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-/ N / Annual Report o North West i il and stone President's Award o Heritage white o evacuee camps AIA Council of Management Report for AIA 2006 1., fhis Geneftl repott of the AIA Council of participants. lntroducing the weekend, Mike ,,... ,, Managenent sunnaises the activities of the Bone discussed the importance of beer in an age INDUSTRIAL Council and the nembership for the year ending when water was impure, when brewing was an 3l Decembet 2006. important source of employment and when the ARCHAEOLOGY public house was a centre of social life lor many Barry Hood, Honorary Secretary people. Field trips were made to excavated NEWS 141 watercourses and to an excavated malting dating Summer 2OOz Until September, Council consisted oI four eleded from 1612.0n Sunday the weekend seminar officers and eight elected members but the continued with small breweries and a review of outstanding member's vacancy was filled at the changing beer houses and the changing design of AG[,4. This brought Council up to its normal pubs. One oI the members' contributions was 1l Hensley Road, Baih BA2 2DR strength of four elected officers and nine elected Irom the Czech Technical University in Prague members. Professor Marilyn Palmer is having where the architecture of the breweries shown is sthool Archaeology andAncient H of nory Univ€rsriy oi sabbatical leave at the University ofVirqinia, USA, distinctly different from the British experience.We Leicener. Leicester LEI 7RH and at oxford University, and lMike Bone, the Vice are indebted to Profes\or Ray Riley tor organising l\,4ike Bone Chairman, is deputising for her. Professor Palmer another successful lronbridge weekend. SunnysideAvon Close, Keynsham, Briltol ESll 2uL will resume her final year as AIA Chairman at the The AIA spring visit took place on 22'29 April Se(retary Barry Hood 2007 AGM. to Alsace and was based mainly in Strasbourg. 9 Kenne,! Park, Petercultet Aberdeen AB14 oLE At the 2006 AG[4 Tony Parkes stood down as Various lA visits were made around Strasbourg to the Conference Se(retary and his place was taken public buildings, workers' housing and several Bruc€ ledge to 7 Clement (lose, Wantaqe, Or{ord5hr.e 0X12 7ED by John Mccuinness. All of us owe a depth of museums. Mid week theAlA party headed for the lA neview Editor gratitude to Tony for his work in organising the hills to see a 400-year-old preserved silver mine. Dr Dav d Gwyn years good Nanl y telin, LlanllyJniRoad, Pen y 6roes, AIA conferences over the and to the other trips included Klingenthal, a major centre Caemarlon LL54 6LY humour and fellowship that he has brought to for the manulacture of sword blades; IA News Edilor this demanding job. Also at the 2006 AGM, schoenenbourg Fort, the most easterly lort of the

49 Erea(h Lane Shaiterb!ry Dorsel SP7 8LF Richard Hartree formerly stood down as Treasurer interwar lvlaginot tine; and the inclined canal Afi iliated So(ieties olficer and Bruce Hedge was elected as the new plane at Arzviller on the Canal du lvarne au Rhin Treasurer. Richard has been an extremely good which was opened in 1969 and replaced 17 lo(ks. 8 Queen s Keep, Clarence Parade, Southsea P05 3NX Conl€renc€ Secretary Ireasurer and has brouqht mur h bu:ine:s The final visit was to a restored Chappe experience to the position. Richard Hartree will be semaphore tower from the early nineteenth 24 8€1mont Road, Uxbidg€, [4iddles€r U88 ]RE rema;ning on Council for the next few years so century 0ur sincere thanks go to Paul Saulter and Enddngered site. Ofticer Dr Mike Nevell that we can benefit from his helpful and well Sue Hayton for devising this interesting week o,f Un versity of lt4an.hester Archaeology Un t, Univerrily of thought out suggestions. visits and making all the arrangements. [4anchenet Oxford Road, filanrh€ner Ml] 9PL During the year, Simon Ihomas, our part time The 2006 AGIV in Librarian and Archivist and Conlerence was tiaison Officer, resigned in June to devote more Douglas, lsle of Man, on 8-10 september and was c/o IGN4I ronbridge, Ielford, ShropshreTtS 7DQ time to his bicycle training and courier activities well supported with 'l'12 members. The AIA was Publi(ity Offi(er place lonathan Erggs and his has been taken by James Gardiner. founded on the lsle of NIan in 1973 and it was 46 Aro$rsmilh Drive, Stonehoute GLl0 2QR This was initially on a temporary contract but interesting for the lounder members to see the Recording Awards Oflicer .lames was confirmed in the post at the end oI changes over the passage of 33 years. Frank DrVctora Eeauchdmp year, I Paconage Cout, Pa6onage Crescenl,Walk ey, 2006.Also during the Councilrecognised the Cowin, a Trustee of lvanx National Heritage, Sheifield 56 5Bl need for a Health and Safety officer and lan West welcomed the delegates to the lsle of Man and kindly agreed to be co-opted on to Council. We gave the opening address with a display of Barn Coltaqe Bridg€ str€ei, Bridqnorth WVl5 6AF wish rohn McGuinness, Bruce Hedge, lames historic island pidures.over the weekend we Gardiner and lan West good luck in their new heard accounts also of the Great taxey Mine and (Her David Ald€non tage Lrnk) positions and hope that they will be with us for the heritage the tourist industry After the (hristrne Ball of Dr Robe'1 Car (BAAwards) several years. AGM, Dr David Gu,yn, gave a thought-provoking Dr Paul(o lin! (Parl.erhips) ln 2006 Council met twice prior to the AGlvl, Rolt lvlemorial Lecture entitled:'lndustrial at leicester University and in London, and one Archaeology beyond the leading sector; Walet Davd tyne ((onservalion Award) further time for a weekend of meetings at lreland, the lsle of Man'. Michael [4e5sen9e. (Conierence Book nqr) Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, after the ln On Monday evening the AIA was treated to a Dr Lailes 0g ethorpe (TICClH) AGM. Paul sault€r (E FAIIH) addition Council had an Extraordinary Council wine and buffet reception at the Manx Museum (He.lth an W€n & safety) lveetinq in the lsle oI Man shortly before the in Douglas and we were welcomed by l\4artin Honorary Vice-Pre5idents AGM to receive any nominations and deal with lvloore, l\,4anx Heritage. S r NellCossons John Hume 5luad B. smilh the Chairman of National other AGM business. ln addition evening lectures and educationalfield Liaison officer James Gardin€r AA 01lce, s.hool o{ Archaeology and During 2006, the Association continued to visits had been arranged over the four days after Ancient H6iory Unive6rry of Lekester Leicener LEl 7flH work with Heritage Link and council members the AGM and covered a wide range ol sites, Te[ 0116 252 5:37. Fax 0]16 252 5005 have attended its meetings. The AIA is including a visit to Laxey, via the Manx Electric represented on the Land Use Planning Group of Railway, to see the great Lady lsabella wwwiidurlrlal ar.haeo ogyorg uk Heritage Link and we await the White Paper on waterwheel, the ore dressing floors and the 19- 'Heritage Protection', council member inch gauge served miniscule, COVER PICTURE 0ne railway by two attended the Heritage Link AGM in December. replicated steam locomotives. 0ther visit5 A tube passing lhraugh the Assel elongator during one of the last hot tolls beforc the Desford steel tube nill The educational role of the Association included Snaefell on the 5naefell Mountain closed in February 2007. fhis na*s the end of this continued with the lronbridge Weekend, held on railway, d lrip on the MV Karina, yisils to vatious ptocess in lhe UK. see Ld\l Mldland News pagp 16 29'30April2006, on 'Brewing' which attracted 12 museumt the Gaiety Theatre and the harbours Photo: David Lyne

2 TNDUSTRTAL ARCHAE)L)Gy NEWS 141 The AIA continues to support the British Archaeological Awards (which are awarded every \ two years) and in Birmingham on 6 November 2006, the AIA Award for the best example of the rc adaptive re-use of a buildinq or structure went to the Bird's Custard and Devonshire Factory at I Digbeth. ln 1902 Sir Alfred Bird, son of the t- inventor of Bird's Custard, established a factory at Devonshire Works to produce food products such as cuslard powder and table jellies. Manulacturing was transferred lrom Digbeth to h-lr Banbury in 1964 and by the 1980s the factories on the 5-acre Digbeth site were in a derelict state. ln 1990 the SPACE organisation purchased the site and helped to regenerate the area by creating an arts and media quarter. There are now 240 creative businesses in the area, principally architects, graphic designers and new-media agencies. The runners-up awards went to The Great I Central Railway Warehouse at Braford Pool (the conversion ol a brick built railway grain-storage warehouse into the university of Lincoln Central Library) and also to The Water Tower at Great l\4aytham, AshIord, Kent (the conversion a AIA delegates visiting the Peel kipper factory dutinq the lsle ol ltian Conference Photo: Steve Dewhtst of square concrete water tower designed by Edward Lutyens into a domestic residence). and facilities of Douglas and Peel. one of the geographical, social and architectural aspects of Reserves policy and risk management. Ihe most interesting visits was to a working kipper industrial archaeology were published in the /,4 council has assessed the major risks to which the factory where the fish were not the only things Review. Ihe lA News is the bulletin and main Association is exposed, in parti(ular those related that got smoked out. On Wednesday, several communication organ of the AlA. Highlights to the operations and finances of the Association, intrepid souls took the steam train to Port Erin during 2006 included illustrated reports on the and are satislied that systems are in place to and then a small boat to the Calf of Man where AlAs lronbridge weekend in April, theAlA tour of mitigate exposure to the major risks. The we were met by hvo resident wildlife wardens. Alsace and the Annual Conference on the lsle of Treasurer's proposal of f25,000 reserve was Besides wildlife, we saw two fine stevenson Man in September. Ihere were also reports on adopted by Council, subject to annual review lighthouses erected in 1818. The President's TICCIH in Japan, Bakelite moulding and the Eagle It has been another eventful year and we are Award, for the site visited which best interpreted Workshops in 5underland, the Belper N4ill, British most grateful 10 all officers and members of the industrial past to the lay visitor, went to the Waterways'plans for Greater London, and a Council for the time and effort that they put in Great Laxey Wheel and Mines' Trail. The lnitiative report on the designation of the Cornwall and voluntarily to ensure the smooth running of the Award, for a group with a worthwhile project West Devon Mining Area as a UNESCo World Association. deserving support, went to the Manx Transport Heritage Site. l\4useum in Peel. The main fieldwork and recording award in After the conference, several AIA members 2006 was combined with the Student Award and stayed on to explore the lsle of Man in greater awarded to two students for their exceptional detail but perhaps at a more leisurely pace. lt was pieces of work. Peter Bone undertook: A Survey ADVERTISE a most enjoyable and unique conference and full of the Glass lndustry in Manchester and Salford, credit must go to trank Cowin and lellow 1800 1967' as part of his MA in lndustrial enthusiasts of the Manx Heritage Trust, and not Archaeology at the lronbridge lnstitute. Lee IN IA NEWS forgettingTony Parkes and lvlichael lvessenger for Gregory submitted a third-year undergraduate their organisational skills and unlailing good dissertation: 'Where Angels Play' which was an IA News reaches a wide humour. archaeological investigation into the lives and To encourage high standards in all aspects oI deaths of the inhabitants of Angel Meadows, a readership through direct the study of industrial archaeology, the Mancunian industrial slum. Lee Gregory subscriptions, circulation to Association published two issues of lndustrial presented an outline of his work at the AIA Archaeology Review und9j the editorship of Dr Awards ceremony on the lsle of Man and we affiliated organisations and use David Gwyn and Iour issues ol lndusttial were impressed by the thoroughness ol his in libraries. Archaeology News, undet the editorship of Dr underqraduate proiect. Peter Stanier. The // Reyiery is the journal oI the The Dorothea Award for conservation was ,ddvertising rates range from as AIA and provides a forum for a wide range presented of to the lnland Waterways Association little as f30 to Sl70 for a full specialist interests in industrial archaeology. (lpswich Branch) for its work on the: 'creeting Articles over the year coveredr the Rolt lvlemorial Lock Restoration'. The award was collected by page. Lecture,2005, (given by Dr N4ichael Nevell), the ColinTurnerwho also made a presentation on the Inserts may be mailed with IA development of fireproof construction in Brusselt project at the lsle of Man Conference. The the history of Granton Gasworks and the papers occasional publications award was presenled to News at a charge of i30. from the research seminar on conservation ofthe The Town N4ill Trust at Lyme Regis. Ihe journal industrial herilage in the National Parks of award was awarded to the Hampshire lndustrial For further details, contact England and Wales. ln addition various other Archaeological Society and the newsletter award the Editor. technological, archaeological, historical, went lo the Hereford WateMorks Museum.

INDIJSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 141 3 North West impressions

Nofth West England is an area rich in interest for vivid reminder oI what we believed the future with butter or margarine. Crumpets, toast and the industrial archaeologist and readers living was going to be like in the late 1950s. toasted teacake were much in evidence. There south ofthe frcnt may not rcalise just how much Ihe scale of the building is breathtaking, and was a humorous advert for local meat pies. there is for then to see in the Notth. ln Auqust when built it was the largest bus station in However some of this may not appeal to polite 2007 the AIA Conference will be held in Preston Europe. lt is now about the third largest but still southern tastes. and the enphasis of the field visits will be on the very exciting. There are few signs of spal ing and ln general pedestrian access to the bus classic textile district to the ean. fhe following little exposed concrete, a good deal of the finish station is simply by walking in at ground level, notes made in 2006 describe additional features uses small white tiles and some of the concrete using the same areas where buses perform their which should be of intercst. has probably been painted wirh a thick white evolutiont some of them driving quite fast. This is paint like Snowcem. Even though now out ol a danger, now generally discouraged and may Robert Carr fashion the general public would not immediately become another reason for Preston bus station to describe this bus station as a'horrid concrete be condemned. Preston bus station built 1968-9 is splendid, one monstrosity'. The l\4agistrates Court in Preston is worthy oI oI the most exciting modernist buildings to be Sittinq in the well-sited bus station cal6 in note. Another striking classic-modern building it seen in the UK. The Twentieth Century Society the centre, one can observe bus movements on is of similar date to the bus station and is finished website really doesn't do it justice. lts neglect is both sides of the station. lt is double-sided with using very similar small long-rectangular (ratio no doubt due to it being in Preston and not being local buses using the western side and longer about4:1)whitetiles.Thislinish is redolentof the the work of a big-name architect. The bus station distance departures on the east. There are about period and probably has a name. Preston seems site was bought by Grosvenor Estates who 100 bays for buses, making Victoria coach station to have been a very go-ahead place in those days successfully challenged the English Heritage in London look puny in comparison. A number of and the Preston by-past Britain's first motorway, recommendation to list the building. There is a bus stations in the North West were built in was opened in December 1958. At that time, long history of people trying to deprecate it and conjunction with Ribble buses. [ancaster's has although declining, there was still a Lancashire demolition may take place soon. just gong replaced by a new bus station.A visit to textile industry to provide the money. It was pleasantly surprising to find the bus Chorley can be recommended although there the Paradoxically many of the mills then were still station in relatively good condition, considering bus station has been altered. The former Cl-C driven by large stationary steam engines while up its age, and that it is still very much in use. railway station in Lord Street Southport which the road at Calder Hall the world's {irst Iull-scale Furthermore the staff working there like it. The was converted into a bus station cl952 is sadly nuclear power station opened in October 1956 fact that it is going to be demolished must largely now a l\4orrison's supermarket. and the last of four nuclear reactors there started be due to the large foot it occupies. Now it is At the south end of Preston bus station is a work in December 1958. surrounded by taller buildingt and this presents a small interchange station for passengers to take Preston has gone in for over the-top moneymaking development opportunity. lt is taxis but this is no longer in use.Ihe architecture buildings for some time. From the nineteenth relatively low-rise and at each end has an here is reminiscent of the 1951 Festival of Britain. century or Vicwardian period we have the huge external spiral ramp for cars to access the upper Ihere is also a covered glazed walkway crossing joint railway station to the west of the town decks. These ramps take up a good deal o{ the road from the first lloor oI the bus station centre with jusl to its northwest a gigantic county ground. The concrete trays of the multi-storey car towards the town centre. The caf6 serves local hall. ln the centre oI Preston the colossal park are pleasant and the overall conception is a cuisine and items such as Chorley cake spread museum/library pile has to be seen to be

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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 141 5 Railways and quarries at Wirksworth fhe 72nd East Midlands lA Confetence on The Wirksworth branch then settled down series of comparatively small quarries developed 'Wirksworth and its Railways' was held in into a sedate existence and Ior the next 80 years around the town.Some quarries required major Wirkswotth, Derbyshire, on 14 1ctober 2006 and serviced the agricultural area of the Ecclebourne investment such as the Dale Quarry which was was hosted by the Railway and canal Histoical Valley and the quarries oI Wirkswonh. Regular linked to the Midland Railway by a tunnel driven Society. 1pportunities to visit railways and passenger services were withdrawn in 1947 and from the station right under the town. The old quanies followed the conlerence talks. freighl (onlinued lo be (arried lrom lhe quarries road from lvliddleton to Wirksworth proved to be until 1989. The last major traffic carried on the a major barrier to quarry expansion, only the lvla rk S ssons line being stone used for building the N/125. The curious small very deep quarry that came to be railway had a long history oI being used as a test known as the lvonkey Hole developed to theWest locomotives Derby of this road. The extinguishing of this road as a The opening presentation of the conference, on track for trains and from works greater right of way led to the massive development of the Cromford & High Peak Railway, was by Andy and in consequence saw a lar power Pollock, Derbyshire County Council's countryside variety oI motive than a small branch Middle Peak Quarry by shaw's with links to both would have normally expected. This is trend the cHPR and the [4idland. ranger for the High Peak Trail, who concentrated a on the social side and some of the families that that is being continued by the current operators To the north west of Wirksworth the the line. quarried as had been associated with the railway through the of limestone has been extensively last '175 years. Many previously well known Wirksworth is dominated by limestone Hopton Wood stone. Ihis was widely used for quarrying. facing prestigious including photographs oI the railway were brought alive by lan Thomas, the director of the buildings Chatsworth gave having the life and relationships oI many of the National Stone Centre, an insight into how House and the Houses ol Parliament. A whole quarries quarries quarry workers in the photographs comprehensively the developed lrom medieval times series of developed to this year quarries explained. He also looked at some oI the through to this which effectively saw the last building stone. The first were in Hopton of the Wirksworth close for volume wood itself on the west side of the Via Gellia. problems caused in the last 40 years of using a Quarries output. Wrksworth lies Subsequent developments saw extensive quarries disused railway as a public walk way and a nature at the south eastern corner Derbyshire Limestone and l\4oor. large trail. The issue of tree groMh was now becoming of the outcrop on both sides of Middleton The is purity. quarry a major problem. Many of those conserving the locally the limestone oI exceedingly high Hopton Wood was developed by the We reminded recently whole quarry by site saw tree growth as a good thing but the trees were that until the Wheatcroft family and the Middleton was pale grey were now starting to destroy some of the town covered in a coating of the Killers. lvliddleton had a masslve contract for limestone The first quarries structures themse ves. dust. were developed lmperial War Grave Commission head stones the Yokecliff where limestone immediately after the First World War. Middleton Neil Ferguson-Lee of the Ecc esbourne Valley in area the Railway traced the rise of the current railway up naturally outcrops. lnitial workings were small was subsequently developed as a terraced the Ec(lesbourne Valley. What appears at first scale using manual labour only and loading into underground mine which went right under gauge wagons. Early photographs [.4iddleton [.4oor join sight to be a minor Derbyshire branch, of about 8 nanow skip of to up with the Hopton Wood quarry operations shown would have made a quarry on the other side. Underground working ? miles length, was originally planned as a potential part of the Midland Railway's strategy twentylirst century health and salety manager costs were two to three times those of opencast purity justified to have an independent main line to lvlanchester. have a nervous breakdownl but the very high stone this. The The lvlidland's line up the Derwent Valley was Quarry developments were modest until the future of this mine currently hangs in the balance. group built by the Manchester, Buxton, lMatlock and coming oflirst, the Cromford & High Peak Railway, 0n the north side of Wirksworth a oI Midland Junction Railway which was jointly and then the Midland's Wirksworth Branch. A six small quarries developed around the cromford leased from 1852 by the Midland and the tondon & North Western Railway. The LNWR took a dim view of the Midland's plans for their own main line to l\4anchester. The Wirkswonh Branch was constructed with all its major structures built to carry double track and with the general layout of a main line railway. The stations were typical of minor Midland stations found all over their network, designed by George Crossley. The original plan was for the line to continue past Wirksworth and tunnel under the hills to emerge into the Derwent Valley and then run up the opposite bank of the Derwent to the MBIVMJR L" until past the lerminu5 at Rowsley. Engineering works would have been massive. Ihe line was opened to Wirksworth in 1867. However, before work was started on the phase of the line to the north of Wirksworth the LNWR withdrew from its interest in the MBIVIMIR leaving the Midland with a free hand in the Derwent Valley.lhe railway ad stipulated that it must have a junction with the CHPR. This was probably the result of a civil servant reading a map without looking at relative heights ol the two lines. The junction line was built, 500 yards at a gradient of 1 in 5l Track was laid but there is no evidence that a winding engine was ever installed or that it was ever used Dene Quarry, one olthe nany Caboniferous limestone quaffies in the Wi*swofth area for traffic. Phola: Steve Dewhitst

6 INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEoLoGY NEWs 141 & High Peak Railway. Confusingly 2ldifferent Wirksworth area.Ihis quarry operated by Tarmac Wirksworth station also contains two tunnelt names covered this group o{ six quarries at has a current annual output ol 800,000 to one of standard gauge that runs right under the various times. outputs were typically less than 1,000,000 tons. town to Dale Quarry and a narrow gauge tunnel 20,000 tons per year Ior each quarryIle National Lunch was taken in ex Gatwick express that previously led to Baileycroft Quarry ln Stone Centre is now situated in this area. ln the coaches slightly incongruously parked in the addition to the normal clutter oI a preserved 1960s George Wimpey took over the operation ol Derbyshire countryside and then trips were taken railway, it also (ontains several examples of the this group of quarries in connection with building behind a diesel shunter on the 1 in 30 incline up evolution of the Parry People Mover. Those the M1 through Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. to the quarry ex(hange sidings and then in a attending the conference were also able to visit output soared to 250,000 tons per annum during diesel multiple unit lor around a mile down the the National Stone Centre and the Wirksworth this period. currently only Dean Quarry to the branch. The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway plans to Heritage Centre north of Cromford continues to work in the re open as far as ldridgehay next year.Ihe site oI

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Generations of lA The first Iunction generates the initial We have no record oI the pump ritted in 1906 but enthusiasm for the subject: the second provides it could have been a crankshaft drive Writing in /,4 News 140, pl7, .James Douet lbelieve analysis the material; pump. reflects on the 'three generational' model of the essential scholarly of and the third seeks by historical reconstruction to Are there any records available lndustrialArchaeology. According to thit there is QUESTION: devise strategies for selective preservation and on this type ol pump? a'base-line' generation represented by Neil presentation. All these aspects are important for I hope someone in the AIA may be able to cossons, with earlier practitioners such as Rex the (ontinued vitality ofthe subject, and it ir to be help! Wailet Tom Rolt, and 6eorge Watkins classified hoped that industrial archaeologists will maintain Howard Jones as'proto-industrial archaeologists', and Michael a healthy balance bet\iveen them, both in their 5pri ngthorpe, M elbu ty R oad, Rix is described as 'a mythical character'. Tlis is own actions and in the activities of the AlA. Yetminstet, Sheftone Dfg 6U Iollowed by the 'real ar(haeologists' of the second generation, and then, rather more Angus Buchanan, Hon Ptesident AIA 13 Hendey Road, Bath BA2 2DR vaguely, by'rival centres of opinion' forming the third generation. Plight of Tilty watermill I have had a hand in formulating this pattern Estate water supply lam writing regarding the plight ofTilty watermill of analysis, but I have come to find it rather lam a retired civilengineer interested in old dams in Essex, lt is a mid to late eighteenth century unsatisfactory possibly because I feel I belong to and water supply and lam helping out the watermill and is one of the last original, intad all the'generations' myself (including the NationalTrust at Stourhead in Wihshire in putting and restorable watermills in the whole country 'protol!) and lcan assure ,ames Douet that together past information on waterwheels and and as such it fully warrants its Grade ll. listing. Michael Rix was a very real person - an excellent hydraulic rams etc used to provide piped water Its machinery is still as intact as the last day it lecturer and an enthusiastic populariser Ior lA as supply to the mansion and farms. Ihe Stourhead finished milling in the 1950s. well as serving this Association as Vice-President Estate at Stourton was bought in 1717 by a The mill has however been allowed to fall Ior many years. London banker Henry Hoare. The old main house into disrepair by its owner lor the last 20 years More substantially, however, I consider that was taken down and a new country hou5e called and is now threatened with being lost forever as the subject should not be reduced to stourhead was built. Estate records relating to the owner is seeking planning permission to personalities. lA is a complex dis(ipline that piped water supply are few and the Iirst lew bits convert the mill into residential use wilh the appeals to many different people at diflerent of inlormation we have to hand are: proviso that he will 'restore' the building if he is times and for different reasont and they should '1. An agreement lor loseph Andrews to allowed planning permission to convert to not be locked into water-tighl 'generations'. lt is install an engine to pump water to the house ol residential and a new build alongside it and make more uselul to see the subiect as having had Stourhead, dated 9 ,anuary 1722,lrom withy bed a healthy profit from this. This will of course ruin three main functions from its outset, to each of to the house; approx distance 400m, height 60m. the mill. which a variety of responses is possible. These QUESTI0N: what type of engine would have The application has been objected to by SPAB are: conservation, analysis, and reconstruction. been used to pump water at lhis date, and what Essex mills group, Save Britain's Heritage, the 'conservation' covers a (oncern lor industrial type oI pipe would have been used to deliver the CBA and a number oI local organisations. A local monuments and a determination to give them water? petition raised over 125 signatures and 31 official sympathetic attention. Analysis'is the lunction ol 2. A short reference that in 1848 a hydraulic letters of objection were sent to Uttlesford subjecting the monuments to archaeological, ram by Roe of London was erected at Stourhead District Council but somehow councillors voted architectural and engineering examination, in to supply water to the mansion and larm. through the planning application in March. order to establish their quality.'Reconstruction' QUESTION: Does anyone know who they Please help save this amazing mill for future subsumes the lirst two functions and seek5 to were? generations. There is more information on my reconstruct the historical significance of the 3. ln 1906 a new waterwheel made by E.S. websit€ at httpr/tiltymills.mysite.orange.co.uld monuments in their landscap€ and in industrial Hindley & Sons ol Bounon, Dorset, was installed Daffen Stone

society. with a pump, which was replace in about 1921 . Da fien @ston e09. freeserye. co. u k

INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 141 7 AIA NEWS (ould AIA MEMBERS' QUESTIONNAIRE collect information about their own tight and upon landing we were driven straight to members With the 'subscription letter'ol December 2005 along the lines of this Questionnaire. the ceremony, hosted by the Manx National We was a questionnaire ,or members which Council do not know what the total membership is; lvluseum in Douglat courtesy of the Trustees and had decided to send out with the hope that the that is, the number we represent naiionally. superbly facilitated by Dr Andrew Foxon, who (onference. replies would give us a more complete spoke at our understanding of the AIA membership. As conlerence delegates will know, we ask Endangered Sites (1) Unlortunately we had something of a hiatus in for nominations for our two awards: the Ihis is a complex subjecl especially in relation to (a the tialson Office in 2006 - an office move, the President! Award piece oI glassware) Ior planning procedures and responsibilities of the (2) departure of Simon Ihomat then James Gardiner best site visited, and the lnitiative Award (a various levels of government and the Amenity coming in on a temporary basis with no handover cheque and certilicate) for a group who have Societies. AIA is not one of these and is not and finally his appointment, A consequence of taken on a difficult task. organised to act as one and must always look at this was that the replies were not More delegates than ever before returned Questionnaire issues from a national point-of-view. once the allexamined, recorded and summarised until late their forms and there were no fewer than ten new planning procedures are defined then we in the year. nominations forthe President's Award and eleven shall try to have an Affiliates Seminar about the number questionnaire replies for the lnitiative Award. Clear winners were the total ol them. was 243. At nearly 40% of the 624 personal Manx National Heritage Ior the Great Laxey (President's members this should give a good sample. Many Wheel and Mines Trail Award) and people did not answer all the questions. Membership the Manx Transpon Museum Group for their Peel Summarising the over 2,500 answers we can We must not look upon lA as a 'one generation' Transport Museum initiative. We also decided to present make some simple statements. activity. Although a Young lndustrial two Highly Commended Award (ertifi(ates Archaeologist of the Year is an attractive idea it to the Laxey and Lonan Heritage Trust for their work on the mine railway and the Laxey lnvolvement with industrial may well not be very realistic.We should probably Mines Research look to the 55+ age group who have leisure and Group who restored the Snaefell archaeology or heritage (the '[ady means to be able to take-up new interests. Maybe Wheel Evelyn'wheel). Both s(ored 26% are prolessionally involved with lndustrial we should be linking with Local and tamily highly in the nominations. Archaeology or lndustrial Heritage less than ha presented f History Societies more strongly. The awards were by AIA President, of these as archaeologists. 81% look upon lA as Angus Buchanan, in the Lecture Theatre with a hobby, including some professionals. Most from press.We Please use the Letters column ol lA News to lell coverage BordersW and local had members have had funher continuing or us what you think about the issues mentioned an excellent turnout with refreshments in the education, often related to lA. Tlere is a high gallery here, or write to Council through the Liaison adjoining art to follow The enthusiasm level involvement with other societies both oI Office in Leicester. and hospitality were oI the same high standard as local and national; 16% are members of the they were pleased Richard Hartee at the conlerence and we were Newcomen Society. that Frank Cowin, who did so much to help last join Return to Man: 2006 Conference summer, was also able to us. [ocation of membership Unfortunately, we had little time to savour Awards presented Most oI our members live close to areas where the tranquillity oI the lsle, since Angus and I were there was intensive industrialisation; but with Ihe AIA President and Vice-Chair made a Ilying taken from the reception to the local radio station small numbers in Scotland, Wales and Northern visit to the lsle of Man on 27 February to present on Douglas Head to record an interview and lreland. our 2006 Conference Awards. The timetable was depaned from Ronaldsway lor Eristol early the

Age Range Ihe age distribution brings no surprises with 83% over 50 and more than half of those over 65; only 4olo are under 40. Reasons for AIA membership t Ihe reasons lor membership are to belong to the national body for lA and to receive our I publications and information about lA activities. 15% are regular attendees at Conlerences but most find it hard to fit Conferences in with their / schedule of other activities. Over 80% feelAlA is II 'value for money' and over 90o/o read lA News ry I and lA Review.

. nS.'- At our meeting on 24 lvlarch 2007, Council had a I Ir t brief discussion about the results oI the Questionnaire and the suggestions that came \ Irom members. Some issues include:

Affiliate Societies The total membership of the Affiliates is very much larger than that ol AlA. we need to find ways to work together to promote and further the cause of lA and lH.You will be hearing more from Ihe Chaiman and ftutEet and staff ol Manx Nalonal Hefiage Neiving the PE ident's Award fion Angus qu.hanan at u5 about this. lt would be interesting if Afliliates the Manx Museun in oouglas Photo: Manx National Heitagp

8 INDUSTRIAL AR.HAE)LoGY NEWS 141 AIA NEWS next morning. tocals feared that weather conditions in late February would challenge our tight itinerary. However, all went well and we were left to reflect on the warmth of our welcomq the enthusiasm of the award winners and our pleasure in being able to Iurther demonstrate in a small way our appreciation for an excellent conference, , I Mike Bone

AIA Plaque for Custard Factory f 0n Monday l2 March al an informal ceremony in Birmingham, our President Professor Angus , Buchanan presented a plaque to the Custard Factory Digbeth. This was for the AIA Award for \ adaptive re-use, one of the British Archaeological Awards which are judged every tvvo years. The t plaque was received by Shad Everett, the Factory's manager. Robert Caff

Crossing Paths and Sharing I Tracks: future directions for the Angus Ruchanan presents the AIA Btitish Archaeological Award to Shad Eveteft at the Custatd factoty at Digbeth on 12 March 2007 Photo: The Custatd Factoty archaeological study of post- '1550 Britain and lreland. A call understanding between the existing Discount on new Maney titles organisations and their approaches. The papers now available! for organisers are interested in sharing ideas on two lf you have been reading with interest the debate common themes which we all may interpret Maney Publishing has recently acquired journals: in the last few issues ol lA News on the differently and are looking for papers on topics relationship between theory and practi(e in such as: theory versus practice; buildings, Conseruation and Managenent ol Archaeological (wwwmaney.co.ukijournals/cma) and industrial archaeoloqy, then do think about artefacts, machines and people; production and s/tej Priblit (onference (www.maney.co.uk/journals/pua). offering a paper for the being held at consumption, in(luding the scientific analysis of Archaeo loqy members AIA are invited to take the Univer5ity of Leicester on 2-4 April 2008. This artefacts and residues; landscapes of industry; lndividual of the is being organised by Marilyn Palmer and David later archaeology and heritage legislation; out a subscription to the 2007 volume of one or Gwyn forAlA and Audrey Horning for the Soc ety broadenlng participarion, public interpretation both oI these lournals at an introductory discount Management of for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the lrish Post- and working with communities. ol 20% \Conseruation and Archaeological Sites: t48.00 Public l\4edieval Archaeology Group. The organisers are seeking funding in order {&Ae atd The impetus for this meeting lies in the great to invite several speakers from overseas, but Archaeoloqy: 1504e f40 .00) . please expansion of interest in the post-1550 period in would also like to hear about short papers from To take advantage of this special offer, subscribe online at wwwmaney.(o.uk; or contact the public, commercial, university and voluntary AIA members which can stimulate discussion by sectors. This has been reflected in the various among the conference deleqates. Please send l\4aney Customer Sales and Services (0)113 or emailing regional Research Frameworks in archaeology abstracts of no more than 100 words to me at the telephoning t44 386 8168 [email protected]. which have so far been published. The aim is to University of Leicester by the end of June 2007 if avoid fragmentation of a still small discipline into possible, e-mail: [email protected]. further sublields and to explore enhanced Mailyn Palmer

CALL FOR PAPERS Pre-conference seminar, Preston, Friday 10 August 2007

Urban regeneratiort artd the adaptive re-use ql'industritrl buildings: problens atd potentittl

A reminder about the theme of the pre-conference seminar at this year's Annual Conference. Preston provides an ideal base for a seminar devoted to the problems of urban regeneration in industrial towns and the recording, reconstruction and adaptation of redundant industrial buildings and housing for modern uses. I would like to receive more offers of short papers on this important theme, whether from the north of England or elsewhere. Please contact Marilyn Palmer at the University of Leicester on [email protected]

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Heritage Link, PPG 15 directly support the heritage sector, print those sections relevant to your consents, and will be administered and many where heritage is interests. Section 1 England, Section by Local Councils. English Heritage and the White Paper included within a broader remit. lt is 2 Waleg and section 3 the marine will give formal advice when A lot has been happening on the free to all users, and comments, environment. Applicable to all is appropriate, and national Amenity heritage lront recenlly, and much of amendmentt suggestions of further Section 4, (pp49-50) on 'Next steps Societies notified, though not in all it is of direct interest to industrial sourcing are all welcome. Ihe site and how to respond'. There are four circumstances. tinally, subject to archaeologists. Below I summarise address is given above. Ihere is a annexes: Annex I is an example of consultation Conservation Area some most important of the sister site run by the Architectural the suggested format for the new consent will be merged with initiativet but please be aware that Heritage Fund, 'Funds for Historic Registry entries; Annex 2, rather Planning Permission. have had long study the I not to Buildings'. more important, the proposed (d) There are various proposals appropriate, rather lengthy, often Heritage Link is conducting a operation of Historic Asset Consent; for simplifying dealing with complex documents, and lmay well have survey oI how heritage attractions Annex 3 lists those involved in sites. New Heritage Partnership missed some imponant pointt or have been affected by the new Gift drawing up the proposals; and Agreements (HPA) between owners, misunderstood precise the Aid regulations. contact them (e- Annex 4 is a useful list of managers, Councils and English implications or full signilicance of mail address above) iI you have abbreviations and acronyms. There Heritage will cut time-consuming proposals. All opinions are my own. been adversely affected. is also a supporting paper,'Heritage consent administration for large or I would suggest that you download It may have escaped your notice Prote(tion Ior the 21st Century complex sites. Ihese might include those papers in which you are that as from 8 N,larch, the Planning Regulatory lmpact Assessment', those crossing local authority interested to read them in full. The Policy Guidance Note 15 (PPG 15), which is about as digestible as its boundaries (e.q. tondon government papers can be bought section 6, Principles of Selection for title, but basically examines whether lJnderground stations), or from the Stationery Office, but it is Lining Buildingt has been altered. the benefits justit the costs. redevelopment of large sites such as much cheaper download. to ldo While this directly affects only Essentially, the aim is a revision housing estates. think it is important that you note England, I would imagine other and amalgamation ol existing (e) Strengthened protection lor the changes PPG 15 guidance, to parts of the UK rlvill follow suit. ln planning law Fonunately, some oI vulnerable sites, especially World and take an interest in the White general, the changes seem to the worst ex(esses of the Barker Heritage Sites and archaeologica Paper, as this sets out a radically benefit industrial archaeology. For report have been omitted, and many sites on cultivated land. new pattern lor conservation and example, 6.2 says 'There is a of the proposals should help reduce (fl Locally designated buildings protection in the future. I shall be growing appreciation not just of the current confusion and lack of clarity. (exactly what this means is not very responding to the White Paper on architectural set pieces, but oI many The main proposals cover: clear)will get added protection and behalf of the AlA, and would very more strudures, especially (a)The creation of a faster and Conservation areas get extended much welcome any comments you industrial, agricultural and other more open system. The department planning controls. might make when drafting our vernacular buildings, that although of Culture Media and Sport will (g) More contentious are the submission. The for deadline sometimes visually unassuming, hand over Iisting decisions to proposals for increased use of responses is 'l June, and I need to (ollectively reflect some of the most English Heritage, decision making Certificates of lmmunity, whereby receive any comments by 23 May at distinctive and creative aspects of will be speeded up with agreed time developers would be guaranteed the latest. My address is 48 Quay English history.'ln 6.13: '...the targets, and owners will be that once issued, these would street. Halesworth. Suffolk lPl9 8EY special interest of a building will not consulted when their property is prevent any listing oI the buildings e-mail: [email protected] . always be reflected in obvious being considered for designation. or sites in question. While an There has, of course, been much external visual quality. Buildings There will be interim legal investigation would have to be concern about the impact of the that are important for reasons of protection for buildings under made prior to a certificate being London olympics heritage on technological innovation, or as consideration, but owners will be issued, unexpected discoveries funding, Heritage Link and and illustrating particular aspects of able to appeal against any decisions could be ignored. others have been actively social and economic history may to designate. ln the interests oI Sadly theWhite Paper is reticent campaigning issue. on this have little external visual quality.' fairness and clarity, EH will publish about some key issues, most notably lnevitably this has fallen on rather And in 6.15 '...some buildings will guides to its selection criteria. Here finance. There is little recognition of deaf ears at a time of financial be listed because they represent a is likely to be more emphasis on the cost of the extra burdens on stringency, but MPs are affected by nationally important but localised thematic proqrammes rather than English Heritage and LPAs, and public opinion, and we would urge industry, such as shoemaking in individual building designations. where this is estimated it looks both individual members and Northamptonshire or cotton (b) Ihe (urrent prote(tion hopelessly inadequate. Nor does the Affiliated Societies to write to their production in [ancashire,' HoweveI systems !^/ill be brought together, Paper lay much stress on the local MP to express their concern. A it will almost certainly be necessary with listing and scheduling brought economic, social and cultural value number of major national heritage in some areas for local enthusiasts together in a unified designation of the national heritage. organisations have produced a to ensure that note of these new system. The designations Grade 1, While there can be no doubt booklet,'Valuing 0ur Heritage' guidelines is taken by their local Grade 2* and Grade 2 will be that rationalisation and which can be downloaded from the planning authority. The guidelines extended to all types of protected simplification oI current practice is site: Heritage Link can be downloaded from the dcms assel, and in addition to buildings long overdue, the new regulations if wwwheritagelink.org.uk, and this website below and I think every and archaeological sites, historic passed next year will certainly might provide uselul points for any local society and interested marine sites, parks, gardens and require careful monitoring, and letters. individual should study them battlefields will be brought into the there will undoubtedly be just as To help groups seeking funding, carefully. one system. Local Planning many opportunities lor prejudiced Heritage Link has produced a web Easily the most important Authorities (LPA, will be required decisions as there are now DC|S based Heritage Funding Directory document is the White Papet to have, or be linked with, a Historic have in particular asked for which covers not only funding for Heritage Protection lor the 21st Environment Record (HER), and EH responses to three questions, which preservation and conservation, but Century. lt can be downloaded from will provide training for local in brief are: also archives, interpretation and wwwculture.gov.uk/Referencelibrar authorities and others 1. Should conservation Area education. lt aims to list all y/Consultations/2007. This is a (() A single Historic Asset Consent be merged with planninq substantive funding sources which massive 70 paget but you need only Consent (HAC) will replace current permission?

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2. Should there be new 'The Government rightly statutory guidance promoting pre- applauds the value ol heritage in application assessment lor major one breath but in the next planning decisions? undermines our ability to maintain 3. Should the current system ol that value, by cutting essential ffi1il:-:#L:"*::il Certificates of lmmunity be support - the Government should Conservation and rcrtoration of historic/haritage expanded? put its money where its mouth is,' monuments, bridges, archhecural iron work, fountaim, rain I shall certainly not restrict said John sell, Acting Chairman ol water hoppers with cracks and corrosion that require myself to these questions in my Heritage Link. 'Tte Government has preservation are restored with a unique pre-heat and fusion response on behalf of the AlA, and recognised the contribution made welding process which matches the damaged ba3e material. should any ol you be thinking of by volunteers in ringJencing Big lntricatc d.t8il i3 re3torcd to its original condition. Cracked commenting on your own or a local Lottery money but seems to have vintagc cngine blockr and cylinder heads are also restored so(iety's behalt ldon't think you Iorgotten the tens of thousand of without cxpcnsive pattern and re-manufaqturing corts. We should either! volunteers that care for our have a fully fitted machine shop for all machining David Aldefton heritage. We are concerned that rrquircmgnt!. heritage which is the key driver for Projecit managrment consultation and quotations. Heritage and the tourism in Britain will not be up to scratch in time Ior the olympics and london Olympics will affect the all important tourism Heritage link warns that diverting a legacy expected to bring over f2bn further f90 million lrom the to the visitor economy during and Heritage l-ottery Fund (HLF) to pay after the Games. We and other for the London 0lympics contradicts leading heritage organisations have xtt i Government statements and set out practical proposals to secure threatens the realisation of the our heritage lor the luture, in valuable tourism legacy from the Valuing our Heritage. We never *idg. t plir. 2012 Games. imagined such a dire cut in HLF The Government's announce- Iunding. Full implementation of our ment of the revised 2012 olympics proposals would begin to restore Samson Road, Hermitage lrdustrial Estate, budget on Thursday t 5 March was our faith in the Government's Coqlville, Leicestershire LE67 3FP greeted with incredulity by Heritage commitment to heritage but in the TeI 01530 8l'1308 Link representing 81 national longer term the full Iunding to HtF Email: [email protected] voluntary organisations in England. must be restored.' CA .St Web: nYw.c*lironweHing.co.uk It means a raid of t90m lrom the Heritage Link supports the hor welling sentices ltl. HIF and comes on top of already voluntary and community sector reduced Iunding after 2008, when campaign led by the National = H[F's current f290m per year drops coun(il of Voluntary 0rganisations to fl80m. this further reduction ot (NCVo) that calls for Government resident population at Trafford Park development oI machine tools f90m is the equivalent oflour years' assurance that no further raids will village in the centre oI the estatg played an essential part. spend on small community and be made on the Lottery funds to the vast majority of workers having After lunch, Peter Bone spoke voluntary sector grants and the support the 2012 0lympics. Further to travel in daily lrom adjoining on Man(hester's pressed glass entire grant stream aimed at details oI NCVo'S olympi( lottery areas of Manchester and Sallord. industry not an industry one involved young people. campaign (an be found at www lnitially the electric tramway normally associates with the city but Heritage tink has so far ncvo-vol,org.uk/ olympicslottery . systems of these two cities were there was quite an extensive supported the 2012 0lympics as the Heritage Link extended into the estate, later industry in the nlneteenth century once in a lile time opportunity to replaced by buses, Although the produ(ing table, ornamental and show the rest ol the world what a MRIAS day conference program promised 2006 as the end industrial wares. lts peak was in the rich and fascinating heritage Britain Some 80 people auended a day date of this lecture it con(luded '1890s, declining thereafter with the has, with something lor everyone, conlerence entitled Archaeology rather strangely with a last works closing in the 1960t not only the major sites like the and lndustry in Manchester' consideration of tancaster bomber leaving Iew above ground remaint Tower of london and Stonehenge organised by the l\4anchester production in Trafford Park during although one site has been but also the streetscapes and Region lndustrial Archaeology the Second World War; whether this excavated. landscapes that will provide the Society at the Trafford Park Heritage really comes under the title of Bernard Champness spoke next backdrop to television coverage and Centre on Saturday, 24 February 'transport' is a moot point. on the survey of Eva Brothers enrich the experience of thousands 2007. David George opened by It is impossible to hold a Crabtree torge at Clayton, of visitors. considering transport in Traflord conlerence in Manchester without lvanchester, carried out in 2002, The announcement also comes Park, a topic ol relevance to the making some mention of the cotton which won the AIA lnitiative Award just a week after the Prime location. Trafford Park was industry and Richard Hills followed in 2003. This included process Minister's speech at Tate Modern developed as an industrial estate as the first of two speakers dealing recording and in retrospect the when he recognised the Irom iust belore 1900 and was with aspects of that subject. He limilation of this survey was that contribution that arts and culture accessible from the recently opened considered in panicular the question this was only by still photography, make to the economy, society and to lvlanchester Ship Canal, but ol Richard Roberts and the because video recording is really the country ln the same week, the extensive rail access was also development of the power loom. needed lor this type ol survey. new HeritageWhite Paper published provided, often running alongside Roberts' loom oI 1822 seems to Nevertheless, we were able to by the Department for Culture the roads in a manner which can have been the first really viable appreciate how forge work oI this Media and Sport made key still be seen today in parts of the power loom, although it is not too nature depended on the skill and statements on the value of heritage. estate. There was only a small clear why, undoubtedly his prior tacit knowledge oI the workforce.

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Ihe linal speaker, Mike Nevell and sites - such as Doultons and decorated with under-glaze with a surviving and recently Irom the Greater Manchester Spode - facing uncertain lutures transfers, lithographs and enamelled restored biscuit firing bottle oven, is Archaeology Unit, returned to the and a loss oI identity. lt is all the highlights. During the interwar years a thriving concern, albeit on a much cotton industry in a lecture which more heartening that within this there was a willingness to embrace smaller scale than hitherto, with looked at the ex(avation of bleak landscape there is one oasis of a highly talented group of many of the buildings and processes Arkwright's l\4ill in l\4anchester both commercial enterprise (ard a modellers, designers and artists, whi(h made it a'Model Pottery' still which featured on the l'lme Team TV family run business) and industrial including modeller Ernest Bailey alive and recognisable t'19 yea6 on. programme in 2006. While a Time archaeological delight: Burgess, ('1911-87) and designer Charlofte Seen from the Trent & Mersey canal Team excavation is perhaps not the Dorling & teigh's Middleport Pottery Rhead (1885-,l947), and their work it resembles what many imagine a best way of doing thingg it did near Burslem. gave the company an enviable pot bank to be; from the street its enable them to get on the site Built in 1888-9 by Burgess & artistic reputation, But the mainstay richly decorated and ornamental without having to meet the Leigh to a design by the young and of production were the under glazq tympanum over the factory entrance prohibitive compensation charges up-and-roming local architect transter printed patterns which is a rare artistic treat in an area required by National Car Parks. To Absalom Reade Wood (.l851-1922), required extremely nimble fingers mainly noted lor its care-worn get llme Team interested in the site they planned and executed a and manual dexterity. terraces and vacated premises they had to be sold the somewhat startlingly revolutionary canal-side As with many potteries, the last awaiting regeneration., Visitors to doubtful proposition that this site pottery on the site of a former decade ol the hventieth century was the works are welcomed, factory was oI more than national saggar works - a pottery arranqed a struggle for economic survival and tours organised and lor the seeker signilicance because, being the lirsl logically and sequentially, where the by 1999 that battle had been lost of fine English earthenware and textile mill in an urban setting it clay arrived by boat on the Trent & and the pottery passed into industrial archaeological treasures represents the stan of the modern lvlersey Canal, was processed and Receivership. After generations of alike, Middleport Pottery is not to be industrial city. People in Derby. Ior then exported by canal - in what by Iamily ownership and control, missed, No, it is certainly not all one, will dispute this claim! Al5o the 1893 was described as'the Model Middleport Pottery was ripe for, and gloom in Ihe Potteries. suggestion that this mill was the Pottery oI Statfordshte.' Ihe pottery in truth needed, fresh vision and Malcolm Nixon Iirst to be powered by a rotative incorporated, any labour saving optimism and at the very last engine when built in 1782, rather devices which while not unique to minute Rosemary and William Redruth Brewery 1792- than having a Newcomen engine to the works, were certainly logically Dorling (who had run a thriving simply pump water back over a incorporated into a manutacturing retail outlet selling amongst other 2004 water wheel as has been previously sequen(e and, as siqnificantly, still ranqes much of what Middleport The closure of Cornwall's Redruth understood, proved somewhat work today.The 80 foot high mangle produced) bought the business and Brewery in 2004, after several years controversial, as did the claim that it drying tower still works; the William embarked upon a dramatic rescue of of uncertainty, brought to an end was ol larger dimensions than Boulton steam engine (from the this once proud concern. With a over tlvo centuries of continuous contemporary Arkwright-type mills. nearby Providence Foundry) has keen sense ol thet historicalidentity brewing on the site. Many members Clearly more work needs to be done been lovingly restored by volunteers they revelled in seeing for the fir5t will recall it as part ol the Devenish on this site lo resolve lhese and when in steam, still operates time in perhaps a hundred years a operation, based in Weymouth, with questions. the Iadory whistle which once plaster mould, using it and realising its white and qreen pubs and Roget N. Holden called the 500 employees to work the market potential for this unique heraldic demi-tiger nicknamed and announced the end of shifts and product. ln a world where 'Herbert'. presses pressures Middleport Pottery the clay rilter work as commercial often meant ln 2005, following the efficiently as they did when installed the abandonment oI traditional appointment ol administrators, a brightens the gloom (despite being second hand when skills and process - such as hand specialist company BTB was on site Robert Carr in his article'Gloom in fined). printing and transferring oI wares - to remove the brewing equipment the Potteries' \lA News 140,5pting ln common with many Middlepon Pottery saw a chance to for reuse elsewhere. Fortunately BTB 2007) rightly portrays an industry in contemporary potteries, Burgess & retain the skills and pass them on to granted ac(ess to the Trevithick serious de(line, with manufacturing Leigh's output (omprised a vast another generalion. Society to survey and record the site job losses headlined weekly and range of useful wares, from toilet Today, lViddleport Pottery a and preserve some ol its history many of the iconic factory names sets to dinner and tea-wares, much Grade ll* listed Euilding, complete Ihus began a six month operation E

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12 INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 141 NEWS by Society volunteert led by Hon one of several in Cornwall using the Curator Peter Joseph and Vice- 'lamellendach' system of + Chairman Kingsley Rickard. construction originating from the X#R]ITAGE Brewinq began on the site in .lunkers aircraft company. lt is of 1792 and astonishing though this geodetic barrel construction similar ENCNN]EERNNC may seem today, the attraction was to that used in Barnes Wallis' a source of'pure'water from the Wellington bomber The 'Lamella' Preseruing Our Heritage For Future Generations adjacent Wheal Silver mine adit. system was licensed to the Horseley Many ol the brewery buildings date Bridge & Engineering Company ol Our dedicoted 35 strong teom provide Irom this early time including the Birmingham by Junkers in 1930. in brewhouse of l802.This was subject the brewery buildings are not turnkey solutions the Heritoge including to a major rebuild early in the listed and are outside the Redruth Mechqnicql Engineering twentieth century and the survey Conservation Area. The County Iound a number of cast iron Council's Historic Environment g} Archileclurol Melolwork columns marked'THE REDRUTH Service was thus unable to devote .,:.i..r;l Timber Engineering FOUNDRY tlMlTED', which dated resour(es even to recording them tJ-? Irom this reconstruction. Smaller despite recognising their Technicol Consulling columns bear the name of Geo, significance. A demolition order has iii! Adlam & Sont spe(ialist brewery been signed and vandalism has .$ Conservolion Workshops architects and engineers from begun. lncredibly this site is within "*,- Recent.roie.h 2ooll20o2 Bristol. the newly desiqnated world reslorolion of world's oldesl working Sadly nothing remains of the Heritage site; parts of the fuse three steam engines used by the works being specilically designated. steom engine brewery lhe condenser oI an 1825 All these buildings are capable of I 5m timber woterwheel conslruciion Harvey beam engine may survive adaptive reuse (as they have been in newcomen enaing lechnicql osessmenl beneath later work. An 1870 the past) but this will only happen if design & build of lorgest cost iron structure Redruth Foundry horizontal engine planning authorities insist. erecled in the lost 80 yeors was removed for preservalion and a The sad fate oI this site, almost smallAdlam engine, which powered simultaneously with the World 22-2l Cormyle Ayenue. Glosgoti, Scollond. G32 8HJ a hoist, was sent to Germany by Heritage Site designation, is not fel +OO44 I4l 763 0007 Fax +0044 l4t 763 0583 BT8. encouraging to those who had [email protected] ||ww.heilogeengineering.com Other site buildings began lile hoped that WHS status might act as as pan of the British & Foreign Fuse a brake on some of the more crass Works who were in business trom examples of 'regeneration' '1848 to '1905 serving local mines. proposed lor this part oI Cornwall. Council and the Cornwall Centre in runs 7.5km from Lady's Bridge in the Iheir sitg after a spell as a knitwear Thanks are due to the Trevithick Redruth. Ihis article also appeared (entre of Sheffield along the River factory was eventually incorporated Society for recording ali this as a in the April issue ol Vintage Spirit Don to the city boundary at into the brewery. Chymbla Housq voluntary operation. They have pages 20-21. Meadowhall, and has been restored, used as offices, has a porch added removed many historic artelacts Grahan fhorne and in parts created, by a Trust by the brewery in the 1960s with also documents going back to 1733, which was lormally launched in granite columns lrom Redruth's old which are going to the Cornwall 5heffield opens river 1987. lt has links to the Upper Don Market House.Ihis was demolished Record Office once accessioned. For walk Walk, which is being created in 1877; their reuse is thus an early those who would read more, a upstream of Ladyt Bridge and will On 23 tebruary 2007, the l-ord example of architectural salvage. detailed paper appears in the continue past Kelham lsland l\4ayor,.lackie Drayton cut the ribbon Also ot interest is Winklow Trevithick Society's 2006 .,ournal. lndustrial Museum up the valley to to open the final section of the five Housg latterly the brewery retail The full two-volume survey report oughtibridge. Both walks provide a Weirs Walk in Sheffield. Ite walk outlet.Ihis was built as a drill hall, has been lodged with the County superb opponunity to see induttrial

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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 141 1' NEWS archaeology in Sheffield, as well as maintenance, of promoting Education Depanment and the huts the sea so that it (ould travel on the providing wheelchairlriendly access understanding and creating are intad. Girls from Birmingham water like a mobile pier, has not to the river. The Five Weirs walk also conservation projects which can were taken to Pipewood Camp, been seen since belore the war links to the Sheffield and Tinsley involve those who work in the area. where the huts are again intact and it when it was in the Volk's Railway Canal towpath, providing an More details and news oI seems to be a sp€cial School lor offices in Brighton. opportunity for a round walk. events can be found on the Trust's autistic children. I have no knowledge Ihe model was made to help Ihe Walk incorporates a website at: www-fiveweirs.co.uk . of the late ol Wrenl Wa rren. get parliamentary approval for 'Ihe restored and re-erected Bailey Christine Ball I would very mu(h like to pursue Erighton & Rottingdean seashore is my enquires and identify the sites ol Electric lramroad' and so dates lrom Bridge at Effingham Street, whi(h Evacuee camps believed to date from 1944. lt had - the remaining 27 camps but 1893. 'Pioneer', as the tramcar was been reused as part of a listed site wartime memories information in libraries and on the called when built in '1896, quickly upstream, from which it was During last summer I came across internet is very sparse, especially got the nickname'Daddy Long [eg{ removed during redevelopment. lt some rather dilapidated huts in about 'The National Camps and looked appreciably dilferent has been adapted to current safety fields at tinton near Grassington in corporation' itsell lf any reader from the early model. lt is believed requtements with the addition ol a the Yorkshire Dales. I have since could possibly provide any further to be the only tramcar required to stainless steel handrail. lighting and discovered that a body called 'Ihe inlormation I rhould be most carry a lifeboat by the Board of parapets. National Camps corporation' built grateful iI they could contact me at Trade! Unfortunately this lileboat The completion also marked the them in 1939 as a school for 31 Stonelea, Aldridge, Walsall, West has gone missing over time. Ihe launch ol the River Stewardship evacuee children from Leeds and Midlands W59 0HU, Telephonel tramway ceased running in '1901 Company run by Groundwork Eradlord. Ihirty four camps were 0'1922 459669, or E-maill but the concrete blo(ks that Sheffield and the City Council which built in rural areas to take children cliff morrisf [email protected] . supported the track can still be seen will ofler businesses operating next Irom the cities at risk of bombing. Cliffotd Mortu stret(hing East from the Brighton to the River Don, Irom Kelham lhave struggled to lind much Marina to Rottingdean. downstream to Tinsley, a service detail of this Corporation and have Daddy Long Legs model The model of'Pioneer' has been package for an annual fee. This will only identified seven of the sites the original model of the Daddy donated to the Volk's Electric consist of maintenance of 'their' where they were located: Linton Long Legs car has surfaced after 68 Railway Association which hopes to section of the river and riverside, camp, Yorkshire; Colomendy Camp, years. The model, which is believed establish a museum of lVagnus regular patrols which will remove Loggerheads near lvlold; Brown Rigg to have been made by its inventor Volk's inventions. litter and carry out basic Camp, Bellingham, Northumberland; Magnus Volk to demonstrate the C. Aid Hawkins, Volk's Electric maintenancq such as cutting back Brackenfield Camp, Derbyshire; idea of a tramway with rails under Railway Association vegetation and painting railings. Wren's Warren Camp, Hartfield, Firms can also stage Team Building Sussex; Shooting Butts Camp, Days when employees can work Cannock Chase; and Pipewood Camp with the River Stewards on projects near Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire. around the riverside. The project is Linton is due lor demolition and t ltt being run by Helen Baft, telephone: redevelopment, and colomendy I 0114 263 6420 or at believe has been redeveloped by lili I 1.... l sheffield@groundwork,org.uk . Liverpool City Council. I am fairly sure ' Although the walk itself has that Brown Rigg Camp is now a v,z\lNl s been adopted by the City Council as caravan site and the remaining huts a public right of way and basic at Brackenlield are owned and used maintenance will be carried out, the by ogston Sailing Club as the land river and its bank are not the has been flooded to create ogston J responsibility of any one body. The Reservoir. lt seems that boys from fi establishment oI the Stewardship Birmingham were taken to Shooting t/ \ scheme is one way of approaching Butts Camp, which is still used by the difficult problems of long-term Staffordshire County Council iilt

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Abolition of Slave Trade Sir John Smith - 200th Anniversary Sir John Smith died on 28 February DOR HEA Sunday 25 March this year was the 2007, aged 83. He was the founder Trust, the 200th anniversary of the British of the Landmark properties of which include a Parliament passing the Abolition of REST .D IONS industrial-related the Slave Trade Act, which outlawed number ol was the slave trade throughout the buildings. ln lA circles he a lriend ol Tom Rolt and was involved British Empire and prohibited British in the restoration of the Stratford ships from engaging in the trade. Incor;lourlin rllrsl (l')rtgi rrs ) ol Srrsscl< Ihis marked the beginning of the Canal. He was instrumental in Iinancing the return of Erunel's 55 end oI the transatlantic slave traffic. (o I) 1 tItl Great Britain fiom Falklands to Merchants and ships lrom west the Bristol in 1970 and the restoration ((r\\ t( R^. coast ports such as Bristol, '1980s. .1,.t R) . t.\'/) n.R.vtI.t..\ tiverpool, Lancaster, Whitehaven of HMS Warrior in the More and Glasgow were particularly recently he was a generous paddle llecrD( (0nlr cl\ irr(llr(l s Iirl an atnrrsphr:ric active in the slave trade, and the supporter of the steamer Historic railway, and a replica (lli\ (.. rcsl()rxti()n o[ profits that accrued must surely Kingswear Castle at the Dockyard, l8C lead sculptures, giltling ol thc \ lbrrt have played a part in the industrial Chatham. u on revolution of the eighteenth century \l('nroriill bronze consrrr ation ork 'l Unfortunately the aftermath of this Mining wreck protected urhinir. l,ion. Sans Lrx!)nroti0D. xrr(l c\ cr dreadlul trade persists. Readers may recall the drawings of thr Irstr)ratilln ol lrlic catafalquc: The City of Hull has organised lost mining equipment lound by 'Wilberforce 2007', 34 weeks of divers off the lsles of Scilly in 2005, Over 100 m a \ l).ncnac events and activities concerned with reproduced in lA News 138, pageg. slavery and emancipation. William This rare find, made oIf tittle Wilberforce (1759-1833) who led Ganinick lsland, has now been given Northern Works: N ridge, via Stockport, parliamentary opposition to the slave protection under the Protection of Cheshire SK23 7JG. C -ilil1 trade was Conservative MP for Hull. Wrecks Act 1973. Ihe unidentified l( 0lrr('I Robett Caff nineteenth-century shipwreck is Sr)ulh( rn \\ ()rks: ll k. St Anncs Road, St. believed to lie close by. There are over Annes Park. Bristol lll (,il\\rllr' Mumbles 200 500 registered wrecks around Scilly. This year has seen the celebration of Tel: (01l7) 9?1533 (o|'tr 9'77161 the 200th anniversary of what was The end of woad? possibly the world's Iirst passenger Woad is a dye plant that ancient railway. The Swansea & l\4umbles News readers find anything incorred Break there.Along with other former Britons reputedly used to paint their Railway started as a horse-drawn about the industrial scene on this industrial cities such as Leeds, bodies. The world's last tlvo woad line for carrying limestone from new note? The picture ol pin Manchester and Glasgow; mills, in Lincolnshtq closed in the lvlumbles to Swansea in 1804. Ihe manufacture is reminitcent of the Birmingham has had to adapt and 1930s. lt seems that woad was passenger service was launched by Diderort Encyclopaedia. The previous develop a tourist induslry. grown as a crop lorthe mills but now Benjamin trench to develop the f20 note introduced in 1999 with a Robeft Carr it is only found as a wild plant. lt was tourist potential of the coastal portrait of sir Edward Elgar will be used to dye military uniforms, scenery around Mumbles in 1807. phased out. panicularly for the Air Force, Navy Steam trains were introduced in Robert Caff Uruguay stamps '1929 and Police. Ihe use oI synthetic dyes 1876, then replaced in by lwas quite amused and intrigued spelt the end of this industry, but electric trains until closure in 1960. Holidays in Birmingham when received a late Christmas does any archaeology survive? There I lhe route ran from the around According to the BBc Holiday 5how card from a friend in Uruguay. Ihe are plans to re-introduce woad as a Swansea Bay to Castle Hill in the Wednesday l4 stamps had pictures of a horse tram, crop and revive its use commercially. broadcast on village of oystermouth, but was 2007, Eirminqham is now an old train and a post box all of Robeft Carr fubruary extended to Mumbles Pier in 1898. a top holiday destination. lndustrial which were reminiscent oI the AIA Day trippers flocked here in the busy New f20 curency archaeological tourism will feature visit to the lsle ol Man in September. Edwardian years. in the itinerary ofthose taking a City Richard Haftree A new f20 note launched on 13 Kempton Great Engine March, is now in circulation. lt has an Ihe huge Sir William Prescott industrial theme and depids the inverted-vertical triple expansion political economist Adam Smith engine at Kempton Park Waterworkt (1723-1790). Born in Kirkcaldy, smith west London, should be in steam this worked in Edinburgh and later moved v year Commissioned in 1928 and 62 to l-ondon. Predominantly dark blue feet high it is the largest such engine the new note has a di5tinctly sconish in steam in the world, Steaming look about it and the illustration on weekends are April 2122,May 19120, the back shows the division of labour 0 it june 2324, September 22123, october in pin manufacture. When the f5 note 2021 and November 17118; hou6 commemorating George Stephenson I L.i 1 1 am to 4pm. For further information appeared in 1990, railway enthusiasts I see wwwkemptonsteam.org or complained that there were telephone 01932 765328, numerous anachronisms and erron in Robert Carr the locomotive illustration. Will lA lA stanps hon Uruguay

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East Midlands inilial outcome, The Leicestershire lndustrial History We are also involved, with other groups project Society are leading a project to local in a led by the Nautical Archaeology record the history and closure of a Society on an project Steel Tube mill at Destord near interesting at stoney Cove produce leicester. The o-acre fadory was Diving Centre to a three dimensional built during the 1940s as a shadow virtual image of the quarry, factory away from the main Ilooded using acoustic techniques which will be interactive Midlands Towns of Leicester and and show the underwater featurcs. Coventry to supply Cold Drawn steel tubes for the MOD. After the Ihis technique may be useful for interpretation underwater war it became the factory oI Tubes of any archaeological site. of Desford and in 1954 began industrial supplying hot rolled steel tubes Coupled with this there is work on the social impact of the quarry using hot piercing techniques on the local population, and the developed in the UsA by Walter J. t Assel for the Timken Company, and relationship between Stoney 'n, ,s, cold worked tubes for the bearing Stanton and other Leicestershire quarries and oil rig industries. Atter in their formative years. The LIHS input is becoming part olthell. group these being undertaken by fhe original gaae position at Foxton u et rcstoation, with the new sectioh of canal facilities were extended and under David Ramsey, who is also about to publish leaditg away to the top ol the indined plane Photo: aavid Lyne the eventual ownership of the a delinitive tlHS Bulletin on the Leicestershire slate industry Timken company remained a viable languished in an inac(essible state. been built to extend the existing Work continues on the dig and manufacturing site until lorced to tlHS are up with The canal arm up the top the interpretation of an eighteenth- ioining to ol close in 2007 due to competition Swannington Heritage Trust to see if inclined plane. The original gate century coal mine engine house at from elsewhere. we can reclaim the boiler and re- position is under restoration and the Swanninglon. So lar the only finds The l-lHS were mindrul that instate it on its original sitq with new gates are on site. particularly have been a horseshoe, a Victorian recording the site, the public accest as part of the Peter l\4eanwhile, in Northampton's 5t penny and a pot egg, but who then unique and now delunct Hot Neaverson Legacy funded project. James area use being knows what will turn up next.0n a is still Mill, would benefit industrial Progress can be reported on sought the lormer Express tilts the adjacent site the LlHs rescued a archaeologists of the future, work at the Foxton Locks and Tower. Ihe 127-metre high Grade ll haystack boiler in 1955, which was especially as, with full cooperation lnclined Plane site at Market listed tower owned by Taylor parent donated to the local Leicester City of the company, much Harborough, which is part of a multi Woodrow from Museum. After some time, due to was saved historical information will, on million pound project in partnership demolition 12 months ago but now proiect local museum restructuring, the completion of the LIHS be with English Heritage, with lottery the l.iniversity of Northampton is transferred to the local record office. boiler was re-sited at Snibston Iunding, A new section of canal has looking to review a range of Museum, where it has since A DVD and a Bulletin will be the potential uses Ior the structure and is seeking commercial suggestions REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS that relate to teaching, research or (onsultancy work. The tower, known Please support your Regional Correspondent by sending relevant material which may be of interest to our readers. affectionately as the Northampton tighthouse and a landmark visible Region 1: SCOTIAND Region 6: WALES Region 1l: HOME COUNTIES from the Ml, was built in 1982 Dr Miles oglethone, RCAHMT John Pat trost Castlering Archaeology, 33 Oxfotdshhe, Redfotdshte, Setkshte, using a continuous concrete casting Sinclair House, l6 Bernard Terra(e, Stallion Lanq Pontesbury Shrewsbury I uck ingha n5hhe a nd Hettfotdt h ie process and was used for testing Edinburgh EHB 9NX Shropshire SY5 oPN Henry Gunston, 6 Clement Close, lifts but has been out of use since Region 2: IRELAND Region 7:WEST MIDLANDS Wantage, oxfordshire oxl2 7ED 1991. Fred Hamond, 75 Ocksley Park, Belfast Shtopshirc, Staffordshie, West Region l2: SOUTH EAST Planning applications are BTlO OA5 Midlandt, Wawickhhe, Hercfod and ENGI.AND posing a risk to several lormer Region 3: NORTHERN ENGLAND Worcestet Hanpshire and lsle of Wight, Surey, John Powell, lronbridge industrial sites in Northamptonshire. Cunbia, Notthumberland, Tyne and Gorge Mus€um Sussex and Kent Trust, Coach Road, Coalbrookdale, Ihere are plans to demolish the WeaL Dutham and Cleveland Alan Thomas, 6 Birches Close, Epsom, Telford IF8 7DQ Iormer Pearce's tannery in Great Graham Brooks, Coomara, Carleton, surrey KTlS 5JG. Emai| a.h.thomas@ Billinq, but it is hoped that the art Carlisle Cumbria CA4 0BU Region 8: EAST MIDIANDS btintern€t.com deco oflice building will be saved Region 4:YORKSHIRE AND Dehyshire, Nottinghanshte, Region 13:WEST OF ENGLAND Lincolnshhe, and Iorm part of the new HUMBERSIDE Leiceste6hirc and Sone6et, Avon, Gloucesteqhire, housing/office development. ln Notth, South and West Yotkshie and Wiltshie and Do$et David Lynq Someruille Road, Rushton, proposals to substantially Hunberside l0 Mike 8one, Sunnyside, Avon Close, Leicester LE3 2ET modity the former Grade ll Glendon Derek Bayliss, 30 l\4uskoka Avenue, Keynsham, Bristol 8518 1LQ (closed in Bents Green, Sheffield 511 7Rt Region 9: EAST ANGI-lA Region 14: SoUTH WEST and Rushton station '1960) Canbridgeshhe Noiolk, were withdrawn and the Region 5: NORTH WEST Suffolk and ENGTAND E sex buildings are up for sale. On the ENGTAND Devon and Cornwall David Alderton, 48 Street, Midland Railway's Leicester to Lancashie, Meqeyside, Grcatet Quay Graham Thorne, 11 Heriot Way, Great Halesworth, Suffolk lPl9 8EY Bedford line, Manchestet and Cheshie Totham, N4aldon, Essex Cl\49 8BW the stationmaster's house Roger N. Holden, 35 Victoria Road, Region 10: GREATER IONDON and abutting ticket hall are sto(kpon sKl 4AT Dr R. l. M. Carr, 127 Queen's Drivq built in local limestone and feature tondon N4 288 Norman style windows with

,16 INDUSTRIAL AR.HAE)L)GY NEW' I4I REGIONAL NEWS polychrome brickwork. Ihere is an administration facilities in the other Bedfordshire District council, the application to demolish the last pan workshop buildings. Landlill Tax, the Heritage Lottery of the Iormer E & H Roberts Saint Gobain Pipelines have Fund and others. Stotfold Mill is agricultural engineering works in announced the closure of their iron listed, Grade ll*, on account of its Deanshanger. The building dates pipe-making plant at Stanton-by- unusual cast-iron hursting Irame, from 1860 and was lanerly used as Dale in Derbyshire with the loss oI made by the famous millwrightt a laboratory for a company 220 iobs. Stanton lronworks began Whitmore & Binyon ol Wickham supplying pigments lor paints; it with three blast furnaces Market, Suffolk.Ihere is an internal, features elaborate cast-iron window constructed alongside the Nutbrook overshot iron waterwheel, 8 feet frames. ln ils heyday, Roberts Canal in 1846, and iron was made (2.4 metres) diameter and l4 feet supplied a range of agricultural on the site until 1974. Manufacture (4.3 metres) wide. Ihe Trust now implements and wind operated oI iron pipes and tunnel segments aims to rebuild the weir lunher pumps throughout the country and continued usinq re-cycled scrap as upstream. for export. the raw material, and an internal Meanwhile, in lan Mit(hell reports from railway system transported molten Buckinghamshire, the future of Derbyshire that new research into iron lrom a central melting plant to Walton Mill, a Grade ll listed (orn the Strutt family's Bridge Hill estate different parts of the site. over mill in Aylesbury looks uncertain, suggests that a very large icehouse recent years the site has contraded, due to a nearby development Geaing and the cast-ton huRt frane by and adjacent structures may have and lrom 2007 only 230 workers project. Ihe clufter of surrounding Whitnore & Rinyon of Whickhan Ma*et been used for lood supplies to the will remain, manulacturing valves buildings was demolished last year Sullolk, at Stoiou Mill, Eedlordshire Photu: rin Snith workers in the cotton mills in the and flanges, and providing customer and recently the mill roof has been town oI Belpei rather than lor the support for products imported from protected by plastic sheeting. Better family themselves. The Strutt Saint Gobain's European plants. news from Coleshill (Oxon), where museums in Oxfordshire, For copies archives contain a record oI the David Lyne the watermill has been returned to of a'Witney Wool & Blanket Trail' construction of the house and operation, and is open to the public booklet, covering 3l sites around ancillary buildings after the family Home Counties on various days ol the year. The cast- the town, contact bought the estate. lhis is quite Stodold Mill in Bedfordshire has iron low pitched-back wheel is by www.witneyblanketstory.org.uk. separate from the accounts of the been restored thanks to the efforts Philips & Son of Reading. The trom blankets to paper, Nash Millt business, and does not include any ol Mr Ron Roper. The mill ceased National Trust is also restoring the on the River Gade at Hemel expense associated with the milling about 1854 and the impressive range of buildings of the Hempstead (Herts), was one of eight icehouse. lf the structures are buildings were used for storage until nearby nineteenth-century Coleshill British paper mills to close in 2006. indeed associated with the mills 1966. l\4r Roper was in the process model farm. once part ofthe Dickinson empire it rather than the house, this makes ol buying the mill when, in Witney (oxon) is famous for its has latterly been run by a South them almost unique, as icehouses in December 1992, there was a blankett although local production Alrican company, sappi. The the UK are usually a luxury facility disastrous lire. He then formed a ceased with the closure oI the fodunes of Nash Mill5 are in for rich landowners. Unfortunately, trust with four othervillagers, to buy Early's factory in 2002. An contrast to nearby Frogmore Mill, these structures are under threat and restore the mill. Ihey bought it interesting exhibition on blanket visited during the 2004 AIA from a proposal to convert them for for fl and have now restored it with production, and other activities by Conference, where lottery grants housing, and they are outside the the help of the Town Council, lvlid Early't is cir(ulating amongst will provide a new visitor centre and current boundary oI the Derwent Valley lrills world heritage site. Amber Valley Borough have delayed making a decision on a planning application pending a review of whether the structures are listable. Work has finally commenced on restoration and conversion ol the remaining Derby Locomotive Works buildings for Derby College. Ihe buildings were constructed for the North Midland Railway and the Midland Counties Railway 1839, h. in and include the Grade 1 listed I locomotive roundhouse, the oldest \ example of this distinctive style of I !_ tTf, railway structure anywhere in the lf I rr I-t world. The buildings have been disused since 1988, and several unsuccesslul plans for adaptive re- use have come and gone. Derby college's f36 million scheme is now fully funded, and planning permission was granted in ,anuary trt Tie target is to open the facility in January 2009, with a visitor centre and lood court in the roundhouse fhe newly rcstorcd stotfold Mill, Bedfordshie itsell and teaching and

INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 141 17 REGIONAL NEWS refurbishment ot the mill. North of listed, are being converted into flats. I oxford, the University wishes to Although the office building ol the develop the lormer Wolvercote Iormer Wantage Tramway survives THE BOOK HOUSE Paper Mill site lor housing, but also in Wantage (oxon), redevelopment The leading industrial archaeology booksellers for an oxford University Press behind it has led to the removal o, since '1963 - books on all aspects of printing centre. the wooden passenger shed, and technology & transport Mcirullen's brewery in Herdord the last remains of the former rail- has been sold to Sainsbury's, Ttis served gas wotks. Shannon, the LISTS ISSUED - FREE SEARCH SERVICE includes the imposing tower of Tramway engine buih in !857, We have moved a short way to Erough, on the A66 lrunk road be 1891, which is thought to contain survives at the nearby Didcot iween Scotch Corner & Penrth Our new premises are ln Grand Prix Burld ngs al lhe north end of the main street - there are usua ly some plant. continue Mcirullen's to Railway Centre. Eastwards from several Grand Prix coaches in the yard brew on a new site elsewhere. Did(ot along the Great Western The new shop is normally open frcm 11am to 4.30pm excepl Ihe restoration oI the Wilts and main line, Network Rail has recently on Sundays & Tuesdays, but Brigid may be away at a book proceeds government Berks Canal at various secured approval and fair or conference so please ing fitst if coming frcm a dis- points within Oxfordshire. A major Iunding for a f68 million upgrade of lance. Phone or wite fot a catalogue or lollow the link from advance was the opening in August Reading Station (Berks), our website. 2006 of a new cut, the 'Thames consultant Pell Frischmann The Book House, Grand Prix Buildings, Brough, lubilee Junction', linking the Thames received a 2006 Historic Bridge and Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4AY south of Abingdon to a disused lnfrastructure Award (organised by T el| 01 7 683427 48 www.thebookhouse.co.uk gravel pit. From there it is planned the Panel for Historic Engineering I to dig a new channel to join the Works (PHEW) of the lnstitution ol original canal alignment further Civil Engineers) for work on tritwell west. Along the River Thames itsell, Railway Bridge (Oxon).lhis is a road the giant P /00, was up for sale the Morris Motors and Pressed Steel locks within Oxfordshire and bridge across the chiltern line during 2006, with an asking price of Works at Cowley to'some other part Berkshire were amongst those (formerly Great Western & Great around f4 million. The shed, which of the country' (location not coming under a f4.45 million Central ,oint) between Bicester and has a Grade ll listing, is 157 feet specified!). Faced with the potential capital repairs programme proposed Aynho ,unction. Tle Award was for (47.8 metres) high by 812 feet expansion oI oxIord's gas works by the Environment Agency for the advanced structural analysit which (247.5 metres) long. Although on (still close to the city centre in winter of 2006-7. Major works were has allowed the road loading to be lease to Warner Brothers lor lilm 1948), he fulminated: 'there is a planned lor Bray lock near increased, obviating the need lor work, airship-related Skyship craft scale oI values...if we are still Maidenhead (Berks), and at Days any structural alteration to the are still maintained lhere. civilised. . .which is outraged...that and clilton Locks between 'elderly metallic beam bridge'. lndustrial development has a mere shell around a machine for Abingdon and Wallingford (Oxon). The Grade ll listed 'Electric always been a contentious subject making gas...should overtop... 0n the railway scene, Garage', on the south side of around oxford. A recent day school buildings [of the University]...which redevelopment of the older parts of Newbury (Berks), seems to remain to commemorate 30 years since the symbolise all that has been noble in the lormer London & Birmingham sound, despite changes in the publication of the controversial the aspirations oI Englishmen lor (and later London & North western) names oI the car sales Iirms trading book fhe Erosion of Oxford by seven centuries and more.' Railway works at Wolverton (Bucks) Irom it. The Twentieth Century lames stephens Curl in 1977 Ihanks to Abingdon Museum, has led to the removal of an 1899 Society keeps a watchful eye. The encouraged discussion of the Keld Fenwick (Newcomen Society football stand from Wolverton Park. 1934 building was one of the development of Oxford (planned or 'Links'bulletin), Bruce Hedge and Developers plan to re-erect the earliest Iilling stations where petrol unplanned) since the second World the ICE PHEW Newsletter for stand at a later date. Ihe 1845 was pumped electrically. The Wat. ln 1xfotd Replanned, an earlier material used in this report. [ocomotlve Workshops and the Old massive No.2 airship shed at (1948) book, Ihomas Sharp had Henry Gunston and fin Snith tifting Shop of 1889, both Grade ll Cardington (Beds), once home to advocated the complete removal of

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Local Society and other periodicals received From frees to freasures: fhe Story of Henry lackson MBE, Founder ol the Rural Life Centle published by the old Kiln Museum Trust, 2007. 11 ills. Available Tilford, Abstracts will appear in lndustrial Archaeology Review. A4,20pp, lrom the Rural life Centre, Reeds Road, tarnham, Surrey GUl0 2DL, f4 plus fI.50 P+P Rural Lite Centre near Farnham by Brewery History,123, Summer 2006 lte atTilford, in Surrey, was lounded Henry.lackson his Brcwery Histoty Society Newslettet,36, Summet 2006 and wile Madge in 1969. lt is now one of the leading museums in Surrey.Ihis short book gives an account of.,ackson's life and the Erktol lndurtial Archaeological Society Bullefr4 1 19, Autumn/Winter 2006; 120, Spring 2007 development of the museum and its arboretum. Finding himself in a reserved occupation early in U/Wll, lackson contrived to be sacked so that Cleveland lndustial Archaeologist 31 , 2006 he could join and Cumbria lndustial History Society gulletin,66, December 2006 the Royal Marines, where he trained as a commando Do6et lndustrial Archaeology Society Newslettet,'17, )aruary 2007 served in the tar East. After the war lackson lirst worked in a sawmill, but Gteater London lndust al Archaeology Society Newslettet 227, later went back to the land in a nursery growing forestry seedlings.Ihe book De(ember 2006 gives an excellent account of the work of establishing and running such a Hanpshire M ills Gtoup Newsletter, 75,Winlet 2006 nursery including the construction of special machinery not available and his wile very successlul market garden. ICE Panelfor Histo cal Engineering Works Newsletter,112, commercially. Jackson staned a plough and December 2006; 113, lrarch 2007 ln 1969 a began their collection of all sorts of agricultural and lndustrial Hetitage, 32/l Winter 2007 horticultural items, the contents of a variety of shop5 and wheelwright other workshops. Buildings were (and are) also collected, notably a village lancashite History Quatte y,1211,te uary 2007 hall, small chapel, and numerous others. The site also has the narrow- Merseyside lndustrial Heritage Society Newletter, 272, Decembet a gauge public in 2006 old Kiln Light Railway.Ihe museum was first opened to the 1973.The old Kiln Museum Trust was set up in 1984, and this now owns the Museum of Eath at Wotk Newslettel New Yeat 2007 museum oversees activities registered charity. Ihe book SAVE Britain's Hetitage rveryslette,i November 2006 and its as a complements the earlier publication The Einh Museum, transcribed Scottish lndusl al Heritage Society Bulletin,4l, December 2006; 42, of a give remarkable March 2007 from Madge lackson's diaries.Ihese books an account of a Search: the Bulletin of the South Wiltshhe lndustrial Archaeology couple, whose entirely voluntary efforts led to the creation of a unique appointed Society, 85, lvarch 2007 museum ol rural life.Ihey were honoured in 2000 by both being MBE. Somerset lndustrial Archaeological Society Bulletin, 1 03, Decembet 2006 Lakes Guide, lan Tyler. Blue Rock, 2007. Suffolk lndust al Archaeology Society Newsletter,96 February 2007 fhe and Cumbria Mines by '155, ISBN 0954863143. with plastic outer extra, lndustrial History Grcup Newlettet, January 2007; 156, 207pp. f12.99, cover fl.00 postage House, March'urrcy 2007 f2.50. obtainable from Keswick Mining Museum,otley otley Road, Keswick, Cumbria 5LE. Sussex lndustrial Archaeology Society Newsletteli 133,.lanuary 2007 CAl2 ThisA5 size guide lists around 1,400 metallilerous mine workings in the Sussex Mills Group Newslettet,l33, )aruary 2007 areas cumbria, turness and Westmorland. The guide is the walker, flCCIH Bulletin,34, Autumn 2006; 35, Winter 2006 of lor historian, ar(haeologist and mine or anyone who wants to know frcvithick Society NewslefteL 132, )uly 2006; 133, october 2006 enthusiast Watetwords: News ftom the Waterworks Museum, Hetefotd,wintet the extent oI this incredible story lhe book's t9 chapters take the areas NGR 2007 valley by valley, listing the individual sites by numbers and covering Worcestershite lndustrial Archaeology and Local History Society many of the sites in the lorm of individual walks with some historical notes, Journal, 3l,Wir/(et 2006 Yorkshire Archaeological Society, lndust al History Section Painting a Mine with light, by lohn Peck. Truro: Peck Publications, 2006. 64pp,85 illus, many in (olour. lSBN 0-9552557-0'8. f6.95. ,Ver.yslefre4 69, Early Spring 2007 Ihis book is a pictorial history olWheal Jane in Cornwall which worked yorkshire Histoty Quarterly, l2l1, February 2007 almost continuously from 1971 until producing Short Notices 1991, tin, copperand zinc ores lrom a depth ol 1,540 feet Palntlng a ulne (470m)Ihe author was employed as wlth L Development Royal Yards Aming the Fleet: fhe of the Ordnance the mine's photographer and his ,770-1945, by David Evans. Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower, in captions describe the wet, humid association with English Heritage Hampshire 272 and County Council, 2006. and noisy conditions encountered pp, photor drawings maps. ISBN 10: 0955363209, |SBN 13: 250 and 978 underground. The illustrations chart 0955363207. Hardback f 1 9.95 the workings of modern metal mine, This major new book reveals, for the Iirst time, the complete history of with underground machinery Britain's naval ordnance yards from the early conversion of Iortifications including the electro-hydraulic raise { such as Upnor Castle and Portsmouth's Square Tower, through the borer which could bore a 6 teet development of the major sites at Priddy's Hard and Bull Point, to the i diameter hole to a depth of 200leet underground strongholds research ol the Second World War. From extensive salely and quickly. Surface pictures using a documents, David Evans traces the development wealth ol original include the headgear above the two of the sitet buildings, workers and policies that underpinned Britain's armed shafts, ore processing and protest forces lor over 150 years. The author explores the vast network o, depots a Plcro?lrl hl.rot ol wh..l J.n. marches on tlvo occasions when a Co.nl.lr lln mlna ., J.i" td created in response to technological improvemen6 through the rise and fall falling tin prices threatened the face of innumerable bureau(raciet the changing oI war and the misrortunes mine. caused by human fallibility. ihe resulting book not only offers a unique insight into a little-known area of military intrastructure, but also provides background context of developments in ordnance and armament and VISIT THE AIA WEBSITE includes an extensive gazetteer of surviving sitet making it an essential work lor historians, academict local history enthusiasts and military and www.industrial-archaeology.org.uk navalaficionados.

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at Wrexham and on the Llangollen the National Association oI Mining Canal, the launch conference for the History 0rganisations' website; for possibility of late bookings, nomination o, the Pontcysyllte and www.namhoconf erence.org.uk contact Paul Saulter, 80 Udimore Chirk Aqueducts for nomination as a at Foxton, Market Harborough, the Road, Rye, Sussex, TN31 7DY or e- World Heritage Site. Ihere will be 74th East Midlands lA Conferen(e mail: [email protected] talkt boat trips and walks along the hosted by the leicestershire canal and over the aqueducts. Ihis lndustrial History Society, with speakers on the canal, history of the will be the first meeting of the new at Edinburgh, The Royal Society of British Committee tor locks and inclined plane, and at the Rugby Club, Wellington, of TlCClH. Edinburgh conference celebrating please email: restoring and managing the historic Somerset, the South Wales & West further details the lile and work of s(otland's environment at Foxton, followed by Region lA Conference organised by [email protected] greatest civil engineer. For details tou6 around Foxton and Market Somerset lA Society. Details from contact RSE Events Dept,22-26 Harborough. For details, send sAE to GeofI Fitton, Giles Cottage, Hill George street, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ, Alan Brittan ,18 Westbourne Road, Lane, Brent Knoll, Somerset, TA9 Tel: 0l31 2405000, Email: undeMood, Nottt NG16 5EG. 4DF, Tel: 01278 760869 or email: at Liverpool, the 2oth lnternational events@royalsoced,org.uk geoff @littong.f reeserve.co.uk World Canals Conlprenae returns lo THE AIA WEBSITE'S English shores tor the firsttime in 10 DIARY SECTION GIVES years. The event is focused on the at the University of Central FULLER DETAILS OF THE value oI involvinq volunteers and [ancashire, Preston. the AIA annual LATEST NOTICES OF the community sector alongside at National lilining Hall oI Fame and conference. Application forms were CONFERENCES AND professionals when designing and lvluseum, Leadville, Colorado, USA. mailed in February but lor further MEETINGS delivering waterside projects ol any For details see Mining History details please contact James scale. hosted by the lnland Association! website: wwwmining lt is Gardiner, AIA Liaison officer. school Association. turther historyassocaiation.org Waterways ol Archaeology and Ancient History information at: can be found University of [eicester, Leicester tE1 www.wcc2007,co.uk 7RH, Tel; 0116 252 5337, Email: [email protected] at Harwich, the 17th East of England AIA Regional lA Conlerence. Send sAE Ior derails and booking form to Mrs at Morwellham, West Devon, hosted in B. Taylor, Crown House, Horsham St by Tamar Mining 6roup INDUSIRIAT ARCHAEOTOGY NEWS association with Plymouth Caving Faitht NoMich NR l0 3.10. at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes, the (formerly AIA Bulletin ISSN 0309-0051) Group and other local NAMH0 biennial symposium hosted by t55N 1354,1455 member organisations. Set in the Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural heart of a newly designated World History Society. tor information [ditor: Dr Peter Stanier Heritage mining site, the conlerence when available send sAE to Doug Published by the Association fot lnduttial theme covers the mines of the Roseaman, do WANHT 41 Long Archaeology. Contributions should be Tamar and Tavy areas. Details are on Street, Devizet sNl0 1NS. sent to the Editot, Dt Peter StanieL 49 qrcach Lane, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8LF. New and prcss rcleases nay be sent to the tditot or the arytupriate AIA Regional Conespondent' fhe Editor nay be telephoned on 01747 854707 ot e-mail: n a ia lette oo. co. u n ews @ah k. I ti 'w' I final copy dates arc as follow: 1 lanuary lor February mailinq I t( U. 1 April for May mailing \ H e ); 1 July IorAugust mailing t 1 october for November mailinq i fhe AIA was establithed in 1973 to prcnote lhe study of lndustrial Archaeology and encounge inpaved ttandatds of rccotding, rcsearch, consewation atd publiaation. lt $ ains to assist dtd stwon Egional d t) tryialist suNey qoups afu fuies inw@ ih tle preseNation of industrial n umena, to rcpresent the intercsls of lnduttial Archaeology at national level, to hold \ anferences afu seninaR and to ptblish the rcsuks of rctearch. flr€ AIA publishet an annual Review and quaftedy News bulletjn. funhet detailt tuay be obtained toh he Liaison Offi.er, AIA office, School of Archaeological Studies, University of LeicesEL Letcestet LEI 7RH. lel: 0116 252 5337 Fax: 01t6 252 5005.

The views expressed in this bulletin are MenbeB of he Manx fratryoft Museun Group, the Laxe! and Lonan Heritage ftust E and the Laxey Minet Reseadt ctoup wiit not ne(essarily those of the Asso.iation Angus Rudranan and thei awadt (see pagc 8) Phob: Manx National Hedtage for lndustrial Archaeology.

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