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SUSSEX INDUSTRIAL Although the 1934 Photograph in SCM Apparently Shows 10 Bays with Three Shutters Per Bay had been removed at some time. He notes that the sails were 28 ft. long and had 32 shutters SUSSEX INDUSTRIAL although the 1934 photograph in SCM apparently shows 10 bays with three shutters per bay. ARCHAEOLOCY SOCIEfY This last comment suggests that care should be taken when interpreting previously published information. Registeml Charity No. 267159 MICHAEL H. YATES NEWSLFITER No. 83 ISSN 0263 516X OFFICERS Price 25p to non-Members JULy 1994 President Air Marshal Sir Frederick Sowrey, Home Farm, Herons Ghyll, Uddield Chairman j5.F. Blackwell, 21 Hythe Road, Brighton BNl 6JR (0273) 557674 Vice Chairman D.H. Cox, 3 Middle Road, Partridge Green, Horsham RH13 8JA CHIEF CONTENTS (0403) 711137 <.;Sex Industry - The Future? General Sec: R.G. Martin, 42 Falmer Ave, Saltdean, Brighton, BN28FG (0273) 3038( l " {ghton Gazette, April 1831 Treasurer & j.M.H. Bevan, 12 Charmandean Rd, Worthing BN14 9LB (0903) 235421 . SIAS on the Air Membership Sec: Sussex Mills Group News Editor B. A usten, 1 Mercedes Cottages, St john's Rd, Haywards Heath ,RH16 4EH (0444) 413845 1 Archivist P.j. Holtham, 12 St. Helen's Crescent, Hove BN3 8EP PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES FOR 1994 (0273) 413790 Publicity G.E.F. Mead, 47, Hartfield Avenue, Brighton BNl 8AD Saturday 6 August Mystery Tour of Mills, starting 4t Hempstead Water (0273) 501590 Mill, Uckfield, at 10.30 a.m. (TQ 483217). Mills Group: Contact P. Pearce (0903-241169) Chairman B. Pike, Stream Cottage, Coggins Mill, Mayfield, East Sussex TN20 6UP (0435) 873367 Saturday September 17at 230 p.m. Visit to Foredown Tower, Portslade Brewery and Secretary D.H . Cox, 3 Middle Road, Partridge Green, Horsham RH13 8JA Hangleton Dovecote. Meet at Foredown Tower (TQ258071). (0403) 711137 Contact H. Fermer (0273) 410602 Committee F. Gregory, P. Hill, j. Muddle, P. Pearce, S. Potter, T. Martin Saturday October 2 at 230 p.m. Mills meeting to discuss problems of opening to the public, Area Secretaries Wannock Hall, Polegate (TQ 575035). Contact Don Cox (0403) 711137, Eastern Area R.E. Alien, 7 A, Heathfield Road, Seaford, BN25 1 TH (0323) 896724 Saturday October 29 at 7.30 p.m. Members' evening. Note incorrect date on visit card. WestemArea Brig. A.E. Baxter, 9 Madeira Avenue, Worthing BNll 2A T Brighton & Hove Sixth Form College, Dyke Road . (0903) 201002 Use Dyke Road entrance to car park. Central Area j5.F. Blackwell, 21 I Iythe Road, Brighton BN16JR (0273) 557674 j ~ :I __...Jrday November 26 at 230 p.m Annual General Meeting, Haywards Heath, Town Hall, Northern Area E.w. Henbery, 10 Mole Cl()~e, Llnglcy Green, Crawley (0293) 523481 Boltro Road. Contact R.G. Martin (0273) 303&15 COMMllTEE MEMBERS For all visits it is IMPORT ANT that the contact person knows how many people are coming, R.E. Alien, B. Austen, Brig. A.E. Baxtcr, Mn.. P.M. Bracher, C. Bryan, D.H. Cox, so please let him know at least 7 days before ilie event of your intention to attend. Mrs. D. Durden, F.w. Gregory, E.w. llcnbcry, P.). Holtham, G .E.F. Mead, R.M. Palmer, B. Pike, G.G. Thomerson. Copy for the newsletter should be st!nt to: REPORT ON MEETING OF CBA lA PANEL ON 2 MARCH 1994 G.G. Thomerson, 42 Gander Hill, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH161RD (0444) 450722 The following topics were raised:­ 1. Eastney Pumping Station - a salutary lesson where scheduling did not work. Copy for the Mills Group section should be sent to D.H. Cox, whose address is above. 2. Funding for ilie panel still not on a £inn basis. 3. Grants from Science Museum causing problems when grants for machinery are being LATEST DATE FOR COpy I;OR THE APRIL NEWSLETIER IS 5th SEPTEMBER 1994 required to be returned if the project fails as at Chatterley Whitfield. 4.ft is hoped that the combined Archaeological/Architectural Thesaurus will be published © SIAS on behalf of the contributors 1994 by RCHME this year, incorporating IRIS (Index Record for Industrial Sites). -16­ -1­ 5. Gazetteers of sites in the area could be published but funding would have to be obtained. CHELTENHAM PLACE MAL THOUSE - A POSTCRJPT 6. A contact list is to be updated and could possibl,y be combined with 5. 7. COSQUEC - the CBA are co~perating on this with the relevant department. Peter Holtham's article on the malthouse in the last Newsletter has a sad postscript. This 8. Camber Castle is to open to the public this year. interesting industrial building is now demolished and another piece of North Laine 9. Hendon Aerodrome buildings to be listed. industrial heritage is just a pile of rubble. South of the malthouse in the adjacent 10. Southampton has set up an Integrated: Heritage Management Structure. Marlborough Place could be seen a shabby garage structure, lately occupied by a T shirt 1l. There are moves afoot to preserve the BOAC Flying Boat Terminal at Calshot. company. On its corrugated iron roof was painted "PETROL 1/2¥.u::I". How sad that 12. There is to be a seminar on Historic Aeronautical Sites to be held at Winchester Castle something so obviously historic and charming could be swept away in a single blow from a on 22 June 1994 demolition team. Any chance that the roof was saved for Amberley? R.G. MARTIN GEOFFREY MEAD AFFILIATED SOCIETIES WEEKEND AT IRONBRIDGE \S VISIT TO FRESHFIELD LANE BRICKWORKS, DANEHILL. 198 TQ385262 The weekend when the affiliated societies of AlA had their annual get together took place 8 - 10 April. I attended as the representative of our Society. The weekend was largely Wednesday, the first of June, saw us travelling to Freshfield Brickworks, and as we devoted to the problems faced when carrying out typological surveys and various delegates approached via the Bluebell Line we were very relieved that we had not come in the motor told us their experience of this form of SUrvl!y. By "typologi~"ll ~urv('y" is mc,mt the study of caravan. The van is 9 foot high - the bridge is marked 8 ft! It was in June 1979 that we last one pMticular type of ~trudure or proCL':->~ in (lrd~r to ,Irrivl! ,It .1 logical sequence of design visited the brickworks w ith the Society and we wondered what alterations had been made in ,mu h ' rhnolol~il",11 dc.vl'lopnwnt. those 15 years. On arrival we found Freddie Sowrey who had organised the visit and about 40 other familiar faces who had turned up on this magnificent surmy day. We were divided Mo~t of th~ ex.lIllplc:. dc::.cribcu wer~' of lime kilns. There was some discu~"ion about the into two groups and set off for the clay pit. This had been an estate brick works until 1899 v,.rioll~ W,ly~ of da$ ifying them but it was generally agreed that it is the recording of them and was still making bricks by hand until 1928 when the first brick making machine was which matters in the first place and the classification of the various types can come later. installed. The works are owned by the Hardy family and produce between 14 and 15 million One particularly interesting feature which emerged is that in Norfolk the standard form of machine made and half a million special hand made bricks a year. All are clamp fired. [n the lime kiln is a totally underground structure with a central shaft surroundl'd by an armular pit the overburden of sand-rock is removed and the day transported by lorry to the passage with access to the draw holes. weathering stockpile, where it is exposed to the elements for up to twelve months and allowed to prove. For the technically minded, the pit is sited on an exposure of the Very little work seems to have been done in Sussex apart froIII th.•t done by Margaret Holt Tunbridge Wells Sand formation of the Hastings beds and also uses the Grinstead clay on Central Sussex and published in SlH No. 2 in 1971 whl'Il17 ..il l!'< Wl'rc located. I feel that which is a subordinate bed of this foundation, whilst the blue Wadhurst intrudes into the there must be many mote. How about a concerted effort h. IOl all' ,lIld survey them all? strata from below. This blue clay is dug for only a~ut 6 weeks each year, providing the 10% which is used in the brick day mix. Also during the weekend there was discussion ,tbout IRI.., lhl' "Index Record for Industrial Sites" - which has been promoted by AlA. I h,WI-Lw"1I in dj.,cussion with Jane Robson who A bulldozer is used to move the material from the stockpile to the charging grid, and it is is currently in charge of the project. Our ft'conl.. ...... lllrrently being input directly into thp. h~re that the various watered clays are mixed with about 8% "Coalite" breeze. The latter is Sites & Monuments Records and we arc nlll 1I'lIlt', till' IRIS fonn but the classification sys led to the clay to give a self burning aggregate of about 10%. This mix travels on a is still in the process of revision .md di..lu.... llln.. M t' ... Iill going on between IRIS and RCHM.r. vnveyor belt up to an edge runner grinding mill which has a grid base ensuring that any as to its final form. rock is reduced to at least 3/ 8ths inch grading. More water is added at this point to give a 25% water content to the brick clay mix.
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