the Portuguese in 1502, 5t Helena was claimed by the ground to dry. After compression in a bailing press, British East India Company in 1659 to provide a most Phormium fibre was exported, although trvine staging point on voyages to South Asia via Cape and light ropes were manufactured on St Helena. Town. Shipping links were later maintained by There were a number of small flax mills some of Union Castle, whose ships continued to call at which were powered by National gas engines. The Jamestown, St Helena's port and only town, until Strategic dots in the ocean gas producers were presumably fuelled with wood. '1977. The island has a land area of 47 square miles One mill survives with its machinery still close to (1 22 square kilometres) and a population of 5,500. unlike trryo large vertical cylindrical, sectional cast operating condition, the gas engine having been Jamestown's small port area, to which iron water tanks, 20 feet (6 metres) in height and replaced by a diesel. passengers and cargo are fenied by launches and diameter, which are still in active use in the central Although there are a number of historical barges, features an elegant banel-roofed Customs uplands of the island. These tanks carry plates defence sites on St Helena, Ascension lsland, 700 '1908 House dating from the mid eighteenth century. indicating that they were built in by Newton miles and two days'sailing away to the north, has Across the steep valley within which the town lies Chambers & Co Ltd at the Thorncliffe lron Works. a much stronger military presence, both past and is an amazing stairway of 699 steps, over 900 feet near Sheffield, and they store spring water prior to present. Ascension, which is administered by the (270 metres) long, known as Jacob's Ladder. At delivery by gravity to the Hutts Gate treatment Governor of St Helena, achieved international fame the top is Ladder Hill Fort, which contains a number plant. Control valves are by Guest and Chrimes of during the Falklands War, when Wideawake of interesting nineteenth-century barracks and Rotherham. military airfield was expanded to provide a staging storehouses. The Ladder follows the route of an The central uplands were the base ofwhat was point for RAF transport flights. Originally built by incline, completed in 1829 for 'The St Helena St Helena's main industry from early this century the US Air Force during the Second World War, Railway Company', which comprised trruo lines of until the 1960s. This was the cultivation of New Wideawake now has a runway long enough to land 4-foot gauge iron-topped wooden plateway track. Zealand flax (Phormium tenax) which produces a a returning U S Space Shuttle should circumstances Powered by donkeys turning a drum at the top, a commercial fibre contained within long, tough dictate. major duty for the two incline wagons was leaves. Phormium is not related to the European With a land area of 34 square miles (88 square transporting waste products (both animal and human) from Jamestown for spreading on the fields above. Breakage of haulage chains produced unpleasant results below and a modified wagon design was prepared with a rigorous braking system which jammed steel spikes into the track bed of the incline when the chain broke. The incline rail system was abandoned by the 1 870s. Jamestown market is housed in a prefabricated cast iron building, made by Gwynne & Co and shipped out in'1865. Other attractions include a cast iron fountain in the public gardens, a National gas engine (from a flax mill) preserved beside the town swimming pool and a 1929 Chevrolet charabanc, which still transports visitors around the island. The town museum is the headouarters of the Saint Helena Heritage Society, which has done fine work by highlighting the island's industrial history (aspects of which feature in a number of museum displays). By Rupert's Bay, in the next valley to Jamestown, there is a well restored square brick chimney which once served a seawater distillation olant. This was built around the turn of this century to provide water at the time when over 6,000 Boer prisoners had been A two+oot gauge trclley preserved outside the museum on Ascension lsland. Probably used on the guano extaction project, deported to St Helena in the wake of the Boer War. it shows signs of being regauged from three-foot gauge (as used in the original harbour and trolley system) The distillation plant was apparently unsuccessful, Photo: @ Henry Gunston

4 INDUSTRIALARCHAEoLoGYNEWS 107 kilometres),.Ascension is much more barren than St Helena. Like the larger island, it was discovered (also unpopulated) by the Portuguese early in the sixteenth century, but as a staging point for sailing ships it was severely restricted by a serious shortage of fresh water. Sea turtles were captured by sailors to provide food, however, and there are still the remains of ponds where they were penned in sea water until taken aboard ship. Captain Cook put in for turtle meat during 1715. A major event was the deportation in 1 81 5 of the French EmDeror Napoleon into exile on 5t Helena. A naval base was established on Ascension to ensure that the French did not launch a surprise attack to reclaim Napoleon from captivity. The remains of a banel- roofed powder magazine, thought to date from around 1 81 7, survive near the turtle ponds. Taking the name Georgetown in 1829 (after King George lV), the naval base and small township expanded. A banack block of 1832 survives in a modified form, and between 1848 and 1852 the great Main Store was built, which is still in use. lts massive stone- built structure resembles similar large naval stores built at Devonport and Portsmouth around that The naval warehouse at Georgetown, Ascension lsland, dating from the 1840s. Volcanic Cross Hill lies beyond Photo: @ Henry Gunston Irme. Military activity continued during the Victorian communications base. A submarine telegraph cable times a 3-foot gauge tramway line connected the era, and two forts were established on either side anived in 1899, and the Admiralty set up a radio Pierhead at Georgetown with the naval stores. In of the port area of Georgetown. 0n the barren installation in 191 5. Aerials of all shapes and sizes 1 925 the English Bay Company was set up to collect volcanic slopes of Cross Hill, above the town, two can be seen across the island, and in recent years guano (produced by large colonies of sea birds) large muzzle loading guns from the latter half of the Royal Air Force, the U S Air Force, the BBC, for export from the area around English Bay and the nineteenth century point seaward, still Cable & Wireless, the French Ariane satellite from the small Boatswain Bird island, just offshore. mounted on their carriages. More modern programme and NASA have all had bases. The Company's short-lived and shambolic activities armament nearby comprises two guns from HMS The Ascension lsland Historical Society has included the use of 2-foot gauge tramways and Hood, displaced from the ship during a refit before established a fine museum complex based at Fort some of the trollies from the Georgetown port the Second World War. To counter the desoerate Hayes, and much supporting information for this tramway appear to have been 'nanowed' from 3- shortage of fresh water, catchment collection areas article comes from their publication The Ascension foot gauge. The method seems to have been to further inland were cemented over to ensure that Handbook by J. E. Packer. Amongst the 'outdoor' cut out centre sections from each trolley chassis all runoff was collected. museum exhibits are small rail trollies which have cross member, much like the treatment of GWR

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INDUSTRIALARCHAEOLOGY NEWS IO7 5 to producing Sunbeam aero engines. most successfully on Eastern Region Napier - a name to remember Montague Napier, with his chief main line services for many years. designer A. Rowledge, were Napiers designed the Eland Geoff McGarry gold sovereigns with exact precision, prompted to design their own engine, turbo-prop engine, followed by the at speed, separating light and heavy the 24-cylinder, in three banks offour compound Nomad, combining a The engineering history of the coins for rejection or acceptance. So in the 'W'formation, the famous Lion diesel engine with an axial flow company D. Napier & Son Ltd is a accurate were these machines that 'l engine of 475 HP. First flying in 91 9, compressor and turbine to achieve fascinating story which spans nearly they were soon in use in many mints it proved to be the most successful 3,000 HP, with the lowest recorded two centuries.Whilst the nane of across Europe. aero engine of the 1920s, used fuel consumption. In the forefront Napier is associated with aero James Murdoch was as equally extensively by the then expanding again, Napier designers led the waY of renown and veteran motor inventive as his father, and produced engines RAF, and winning two of the with the Gazelle, free turbine engine, cars of the early 1900s, it has in fact many accurate weighing machines Schneider Trophy races in 1 927 and the first gas turbine engine to power far deeper roots, reaching back to the for gold bullion bars, among many 1 929. Later, the Lion engine was used helicooters. time of George lll. The company is other inventions. At his death in so effectively by Henry Segrave, Since 1947, Napiers have still in business and the Napier Power 1 895, the business was taken over Malcolm Campbell and John Cobb, produced their own Turbocharger, Heritage Trust has been formed to by his son, Montague Napier, who, enabling each in turn to achieve and with a 19O-year tradition for research, record and preserve its assisted by the brilliant entrepreneur world land speed records, with Cobb precision engineering the company is engineering history. S.F. Edge, built up the famous motor in his Napier Railton Special travelling still in business sucessfully producing car business in the first decade of the at 400 moh in 1947. turbochargers for world-wide In 1808, a young Scottish engineer, twentieth century. Their great success During the 1930s, Major Halford markets. David Napier, set up his general came in winning the Gordon Bennett was engaged as a consultant The Napier Power Heritage Trust engineering workshop in Lloyds Trophy for motor racing in 1902, the designer to produce three engines for was formed in 1991 by Alan Vessey Court, Soho. His reputation for first international trophy to be won Napier, the 16-cylinder Rapier, the with a group of ex-Napier retired precision engineering spread rapidly, by Great Britain. With business 24-cylinder Dagger, and then the engineers, with the aim to research, and he was engaged to construct rapidly expanding, they moved to a most powerful piston engine, the 24- record and preserve the engineerlng Daniel Treadwell's recently patented new factory site in Acton, West cylinder sleeve valve Sabre engine of history of this famous company. printing press, which operated by a London. 3,000 HP, powering the Typhoon and Napier Powered has been published treadle. Napier designed and built the Tempest f ighter bombers to by Chalford Co of Stroud, comprising From Napier's practical first 6-cylinder car engine, and in distinguished war service in 1944. 230 photographs showing the experience on printing presses, he 1 907 S.F. Edge drove a Napier car on After the war came the powerful development of all Napier engines of progressed to design his own printing the new Brooklands race track for 24 marine engine, the three bank, the twentieth century. Copies of the an machine using his brilliant inventive hours, covering 1,583 miles at (UK) triangular shape, 1 8-cylinder book can be obtained at f1 0 inc idea of two revolving cylinders in average speed of 66 mph, a opposed piston, Deltic diesel engine P & P, or f12 sterling for overseas, conjunction with his patent'grippers'. remarkable feat of endurance for of 3,000 HP, used by many navies from myself at 19 Richardson House, The sheet of paper was picked up and both the man and Napier engineering around the world. The same engine North End Crescent, London Wl4 carried round one cylinder and reliability. was later derated to 1.600 HP and 8TE. I can also be contacted for printed on one side, then transferred Under the shadow of the 1914 used in a twin-engine locomotive, further information. by the grippers to the other cylinder war effort, Napiers were directed on and printed on the reverse. Napier achieved this double sheet printing by the alternate rising and falling of each cylinder. Hansard used several of these machines, named'NAY PEER', which could print 1,000 sheets an hour, and Napier's trade was assured, progressing to larger machines such as the 'Desideratum' and the 'Double lmperial' for printing newspapers. As the business increased, the factory became too small and Napier moved across the river to York Road, Lambeth, facing the new Waterloo station. David apprenticed his son, James Murdoch, in the business and on maturity took him into paftnership creating the company D. Napier &

Son in 1 847. The business diversified and prospered with varieties of printing machines, hydraulic presses and cranes for the expanding Great Western Railway at Swindon. Lead bullet making machines and cannon boring machines were supplied to Woolwich Arsenal. David Napier applied his engineering skill to solve a problem for the Bank of England, producing a delicate weighing balance to weigh James M. Napier with the Napier double platen printing machine Photo: Napier Power Heritage Trust

6 INDUSTRIAL ARCHAE)LOGY NEWS 107 EDUCATION Postgraduate courses at the lronbridge Institute

Contrary to reports of its demise, work. In addition to their end-of-year Australia, Holland and Hungary. For closer ties and collaboration with the training and teaching in Industrial examinations, students are also the last two years Institute personnel personnel in the Birmingham Archaeology continues and thrives required to produce four pieces of have been invited to teach a Masters University Field Archaeology Unit here at lronbridge, under the title of assessed work, and a dissertation. Industrial Heritage course at the (BUFAU). One of the foremost Industrial Heritage. Now a part ofthe Through these assignments students University of Madrid. The Institute is archaeology units in the country, with Department of Ancient History & are able to develop their skills and to also represented at most major many years' experience of Archaeology at The University of widen their interests as they apply a international conferences, including professional practice in field Birmingham, for three years the given approach or question to a case recent ones in Poland and Greece; archaeology. lronbridge Institute has offered a study or example of their choice. In with Dr Paul Collins also acting as UK The lronbridge Institute is keen postgraduate Diploma and MA in this way study extends way beyond Co-ordinator of a major European and proud to acknowledge its Industrial Heritage. Based upon its the confines of the lnstitute's Union Raphael Cultural Heritage continuing commitment to almost 20 years' experience of surroundings, and, over the years, an project: lron-in-Man, or lNlN for professional practice in Industrial teaching Industrial Archaeology at impressive body of work is built up short. After a very successful first year Heritage, and has recently postgraduate level, the new for the benefit of successive students. of joint work with Spanish and strengthened its team to include qualification starts from the In its first three years the Finnish colleagues, this project has contributions from the best available viewpoint of Industrial Heritage being Industrial Heritage course has scored just secured a further two years' practitioners. Joining the team is 'managed Industrial Archaeology', some notable successes, including funding and is set to expand to David de Haan, Deputy Director ofthe and acknowledges the widespread the work of Paul Vigor, who won the include other European partner lronbridge Gorge Museums. Formerly use of this term in many parts of the AIA's Student Award for Fieldwork nations. Overseas students also make of the Science Museum, David brings world, and in the name of such bodies and Initiative Award for Fieldwork in study visits to the Institute. many years of experience in curating as TlCClH. The recent 'high-profile' 1 997 for his reassessment of Bedlam Students attending the Industrial an industrial collection of world demise of some industrial museums Furnaces; and Penny McKnight, Heritage course in the academic year significance, and he is also very active has also emphasised a need for whose 'Hats off in Stockport' article 1998/99 will be able to take in the European industrial museums training in the highest standards of in lA News 105was based upon her advantage of new developments and movement. Also working with the professional practice for those lronbridge Institute dissertation. 0f initiatives at the lronbridge Institute. Institute as a Research Associate is working with the Industrial Heritage. more lasting benefit to past students, Notable amongst these is access to David Cranstone, with many years' Entry level on the courses is a number have now secured positions the John Harris Collection of books worth of experience of research and determined by a student's first working in posts directly relating to and papers relating to Industrial investigation in lA, and who has been degree, although, significantly, all of the recording and long-term Archaeology and Economic History. a major influence behind the those entered for Diolomas have preservation of the Industrial A key part of the personal library of Monuments Protection Programme changed to Masters degrees and Heritage. These include Anthony the late Prof. John Harris, one ofthe work for English Heritage. been awarded these, some with Coulls, who is the Co-ordinator for Institute's founders, the collection Marion Blockley is the lronbridge distinctions. The teaching strikes a Railway World Heritage for lC0M0S, was bequeathed for use by students Institute's Programme Director. A balance between Industrial History, based at the National Railway following Prof. Hanis'death in March founder member, and former Industrial Archaeology, and Heritage Museum. 1997. Committee Member, of the Institute Management, and covers a wide Through its innovatory Industrial Within a year of becoming a part of Field Archaeologists, Marion also range of topics from pre- Heritage teaching the lronbridge of the Department of Ancient History edits the journal I nterpretation lor the industrialisation through to Institute has built upon its & Archaeology at The University of Society for the Interpretation of twentieth-century industries and their international standing. Each year Birmingham, the lronbridge Institute Britain's Heritage, and has an remains. Practical skills are covered overseas students feature has been called upon to develop international profile in the protection too, from surveying and research prominently; recent intakes have second and third year undergraduate and development of World Heritage techniques, through to professional included students from Greece and teaching modules in lA. These will be Sites and sustainable heritage-based practice and conduct in consultancy Zambia, with current enquiries from taught by Dr Paul Collins on the tourism. University's main campus at Dr Paul Collins is Lecturer in Edgbaston from September 1 998. Industrial Heritage at the lronbridge This is seen as an important Institute. A former graduate of the development in the teaching of lA, Institute, Paul is an acknowledged and a vital step if the subject is authority on railways, tramways and 'trickle-down' the education system waterpower, and specialises in to A-Level. twentieth-century technology. He has The Institute's association with played a leading role in a number of Birmingham's Department of Ancient major lA projects in recent years, from History & Archaeology brings many the motor industry to the Royal opportunities for its students to work Arsenal West at Woolwich. with some of the best archaeological Fufther details of the Industrial practioners in the UK. Students of the Heritage courses can be obtained Department regularly take part in from: The Programme Administrator, summer training schools in lronbridge Institute, lronbridge Gorge archaeological fieldwork, and the Museum, lronbridge, Telford, Institute welcomes this new Shropshire TF8 7AW 8 01952 opportunity to apply advances in field 432751, Fax: 0'l 952 432237 , e-mail: techniques to professional practice in [email protected]; Web page: Course students line up on the steps of the Long Warehouse at Coalbrookdale, where the lA and Industrial Heritage. This move http://www. bham. ac. uk/ honbridge Institute is based Photo: John Powell has also increased opportunities for IRONBRIDGE/

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detail together with the Council changes and a well for the future. said it was 'particularly pleasing considerable Monruenna has been replaced by when the recognition comes from the archaeological remains in two areas new President lsabel Wilson, a graduate in the national body rePresenting along the foreshore; the resulting The AGM was held on Sunday 6 History of Art and English from professionals in your field of work.' report will act as a national reference the annual September 1998 during Leicester University. She will be in the It is believed that this was also the work for the subject. conference at Seale Hayne, Newton AIA Office during weekday first award to have been made atthe Having examined the results, Abbot. Hilary Malaws retired after her Heritage aPPreciated the afternoons from 1 3.45 to 1 7.1 5 and centre itself. English three-year term as President, and will continue the proiects already in The annual AIA award is made threat posed to the resource bY other retiring officers were Amber hand. lsabel will only be with us for to the site visited during the annual continued erosion and coastal Patrick, who has served as our a year, as she has a place at conference, which the President defence works, which culminated in Secretary for many years, and David Loughborough UniversitY to considers best helps the public to open area excavation during 1998. Alderton, our Conference Secretary. undertake an MA in Women's understand its historical, Significant remains of structures were be David Perrett has also stepped down Studies. 5he will be meeting members archaeological, technological and revealed and a summary will as Membership Secretary, a duty now of Council at their working weekend industrial importance, through a high published in the next /A A/erys, with undertaken by the AIA Liaison Officer in late October and members of the standard of interpretation and greater detail in a future issue of at Leicester. We owe a debt of AIA at the lronbridge weekend in the presentation. lndustrial Archaeology Review. as gratitude to all these officers who, Spring. Do contact her about general Exeter ArchaeologY Council members will know, the other AIA matters and the lRlS project. Her TICCIH membership Archaeological Recording at have worked very hard behind the Malthouse, Haven Banks, Exeter. An teleohone number is 01 16 2525337, Here's how you can join the scenes to further the interests of the which demonstrates how Fax 0116 2525005, or e-mail: lnternational Committee on the exemplar AIA. Central Government Planning [email protected]. Conservation of the Industrial The AGM elected Michael Guidance can be used to secure Heritage as an individual member Hanison as our new President, with adequate records of historic buildings (see page XX) Because of concern Marilyn Palmer as Vice-President. The in advance of conversion works' about the costs of transferring money new Secretary is Paul Sillitoe, while Constructed c.l789, the buildings for overseas subscriptions, it was Janet Graham takes over as a complex structural history and suggested that national have Conference Secretary. David malting in 1949; the site is to representatives should collect ceased Alderton, Bob Carr, John Powell and be re-used as a public house and subscriptions and foruvard them in Stuart Warburton were re-elected to restaurant. The report is well written, bulk. Your representative has agreed Council, along with a new face, Tony but its strength lies in the quality of to this for UK members; send the Parkes. the illustrations and in particular, the application form as directed, with the Next year's AGM will be held at words 'paid to national conjectural reconstructions. the Medway Campus at Chatham, D. Roemmele - The Industrial representative" but send your Kent, on l2 September 1999. Archaeology of Tweed and Hosiery cheque/money order to John Textile Mills of Harwick between Crompton, do National Museums of 1 930. This MA thesis from Devon Conference Scotland, Chambers Street, 1820 and the lronbridge Institute collates an September's annual AIA conference, Edinburgh EHI 1JF. Meanwhile, enormous quantity of documentary which included the announcement of lsabel Wilson TICCIH will investigate the potential information on Harwick's textile the Fieldwork and Recording Awards for payment by credit card. is (see below), was followed by a buildings. Although the approach 1997 President's Award provides an programme of field visits and lectures essentially historical it The 1997 award was presented to Fieldwork and covering much of the large county of important benchmark from which Killhope Lead Mining Centre in be Devon. A full report should appear in Recording Awards detailed site investigation can Weardale on 20 August, on a the next issue of lA News. Five entries were submitted for this undertaken. unremitting typical(?) Pennine day of year's award and these varied in both Scottish Vernacular Buildings rain; totally different to the brilliant - AIA Office at Leicester subject matter, geographical scope Working Group The Ruins of the sunshine which greeted delegates on and date. They included two Craibstone Limekilns, Deskford. University their visit during the Newcastle commissioned investigations from Undertaken by group members year. The welcome Members will be sorry to learn that conference last professional archaeological units, a during a weekend recording exercise uo for weather Morwenna Dissado has resigned as more than made the publication from a national voluntary in 1995, this nineteenth-century presentation was duly made AIA Liaison Officer to take up a place and the group and two student dissertations. works was inaccessible to the public at the University of Southampton on to Councillor Jim Macintosh, Brief summaries are given below: and slowly deteriorating. the MSc course in Archaeological Chairman of Durham County Canterbury Archaeology Trust - Photographs and scaled plans of Computing. She has put into place for Council's Arts, Libraries and the Tankerton Copperas Works and three limekilns, a safe house, grinder AIA's the AIA several new office systems, Museums Committee, by the the Copperas Industry in the South and silo shed, wheel pit and including the membership database; President Hilary Malaws, in the of England. Little archaeological embankments are attractivelY presence Conway, Director undertaken an institutional mailing of Patrick research has been undertaken on this reproduced in a small publication Libraries Museums for to widen circulation of our of Arts, and seventeenth-century industry and [reviewed in lA Review, XX, 1998, Forbes, the publications; begun to create a Durham, and lan coastal erosion culminated in an 1 1 91. Although the future of the site wet database of lRlS sites; and started a Manager of Killhope. The English Heritage sponsored project on remains uncertain, the survey acts as pilot project on the production of an weather could not dampen the the Tankerton foreshore in 1997. an accurate record ofthe works in the many industrial museums handbook for enthusiasm of staff and the Although the results were limited to '1990s. who were wholeheartedly teachers in the Midlands. The latter visitors, the cleaning and recording of R. Turner - Stratford and Moreton reflects her concern to bring younger participating in ore separation exposed deposir, the report clearly Tramway. Undertaken as an MA the dressing floors people into the Association for demonstrations on identifies the archaeological potential dissertation at lronbridge, a detailed Industrial Archaeology. The throughout our visit. Killhope has of the buried remains. The history, investigation is made of the history, of national Association thanks her for her deservedly won a number technology and geographical scope development and operation of a pioneering efforts and wishes her awards in recentyears, but lan Forbes of the industry is described in nineteenth-century rural horse-drawn

8 INDUSTRIALARCHAEOLOGYNEWS 107 AIA NEWS tramway. Although much of the Student Fieldwork and Recording Helping your Correspondents are given on page 1 0). physical evidence has been Award for 1998: correspondents destroyed, the surviving bridges, R. Turner. Readers will note that the post lA News is only as good as the news wharves, embankments, cuttings and of Regional Conespondent for South It was felt that the Initiative Award, it receives! 0ur Regional buildings are described. West England is vacant. I would be which considers an outstanding Correspondents provide a most Once again the entries were all pleased to hear from anyone who methodological and/or theoretical valuable service, which can be helped - of a high standard, with few marks might wish to take on this task it is should not be given this greatly by input from local members. separating the eventual winner; approach, not too difficult, you will be provided year. thanks to Keith Falconer Perhaps you may feel your area is having collated the results the Our with guidelines and you will see your Patrick for once again missing out somehow, so it is up to following individuals and and Amber name in print! acting as judges. Entries for the I 999 you to make a difference by helping organisations have been successful: Editor award should be sent to me no later your local correspondent to gather Main Fieldworkand Recording Award than 1 May 1999. For details see the items of interest for publication over for 1998: advertisement in this /A A/ews. the year. Please make contact and (addresses Canterbury Archaeology Trust. Shane Gould ask how you can help of

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Machinery for free! The roof framing of the shed is have been suggestions that the predecessors, and when I retired in comprised of 21 metal trusses, trusses may have come from the State 1988 it was allowed to lapse. The Museum of London wishes to spaced at 3.05 metre (10 ft) centres, of Victoria to Queensland, perhaPs Industrial archaeology was dispose of a number of working which have curved principal rafters from another, even temporar11, included in the general introductory history items. These include industrial ol 76 x76 cm (3 x 3 inch) steel angle building, which would be feasible as course to archaeology, and was machinery and large workshop with the ties, hangers and braces the Armytage family did have a examined in the same way as other equipment, including a steam- 30 mm (1% inch) number of pastoral properties in branches. This was important, as it powered travelling crane and consisting of approx diameter rods of wrought or cast iron. Victoria at the same time as the led to a number of students studying Lancashire boiler; other stationary purlins are of 51 x 51 mm (2 x 2 erection of the shed. the subject for their final year Special steam, gas and diesel engines; The inch) steel angle. Rolled into the Any assistance anyone is able to Option. I note that in 1988, the last various late 19th/early 20th century principal rafters, in relief, is the name provide will be gratefully received year in which the Special Option was machine tools (including mortising 'Dorman Long and Co Middlesbro'. and properly acknowledged in our available, there were 12 students, machine, bandsaw, lathe/grinder, We have been corresponding work. one of whom applied to ioin the post- heavy industrial lathe, sheet metal with Dr Miles Lewis of the University Geoff Mofton graduate course at lronbridge. working machinery); blacksmith's an authority on steel Geoff Mofton and Associates On a happier note, all was not forge and leg vices; heavy ship of Melbourne, and iron structures, who has Built Cultural Heritage Consultants lost as the Department of Civil repairing hydraulic press; air hammer in the age 47 Mafti Street Engineering's History of Technology and Ingersoll Rand horizontal expressed a deal of interest of the trusses. lt is his opinion that Bayview Heights continued until 1996 and the Extra- compressor, with associated the steel in the trusses would have Queensland Mural Department offered lA lectures equipment, warehouse winches; to be some of the earliest imPorted Australia 4868 until 1 995. Residential field visits had hydraulic jiggers; crane jibs; loose into Australia, his previous earliest begun in 1965 and, as noted in /A boxes; beam scales; platform scales. example being German steel, also of News 106, the final visit took place These items are being offered as Education in 1998. gifts, preferably to museums or I 887. There are examples of other steel I was interested in Stafford Linsley's In my darker momenls, it seems charitable organisations such as trusses in of later fetter in lA News 106, which refened that industrial archaeology is being preservation societies. Queensland vintage, but these are all out of steel to the teaching of industrial offered mainly by hotels in the form For more information, Please angles. Therefore, we wonder if the archaeology in the Universities of of leisure breaks, so it is a relief to contact: Karen Fielder, Assistant trusses in the shearing shed may not Leicester and Newcastle upon Tyne. know that at Leicester and Newcastle Curator, Depaftment of Later London only be an example of early steel It is a source of great regret to me upon Tyne it is still the subject of History, Museum of London, London importation into Australia, but also that the Department of Archaeology dedicated teaching. WalL London EC4 5HN.Z 0171 600 an example of the transition from iron in the University of Southampton can Dr Edwin Course 3699, Fax:0171 600 1058. framing to steel generally. Why the no longer be included. Industrial (formerly Senior Lecturer in lA trusses came to be used in a shearing archaeology was introduced there in and Transport Studies, University of * Southampton) Early Australian steel shed, which used local timbers for all 1971 and lapsed in 1988. Credit for their framing, remains a curious establishing it as a degree subject 18 Craven Road trusses mystery. should go to Professor Barry Cunliffe. Chandlers Ford We are currently involved in the We seek your assistance torruards When he was lured away to Oxford, Hants SO53 2HD. preparation of a conservation plan for finding more information on Dorman successor, Professor Colin his [* Editor's note: I should know, lwas a sheep shearing shed at a property whether Long and Co in general, and Renfrew (now Lord Renfrew) therel named Afton Downs, located near a there is anyone we could contact who maintained the teaching of lA until town called Hughenden in central may have records of that comPanY he was persuaded to move to northern Queensland, Australia. The which may assist with such questions Cambridge. Unfortunately, his shed was erected in 1887 for the as who ordered the trusses, to where replacement, Professor Peter Ucko, prominent pastoral family of they were delivered in Australia, why did not share the enthusiasm for lA Armytage. they came to be ordered, etc. There shown by his distinguished

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TICCIH in Barcelona be decided. magnificent lunch) for their a pier at Beaumaris in '1846, whilst It's difficult to visit Barcelona without Ihe TICCIH /Vews/efter has been organisation, hard work and north of the border, Leith Trinity coming into contact with Antoni recast as a Bulletin, A4, 8 pages in hospitality. The sun shone too! Chain remained in being, famed as Gaudi. In Britain and elsewhere, the the first issue, and this and a second ' lohn Crompton Brown's template for his Brighton issue (1998) Victorian resurrections of classical will be sent to cunent masterpiece. and gothic gave way to Arts and members during the remainder of the Parys is old The peak decades for English and year. The issue an Welsh pier-building were 1860s Crafts and Art Deco; in Barcelona they first of Recent radio-carbon dating has the international journal is also in gave place to modernism and to established a date of c.3,000 years and 1870s, though right until preparation, but since TICCIH cannot Fleetwood (1910), piers opened at a Gaudi. Drawing from nature, Gaudi's BP for underground workings at Parys afford to finance it without a sound sinuous and naturalistic forms Mountain on Anglesey, which puts rate of over one a year. Following membership and financial base, this (1855) punctuate the landscape with strange the history of copper ore mining there Margate and Southport Number One issue is independent but (l many were spires and colourful mosaics. lt was back into the later Bronze Age. 860), cosntructed using of course whilst he was preoccupied with his will be advertised through iron rather than wood, with Birch greatest building in progress (the TtcctH. gaining a reputation as the supreme Brighter future piers cathedral of Sagrada Familia) as he TICCIH already has several for engrneer. specialist sections, The origin piers crossed the road that he was knocked whose objectives of could be said to Factory Acts, the Bank Holiday promote date back to the (l down by a tram - a victim of what is are to study and earliest man-made Act 871), and an expanding railway now part of Barcelona's industrial comoarisons on a worldwide scale. harbours: that at Caesarea reputedly network all helped to make piers heritage. Two papers have already been had the first free-standing 'people's palaces', and inter-war jointly National representatives to the produced by TICCIH and breakwaters, in 138C. However, the modernisation saw the erection of (lnternational International Committee on the |COMOS Council on modern history of piers did not begin many fine pavilions. However, not all Conservation of the Industrial Monuments and Sites) for the World until the development of towns such piers were so lucky, with the Second 'seaside Heritage gathered in Barcelona for Heritage Convention, on Bridges and as Scarborough as watering World War sometimes hastening their places' the last weekend in June, most taking Canal Monuments, the latter in the late eighteenth century. decline, causing years of neglect. 0n compiled became fashionable an extra day or so to see the city itself. by Stephen Hughes of It the thing for top of this, the advent of cheap go The Saturday was a full working day RCAHMW. There was considerable the rich to to the coast walking breaks abroad and increased jetties at the Museu Nacional de la Ci€ncia discussion on further themes and on on newly-constructed wooden prosperity meant that individuals y de la Technica de Catalunya at how approaches might be over the water itself. Jetties were also were no longer automatically Terrassa, some 20 km from standardised so as to provide a built with a more functional purpose holidaying in Britain. framework advice |COMOS in mind, namely the Barcelona. The museum occupies a for to on landing of boats. Formed in 1979, the National restored woollen mill built in 1907/8 potential World Heritage sites. Inland transport left a lot to be Piers Society has helped to fight for TICCIH's strengths on desired - in the modern style, with a will be before the building of those piers still remaining stupendous north-light roof of encouraging worldwide links, and to railways, and thus many visitors to suppofting structures needing grant undulating thin brick vaults this end a membership directory is these growing resorts came by sea, aid, and promoting the commercial planned jetty. supported on slender cast columns. for publication in January landing at a successes. For piers do have a role to On Sunday morning, delegates met 1 999. One of the pressing The first true seaside oier was play in today's competitive leisure at the Museu de la Historia de requirements is to build up a arguably that at Ryde, lsle of Wight, industry, and are of undoubted database re-use Catalunya in Barcelona, housed in a on the of industrial constructed in 1813-14. Far more architectural merit to deserve turn of the century dockside buildings, to aid and encourage novel famous was Brown's Brighton Chain assistance. What with Lottery warehouse which again provides solutions worldwide. Groups will be Pier, dating from 1823. Not only did awards, the future now looks a lot magnificent spaces for exhibitions. announced and will report from time it act as a terminus for packet boats, brighter! Delegates from Finland, to time in the Bulletin. its attractions included shops, kiosks, To obtain information on the Argentina, Russia and western A note in lA News 105 said that shower baths and a camera obscura. National Piers Society, contact the Europe (others sent their apologies) subscriptions entitled members to In the 1830s, English piers were Secretary, Anthony Wills, l44 concentrated on the implementation free attendance at TICCIH built at Southend, Walton, Herne Bay, Elizabeth Mews, London NW3 4TL. of last year's proposals for individual conferences. This does not mean free Southampton and Deal. Wales gained Tim Mickleburgh just membership and the issues lunches - that individual surrounding it. At present there are members will enjoy a rebate equal to two classes of subscriotion: national the membership subscription. as paid on behalf of Britain by AlA, Many other ideas were floated and individual which currently and discussed, including the includes those who attended the last exchange of information on industrial major TICCIH conference. The tourist trails, a seminar on industrial meeting decided that these individual heritage and education, prizes for the membership will run to the end of best re-use of industrial buildings, 1998, and after that new annual and the success of some European subscriptions ($20 US, or f12.00 at countries in gaining EU Raphael grants today's exchange rate) will be invited for co-ordination of initiatives on the basis of calendar years. across national boundaries (something Application forms for 1999 this insular nation is not membership will be circulated with very good at!). There was much stimulus lA News, and a web site is to be set and /4 NewsandtheTICCIH up. Incidentally, members will be able Bulletin will report as the ideas to propose and vote on national develop. Finally, our thanks to Eusebi representatives, though the Casanelles, Jaume Matamala, James Douet and all the team at Terrassa weighting between individual and Bangor Garth pier, North Wales. dates from 1896. Closed on nfety grounds in 1971, the (including the Mayor a national committee votes has yet to for 1550 ft long pier was repaired and re-opened in May 198 Photo: Tin Mickleburgh

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New Lanark conference Disappearing cattle to honour John Hume markets A conference 'Visions of Scotland's The small town cattle market was Past: Looking to the Future' is to be until recently a common feature of held on Staurday 27 February 1999. the farming industry but new Its purpose is to take stock of regulations, low prices and a desire Scotland's built heritage, and to to achieve economies of scale via consider its future in anticipation of larger markets serving a wide area, the expanding opportunites offered mean that the majority of traditional gfuw6w bythe new Millennium. lt is especially markets if not already closed and intended to pay tribute to the work redeveloped will be closing soon. In Consultants and contractors in the one of the AIA's Hereford the cattle market continues of John R. Hume, historic engineering including Honorary Vice-Presidents, who is but Kidderminster closed earlier this restoration of retiring from his post of Chief year. At Ashford in Kent the town feasibility studies for Heritage Lottery Fund Inspector at Historic Scotland. The centre market moved to a new out- and ERDF funding. Recent projects have conference will also celebrate the of-town site in April. Banbury closed work P.S. Waverley, a recent opening of the new hotel at on 4 June 1998 and Northampton, included restoration on New Lanark's Number One Mill. which shut in the autumn of 1996, is Victorian Underground Car, PS Maid of the Themes of the conference will already a Monison supermarket. Here Loch, a scheduled Bascule Bridge, various was moved out of include industrial heritage in the cattle market work, and successful particular, but will embrace other the town. Only the fine market wind and watermill a building types, as well as the entrance in Victoria Promenade has HLF/ERDF study for the Scottish Mining importance of records and archives. survived redevelopment. The site of Museum. The event will take advantage of Northampton 5t John's station was the newly-opened conference close by and the appearance of the We can also produce interpretive material, facilities at New Lanark, and will be cattle market was reminiscent of followed in the evening by a gala Midland style. including a new exciting display medium. dinner in honour of John Hume. The traditional market often has Delegates will have the opportunity buildings and surviving features Please contact us for a brochure or to stay the Saturday night in the hotel which date from the late nineteenth further information. at preferential rates, and places on a century and will be of interest to most special tour of New Lanark (to include industrial archaeologists. As above, 22 Carmyle Avenue - Glasgow - G32 8HJ rarely seen parts) will be available on their architecture often reflects that the Sunday morning. of railway stations of the period and Tel: (0141) 763 0007 Fax: (0141) 763 0583 Enquiries and requests for cast-iron columns, slate roofs and booking forms can be made by iron roof trusses, etc, are still to be Conference', cJo seen here and there. contacting'Visions lonies and cars. Knowledge of the Brampton market place. Last Society of The examoles mentioned are Architectural Heritage existence of a local cattle market is summer, a replica of 'Rocket' made Meeting House, mostly from the South Midlands, but Scotland, The Glasite often confined to those associated of flowers stood in Carlisle's town 33 Barony Street, Edinburgh EH3 they are representative of the with farming and in larger towns a centre to mark the 1 50th anniversary at situation nationally. The pressure to 6NX, or Miles Oglethorpe common response from the man or of the Citadel station. RCAHMS. Bernard Terrace, close town-centre cattle markets is 16 woman in the street is that'the cattle Fred Brook great. valuable sites and Edinburgh EH8 9NX They occupy market went years ago.' A little (e-mail: more space is now needed to park [email protected]). personal investigation can often be worthwhile. About 200 cattle Wortley Top volunteers markets have closed in the last 20 lt was reported in lA News t06 that years. Ken Hawley has received an MBE for Robert Carr services to industrial conservation. He is mostly associated with Wortley Top Forge, where he is Hon Custodian and Rocket return his commitment, energy and Pressure groups in the North East leadership have been largely have recently asked for the responsible for the restoration work. Lindisfarne Gospels to be returned to The site was visited during the AIA's their regional birthplace. London is Sheffield conference in 1995. The not keen on this idea. So, how about volunteers at Wortley Top, as at many returning the'Rocket' instead? 5ir other sites, are declining in numbers Neil says no. Well, he would, and increasing in years. We would wouldn't he? Perhaps the Liverpool welcome enquiries from anyone who and Manchester interests might care might be interested in working as a to have it? My own view is that voulnteer at the Forge, as a guide to 'Rocket' should be returned to where visitors (Sundays and occasional it spent its old age, on the Earl of evenings) or in other ways. Please Carlisle's railway which served coal could they contact me at I 01 1 4 230 mines near Brampton in Cumbria. lt 7693. Demolition at Canbridge cattle market, February 1997 Photo:RJMCatl would look nice on a plinth in Derek Bavliss

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Davis & Primrose Ltd Ferranti moved into new areas of in Britain. This was once a thriving During the winter of 1984, the research and development, such as barge-building centre of the Stevens National Museums of Scotland computer technology and industrial family, among whose famous vessels were Reliance and Perseverance acquired an early steam hammer tasers. the The valuable /11 both of which have returned to made by Davis and Primrose, a firm collection is a probably unique in the east of resource for social historians. The their birthplace. photographs, Perseverance, 1934-37, Scotland for including such items on archive is rich in built in photograph by the it Droduction list. The hammer is of ranging from albums of remains afloat and is owned the cross-head type, with twin victory celebrations, general factory Museum of London. Reliance, daling views, Fenanti hydro-electric projects plied parallel standards, set so that a bar from 1931-32, her trade London Docks can pass through. lt can be seen in South America and India through between Guildford and today at Sunmmmerlee Heritage to annual dinner dances and until she was sunk in collision with company golf matches. They paint a Cannon Street Bridge July 1968. Park, Coatbridge, where it is on loan. in Davis & Primrose were vivid oicture of life in the industrial As business was by then in decline, 40-ton crane built by Davis & Primrose in established as engineers and North West and the activities of she was not repaired but patched and 1890, as illustrated rn Engineering machine-makers in 1866, although Ferranti employees in Britain and towed to Leigh-on-Sea for use as a their first mention in the Edinburgh abroad. The many Fenanti domestic store barge. She was discovered here appliances reflect & Leith Post )ffice Directory appears patent reversing motion. When changing consumer by the National Trust in 1989, badly in the 'l 867-68 edition. From the running at 200 rpm, loads up to 7 tastes and demands. vandalised, but was towed back to The collection already Dapdune Wharf start long works at 33 Duke Street, Leith, there tons could be raised at a soeed of 1 3 has to the generated process issued a wide range of steam engines ft per minute, and heavier loads at 4 much interest from of restoration to display graving and machine tools; according to an ft per minute. The brake was worked researchers. A PhD student from the condition in the former dock. advertisement in the 1868-69 either by hand lever or screw. University of Manchester is using the Beside the vessels, many other directory, this included'printing lan Gentle records to research the link between parts of the working yard are on machines - hydraulic presses, industry and education. Some images public view, including the steam embossing machines, steam Ferrranti at Manchester fom the collection will soon be chest, paint store, stable, barge repair hammers, portable and fixed steam The Museum of Science & Industry in accessible on an experimental site shed. crane and carbide store. A engines, lathes, planing machines Manchester acquired the collection of being set up by the museum on the superb interactive exhibition in and engineers' tools, sawing and archives and objects of the Fenanti World Wide Web. Reliance and the carbide store planing machines and turning lathes International group of companies in For further information, please explains the functioning of the for coopers. Repairs were also February 'l 995. The collection, contact the Curatorial Services waterway in way which can be easily undertaken. consisting of 300 linear metres of Department at the Museum of understood by young and old alike. By '1875, Davis & Primrose were archives and about 1,500 objects, is Science & Industry in Manchester, Dapdune Wharf is located in Wharf to be found at 35 Bangor Road, Leith, the largest single acquistion ever Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Road, Guildford, and further the site of their Etna lron Works. From made by the museum. The archives Manchester M3 4FP, I 0161 832 information about opening hours can 1882-3 until their demise in 1932. are held in the environmentally 2244 Ext256. be obtained from the Navigations they were at 49 Bangor Road. They controlled Library and Record Centre, Office, I 01483 561389. became a limited company in August while the objects are in a recently Wey barges award The SIHG Conservation Award is presented group, 1914, with Robert Elliot Davis, senior, acouired off-site store. The magnificent work done by the annually by the a part and his son as first directors. The Museum staff have comoleted a National Trust in restoring the of the Surrey Archaeological Society, to a group or individual who share capital of the company was detailed listing of the obects, which important heritage site of Dapdune preserving fl 0,000, divided into ordinary shares include electric meters, transformers, Wharf, Guildford, was recognised by has been active in or restoring the county's industrial past of f1 each, but 1 8 years later the firm avionics and radar equipment, the Suney Industrial History Group in generations was wound up voluntarily. electronic components, radios, September. The Trust was awarded for future to enjoy. The Some of the firm's successful televisions, electric fires and electric the group's annual conservation group is always interested in products can be seen in the fine clocks. The sheer number of records plaque to mark the rescue of the receiving nonimations, which can be engravings from late nineteenth and meant that the museum had to former heart of the Wey Navigation, sent to SIHG, c/o Castle Arch, early twentieth century editions of employ a temporary archivist, helped one of the first canalised waterwavs Guildford, Surrey GUI 3SX. The Engineer and Engineering.They with grants from the British Library are mostly bevelling, punching, and and North West Museums Service. shearing machines intended for The collection reflects the groMh shipbuilders and boilermakers. 0ne and diversification of the company. of the most interesting items from the From the late nineteenth and early Etna Works was a 40-ton wharf crane twentieth centuries, when the core of set up at Messrs William Allen & Co's the business was heavy electrical works at Sunderland in 1890, as engineering, there are the original shown in the illustration. This was engineering drawings of the Deptford used mainly for lifting marine engines Power Station, early share registers, and boilers in or out of ships. Massive alternators, cables and meters. From foundations, mostly of concrete and the inter-war period, when Fenanti using nearly 350 tons of material, expanded the Domestic Appliances were necessary to ensure stability. Deoartment and created an Aircraft Under official tests,a load of 40 tons Equipment Department, there are was raised, lowered and slowed with product catalogues, the the greatest of ease. The engine correspondence files of Sir Vincent cylinders had a 7-inch bore and 10- Ferranti, and many domestic Wey Navigations Manager .lohn Gibson (right) receives the 1998 SIHG Conseruation Award inch stroke, and employed Spence's appliances. In the post-war period, from Surrey Archaeological Society President Richard Muir Photo: SlHG

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Flemish website assocaitions and volunteers take care Dutch, but efforts are made by harbour in Cornwall has been sold by The Vlaamse Vereniging voor of industrial sites. volunteers to translate the site Trinity House to the National Trust for just IndustriEle Archeologie (Flemish At present the WIA acts as a gradually into as many languages as fl. The Trust already owns the Association for lndustrial forum for some 40 local and thematic possible. There is information on the headland and will make the top of groups, and the assocaition has about VVIA, associated societies, lA in the 84-foot Greco Gothic style Archaeology) was established in May 500 individual members. In each Flanders, and much more. structure accessible on certain days. 1978, when lA was almost unknown province the association has a Look up the vvlA at: hhttp;// The Gribbin Daymark has guided in Flanders, and industrial buildings provincial chapter actively thousands of sailors (including your and sites were rarely considered to who www.conservare.be/vvia/ meetings, wiahome.htm editor) since it was erected in the be important. Thanks to the organises visits, conferences, etc. 1 830s. continuous effors of the WlA, the To celebrate its 20th anniversay, industrial heritage has now gained Daymark for fl the has launched its website. respect, industrial buildings are WIA A prominent red and white daymark The webpages use in the first place protected, and more and more local on Gribbin Head outside Fowey

PUBLICATIONS

Short Notices The Lewisham Silk Mills and the History of an Ancient Site by Sylvia Macartney & John West (Lewisham Local History Society & GLIAS, 1998)

113pp, 24 ills, ISBN 0 9508262 5 1 . lndustrial Heritage: The People and Places of lndustry (National Trust, A corrected and enlarged edition of a book published in 1979 which 1 998) presents the story of armour, small arms and silk manufacture and also of A fold-out map, with selected colour photographs and descriptions, locates gold and silver wire drawing. 58 industrial sites of all types owned by the National Trust. Sponsored by Green Flag, this leaflet can be obtained from the Trust's Information Centre, Studies in the History of Civil Engineering, Volume 6: Port and Harbour The National Trust, P0 Box 39, Bromley, Kent BRI 3XL. t 01 81 31 5 1 1 1 1 . Engineering, ed. by Adrian Jarvis (Ashgate Publishing, 1998) 416pp, 125 ills, f85.00, ISBN 0-86078-755-9. Manx Mines and Minerals, presented by Charles Guard (Duke Video, 1998) The sixth volume in the series of reprints includes 17 articles published A video documentary which takes an in-depth look at the history of mining between 1925 and 1993. They encompass a wide range of locations, from on the lsle of Man, from remote Bronze Age sites to the Laxey Mine's great harbours in use up to the early days of the Roman Empire to harbours of Port waterwheel and a spectacular journey deep underground. f14.99 incl. P&P, Natal, Freemantle and the Indian Ocean. Articles on British ports and from Duke Video, P0 Box 45, Douglas, lsle of Man, lM99 lDD. installations cover Grimsby, Sunderland, Ramsgate, Hull, Plymouth, London Dock, Millwall Docks, Bristol and Liverpool. Books Received Volume One, ed. by Graham Brooks & Blake The following books have been received for review in lndustrial Archaeology lhe Cumbrian lndustrialist, Review: Tyson (The Cumbrian Industrial History Society, 1998) 55pp,9 ills, f4.50, tsBN 0 9533799 06. (SIAS Rural Water Supply in Somerset, by Denick Wanen Survey Number This is the first of a series of occasional papers to be produced by the Ten, 1998) 40pp, 50 ills, |SBN 0 9509776 9 1. Society. lt includes papers on William Brownrigg. a pumping engine for lsabella This book deals with examples of supply systems in both Somerset and Pit, Reake Wood tile kiln, and a list of Cumbrian iron mine and smelt sites. Dorset, and highlights the part played by private benefactors providing for smaller communities until the advant of Urban and Rural District Councils. Local Society and other periodicals received The Buildings Conservation Directory (Cathedral communications Ltd, Abstracts will appear in lndustrial Archaeology Review. 1997) l84pp, ills, ISBN 0 9520080 9 2. BlAGscope, 39, Summer 1998 A guide to specialist suppliers, consultants and craftsmen in traditional Context, No.58, June 1998 building conservation, refurbishment and design. GLIAS Newsletter, 176, June 1 998; 1 77, August 1 998 Buildings at Risk: a new strategyand Buildings at Risk: fhe Register lnstitute of Historic Building Conseruation News, 4, February 1998; 5, 1998 (English Heritage, 1998) 35pp and 124pp. May 1998 The first of these booklets sets out to define English Heritage's policy on PHEW Newsleffer, No.78, June'1998 buildings at risk which is firmly rooted in the experience gained by them in Sussex lndustrial Archaeology Society Newsleller, No.99, July 1998 saving much of England's built heritage and funding others to do the same. TICCIH Bulletin, No.1, July 1998 The register brings together information on all the Grade I and ll* listed Triple News, Nos.2-4, Spring-Autumn 1997 buildings and scheduled ancient monuments known to be 'at risk' through Wind and Water Mills, No. 17, 1998 neglect and decay, or vulnerab.le to becoming so.

Harbour Lights, by John Hume (Scoftish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Anne Jones Booksearch Service 1997) 64pp, 66 ills, f6.00, ISBN 1 901971 00 7. This book provides a comprehensive survey of Scotland's harbour lights, 'Brvher' Barncoose Terrace including a gazetteer. lt is fully illustrated with maps and line drawings. Redruth, Comwall TR15 3EP Telephone 01209 211180 Taking stock of lreland's industrial heritage The proceedings of a conference held at Tailor3 Hall, Dublin, on 30 A selection ofsecondhand and out ofprint books for sale November 1996. Industrial Archaeology:- Canals, Railways, Bridges, early Civil Engineering Heritage: lreland, by R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould (Thomas Engineers, Steam and Engineering interest Tefford Publications, 1998) 296pp,250 ills, fl2.50, ISBN 0 7277 2627 7. Please phone or write for list A welcome volume on lrish civil engineering sites in the whole of the Free book search also available island. Following a general introduction, seven geographical chapters provide Details on request brief information and illustrations for over 200 sites.

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Northern lreland 1873. An application for listed building status is going ahead and I have reported previously on work on weather proofing the rare proposals for re-watering canals (/A surviving wood-fired bottle kiln is News 95 and 99. There have been about to start. lt is hoped that this more recent develooments. will one day form the nucleus of a Will it be'third time lucky' in the small on-site museum of the pottery's application for grant aid for re- production. An appeal is to be watering part of the Lagan launched for funds to help complete Navigation? The first scheme, which the restoration of the buildings. proposed a complete re-watering Also in Suney, and indeed also between Belfast and Lough Neagh, in Farnham, sympathetic conversion failed to secure the necessary funding of a bank of six listed hop kilns into from the Millennium Commission. as luxury housing has just been it was considered to be too large. The completed. Built in the 1880s, this second scheme - revised downwards, to just re-water the navigation was a very early use of mass concrete Mason's on the sandstone wall of lock 1 2. Lisburn in an industrial scale agricultural between Belfast and Lisburn - was ma* Photo: Nl Environment and Hetitage Service building. Hops entered on one side rejected by the Heritage Lottery Fund. of the building, passing through the Now, Lisburn Borough Council with new stonework. The timber alteration is deemed inappropriate, width before exiting in carts on the aims to reopen to navigation a short baulks in the floor will be retained, then by-passing will be considered, far side. Part of this 'production line' stretch of the watenivay, including but the planking will be removed and again retaining these historical process utilised Hetherington's lock 12. The proposal forms an a new concrete floor and sills features 'in water'. patent hop kiln floors made in Alton. integral part of the council's scheme inserted. At present, the chances of Other Surrey projects include the to build a new council chamber, The restoration of this historical achieving this ambitious scheme restoration, for arts use, of the first council offices and a civic centre. The lock is technically feasible, but it will appear to be quite slim. However, multi-story car factory in the world site, known locally as 'The lsland', is be costly. Here's to hoping that following the Good Friday Guildford. This is Rodboro bounded on three sides by the River funding will at last become available Agreement, which includes specific at Buildings built for Dennis Brothers Lagan and on the fourth by a canal for this first phase in the re-watering reference to 'Waterways - Inland around the end of the first world war. cut (currently infilled) incorporating of the Lagan Navigation. Waterways' (page 13, ANNEX, item Having stood empty and dilapidated lock 12. Meanwhile, an application for a 5) and the planned development of for many years, work is underway and Because the precise extent, Heritage Lottery grant for the Newry cross-border co-operation, the the building is presently shrouded in structural stability and physical Canal is currently under scheme may yet receive the necessary polythene. condition of the lock chamber were consideration. The future of this support. Lowfield Heath windmill is now unknown, the council authorised a sensitive scheme for re-watering Michael Coulter fully restored on its new site at 're-excavation' of the lock, under hangs in the financial balance. Watch Charlwood (see lA News 106, 12), archaeological supervision. A small this space for further information! South East England while the future of nearby Outwood portion at the north end, below and Consultants have completed a Possibly the single most significant still seems uncertain. On a smaller beyond an access bridge, was left (cross-border) study and reported on lA news from Surrey this year has scale, but nonetheless a superb infilled to avoid disturbing high the options for re-watering the Ulster already been reported in these pages: restoration job, is the conversion of voltage cables which cross nearby. Canal, the final missing link in the the purchase of the Victorian the former railway goods shed at The infilling has been removeo, chain of navigable waterways Farnham Pottery by a local trust to Farnham to a tyre and exhaust centre. recording taken place and a series of between the great Shannon/Erne orevent demolition and Despite being in constant occupation trial pits and core drillings made. A system and Lough Neagh. There were its replacement by housing (see /A /Vews by a succession of businesses, the large mooring bollard was retrieved two options: to keep this as the 105,1l't. Work has started to provide fabric had been allowed to decay from the infill and has been set aside narrowest major canal in lreland, or reduced modernised badly. Now it is restored to almost for reuse. The lock survives reconstruct the canal with wider locks and accommodation for the pottery pristine Southern Railway condition, throughout its entire length, and the and reaches. Conservationsist business of A. Harris and Sons which only with cars frequenting the loading walls are straight and vertical. Most favoured the former. the charter boat originally founded the site back in bays instead of rail wagons. of the stonework - a local red lobby the latter. sandstone - is in surprisingly good The consultants' recommended condition, particularly for a lock built option is a compromise scheme, with in the 1750s-60s. However, much of asoects to suit conservations and the facework that was repeatedly others to suit commercial/oleasure wetted and exposed to the air during boat users. lt proposes widening locking had been replaced with brick. most of the lock chambers but Most surprising is the survival of a retaining the historical bridges, and timber floor of uncertain, but working from only one side of the relatively recent (twentieth century) reaches so disruotion to wildlife will date. This consists of planking, placed be minimised. Two by-passed oarallel with the walls of the sections of reach and associated chamber, secured to large timber locks, at either end of the canal (ie. baulks laid across the width of the one in the North and one in the lock and built into the lower courses South) would be retained at the of the wall. original width, hopefully 'in water'. The consulting engineers have In addition, detailed appraisalwill be developed a scheme to stabilise the made of the most important historical Workers ouEide the Farnham Pottery around the tun of the century. fhe buildings and kiln walls and to replace the brick infill structures along the waterway. lf have been saved Photo: Chris Shepheard

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A new use for a former railway Agamemnon. lt appears that the building is also news in Hampshire. whole slipway lies preserved below At Hythe, the former railway station the surface of the mud, not just the DOROTHEA stood in the centre of a proposed quay edge as previously thought. housing development, but the local The Sussex lA Society received a authority and housing association Heritage Award during the year for RESTORATIONS were persuaded to allow it to survive the work they had done, since 1 982, as the Waterside Heritage Centre on in restoring to working condition one a long lease. This will include an of the swing bridges on the LTI) exhibition area, lecture theatre, Chichester Canal, originally built in Incorporating Ernest Hole (Engineers) of Sussex workshop/preparation area, dark- 1 820. The bridge, located at Hunston room, archive store and study area. but now moved one mile upstream, The Bursledon Brickworks Trust served for farm access and was cast CONTRACTORS AND CONSULTANTS IN THE has completed the first phase of the by C.H. Tickell of Southampton. C O N S E RIATI O N O F H I STORI C M ETALWO RK, restoration programme. An appeal Hopefully, the restored bridge will MACHINERY AND WINDTWATER MILLS has been launched, including an become the start of a heritage area application for lottery funding, to centred on the canal basin. Recent contracts include designs for an atmospheric rebuild the inclined olane that fed The new owner of Haxted water railway, and a replica steam locomotive, restoration of clay to the brick extruding machines, mill in Surrey has been given 18C lead sculptures, repair and gilding of the Albert and imorove facilities for the Centre permission to convert part of the Memorial bronze decoration, conservation work on for the Conservation of the Built structure to domestic Tbrbinia, Lion, Sans Pareil and Locomotion, and even Heritage here. accommodation. Previously this had At Wickham, Hampshire County been a milling museum, so most of the restoration of an hydraulic catafalk! Council have ourchased the 1820s the equipment was still rn slfu. Some Chesapeake Mill. Although listed of the museum items have been Over 100 man years experience grade ll, it had been on the buildings- transferred to the Sussex Mill Group's at-risk register. The building, lfield Mill for future use. Work is constructed partly of timbers from an currently in progress on the cross Northern Works: New Road, Whaley Bridge, via Stockport, eighteenth-century American frigate, boarding of the waterwheel and Cheshire SK23 7JG. Contact: Dave Hodgson is to be restored and re-opened by restoration of a Eureka scouring and Tel: (01663)'733544 Fax: (01663) 734521 the millennium. Power sources here separating machine of c.'l 886 years, changed over the originally a acquired from Battle. Southern Works: Riverside Business Park, St Annes Road, breast shot waterwheel but later Unfortunately, I have received no St. Annes Park, Bristol, B54 4ED. Contact: Geoff Wallis utilising electric power to drive roller news from Kent this time. Tel: (01 11) 9115337 Fax: (01 ll) 911161'7 and crusher animal feed plant and a Chris Shepheard turbine to drive the mixer and hoist. At Weyhill, near Andover, REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS concern has been expressed at the state of the remaining cob walls of the booths from the famous fair. This Please support your Regional Correspondent by sending relevant material which may be of interest to our readers. was a traditional hiring and selling Region 1: SCOTTAND Region 6: WATES Region 10: GREATER LONDON fair at the junction of a number of Dr Miles Oglethorpe, Royal Stephen Grenter, l6 Ffordd Trem-y- Dr R.J.M. Can,127 Queen's Drive, early roads. Held in October, the site Commission on the Ancient and Foel, Parc Bryn Coch, Mold, Clwyd London N4 2BB was once owned by Chaucer. Hops Historical Monuments of Scotland, CH7 1NG particularly Region 11: HOME COUNTIES were important, with John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Region 7: WEST MIDLANDS Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, loads aniving from as far afield as Tenace, Edinburgh EH8 9NX Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire Suney and Kent. Prices fetched set Region 2: IRELAND Midlands, Warwickshke, Hereford and Phil Monis, 7l Van Diemans Road, those for much of the country and Michael Coulter, Department of Worcester Stanford in the Vale, Oxon, 5N7 8HW were even quoted in Edinburgh the Powell, lronbridge Gorge Environment. Historic Monuments and John Region 12: SOUTH EAST Gazette. 5tudies are being Buildings, 5-33 Hill Street, Belfast I Museum Trust, The Wharfage, ENGLAND undertaken to find the best method lronbridge, Telford, Shropshire Region 3: NORTHERN ENGLAND Hampshire and lsle of Wight, Suffey, of stabilising and preserving the TF8 7AW Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Sussex and Kent remaining booths. Wear, Durham and Cleveland Region 8: EAST MIDIANDS Chris Shepheard, Rose Cottage, 22 0n a sad note, a piece of printing Fred Brook, Hartland, Redburn, Derbyshi re, Notti nghamshire, Ridgeway Hill Road, Farnham, Suney man history was sold to the scrap for Hexham. Northumberland NE47 7EA Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and GU9 815 f35 per ton during the year. This was Northamptonshire Region 4: YORKSHIRE AND Region '13: WEST OF ENGLAND the HOE rotary letterpress press for David Lyne, 10 Somerville Road, HUMBERSIDE Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire, tre /Vew Milton Advertiser. Despite Leicester LE3 2ET Notth, South and West Yorkshire, and Wiltshire and Dorset attempts to donate it to a museum, Humberside Region 9: EAST ANGLIA Mike Bone, Sunnyside, Avon Close, no could be found for this 1 903 takers Derek Bayliss, 30 Muskoka Avenue, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Keynsham, Bristol 85l8 ILQ giant. Essex Bents Green, Sheffield S1 1 7RL Region 14: SOUTH WEST Hampshire's'dirt' archaeologists David Alderton, 48 Quay Street, Region 5: NORTH WEST ENGLAND have been at work at Buckler's Hard Halesworth, Suffolk lPl9 8EY ENGTAND Devon and Cornwall on the Beaulieu River. lt was the site Lancashi re, Merseyside, G reater VACANT of a shipyard responsible for building Manchester and Cheshire 'ships 55 of the line' in the eighteenth Mrs Edwina Alcock, 5 Friars Walk, century, including the gunship Formby, Merseyside 137 4EU

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13 January 1999 tibute to tre work of John Hume. See success'. Details from David Alderton, 17 April 1999 HYDRO-ELECTRICITY IN inside for more details. Booking forms tt8 Quay Street, Halesworfr. Suffolk 3OTH SOUTH WALES & WEST NORTH WALES 1880-1948 available from'Visions Conference'. tP19 8EY. REGION IA CONFERENCE at Savoy Place, London, free lecture do Architectural Heritage Socieg of at Shaftesbury Upper School, hosted 1O April 1999 by Dr Gordon Woodward. For further Scotland, The Glasite Meeting House, by the Dorset lA Society. Conference, SOUTH EAST REGION IA information, contact Helen Pope, lEE, followed by optional visits to a local 33 Barony Street, Edinburgh EH3 CONFERENCE Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL. at mill or the RN cordite factory site at 6NX, or Miles 0glethorpe at the University of Reading, hosted 8 0171 3445439,Fax0171 497 RCAHMS, 'l Bernard Terrace, Holton Heath. Details from Tony 6 by the Berkshire lA Group, a 3633, e-mail [email protected] (e-mail: Innes, l0 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Edinburgh EH8 9NX programme including cinemas, Brede Dorset SP7 8HB. 27 February 1999 [email protected]). Waterworks and importance of VISIONS OF SCOTLAND'S 27-28 March 1999 geology and groundwater to industry. PAST: LOOKING TO THE AIA IRONBRIDGE WEEKEND Details from Dennis Johnson, 20 FUTURE at the Long Warehouse, Auclum Close, Burghfield Common, htmnliu, fot dp duy drould fu wt at New Lanark, to take stock of Coalbrookdale, on 'Raising funds, Reading, RG7 3DY. WbilEEdwrwnaitbwdl- Scotland's built heritage and to pay including Lottery money - steps to ile. Daw of nailtirg aM M hB fu rreipt of W ue gfun hllwl lwm w ll mnafty ryw tln scressle issrrs AIA qbilnthuof drcerentHwen- we Mib ue sfi in if yw wish yun Association for Industrial Archaeology Emttots-advised. Announcing the three Fieldwork and Recording Awards for 1999

The AIA Fieldwork Award scheme exists to encourage recording of the physical remains of the industrial period to high archaeological standards. The awards are open to both amateur and professional field workers, and have been operating successfully for many years. Work submitted may already have been published or, if not, may be encouraged to publish. As well as the main award there is also the Initiative Award for innovative projects, e.g. those from local societies; and to encourage the funrre industrial archaeologists, a Student Category.

TIIE CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES IS lst MAY 1999 INDUSTRIAT ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS (formerly AIA Bulletin ISSN 0309{051} Successful Entries will be notified in August tSsN 1354-1455 The successful authors will be invited to attend the AIA annual conference in Kent to collect their awards in September 1999 Editor: Dr Peter Stanier

Entries should be sent to: Published by the Association for lndustrial Shane Gould, Archaeological Advisory Group, Planning Archaeology. Contributions should be sent to the Editor, Dr Peter Stanier, 49 Breach Essex County Council, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex CMI ILF Lane, 9haftesbury, Dorset SP7 8LF. News and press releases may be sent to the FURTHER DETAILS WLL ALSO BE AVAILABLB FROM TIIE ABOVE ADDRESS Editor or the appropriate AIA Regional Correspondents. fhe Editor may be telephoned on 01747 854707.

Final copy dates are as follows:

30 March for May mailing 30 June for August mailing 30 September for November mailing 30 December for February mailing

The AIA was established in 1973 to pronote the study of lndustrial Archaeology and encourage improved standards of recording, research, conservation and publication. lt aims to assist and support regional and specialist suruey groups and bodies involved in the preseruation of industrial nonuments, to reDresent the interests of lndustrial Archaeology at national level, to hold conferences and seminars and to publish the results of research. fhe AIA publishes an annual Review and quafterly News bulletin. Fufther details may be obtained from the Liaison Officer, AIA Office, School of Archaeological Studies, University of LeicesteL Leicester LEI 7RH. 3 0l 16 252 5337 Fax: 0l | 6 252 5005.

The views expressed in this bulletin are not necessarily those of the fusociation for Industrial Archaeology.

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