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Museums of water are generally found in old The International waterworks or in industrial buildings that are Committee for the home to ancient, monumental steam engines. Opinion Conservation Others occupy those elderly water storage towers built at the end of the 19th century to of the Industrial supply the great metropolises with water. The Heritage Museo del Agua in Buenos Aires falls within this TICCIH last category, though it should be noted that this Jorge D. Tartarini is a water tower with certain peculiarities. Director of the Museo del Agua www.mnactec.com/ticcih One of these is its palatial appearance, an Buenos Aires, Argentina absolute festival of polychromatic ornament covering its exterior made of 350,000 glazed ceramic tiles, imported from Great Britain. For an Another uncommon characteristic is hidden international beneath the architectonic envelope: a cast-iron network structure of 180 columns that supports three floors and twelve reserve tanks, also made of of water and riveted iron, with a capacity for 72,700,000 litres waterworks of water. It was conceived as a showpiece, the terracotta museums exterior made by the English firm of Royal Glazed expressions - the Doulton, while the Belgian foundry Marcinelle et magnificent façade of Buenos Coulliet manufactured the metal interior frame, Aires water supply tower, now the Museo del Agua. considered one of the most important industrial structures erected at the end of the Photo: Museo del Agua 19th century outside of Europe. Built between 1887 and 1894 in the full flush of Argentina’s agricultural export development model and in a city that had embarked on a marked process of Europeanisation, today it is one of the most powerful symbols of the importance which governments of the period gave to health and hygiene. The authors of the project, and of the sanitary plan for the Radio Antiguo Buenos Aires, were the English engineers Bateman, Parsons and Bateman. In the Museo del Agua, the only one of its type in the city, you can learn about the history of the Palace itself, along with historic sanitary artefacts by various manufacturers and sources, national and imported taps and pipe work, and old furniture of the Obras Sanitarias de la Nación. The route through the Museo culminates in the heart of the building, where the iron tanks that supplied the water to the city from 1894 to 1978 can be appreciated, some of them now reused to hold the biggest archive of historical plans in the city. This museum is one of the activities of the Historical Heritage Programme, in which a team of researchers and specialists from CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) is incorporated, and which is occupied in everything to do with the preservation of the industrial heritage of public health works, publications, conferences, meetings and other outreach programmes. It also collaborates with the Programme of the Argentine Committee for Industrial Heritage (COAPI), set up in April, 2005, and is working on different activities of the Argentine Committee of TICCIH, also recently established. number 30 It would be magnificent if all the water museums in different countries could come 1 together and create a network, based on their shared interests and common summer, 2005 problems, that would enable them to exchange, communicate and debate our This bulletin is experiences in the research, conservation and diffusion of this industrial heritage. produced and Inside: Let this little text be an invitation to everyone in joining this initial step to set up an distributed with Flax Mill International Network for Museums of Water. Please contact the author at the the support of following address: Museo del Patrimonio, Riobamba 750 – 1er. Piso, (C1025AAP) the mNACTEC Buenos Aires, Argentina; [email protected] Telefax: +54-11-63191104. [email protected] Board meeting in Japan. With only a welcomed, and discussions are now small number of TICCIH Trustees able to underway. attend the Intermediate conference in Japan, There are currently two vacancies for board TICCIH and restricted time for discussion, the members, caused by Eugene Logunov’s meeting only managed to get through part of sudden death and Eric Nijhof’s decision not the Agenda prepared by Stuart Smith. The to continue. An election will be held as part of number of conferences that TICCIH is the General Assembly next year, but Stuart news organising or sponsoring extends well into Smith would be pleased to hear from any the next few years, with preparation for the National Representatives or Correspondents thirteenth congress next September in Terni one who would like to stand. well underway – the First Announcement and Call for Papers has been put out and can be The new members who joined downloaded from the TICCIH web site – TICCIH Officers TICCIH over the summer are Andres while the Latin-American conference in Chile President: Eusebi Casanelles Sanchez and José Luis Garcia Rubalcava Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de in March next year already has a good Catalunya number of adherents. A further regional from Mexico, Monica Ferrari, Prof. Magda Rambla d’Égara 270, meeting in Argentina is being planned by Dr Fernàndez who teaches industrial heritage at E-08221 Terrassa, Spain the University of Barcelona, Lars Bergström Secretary: Stuart B. Smith OBE, Jorge Tartarini, author of this issue’s cover ‘Chygarth’, 5 Beacon Terrace article, for 2007. Meanwhile, the Board of the Forsviks Industriminnen Camborne, Cornwall TR14 7BU, UK received a proposal from Portugal to hold the (www.forsvik.com), and Marion Steiner, who Membership Secretary: Dr Maria Teresa Maiullari Pontois 14th congress there in 2009 which was is concerned with coal mining heritage. 39, rue de Fourqueux, 78100 Sainte-Germain-en-Laye France Editor: James Douet, office of the President Publications Patrimoine de l’industrie / from 28€, there is a discount for TICCIH The TICCIH Bulletin is published and distributed four times a year. Information Industrial Patrimony members, and all the information can be for the Bulletin should be sent as early found on a form on the TICCIH website. as possible. TICCIH’s scholarly Stuart B. Smith Final dates for receiving information: journal was publis- 31 May for July mailing 31 August for October mailing hed last month. It 30 November for January mailing acknowledges ICO- L’Archéologie Industrielle 29 February for April mailing MOS’ partnership, en France TICCIH is the world organisation for in- but the work of pro- dustrial archaeology, promoting conserva- ducing this, the thir- The de luxe tion, research, recording and education in production and fine all aspects of industrial heritage. It holds a teenth edition, is triennial conference and organises interim borne largely by the illustrations in the conferences on particular themes. Indivi- editor and his assis- flagship francophone dual membership is £15 and corporate tant, Professor Ber- journal reflect the membership £35. Payment to TICCIH, Lloyds TSB Bank geron and Maria Teresa Pontois. It is the support provided by plc, 27 Fore Street, Redruth, Cornwall only truly international magazine in the in- the Ministry of TR15 2BJ, UK; Account No: 1351659, dustrial heritage world, its global scope Culture – where Bank Sort Code: 30 97 00. made clear not only by the multilingual edi- else? - for CILAC’s There is an on-line membership form on the web page. torial policy – six articles are presented in twice-yearly English, five in French and one in Spanish publication. The lead – but also their transcontinental range. In a article, ‘How beauty comes to factories’, first half titled ‘state of the art’ of industrial discusses the criteria used to assess heritage in the Americas there are summa- industrial architecture. Notable in the first ries from Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Cu- section is a paper based on a presentation Editor: News, information, and articles ba, an update on the Lachine Canal story to ICOHTEC in 2003 on the use of are welcome and should be sent to James from Canada, and Eric Delony’s account of computer-aided mechanical conceptions to 2005 Douet at the office of the TICCIH Presi- HAER’s beginnings, with photos of both render different historical technological dent, Eusebi Casanelles, mNACTEC, Rambla d’Ègara 270, Terrassa E-08221, the Greek Revival Louisville waterworks systems more understandable for museum Spain, tel.: +34 93736 8966, fax: +34 and Rocket Row, the Apollo programme visitors. In the second part, three examples 93736 8960, [email protected] launch site at Cape Canaveral. of characteristically French historic 2 Opinions expressed in the Bulletin are the In the second half, Knowing World industrial projects are discussed, the authors’, and do not necessarily reflect Heritage, covers methodology, through the magnificent royal tobacco factory in those of TICCIH. analisis of industrial landscapes, Morlaix, erected in 1740, the equally grand Contributions: Thanks to all the contri- conservation and interpretation. In the final Second Empire armaments works in butors to this issue of the Bulletin, espe-

30 cially David Brand, Keith Falconer, María piece the (Museo dell’Industria e del Lavoro Sainte-Etienne, and the controversy over Elena Méndez Pagola, Professor Patrick (Labour and Industry Museum) project is the search for a home for the national Martin, Gustav Rossnes, Professor Akira presented, a programme to preserve the printing collection, which was founded by

number Oita, Stuart B. Smith, Dr Jorge D. Tarta- rini and Patrick Viaene. memory of the steelworks and mechanical Richlieu in 1640. plants which once made Sesto San The journal is distributed free to members, Design: Xavier Solé/Disseny Visual, SL Giovanni the sixth industrial city in Italy. who pay 16€ subscription. Dipòsit Legal: B-23.114-1998 Individual subscription to the journal costs See www.cilac.com ISSN: 1605-6647 report

Marshall, Benyon and Bage’s Ditherin- Ditherington Flax cused almost exclusively on the textile ton Flax Mill constructed 1796-97 on the phase of use of the site and its findings outskirts of in Shopshire, Eng- Mill: a fresh life. were to provide the basis of Trinder’s 1992 land needs little introduction to students of article. The maltings phase was virtually ig- the development of fire-proof buildings. Its Keith Falconer nored in this first report and this omission pedigree as the first iron-framed fire-proof English Heritage was addressed by a separate report by Am- mill was established by Turpin Bannister as ber Patrick in 1999. This latter report con- early as 1950 and subsequent work by cluded that though the maltings phase was Skempton and Johnson, W G Rimmer and of some historical interest as the plant had Barrie Trinder have greatly increased our probably been designed by Henry Stopes, understanding of this seminal site of the In- a noted late-19th century malting engineer, dustrial Revolution. Its claim to fame as so little of his work survived that the site one of the earliest steam powered textile was not nationally significant as a maltings. mills, remote from any source of water Since its closure, numerous schemes have power, has been less well broadcast. been proposed for re-use of the site, but The history of the site and its expansion by the Royal Commission on the Historical none have materialised. Meanwhile the with the provision of a warehouse, work- Monuments of , and the Ironbridge buildings, some of which were Listed shops, a dye-house and stove by 1804, Gorge Museum Trust was commissioned Grade I, slowly deteriorated and by 1999 the provision of gas lighting in 1811 and by English Heritage to supplement this such was the concern for their structural in- Apprentice House of 1812 has been ably work with further survey and an historical tegrity that they were placed on English chronicled by Trinder1. His contextual evaluation. The Ironbridge report by Heritage’s Buildings at Risk Register and background and summary description of MacLeod, Trinder and Worthington, fo- chosen to launch the initiative in that year. Subsequent negotiations with a succession of owners and developers have also come to naught and the local authority, with Eng- lish Heritage’s backing, served an Urgent Works Notice in September 2003. Emer- gency works were subsequently put into ef- fect and completed in March 2004 at a cost to English Heritage of almost £200,000. In March 2005, following the developers going into receivership, English Heritage purchased the site with funding from Advantage (the Re- gional Development Agency). After ninety years as a textile mill, a second ninety years as a maltings, is en- The interior of the mill during its time as a The cast-iron columns and capitals for tering a third life as mixed-use develop- maltings. running the line shafting bearing the wide ment. The sensitive redevelopment of such Photo: Archives jack-arch floor. Photo: Shropshire Archives a significant and fragile site will be a huge challenge for English Heritage. the structural elements of the Main Mill and Editor’s note: TICCIH members of long standing may remember visiting the Flax Mill and of the further fireproof buildings – the Flax appreciate its historical interest, even if not entirely agreeing with the enthusiastic as- sessment of Sir Neil Cossons, Chairman of English Heritage and Honorary Chairman Warehouse of 1805 and the Cross Mill (re- of TICCIH: ‘Ditherington Flax Mill is an outstanding building of international importance built as fire-proof in 1811-12) provide the

and one of the most significant monuments of the Industrial Revolution. It is one of 2005 essential introduction to the mill. The sub- those rare structures that changed the world of construction and design. With its revo- sequent history of the site - its closure as a lutionary iron frame it was the predecessor of the modern sky-scraper.’ textile mill in 1886, conversion c.1896 into The intervention of the national conservation organisation English Heritage highlights a a maltings, its alteration and operation as a very modern argument in favour of protecting and conserving historic buildings, and one 3 maltings over the next century is less well especially applied to industrial ones that may lack the aesthetic or associative values that recorded. justify preservation of other types of architectural heritage. They can be, as one of the Malting ceased on the site in 1987 and in local town representatives claimed, ‘the catalyst for further development, in an area that has been neglected and run down for many years.’ The director of EH’s partner in the 1988 the empty buildings were recorded 30 purchase, said: ‘This is an important step towards restoring the Flax Mill to its former glory. We are confident that the redevelopment of the site will have a positive knock-on

effect for the surrounding area, which provides an opportunity for future redevelopment number and regeneration. Eventually, the Flax Mill should provide the focus for a vibrant gate- 1. Trinder, Barrie, ‘Ditherington Flax Mill, way into the heart of the town centre.’ For a detailed history of the site see the article Shrewsbury – A re-evaluation’, Textile History in www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk 23 (2),189-223, 1992 worldwide

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Documenting Road-Building in America’s National Parks

Timothy Davis Park Historic Structures & Cultural Landscape Program U.S. National Park Service

This article on current monument recording in the US follows the three previous ones introduced by Eric Delony in the last TICCIH Bulletin

The construction of tour routes in U.S. national parks is an important chapter in the history of American road-building. From the earliest days in Yellowstone and Yosemite, where crews labored with hand tools and horse-drawn equipment, to the “Golden Age” of park development in the 1930s, to recent achievements such as the Blue Ridge Parkway’s widely acclaimed Linn Cove Viaduct, national park road-builders have surmounted enormous logistical, technological, and environmental challenges to produce an internationally renowned transportation network that combines a high-degree of engineering sophistication with exemplary landscape aesthetics. Not only do millions of visitors enjoy the fruits of these labors every time they visit a national park, but this union of technological and aesthetic concerns significantly influenced road- building practices throughout the United States and was subsequently emulated in many parts of the world. Despite their subtle naturalistic aesthetics and seemingly primitive appearance, America’s national park roads and parkways are important aspects of the world’s industrial and technological heritage. From 1988 to 2002, the U.S. National Park Road Evolution, Yellowstone National the broader landscape settings of park Park Service’s Historic American Park (HAER 1999) roads and interpret the process of park Engineering Record (HAER) undertook an Linn Cove Viaduct, Blue Ridge Parkway road-building as a complex set of practices ambitious project aimed at documenting (HAER 1997) involving aesthetic decisions, and interpreting these extraordinary programmatic concerns, technological cultural resources. Formed in 1969 to considerations, environmental factors, and 2005 create a permanent record of America’s such as Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and construction techniques. Additional industrial and engineering heritage, HAER Chickamauga/Chattanooga. A number of drawings communicated a broad range of has long enjoyed an international exemplary non-Park Service roads were contextual information and traced the ways reputation for the scope and excellence of documented as well, including the Merritt, in which roads and related features 4 its documentation programs. Beginning Bronx River, and Arroyo Seco Parkways evolved over time. with a pilot project on bridges in the parks and Oregon’s Historic Columbia River By the time the program drew to a close, of the nation’s capital, HAER rapidly Highway. HAER had documented dozens of park road expanded both the geographic range and The graphic documentation produced by systems and hundreds of individual bridges,

30 conceptual breadth of the documentation the HAER NPS Park Roads and Bridges producing over 4,000 large-format program. Research teams spread across Program was as diverse and photographs, 476 measured and interpretive the country, surveying parks as diverse as comprehensive as the list of parks drawings, and more than 10,000 pages of number Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, and Acadia. surveyed. While initial efforts focused on written history. This material is archived in the All the major national parkways were bridges and relied on traditional sections, Library of Congress and many of the projects documented, along with a representative elevations, and axonometric drawings, the are already accessible via the library’s “Built in sample of commemorative military parks survey methodology expanded to depict America” website. worldwide

HAER’s desire to make the results of the The SIWE secretariat (with two officers), recognition of its value and inadequate park road documentation more publicly the documentation centre and the SIWE investment in its maintenance. accessible led to the production of a free collection are housed in an outstanding Our industrial heritage is primarily of brochure series, a major exhibition at the 19th Century flourmill (Molens Van European origin, but in Argentina the National Building Museum in Washington, Orshoven), located in the harbour of public and private conservation agencies D.C., and a lavishly illustrated large-format Leuven (Louvain), a building who was are unaware of the value that the local publication America’s National Park Roads recently protected as a listed monument heritage has for constructing local identity. and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic by the Flemish government, and a rare We look for support to push back these American Engineering Record, which was example of industrial architecture in that attitudes. We hope that the companies edited by program leaders Timothy Davis, city. that had responsibility for building this Todd Croteau, and Christopher Marston During the last years, SIWE has taken heritage will join in ensuring its survival, and released by John Hopkins University actions for the study and preservation of part of their institutional history, and will Press in December 2004. This volume many industrial sites in Flanders, for activate mechanisms to preserve and conveys a wealth of technical information example the coke factory in Zeebrugge, recognise its value. and showcases a broad array of innovative the railway workhouses of Kessel-Lo, the Our studies show how the industrial techniques for documenting and watermills “‘s Hertogenmolens” in Aars- heritage is in decline. One flour mill of interpreting industrial heritage and chot, the “jenever distillery Smeets in architectural importance in the port area associated cultural landscapes. Hasselt and many others. was destroyed by fire in 2001, and The number of individual and associative demolished soon after. The brick SIWE-members has grown firmly during warehouses of Puerto Quequén are still Belgium the last three years. More information standing, erected by the French Sociéte about SIWE-membership and our work des Grands Travaux de Marseille from can be found on website www.siwe.be 1908, as is the H Yrigoyen transporter Flanders’ dynamic industrial Our address is : Stapelhuisstraat 15, B- bridge, constructed by another French and scientific heritage 3000 Leuven (Belgium). company, Chantiers et Ateliers de la association: SIWE Email: [email protected] Gironde, between 1927-28. The bridge is (Steunpunt voor Industrieel en a recognised national symbol of the region Wetenschappelijk Erfgoed) that links the two towns, but which has not been maintained since it was finished. It Argentina Patrick Viaene notably survived the floods of 1980 that destroyed all the other bridges across the SIWE-President Río Quequén. Managing Argentina’s As a member of the recently-founded Since the acknowledgment and industrial heritage Argentine Committee for the Industrial financial support of the Ministry of the Heritage (COAPI), I am appealing for Flemish Community in 2001, SIWE has María Elena Méndez Pagola information on the European antecedents become during the last years an important [email protected] of these structures, as well as the association in the field of the industrial and companies and individuals who designed scientific heritage in Flanders and The first research and preservation and built them, and for solidarity with our Brussels. Since about 1975 the first steps efforts have been made to conserve the efforts to conserve the heritage in a were taken (in Flanders and Brussels) in valuable industrial heritage of the difficult time for our country. this multi-disciplinary heritage field, and Necochea-Quequén area in the south- We hope that preserving this heritage and the movement became mature in the east of the Buenas Aires province of making sure that it doesn’t disappear will 1980s and 1990s. Argentina, whose heritage from the help strengthen the identify and sense of SIWE started in 1996 as a non-profit beginning of the 20th century is at risk of roots of young argentine people, and limit “platform”-association with 5 key disappearing because of a lack of their high levels of emigration. objectives : -The study, preservation, support and promotion of the industrial and scientific heritage as an important part of the Flemish cultural heritage, -The logistic and professional support of local and regional industrial and technical 2005 heritage associations, -The publication (since 1997) of its own review “SIWE-magazine” and newsletter “SIWE Nieuwsbrief”, 5 -The organisation of conferences and lectures, educative activities, exhibitions and actions “in the field”, the development

of visits and routes concerning industrial 30 and scientific heritage, -The development of an important collection of objects, machinery and number documents relating to any aspect of the evolution of industrialization and technology.

Silos and warehouses in the port area of Necochea-Quequén, Buenas Aires reportconference

Japan Industrial Heritage; C: Industrial Heritage in general; D: The Preservation of Industrial Cultural Assets and their Use as a Tourism TICCIH Intermediate Conference Resource; E: Revitalizing Communities 2005 & International Forum for through Industrial Tourism – Case Studies Industrial Tourism in Japan; F: Industrial Tourism in the world; Industrial Tourism G: Theme mixed. At these sessions, 39 and Community Building – papers in all were read. And now we, New Developments in TICCIH Japan Committee, JIAS and CSIH, Industrial Tourism will proceed with the publishing of the conference-book, which could be finished Nagoya/Aichi The Kårstø complex north of Stavanger by the end of 2005. July 6th – 8th, 2005 plays a key role in the transport and Four tours were given: Official Tour (1): processing of gas and condensate from Group-inspection to the EXPO 2005 Aichi; central areas of the Norwegian continental Professor Akira Oita Official Tour (2): Industrial Heritage Tour for shelf. SUAC / TICCIH Japan Chubu Region; Congress Tour by bus © Statoil (organized by CSIH) for the south-east of To hold some kind of TICCIH Chubu Region; and Post-congress Tour conference has been the dearest wish of for Kyoto. Invited keynote speakers introduced the the Japanese, which inspired the first We Japanese are satisfied that 31 TICCIH following themes: Prof. Rainer Wirtz, National Representative (1978-84) the late members from overseas enjoyed the University of Konstanz, Germany: “Factory Prof. Shuji Ohashi, the second (1984-90) conference and Japanese culture – the readability of cultural history in the late Prof. Hoshimi Uchida, and the third (including “Karaoke”) to their heart’s conservation projects and in reuse”; Dr. (1990-2000) Prof Kuniyuki Shoya. content. It was a landmark conference Miles Oglethorpe, Royal Commission on Fortunately Mr. Kotaro Tanaka, Chairman which will surely lead to many more in this the Ancient and Historical Monuments of of CSIH (Chubu Society for Industrial dramatic region. Scotland: “From omnipotence to obscurity: Heritage) an ex-businessman, introduced the disappearance of Scotland’s coal us – Mr Shoji Ishida, Secretary General of industry”; Åsmund Svendsen, Norwegian CSIH, and me – to Mr. Hiroshi Suda, Japan Norway Museum of Science and Technology: “De- Tourism Association Chubu Branch industrialisation of towns”; Eyvind Bagle, Director General and JR Tokai Advisor, who Norwegian Museum of Science and has a strong influence on the regional and Technology: “De-industrialisation of single communal cultural policy. In the fall of Industrial Heritage – Contemporary Challenges De- industry communities”; Harald Tønnesen, 2002 in Tokyo, we all met TICCIH General Norwegian Petroleum Museum: “The Secretary Stuart Smith when he visited industrialisation: Approaches to Contemporary Industries Ekofisk documentation project”; Gordon Japan and discussed the framework of the Liddle, South Georgia Heritage Trust: “The conference organization and we all – Stavanger aftermath of industry – environmental TICCIH, JIAS, CSIH, Aichi Prefecture, Conference 21 – 24 April 2005 problems in the shore whaling stations of Nagoya City and Nagoya Chamber of South Georgia (a far-fetched example)”; Commerce & Industry – came to an Gustav Rossnes and David Brand Piers T. Crocker, Norwegian Canning agreement with each other. Ticcih Norway Museum: “The closing down of the sardine Although TICCIH Board had hoped that as industry in Stavanger (and the decline of many people and countries from Asia as Large-scale technological systems have the local printing industry)”. possible would attend and be represented been essential in post-1950 industrial Industrial Heritage-Contemporary Cha- at the conference because it was the first infrastructure. The conference addressed llenges was initiated by TICCIH Norway in time a TICCIH conference had been held in modes of interpretation of these collaboration with the Norwegian Museum Asia, unfortunately anti-Japanese feeling infrastructures as industrial heritage. It of Science and Technology and the and the behavior of Chinese and Korean focused on the specific challenges of Norwegian Petroleum Museum, and was protesters developed into an international documentation and representation of sponsored by the South Georgia Heritage political issue, with the consequence that complex structures in transformation. The Trust and Conoco Philips.

2005 very few participants attended from other Western world is frequently cited as moving More than 30 professionals attended the Asian countries. In total, 16 nations in the direction of de-industrialized conference from as far away as Taiwan, the participated, inclusive of Japan, and an societies. This notion was placed under Falkland Islands and Portugal. Nearer audience of 648 heard the Keynote scrutiny. The issues raised will increasingly home there were delegates from Sweden 6 Speeches (one of two by Stuart Smith: confront people working in academic and and Scotland as well as many Norwegian “TICCIH and Industrial Tourism – the Way technological-industrial museums. The participants. Ahead”) and the Panel Discussion (the relevance for government bodies and As a concretisation of the theme President of TICCIH Eusebi Casanelles businesses with stewardship over large “Approaches to Contemporary Industries”

30 and a Director of JIAS Prof. Takashi Itoh technological infrastructures is evident. the conference excursion went to a gas were two of the five panelists). The event took place at the Norwegian terminal and the control centre for all North There were six sessions over the two days Petroleum Museum, which is situated in Sea gas. The participants were here number of the conference: A: Industrial Tourism the Norwegian oil capital, Stavanger. An confronted with a type of production plant and the role of NPO/NGO; B: Technology excursion to the country's central that was very alien for the majority of them. Transfer from the West to the East processing plant for natural gas was The Kårstø processing complex, north of (especially Japan) and its Impact on the included. Stavanger, plays a key role in the transport worldwide and processing of gas and condensate The conference in Stavanger concretised conference has grown each year in scope (light oil) from important areas of the this challenge and presented an example and scale. In addition to the presentations, Norwegian Continental Shelf. Its original as to how it might be solved (see INCUNA has produced a series of high purpose was to receive and treat gas from http://www.kulturminne-ekofisk.no/). It is quality publications about industrial heritage fields in the northern part of the Norwegian therefore our hope that the theme from our topics. The papers of previous conferences North Sea via the Statpipe trunk line conference can stimulate a broader are published each year, and a selection system. This remains a major function. Gas professional debate on how to meet these are available on the INCUNA website, began to arrive at the plant on 25 July contemporary challenges. www.incuna.org, where visitors are offered 1985, and the first consignment of lean the intriguing possibility of giving the papers gas was dispatched to Emden in northern between one and five stars for quality. Germany on 15 October that year. Spain The first day of the conference was devoted The processing facilities at the plant to presentations by members of TICCIH separate natural gas liquids from rich gas Spain, organized around the theme " arriving by pipeline. These NGLs are Military Industrial Heritage Industrial Heritage. Places in danger". fractionated into propane, normal and iso in Peace Time TICCIH members from around the country reported on the situations in their regions, butane, naphtha and ethane. The Kårstø INCUNA and TICCIH España complex ranks as the world's third largest followed by an extensive and lively roundtable discussion. This was an producer of liquefied petroleum gases Professor Patrick Martin (propane and butanes). This LPG is interesting discussion, with some focus exported to customers worldwide. provided by the National Plan for Industrial Nearly 150 persons participated in the Visitors to this vast plant cannot hear, smell Patrimony developed over the past few Seventh Conference of INCUNA, or see the production. No movement exists years. This year also saw the second organized around the theme of 'the study, except for a couple of maintenance workers edition of the International Photo Contest analysis, interpretation and valuation of the about Industrial Heritage, an extensive in orange boiler suits cycling for kilometres historical and industrial heritage generated exhibition of excellent photographs. There along the pipes and rows of tanks. The by war and for national defence carried out also were excursions to several sites around heart of the complex is the control room in different countries... since the end of the city of Gijon and the state of Asturias, with lots of computers and enormous the XVIII Century'. including military defences, museums such plasma screens around the walls showing Ten invited speakers presented on a variety as the marvellous Museo del Ferrocarril, process diagrams and production data. of topics from Argentina, Uruguay, France, and arms factories in Oviedo and Trubia. The gas flows from production installations Spain, the , and the United The INCUNA hosts were generous and to process plants, where natural gas liquids States. There were also over 30 brief helpful, the meeting facilities at the Cultural are separated out and exported by ship. presentations, selected from over 120 titles Institute were excellent, and the setting in The remaining dry gas is piped on to offered; about 10% of the presenters were Gijon was exceptional. receiving terminals in Continental Europe students, offering a fine venue for student The VIIth ICUNA conference was a great and the UK. work. Other presenters were architects, success, facilitating interaction among a Once the gas has been produced, it must archaeologists, historians, museum substantial number of international be carried to market. Unlike other professionals, government and military colleagues, and a spirited presentation of Norwegian export products, natural gas officials, and the range of interdisciplinary recent research from a variety of areas. If has its own submarine transport system. scholars we have come to expect in this conference is any measure, INCUNA This network is operated by Gassco’s Industrial Heritage studies. Begun as will become a major venue for the control room on Karmøy. Norway’s gas something of a "friends" gathering for dissemination of Industrial Heritage pipelines have a total length of 6 600 interested individuals around Asturias, this scholarship in the future. kilometres, equivalent to the distance from Oslo to Chicago (see: http://www.gassco. no/sw3044.asp). Obituary notice The visit to these two petroleum-related plants gave the participants much food for Hoshimi Uchida , 1926 – 2005 thought. Both the activities and plants are Hoshimi Uchida, aged 78, professor emeritus of the history of industrial technology at the very different from the physical Tokyo Keizai University, was killed in Tokyo on April 7, 2005 in a traffic accident.

manifestations in more traditional types of Hoshimi Uchida studied, just after World War II, applied chemistry (B.Sc. 1948) and econo- 2005 industry we know and are used to working mics (B.A. 1954) at the University of Tokyo. He had taught, investigated and wrote on the with. Reduction and closure at the oilfields Tokyo Keizai faculty of business administration for 34 years when he retired in 1997. Prior to mean dismantlement of all the rigs. All that his arrival at the Tokyo Keizai University in 1963, he had worked for three years as a scienti- will possibly remain are installations and fic researcher at the research office of chemical industry in the Ministry of Commerce and In- 7 pipelines on the seabed. On land there will dustry, for ten years at the Japan Foundation for Textile Economy and for two years at the Ja- be unspectacular office buildings full of pan Plastics Industry Research Office._His wife of 55 years, Ayako, née Suzuki, died of can- computers and monitoring screens as well cer in 2004 and so he was survived by two daughters – Eriko and Taeko – and their families. He was a visiting research fellow of the Imperial College (London), 1975-76 and a director as vast areas of pipeline that will most 30 probably be sold as scrap. of JIAS (Japan Industrial Archaeology Society, which was founded in 1977) till 1986. Also he was TICCIH National Representative of Japan 1984-1990, and a Board Member 1990- Many modern types of industry pose great 1992 because of the unification of East and West Germany. And the JIAS was 1987-1989 number challenges concerning the development of under the presidency of Prof. Uchida. So that he was much more looking forward to see you suitable methods for the documentation of this summer, young and old, boys and girls of TICCIH members, in Nagoya/Aichi. the such challenging industrial and Akira Oita, Prof. of SUAC, TICCIH National Representative of Japan (2000- ) historical environments. events

academics and heritage post congress tours 18 – 25th. meetings, with the General professionals from the Americas Call for papers Assembly on Monday 18th. There is TICCIH and Europe to compare and an intense programme of study contrast current approaches to the The thirteenth full TICCIH visits during the conference, and Conferences evaluation and conservation of conference will be held in northern two tour options, one to Naples and More conference infomation at industrial sites. Official languages: Italy next year, and will be on the the other the other the main Italian www.mnactec.com/ticcih/news.htm English, Italian and Spanish. Info: effects of industrialisation on the industrial and artistic centres, Av. Apoquindo Nr 6275, Las city and the territory. Terni is one of culminating in Rome. English and Chile Condes, Santiago, Chile, T: +562 the Italian centres where industrial Italian will be the official languages. 201 7193, [email protected], activity has been most intense and The conference brochure and Valorisation of industrial or the TICCIH website for where the marks of the alteration of registration form, in Italian, Spanish, heritage: Sites, Museums and registration forms. the landscape and of the city are English and French, can be Case Studies most visible. There will be two downloaded from the TICCIH TICCIH Chile Italy plenary sessions, on Industrial website. Santiago, Chile, 21-23 March, heritage and urban transformation Congress Secretariat: ICSIM, via 1 2006 XIII TICCIH congress and Productive areas and industrial Maggio, 23, 05100 Terni, TICCIH Intermediate conference landscapes, and 16 workshops, Italy, +39 74444 07187 An international congress of Terni, 14 - 18 September, 2006, Board and National Representatives [email protected]

Germany evident that at least part of it Building on the success of the belongs to the world community. inaugural meeting in Madrid two Global fame is also connected with World years ago. 21st IIC congress the monuments of the Stalinist Themes will include construction The Object in Context: architecture of the mid 1930s- Conferences history and the building industry, Crossing Conservation 1950s, the Moscow metro stations Boundaries and high-rise structures. Working education, and the conservation of Russia languages are Russian and English. historic structures. Info: www.chs- Munich Moscow Architectural Institute, cambridge.co.uk; contact@chs- 4-8 September 2006, Heritage at Risk: Preservation Rozhdestvenka street, 11, 107031 cambridge.co.uk of 20th Century Architecture Moscow. The Conference will examine and World Heritage USA the way that the context in which an Moscow United Kingdom object was conceived and created, 17 – 20 April, 2006 SIA Annual Conference and in which it has been kept or Call for papers II International Congress on Cambridge displayed, affect conservation Construction History St Louis, MO, June 1-4, 2006 decisions. Contributions to the Judging the importance of Cambridge conference are likely to be cross- Russian architectural Avant-garde 29th March - 2 April 2006. Info: [email protected], disciplinary in nature. within the international context, it is Call for papers www.sia-web.org www.iiconservation.org/index.php

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In the absence of a national association History of Ironmaking for industrial archaeology in Germany, John A Ricketts, Ironmaster demand for an IA magazine is met jointly by the two museum networks in the A publication of The Association for Iron and Steel Technology Rhineland, the Rheinisches Industrie- 3194 pages of exciting information about the history of iron museum (RIM) and the Westfälisches making. Profusely illustrated with numerous diagrams and illus-

2005 Indus-triemuseum (WIM). In contrast to trations, this book traces the development of iron making from the approach in many other countries ancient iron making through to iron making in Europe in the (e.g. France and TICCIH, see above) industrie-kultur combines the function middle ages, the evolution of the charcoal blast furnace and the 8 of both journal and newsletter in one quarterly publication. The eventual change to mineral fuel. result is a readable and very informative magazine with high The chapter on the progress of coke blast furnaces between standards of production. There is a focus to each issue, either 1870 and 1950 is of particular interest, as is the development of national – recently Ireland and Russia and next year Poland – or the science of iron making, iron products and improvements in thematic. The summer edition, Zement & Beton, examines the iron making from the second World War to the new millennium. 30 manufacture and application of cement and concrete, with a There is an extensive bibliography and a fascinating summary of series of well-informed articles on historic cement production and iron making through the ages. The only drawback is that it is

number pioneer concrete architecture and civil engineering. The industrial heavily biased towards the USA but overall it is a volume of great history of gold mining and the chemical industry were reviewed interest to anyone involved in the history of iron making. last year. Such is the depth and scope of the magazine it would Available only through the AIST. www.aist.org be surprising if an English language summary did not increase Stuart B. Smith