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Reigate Heath - Historic Windmill Renovation Nearly Complete 26 August 2010 A HISTORIC windmill has had a new 30ft tail post craned into position as part of the final stage of its restoration. Heath windmill, which dates back to 1765, is thought to be the only one in the country which is a consecrated church. In 1880, the roundhouse was converted into a Chapel of Ease to St Mary's. Services are still held in the tiny church during the summer. Over the past three weeks, Reigate & Borough Council, which owns the mill, has been undertaking a range of restoration works including repairing slats to the Vestry and Crown, while the whole structure has been given two coats of tar to weatherproof it. And, as restoration works draw to a close on the Grade II-listed building, council bosses are promising the mill church will be ready for the Heritage Open Days Weekend on September 9-12, with the rest of the building opening shortly after. Councillor Mike Miller, executive Reigate Heath Windmill - Renovation. member for planning, transport and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/632932 housing, said: © Copyright Ian Capper (Creative Commons Licence)

“The old tail post was showing signs of decay. “The new one, carved from a specially selected Douglas Fir tree, has been made in the same style “and will be fitted in the same way as the old one. “The work is being carried out as part of our remit to maintain our historic buildings. “Once completed, Reigate Heath windmill will be a gleaming beacon on our skyline again.” A 6ft length of the old tail post and the original peg workings will be going to the local Holmesdale Museum in Reigate. The tail post was used by the miller to turn the windmill into the wind and then he would set the sails. The mill has not worked by wind since 1862. This article appeared at www.getsurrey.co.uk (search for ‘windmill’). ¤

Surrey Industrial History Group Officers Chairman & SIHG Lectures Organiser: Robert Bryson, [email protected] Secretary: Alan Thomas, [email protected] Treasurer: (vacant) Membership Secretary: David Evans, [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Jan Spencer, [email protected]

Published by the Industrial History Group and printed by YesPrint 3 Leafy Oak Workshops Cobbetts Lane Yateley GU17 9LW © SIHG 2010 ISSN1355-8188 Newsletter 177 September 2010 2 Contents 1 Reigate Heath Windmill Renovation 2 Notices 3 Venues, Times & Contacts & Diary: 20 September - 30 November 6 Surrey Industrial History Group Officers 5 Is Ockham Mill an Odious Building? by Alan Crocker 7 Industrial Archaeology News No 154 Autumn 2010 report by Gordon Knowles

Reports & Notices Details of meetings are reported in good faith, but information may become out of date. Please check details before attending.

SIHG Visits, Details & Updates at www.sihg.org.uk

SIHG Outing- - 28 Oct - see p 3.

Members' Talks If you would like to give a short talk on a holiday experience or your research on an Industrial Archaeology topic, please sign up for 7 December 2010. Please contact Bob Bryson, [email protected].

Surrey Archaeological Society Autumn Conference 2010 - The Research Framework Building Materials from Timber to Tiles Saturday 20 November 2010 0930 - 1630 Presentations on a Range of Materials by eminent Specialists from English Heritage and the Commercial World The Dixon Hall, The Institute, 67 High Street, , Surrey KT22 8AH Tickets from the Society, Castle Arch, , GU1 3SX £8 in advance, £10 on the day. Details: www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk

Barrett, Exall & Andrewes - Reading Pioneers in Steam Museum of English Rural Life, Reading. Wednesday 3 November 2010, 1300-1400. The Reading Iron Works was one of the foremost builders of steam engines in the nineteenth century. Roy Green, an expert on the history of the company, and Dr Jonathan Brown, MERL Honorary Fellow, give a guide to the business and its engines. Free and open to all, but advance booking is essential, 0118 378 8660 or [email protected]. MERL, Relands Road, Reading RR1 5EX. www.reading.ac.uk/merl

Council for British Archaeology / Association for Industrial Archaeology East Midlands Regional Industrial Heritage Day School Hosiery and Lace Industries + site visit in the afternoon to lace mills in Long Eaton & Erewash Canal Thursday 11 November 2010, 0930 - 1630. Booking: www.britarch.ac.uk at Long Eaton Art Room, Granville Avenue, Long Eaton, Derbyshire Newsletter 177 September 2010 3 SIHG Newsletter No 177 September 2010 DIARY The 35th series of SIHG Industrial Archaeology Lectures starts on 29 September 2010 on alternate Tuesdays, 1930 - 2130 at the (Lecture Theatre F). Enquiries to programme co-ordinator, Bob Bryson, [email protected]. Maps at www.sihg.org.uk Free parking is available in the evening on the main campus car park. Single lectures at £5, payable on the night, are open to all.

The Autumn 2010 Thursday Morning Lecture Series at Leatherhead starts on 23 September 2010. Enquiries to Leatherhead programme co-ordinator Ken Tythacott, [email protected]. As seating is strictly limited, enrolment is for the whole course only; casual attendance is not possible.

Diary September 2010 23 Thu Surrey Industrial History Group: New Lecture Course at Leatherhead. 28 Tue Surrey Industrial History Group New Lecture Series (Guildford): Watches in , the First Hundred Years, 1580-1680 by David Thompson, Curator of Horology, British Museum Diary October 2010 12 Tue Surrey Industrial History Group Lecture Series: The Cable Ships of Turnchapel by John Avery, Local Historian. 26 Tue Surrey Industrial History Group Lecture Series: Replicating British Army Aircraft No 1 by David Wilson, Farnborough Air Sciences Trust. 28 Thu Surrey Industrial History Group: Half Term Visit London Transport Museum & Tower Bridge, page 3. Diary November 2010 09 Tue Surrey Industrial History Group Lecture Series: Robert Stephenson - Eminent Engineer by Dr Michael Bailey, Past-President, Newcomen Society. 20 Sat Surrey Archaeological Society: Conference - Building Materials from Timber to Tiles, see page 2. 23 Tue Surrey Industrial History Group Lecture Series: Start, Stop, and Start Again: Building the Oxted Line ( to Oxted) in 1865-67 & 1880-84 by PaulSowan, Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society.

Surrey Industrial History Group Half-term Visit on Thursday 28 October 2010 London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, followed, after lunch, by a visit to the Tower Bridge Exhibition. The London Transport Museum tells the story of the development of the capital’s bus, tram, trolley-bus and underground railway systems, the effect that this had on the lives of Londoners and the growth of suburbia. Tower Bridge, opened in 1894, was one of several designs to provide a new river crossing without impeding ships seeking to sail into the Pool of London. Visitors ascend the North tower by lift to the upper walk-way level where there is a video telling the history of the building of the bridge. As visitors cross the enclosed walk-ways they will find models, drawings and photographs about the bridge as well as panoramic views across London, so bring your cameras. After descending the South tower the visit continues to the plant rooms where the steam engines and hydraulic gear which operated the bascules of the bridge are excellently preserved and presented. Refreshment facilities. There is a café in the London Transport Museum and many places for lunch round Covent Garden. Travel arrangements. The coach will depart from the rear car park of the Leatherhead Leisure Centre promptly at 0900. In your timings please allow for the traffic congestion through Leatherhead at this time. The coach will then pick up passengers from near the public car park by the Sainsbury’s roundabout on the A3100 at Burpham (not Sainsbury’s own car park) before proceeding to London on the A3. After lunch the coach will transport us from Covent Garden to Tower Bridge at a time to be announced. The intention is that we should return to Leatherhead by around 1715. When approaching the Leisure Centre do not park in the first car park on your left but continue past the Centre buildings and park in the farthest section of the rear car park. It is free of charge. Cost. The cost of entry fees, the coach and driver’s gratuity will be £20, reduced to £10 for those who are enrolled on the Leatherhead SIHG Thursday course. Guests will be welcome subject to availability of seating on the coach. Further details from Ken Tythacott - [email protected], Geoff Roles - [email protected], or Robert Bryson [email protected].

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Other IA Organisations

Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre: next to Amberley railway station, , www,amberleymuseum.co.uk. Association for Industrial Archaeology: www.industrial-archaeology.org. Basingstoke Canal Authority: 01252 370073. Brighton Circle (London, Brighton & South Coast Railway): www.lbscr.demon.co.uk. Chatham Historic Dockyard: Kent ME4 4TZ; www.chdt.org.uk. Cobham Bus Museum: London Bus Preservation Trust, Redhill Road, Cobham, Surrey KT11 1EF; www.lbpt.org. Visitor Centre: Aiport House, Purley Way Croydon CR0 0XZ; www.croydon-airport.org.uk. Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society: meetings: Small Hall, Hall, Grove, E Croydon. Cuffley Industrial Heritage Society: Northaw Village Hall, 5 Northaw Road West, Northaw EN6 4NW; www.cihs.org.uk. Didcot Railway Centre: Access via Didcot Parkway Station; www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk. Docklands History Group: Museum in Docklands, No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, London, E14 4AL; www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk. East London History Society : Latimer Church Hall, Ernest Street, E1; www.eastlondonhistory.org.uk. Enfield Society: Jubilee Hall, 2 Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ; www.enfieldsociety.org.uk. U3A: http://fetchamu3a.org.uk/home.htm. Greenwich Industrial History Society: Old Bakehouse, Age Exchange Centre, 11 Blackheath Village, SE3 (opposite Blackheath Station). Great Dorset Steam Fair: South Down, Tarrant Hinton, nr Blandford, Dorset DT11 8HX; www.gdfs.co.uk. Hampshire Archaeology Society (HIAS): Underhill Centre, St. John's Road, Hedge End, SO30 4AF. Hampshire Mills Group: www.hampshiremills.org. Heritage Open Days: 1 Waterehouse Square, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2ST; www.heritageopendays.org.uk. Honeywood Museum: by Ponds, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 3NX; www.friendsofhoneywood.co.uk. Kempton Great Engines: Feltham Hill Road, Hanworth, Middx TW13 6XH (off elevated section of A316); www.kemptonsteam.org. Kew Bridge Steam Museum: Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 0EN; www.kbsm.org. Lewisham Local History Society: Lewisham Methodist Church SE13 6BT. London Canal Museum: 12/13 New Wharf Road, N1 9RT; www.canalmuseum.org.uk. London Transport Museum, Acton Depot: 2 Museum Way, 118 - 120 Gunnersbury Lane, London, W3 9BQ; 020 7565 7298. London Underground Railway Society; Upper Room, All Souls Clubhouse, 141 Cleveland Street, London W1T 6QG; www.lurs.org.uk Windmill: near . Mid-Hants Railway (Watercress Line): Alresford Station, Alresford, Hants SO24 9JG or Alton Station, Alton, Hants GU34 2PZ; www.watercressline.co.uk. Newcomen Society London: Fellows’ Room, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD. Newcomen Society Portsmouth: Room 0.27, Portland Building, University of Portsmouth, St James Street off Queen Street, Portsea. Open City London (Open House London): www.open-city.org.uk. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard: www.historicdockyard.co.uk. Railway & Canal Historical Society: The Rugby Tavern, Rugby Street, London WC1; www.rchs.org.uk Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Local History Group: Time & Talents Centre, Old Mortuary, St Mary Church Street, Rotherhithe Village, SE16; www.kingstairs.com/rotherhithe. Royal Gunpowder Mills: Waltham Abbey; www.royalgunpowdermills.com. Rural Life Centre, Old Kiln Museum, Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey GU10 2DL. Shalford Mill (National Trust), Shalford Guildford Surrey GU4 8BX. , & Local History Society: Shere Village Hall, Gomshall Lane, Shere GU5 9HE; www.sherehistorysociety.co.uk. Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Society: Housing Co-op Hall, 106 The Cut SE1 8LN (almost opposite the Old Vic). : Postmill Close, Shirley, Croydon CR0 5DY; [email protected]. STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway: Kemble Drive, Swindon, SN2 2TA; www.steam-museum.org.uk Surrey & Hampshire Canal Society (The Basingstoke Canal): Pavilion, Station Road, Chobham; ww.basingstoke-canal.org.uk. Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society (SIAS): www.sussexias.co.uk. Sussex Mills Group: www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk. Twyford Waterworks:Hazeley Road, Twyford, Hampshire SO21 1QA; www.twyfordwaterworks.co.uk/. Wealden Iron Research Group: Nutley Memorial Hall, Sussex, (North end of village, West side of A22). Westcott Local History Group: Westcott Reading Room, Westcott near , Surrey RH4 3NP; [email protected]. Wey & Arun Canal Trust: The Granary, Flitchfold Farm, Loxwood Billingshurst, West Sussex RH14 ORH; www.weyandarun.co.uk. Wings & Wheels at Dunsfold Park: near Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 8TB; www.wingsandwheels.net.

Institute of Welsh Affairs History Heritage & Urban Regeneration A One-day Conference at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. Thursday 14 October 2010 0930 - 1730 The day will explore how history and heritage, particularly of our industrial past, can help inform creative and sustainable regeneration. The day will also launch a new project, funded by the ESRC, on the Local and Global Worlds of Welsh Copper at Swansea University. Conference tickets: £40 for IWA members £50 for non-members. Booking: 029 2066 0820 or [email protected]; www.iwa.org.uk/en/events/view/100. Institute of Welsh Affairs, 4 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9LJ Newsletter 177 September 2010 5

Is Ockham Mill an Odious Building? by Alan Crocker

In 2007 SIHG awarded its annual conservation plaque to the Horsley Countryside Preservation Society (HCPS) for its initiative in conserving a series of bridges built by Lord Lovelace, mainly in the 1860s, on his forest estate south of . As part of its efforts to obtain a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, HPCS is now extending this Lovelace Bridges Project to include other Lovelace buildings in East Horsley and neighbouring villages. One of these buildings is Ockham Mill (NGR TQ 0559 5792) and HPSC asked me for my comments on it and to write a note for the their magazine Around & About Horsley. This appeared in the Summer 2010 issue and is the basis of the present note. In his book Old Surrey Water-Mills, published in 1951, Jack Hillier describes this mill as an ‘odious building with architectural embellishments associated Ockham Mill in the early 19th century, with misapplied Ruskinian decoration’. based on a reproduction of a painting in the Minet Library, Lambeth. He did however note that the garden of the adjacent Millstream Cottage is ‘one of the loveliest in Surrey’. Lord Lovelace built the mill in published in 1990 (not the peculiar date MCMCX on the 1862 to replace the former timber mill, (shown left), that title page), Derek Stidder comments that the building is had been destroyed by fire. All that appears to survive of a fine example of a Victorian mill! this earlier mill is a cast-iron sluice gate with the partial inscription ‘LORD [WILLIAM] LOVELACE [18]41’. In 1296 Ockham had two watermills and in 1706 there The new mill is a large 4-storey brick building plus a was a mill on the present site. In 1707 Lovelace’s loft and has elaborate flat-arched windows with alternate ancestor Peter King acquired Ockham Park and later black and red cut bricks, string courses, terracotta tiles became Lord Chancellor. The Park stayed in the family with incised patterns and fancy ridge tiles (see below). until 1894. In 1862 the miller was Henry Bowyer and he All of this is of course typical of many Lovelace stayed 15 years. Then Alfred Tice took over and stayed buildings. In his book The Watermills of Surrey, until 1899 when the large agricultural firm of Henry (Continued on page 6)

Ockham Mill in about 1900. Newsletter 177 September 2010 6

(Continued from page 5) Moore & Son acquired the mill. It ceased working in 1927 and lay disused until 1958 when it was converted for residential use. However, the gearing was restored sympathetically by professional millwrights and the present owner had the superb internal, low breast-shot waterwheel restored and turning again in 1988. Its diameter is 14ft 6in, its width 9ft 10in and the iron shaft bears the legend ‘Filmer & Mason, Engineers, Guildford. 1880’. A photograph of this wheel, taken in the 1970s, is shown above. It powered five pairs of millstones and there are now at least nine old stones used as decorative features in the garden of Millstream Cottage. An interesting collection of items relating to the mill has been put on display on the ground floor of the mill adjacent to the gearing. They include an ammeter and a voltmeter manufactured by Drake & Gorham Ltd, London. This firm was formed in 1888 and installed early electrical lighting equipment in many grand country houses, including Chatsworth House for the Duke of Devonshire and Alnwick Castle for the Duke of Northumberland. It is tempting therefore to think The waterwheel in Ockham Mill in the 1970s. Photo: Francis Haveron, founding Secretary of SIHG.

that they also installed lighting in some of Lovelace’s properties and that electricity was generated by waterpower at Ockham Mill. However, the firm did not become a limited liability company until 1901 and therefore could not have used ‘Ltd’ after ‘Drake & Gorham’ until eight years after Lovelace died. Also, these particular meters are thought to date from the 1920s. A photograph of the face of the ammeter is shown on page 20. Jack Hillier, quoted in paragraph 2, died in 1995 and his obituary states that he was an authority on Japanese art and that his mother was connected with Lord Byron’s friend Scrope Berdmore Davies. The life of Scrope (which rhymes with ‘soup’ and not ‘soap’) is recorded in a book by T A J Burnett entitled The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy that was published in 1983. The foreword was written by Jack Hillier’s son Bevis, who is an authority on Art Deco. One can but wonder whether Jack knew that Lovelace’s first wife Ada was Lord Byron’s daughter. She was a brilliant mathematician and collaborated with Charles Babbage on his design of the early general-purpose computer, the analytical engine, and is credited with being the world’s first computer programmer. Perhaps Ockham Mill is an ‘odious building’ but I have certainly found it to be fascinating. ¤ Ockham Mill Now, wwwgeograph.org.uk/photo/518331. Photo: © Copyright Colin Smith. Licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. See page 7 for two more images. Newsletter 177 September 2010 7

Industrial Archaeology News No 154 Autumn 2010 report by Gordon Knowles

The April visit to Upper Normandy is described by The final visit was to the lace museum in Calais. The Richard Hartree. Three days were spent looking at the industry had been set up by English businessmen in port of Rouen and 120km upstream as far as Honfleur. A 1815.The museum has a working Leavers lace making visit was made to the Port Authority Head Office, where machine and several displays of more recent it was pointed out that the Rouen complex of harbours is developments in textile materials. the fifth largest in France. A tour made along the docks Mark Sissons describes three more ventures supported revealed everything from containers ships to cruise by the AIA from its recent anonymous bequest. The liners. An unusual feature noted was a waste incinerator/ Hoylandswaine nail makers workshop between Barnsley electricity generating plant built to resemble the outline and Pennistone needed urgent roof repairs, which have of an ocean liner. Wheat is exported to Algeria and wine been started with the aid of the AIA grant. The site was imported to blend with local wines. a small family workshop with three forges and was still The former textile industry and museum in an 1822 producing foundry nails by hand until WWII. The cotton mill in the valley of the river Cailly was visited. National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port was The mill still has a waterwheel driving machinery to assisted to restore a coal box boat of mixed wooden and produce braided and plaited textile products. At iron construction. It was the forerunner of today’s Montville a fire fighting museum was next on the list; it container vessels. The final grant this year went to the contains a wide range of appliances from a 1722 hand Chaldron Waggon Project at Beamish Museum, County pump to a late 20th c. 36m extended ladder engine. Next Durham. The museum is working to rebuild two rakes of the impressive 27 arch brick Barrentin Viaduct, 100ft chaldron waggons to enable a demonstration set to be high and 600yards long. Designed by Joseph Locke and available. Repairs made in the 1970s, often in softwood, built by Thomas Brassey in 1846, it collapsed soon are life expired. A concurrent scheme to provide covered afterwards - the reason was never discovered - and was storage is also in hand. rebuilt by Brassey at his own expense. Then a visit to the Applications for Restoration Grants for 2011 can now be private venture Maritime Museum in Rouen. Some made up to June next year: details are on the AIA members of the group then visited a stationary steam website. engine and two rotative beam engines at a local waterworks, while others visited more museums. (There Ian Drysdale reports that the Farme Colliery winding did seem to be a lot of museums visited, perhaps engine, erected in 1810 at Rutherglen near Glasgow, is the only way these days to see relics of industry, as now in the Summerlee Museum at Coatbridge. It is so few remain in situ. GK). reputed to be one of the last working Newcomen rotative engines, but there is some doubt now as there were two Then on to the Moulin de Hautville at Brotonne, which th th other engines on site, it is possible that data from them had first operated in the 13 c. By the 19 c. it had has been confused over the years. become a with a thatched roof on the rotating cap. It has now been completely restored. Next to yet Bob Carr reports on a number of another museum, a maritime one at Caubebec-en-Caux, activities, or lack of them, including the delay in moving where a display illustrated how the tide is used to enable the St.Pancras gasholders to a new site to the northwest ocean going vessels to go up to Rouen and back of Kings Cross station. Work is going ahead on the new downstream again. Next to the Palais Benedictine at University of the Arts in the Grade II listed Granary Fecamp where the medicinal herbal drink made by the complex to the north of the Regent’s Canal. The engine monks for centuries has been used since 1863 to flavour house at Markfield Road in the Lea Valley has been alcoholic spirit to make the well-known liqueur. (There transformed and the 1886 Woolf compound beam is no reference to samples being drunk, but I am engine is now regularly steamed. Bob reports on the th sure there were. At least they were when I visited 100 anniversary celebrations of A.V.Roe’s flight from the site some years ago! GK). Hackney Marshes and the re-opening of the Brunel (Continued on page 8)

Ammeter at Ockham Mill. Photo: Penelope Veiga-Pires for HCPS. Ada Countess of Lovelace Newsletter 177 September 2010 8

(Continued from page 7) tunnel on the underground system under the Thames, following closure in 1995 for major repairs. Foot passengers were allowed to walk through over 12-13 March before the line re-opened to traffic. A large 12th c. timber tide mill was discovered at Greenwich in 2008, the site has been thoroughly recorded and the remains of the waterwheel have gone to the York Archaeological Trust for preservation. The site is now being re-developed with housing. Attempts to list jetties and silos at the former Tunnel Glucose Refineries close by the Blackwall Tunnel were unsuccessful and a photographic recording was made last September. Demolition has now started. SIHG Secretary Alan Thomas, who is the correspondent for the South East, reports at some length on regional matters including demolition of more 1950s buildings on the Manor Royal Industrial Estate in , Sussex, and the cement works at Northfleet and Halling in Kent. Also the final demolition of the former Aveling and Porter works in , also in Kent, although the company had moved to Grantham in the 1930s and survives as part of the Aveling- Barford group. (The Strood site has been part of the offices of the District Council for some years, and included a small industrial heritage centre containing A & P and Shorts Aviation material. I do not know where the records will be housed in future. GK). Rochester Common has been cleared for re- Sadly, efforts to save the former Aveling and Porter works have been in vain. development, no archaeological investigations of the industrial sites have th been made. These included the 18 c. shipyard where the sections scattered around the site have been re-united rd East Indiamen and 3 rate battleships were built. The and it is now located with other historic structures on the Folkestone Harbour railway branch has closed; there is Business Park. The Beachy Head lighthouse is among uncertainty as to the future of the line, viaduct and those listed for closure as they have become redundant station buildings. Also under threat is the Sittingbourne now that ships carry satellite navigation equipment. The and Kemsley Light Railway, with its early pre-stressed de Witt lime kilns at the Amberley Museum are being concrete viaduct, now that the older Lloyds paper mill restored following receipt of a Lottery Fund grant of buildings have been demolished. A regeneration scheme £400,000. Work continues on the Wey and Arun canal for the area is likely. to extend it north of Loxwood to Southland. A legacy The Explosives Museum at Gosport has been taken over has helped fund this work. On the Bluebell Line work by the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust and there proceeds at East Grinstead on the junction with the main are plans to run a ferry service to it across the harbour. line and the new platform is due to be opened in Lottery money has been provided for a new visitor September. Track is laid south of the station allowing centre at Fort Nelson on Portsdown Hill. A further £1.5 rubbish from the Imberhorne cutting to be moved by m is being raised in matching funds. The PS Ryde is rail. being demolished on the Isle of Wight but work was In Surrey Peter James is continuing work on the halted because of the presence of asbestos. In reconstruction, of which only the Southampton the Calshot Spit lightship was due to be roundhouse remained. Original methods and materials moved to Berth 49 in the Eastern Docks, adjacent to the have been used wherever possible. The interior will be new Ocean Terminal. Proposals have been announced fitted out as a dwelling. The postmill at is for a new museum complex at Trafalgar dry dock and being repaired by Council; it last Berth 50, including the relocation of Solent Sky worked in the 1920s, was damaged in WWII and Aviation museum. The scheme will include ships such repaired in 1950. Since then little has been done on the as the tug tender Calshot and ML Medusa. The portable structure. ¤ airship hangar at Farnborough has been listed Grade II,