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Newsletter 107 YAHS IHS Newsletter 107 YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SECTION NEWSLETTER 107 AUTUMN 2019 EDITORIAL Another summer is over and another lecture season starts, thanks to Jane Ellis who has once again arranged another interesting programme. I know from experience how difficult arranging a lecture programme can be and Jane does an amazing job. Details of the programme were given at the Section AGM and listed in the last newsletter but the full programme is enclosed/attached (depending on how you are receiving the Newsletter). I must apologise for a mistake I made in the last Newsletter when I mistyped the date for the November lecture, the talk by Keith Noble on the Calder & Hebble Navigation will be on 16 November not 26 November, which is a Tuesday. We have also experienced a problem with the arrangements for the December lecture; unfortunately Swarthmore will be closed from Friday 20 December until after Christmas, which means the date of Saturday 21 December is not available. Also John Meredith’s health is not good and he is unable to give his talk. Instead the lecture will be held at the Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9DX and will be given by Stewart Liles on Discovering some of the less well-known local locomotive builders. Please note that parking near the venue is limited but there are buses. Also very importantly we do need a couple of volunteers to offer to write up the lectures for the Newsletter, both as record of our activities and for the benefit of those members unable to attend. If you can help please let me know as soon as you can; Gill Eastabrook and I will be doing some. Also enclosed/attached are the minutes of the Section AGM held on 13 April. If any member present at the AGM has any corrections to the minutes please let me know as soon as you can – while you can still remember. You will recall that it was agreed at the AGM that in future copies of the Newsletter would primarily be sent electronically to members, starting with Newsletter 106. This enables the Section to save on significant postage and copying costs and allows for quicker distribution. I can report that out of 103 copies sent only 15 were posted as paper copies. You may also recall that the Section’s financial position was unclear, partly due to lack of information on costs for producing the Newsletter as a result of the sudden death of Robert Vickers. At a recent Management Board I received a copy of the amounts held in banks and investments for the Society and its sections. These showed that at the end of 2018 the Section had £560 in the Yorkshire Bank and by the end of June 2019 this had grown to £941.09, presumably as a result of the 2019 subscriptions being paid. I was unable to attend this year’s AIA Conference which was examining the IA of Somerset. Previously the tour notes from the conferences have been posted on the AIA website, so I and others will find out the details about what we have missed. The 2020 conference will be held in Liverpool based at Liverpool Hope University 20-27 August; topics will include the St Helens glass industry, chemicals and soap manufacture and Merseyside transport. It promises to be an interesting event and quite close to home. Full details and booking will be available early next year. Even closer to home, I understand there are plans to hold the 2021 conference in York exploring the IA of North Yorkshire. I am sorry to have to report the death of long standing member Mary Steeds in April and condolences to husband Robert who is still a member and continues to attend lectures when he can. On a happier note I am pleased to welcome new members Cheryl Guest, Chris Mould and Ron Hill. I hope you will be able to attend our lecture programme. I shall be producing the next Newsletter in January 2020 and look forward to receiving your news and reports by 10 January 2020 and importantly any offers of help. Margaret Tylee 1 YAHS IHS Newsletter 107 YAHS NEWS The 2019 AGM of the YAHS was held on 13 July, somewhat later than hoped for. This was due to a delay in examining/approving the accounts; although the accounts were prepared early in the year, it took longer for the Society’s new Independent Examiners, the West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service to work through them. They did do a very thorough job and the AGM approved their continuing service for the current financial year. They provide a cheaper service and have the advantage of being based at Stringer House. At the AGM the new President David Asquith replaced Gill Cookson who had decided to stand down but still remains a member of the Management Board. David Buck, the Hon Secretary had already indicated that he wished to stand down but will be continuing until a successor can be found. Regrettably just before the AGM the YAHS Treasurer Frank Jordan resigned. This has left the Society with vacancies for a Treasurer in addition to a Membership Secretary and Excursions Secretary. The President made a plea for members to step forward to help in any way they could to keep the Society going, without enough Officers it will become very difficult. The good news is that the advert for someone to provide Administration Support for the Society produced 10 applications and interviews on 22 July resulted in the appointment of Cathy Hawkes. She will be working 6 hours a week and it is hoped that this will reduce the workloads experienced by the Officers. The Management Board has agreed to pay Leeds University for the cost of a cataloguer to catalogue the YAHS books held at the University to enable them to be made fully available for members and others using the collection. It had become apparent that many of our books had not been catalogued to the University standard or at all due to a lack of resources. The Survey of YAHS members referred to in the last Newsletter has now been finalised and distributed. It has been sent both electronically and in paper copy with the Programme of Events. However analysis of the survey will be easier if members could complete it electronically. If you have not received a copy please contact the Secretary David Buck ([email protected]). INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ONLINE (IHO) The IHO steering group met on 10 July where we were joined by two members of the Leicestershire Industrial Archaeology Society who were very interested in what we were doing with IHO. Further discussions were planned for the future. Data entry continues to make good progress and as of mid August, the website contained 8028 records and 2842 images, including images of around 200 sites within the London area. Work is also on-going to make the site more accessible to members of the public and easier to use by members. The number of counties covered by the site has increased and records can now be added for the following counties in addition to the four Yorkshire counties and Greater London: Northumbria, Tyne and Wear, Durham, Cumberland, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. The IHO group would be pleased to hear from any members interested in adding site records or images to the website, by emailing John Suter and if you would like to view the records that have been added so far go to https:www.industrialhistoryonline.co.uk/yiho. OTHER NEWS The AIA 2019 Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Industrial Archaeology has been awarded to John Barnett for his book The Archaeology of Underground Mines and Quarries in England published by English Heritage. It examines all forms of mineral extraction from the Neolithic period to the present day with over a 100 colour photographs and line drawings. The author was unable to collect his award at this year’s AIA Conference but has organised a lecture on 15 October at the Peak District Mining Museum where the award 2 YAHS IHS Newsletter 107 will be presented (see below for details). The book is available from Historic England and other bookshops priced £20. If you are an AIA member you can receive a 20% discount by going direct to Historic England quoting the code AUMQ19. I was sad to read the news that Dr Jake Almond, who was a member of the Section and Society for many years had died at the age of 90 at the end of last year. Dr Almond was a leading figure in the Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society and the Historical Metallurgy Society. He was a specialist in the study of metalliferous slags, zinc smelting and copper extraction from pyritic ores. The good news is that his large collection of books, papers and manuscript notes will be conserved and form the basis of his archive at the Materials Processing Institute in Middlesborough where they will be available to researchers. Member Neil Davies has sent me a copy of the obituary of Richard Mills who died on 10 May. Richard was the Director of the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry from 1968 to 1983. He had been a founder member of the Manchester Region Industrial Archaeology Society (MRIAS) and a Research Assistant at the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology gaining his PhD with UMIST on Studies in the History of Textile Technology. After leaving the Museum he became a priest, and in 2014 he was awarded a Medal of Honour by Manchester University for his work in recording the industrial past of Manchester and the North West Region.
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