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AIA News 140 Spring 2007 INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY 140/ SPRING E S 20(J7 THT BULLTTIN OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHATOLOGY FREE TO MEMBERS OF AIA I ! 7 a -\ 7 7_ ,t fr\ I / I k ,l, J i # /r' , 2 I r N.l t. r a \ l \ T 7 / / ( I British Archaeological Awards o World Heritage mining lands,cape. Danish Museums French mills o Essex Housing o Potteries gloom o letters . regiional news o publications The British Archaeological Awards AIA fhe 2006 Btitish Archaeological Awards were Perhaps as expected, and especially as the presented on Monday 6 Novenber at the Custard presentations were beinq held within it, the Factoty, Digbeth, Birmingham, by well-know winner was the Custard Factory, Digbeth (see // INDUSTRIAL televkion pe5onality Ptofessor Mick Aston, who News 139, pp 13-14).Ihe effect that the re'use of hinself cones fron the West Midlands. He was the custard Factory has produced on its locality is ARCHAEOLOGY wearing his faniliar striped jersey, and there is just the kind of rejuvenation of a distri(t, givrng now a Mick Aston Prcsentation Awad. Here are historic buildings long'term sustainability NEWS 14O brief descriptions ol the winners and some through an ability to generate wealth, that the Spring 2OO7 runners-up ol inmediate interest to industrial judges look for The Award Certificate was archaeologists. fhanks are due to Professor David received on behalf of the Custard tactory by Beth Breeze for a good deal of the information, and Massey. For previous winners of our AIA Award Andrew and Rob Selkirk ofCurrent Archaeology see lA News 137 page 6. ll Heft€y Road Balh BA2 20R for naking available the photographs. tor theYoung Archaeologist of the YearAward, this time the study of buildinqs was the theme and 5.hool ol Ar.hae.ogy ind Anr efl ll nor), Unirre6rty of buildings investigated included The London Eye, L€l(esler, Le.e(er LE1 7RH Robert Carr the Globe Theatre, the home of Newcastle United Mike Eone football team, windmillt watermills, a working Sunny5 de, Avor) a ose. K€yfrhnm, Br nol BSll 2Ut This time industrial archaeology was even more in men's club, a freemasons' hall, an air(raft hange[ 8arry fooo evidence than two years ago in Belfast (iA iveuys a Second World War gun emplacement, and a 9 Kenferty Pnr[, Petercu ter, Ab€rdeer] ABl4 0LE ,32, pp 10-'11). As the industrial age recedes into former NatWest Bank which was physically moved the past, more and more industrialarchaeology is loader become Send Ripley History 8nr.e N€dlt-" on a low to & 7 C cncnt C 05. Wantallc, oxlordsh rc OXl2 7tD creeping into awards other than our own AIA Society's museum. Ihe winner of the 8-12 age Award.A larqe number ofAwards were presented individual group was Rachel Taylor from Dr Dav d 6wyf produced N.nl y te rn, t inliyfi ltoad Pen y Croes, at the 2006 Ceremony and further details will be Cambridge, who an excellent report on Caernidor tt54 6LY lound in Current Archaeolog./. lnformation is also Morley l\4emorial Primary School. available on the internet. Kirsty Wark the television presenter was the .19 Bre.dr t.ne.5ha11-"sb!1. Dor5el5P7 8lt For our own AIA Award there was a shortlist judge for the 13-16 age individual group. The Afliliated so.ieties oflicer of three entries. The University of Lincoln has shortlisted entries included work on a Welsh converted the 1907 Great Centrdl Railway grain- miner's cottagq Royston & Distri(t l\4useum, and I Quccf t Kccp, Clarcf.c Paradc soLrthsca Po5INX Conference Secr€tary storage warehouse, Brayford Pool, into its Central the Castle Climbing Centre, Stoke Newington, Library This brick building spent the second half London, whi(h was [ormerly a beam-engine 2,1 Belmofi Road, !xbrd!Je, Nliddle5ei UBE IRE ofthe twentieth century as a builder's warehouse, house for the l\,4etropolitan Water Board. The Endange,ed Sites Oflicer Dr M kc Ncvc falling into disrepair in 1998. The lormal opening winner was Yvette Taylor from Somerset for her Un vslly ol l\rldn.he(er Archaeo oly Uf 1, Un v€rs ty oi of the new library took pla(e in 2004 and the Orlord Road Man.hesler [4]l !PL slandard conversion received praise Librarian'\4rn.henet and Ar.hivist of the high from the Royal lnstitution of Chartered Surveyors. c/o lClvl, ronbrdge,Ieford, Shroptr reltg 7DQ ln the early years oI last century at Great Publicty Officer Maytham in Kent, the architect Edwin Lutyens lordthan Br !]95 46 Arrov6m lh Dr vc, Storehou!. GLl0 2QR designed a water tower to supply the grand Recording Awads Ofl'.er house, Great Maytham Hall, which he was DrVclona Beru.ha,np I Pa6of:!e (orn, P.Eonaqe Cres.enl,W. k €, building nearby for H. L Tennant. The water tower 5helle d 56 581 had a rectangular concrete tank at the top and sales oflicer the whole structure was to have been clad with Eirf Coltige Erdqe Sire€t Er dqnorth WV15 6AF weatherboarding to resemble the windmills of the locality. But, the cladding never took place D.vrd A derlon (Nerilage tink) and in recent years local residents have regarded Dr Roben c.rr (BAAlvards) the decaying structure as an eyesore worthy of Dr Pi! Co I n5 {Pirtnerrhrps) demolition. However Denise & Bruno Del Tufo employed the architect Derek Briscoe to convert E--"..-; r--E D.vrd tyne (Conreryarion Award) the tower into a remarkable dwelling house for \t [4 chael Me5senger themselves. The story of the conversion was the Dr Mles oq ethorpe 1I CCIH) Paul Sauher {E.FA IH) subject of a television programme in the series tr .Liiir Grand Designs, broadcast on Channel 4 on 26 l I Honorary vke Presidents April2006.The water tank itself is ofconsiderable str Ne Co5sons lohf l'lune Stuarl B 5rfith r structural interest as it is an early reinforced -r lamcs Crrdii.r. AA Off.e, t.hool ol Ar.haeology and concrete design. Louis Gustave [,4ouchel (1852, F rl-E Afoent hBrory, UniveErty oI Lei.ener. Le.-oner Ltl TRll 1908) the agenl in Britain for Fran(ois Io:0116 252 5317. Fax 0ll6 252 5005 Hennebique (1843-19241 was involved and a large archive of drawings is still in existence. The !r!']'r. drn a arcraeo oglorg.Lrk conversion was carried out carefully to save most of the original work which is still in situ and COVER PICTURE therefore preserved for luture study. This entry The new house al Grcat Maytham, convefted really rs in the spirit of the AIA Award - saving a fion a watet 22,500HP Burneist$ & Wain diesel engine at toweti wat shoftlisted fot the AIA Award. fhe winner wds structure previously regarded as unsavable and Copenhagen kee page 6) the Custdrd Factory where the 2006 awards Grenony was Photo: lan Alitchell was a close runner up to the following entry. held Photo:R)Mtar 2 INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEoLoGY NEWs 140 work on Ashton Windmill. Kirsty particularly redesigned the redevelopment, so that by using the Museum of tondon. over 3,000 people took enjoyed reading Yvette's story about a day in the steel beams to bridge the structure of the part and the subterranean remains of four life of miller Tom Wilkins, which she thought was glassworks, piles which were driven did not spoil nineteenth century terraced houses were a lovely way to explain how the mill works. the archaeology. Ihis has been preserved for the uncovered. These had been damaged during Among the shortlisted entries in the schools and future beneath a new of{ice building. ln Worcester World War ll when an unexploded bomb went otf groups category was a report by the North the llour mill has been turned into a block of killing the bomb disposal team at work on it. This Wiltshire YAC branch on the Type 28A Anti-Tank desirable flats after meticulous recording. project was the subje(t of a Time Team television Gun Emplacement at Lydiard Green. The winners Geological exploration beneath the Nonh programme. were Amber Class, Christian Mallord Primary Sea in the search for oil and gas has produced a Runner-up for the Heritage in Britain Award 5chool, Gloucestershire, for their information mass of seismic data. Prospectors are not was a project by the Hampshire and lsle of Wight booklet about their school. interested in the first two metres down and Trust for Maritime Archaeology for the The Press Award now embraces radio as well evidence for these shallow depths was put aside establishment of heritage trails, in this case for as newspapers and an interesting entry came as worthless. However ProfessorVince Gaffney of historic wre(k sites in the Solent. The Alum Bay from the USA. Henry Teitlebaum of Dow Jones Birmingham has made use oI this treasure trove Dive Trail accesses the remains ol HMS Pomone lnternational wrote in the Wall Street Journal of evidence, collected over decades, to produce wrecked off the Needles in 18ll and lying in 20 about the problems of balancing ancient and remarkable detailed maps oI a preserved but feet of water. There are underwater interpretive modern in the redevelopment of London. A ioint almost unknown submerged Mesolithic booklets and handlines around the wreck lor winner was Win Scutt and World Archaeology landscape, the size of Wales. British divers, augmented by on-shore exhibitions and News on BBC Radio Five Alive. This Up All Night archaeologists are now exploring the rivers, briefings. programme gives over'15 minutes to archaeology streams, lakes and coastlines of a European The Silver Trowel Award for the project or every Tuesday and has broadcast more than 50 country unseen for 8,000 years.
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