SUSSEX INDUSTRIAL MEMBERSHIP CHA'lCES ARCHAEOLOGY SOOETY R.epter<d Chuity No. 267159 Ne~ Life Member ISSN 0263 516 X A. G. Ste',;ens, 26 Lorna Road, Hove, BN3 3EN NEWSLETTER NO. 43 New Memcers JULy 1984 A.E. Baxter, 11 Milton Street, Worthing, \-lest Sussex. EN'1 3NE (Worthing 203058) M.S. Davis, 73 Islingword Street, Brighton, East Sussex. BN2 2US CHIEF CONTENTS J.R. Elliot, 1 Hammer Cottages, Chequer Lane, Bosham, Chichester, POla 8EL (Bosham 572450) New Publication: I.A. of Sussex - A Field Guide S.I.A.S. E.S.C.C. :~oc al Government Unit, So~thover House, Sou ~ hover Road, Lewes, BN7 lYA , Mathematical Tiles Galore E.W. O'Shea (Lewes 5400, Ext.590) Council for British Archaeology Conference E. T. C. Harris, 18 Sergison Road, HaY..Iards Heath, West Sussex. RH 16 lH>\ 13th October, 1984 (Haywards Heath 451466) P. ;". Pannett, 3 Forest View, Hailsharn, East Sussex. BN27 3ET (Hailsham 840481 ) ( roRTIiCCMING VISITS Dr. R.C. Riley, 48 Maplehurst Road, Chichester, West Sussex P019 4RP . (Chichester 528635) 23rd September, Saturday 2.00 p.m. Another 'get-together' with the East Kent Mrs. A.C. Riley, 48 Maplehurst Road, Chichester, West Sussex. PC19 4RP Mills Croup in the Lec~ure Room of the Public Library, Tunbridge WelL~. (Chichester 528635) PUBLICATIONS Ch3nges of Address A New Publication M. Brunnarius, 30 Chanctonbury Road, Burgess Hill, West Sussex. RH15 9i:;Y Wi th this Newsletter it is hoped will be enclosed a leaflet publicising an R.H. Crook, 6 Anni ngton Road, Eastbourne, BN22 8NG ( East ~o urne 2905~) 0.1". Gibbs, 16 Ormonde Road, Godalming, S.urrey important new book sponsored by the Society and published by PhllliIoore. This Mr. & Mrs. R.J. Goulden, 156 Addispombe Road, Croydon, Surrey. CRO 7IA is The Industrial Archaeology of Sussex - A Field Guide which will provide a N.V. Martin, 84 Annweir Avenue, lanCing, West Sussex. BN15 9NE compr ehensive listing of lA sites in the County, extensively illustrated with Mrs. M. Meredith, 52 Western Road, Lewes, East Sussex. BN7 lRP photographs. It has been carefully compiled from information supplied by members of the Society with special expertise in the fields concerned, and will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come. The book 1s ReSignations competitively priced at £3.95 but for those members ordering and paying now a special pre-publication price has been negotiated of £2.75 plus postage. G.'... Goring, "Littlewood" , Rushlake Green, Heathfield, East Sussex. TN21 9QS Orders may be sent directly to Phillimore at Shopwyke Hall, Chichester, PO 20 6BQ. 0.1. Watson, "Wood's Mill", Virgins Lane, Battle, East Sussex. TN33 OJH Members living within the town areas of Hastings, St. Leonards, Battle, Lewes, Brighton, Hove, Worthing, Chichester, Haywards Heath, Heathfield and Horsham may have their copies delivered without postage by sending their orders and remittance to Ron Martin at 42 Falmer Avenue, Saltdean, Brighton, BN2 8FG. 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BN1 1j 9LB Membership Secretary (09 03 351<2 1 Nutley Windmill Editor E.J.Upton,Rowan Cottage,Nort h Trade Rd ,Ba t tle.TN33 OHU Following the success of the Bridge Cottage leaflet produced by the (04246 23 19) Uckfield &District Preservation Society last autumn, they are pleased to Progr31!1lle D.H.Cox,3 Middle Road , Partr'1dge Green ,Hor sham. RH13 8JA announce a sister publication for Nutley Windmill. Secretary (Office: 029327777 ext.33110. Home:O tl03 71'137) E.Sussex Secretary A.J.Haselfoot,Albion House ,Coburg Place,Hastings(0424 436260) TI'le front cover illustration has, once again, been donated to the Society W.Sussex Secretary R.M.Palmer,11 Arlington Close ,Gcr i ng-by-Sea,Worthing.BN12 liST by Buxted artist, Miss Peggy Langton. Text, and further illustrations, by (09 03 505626) founder Society member, Tony Turner. Central Sussex Sec. 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TN22 3BT 8 M-TILES GALORE I believe it was Ronald Brunskill who suggested that M-tiles might be the solution and the owner approached me to enquire if this was a feasible proposal, For those of us who have lived and worked with mathemati cal tiles most of and here my problems really started. our lives, the renewed interest shown in them in recent years has proved rather puzzling. They were introduced for the covering of framed buildi ngs and provided The building was f3ced with red brick facings with Staffordshire blue a solution for creating a modern front to both old and current buil dings and were diapers, which are virtually impossible to reproduce as M-tiles. Tiles as thin altogether a practical and sound building technique serving a useful function for as M-tiles cannot be burnt to vitrifi cation to match blue Staffs because of dis­ well over a century in our part of the world. tortion and none of the ~lternatives offered to me provided a satisfactory result. Something like 800 m2 required covering, requiring nearly 60 000 tiles, Alec Clifton-Taylor's television programme on ~~e s, in his 'Six More English of which 23 000 would be blue headers for the diapers. Towns' ser ies, highlighted this technlqu<! so well r epresent ed in t his town. This was followed by Ma urice Exwood' s Ewell symposium and a paper on the subject by Tne alternatives available to us were: 1) To cover the elevations with Terence Paul Smi th at th(! Annual General Meet i ng of the Brit1.sh Brick Society a t plain red M- tiles with the diapers in a darker red tile 'ghoscing in' - a Wye. He has follwed this with a short article on the subj ect in a r ecent edition representation rather t han a restorat ion; 2) To use Milton Hall black tiles of 'Information' the ~ewsletter of the BSS. David Duckham has an arti cle in for t he diapers . The ob jection t o this was that the colour, by using a black SPAB ~ews on their repair, in which I am generally in complet e agreement, but I stai ning agent appl ied before burniqg, did not poduce a dense black, certainly would like to emphasise the necessity, in my View, of strict supervision by some­ no thing l i~ e a vitrious til e, and abrasi on of the edges exposed the red core. one experienced in this craft. Some of the DIY effort s and, in fact, some by 3) By using a bl ack glazed pottery tile. Here I have been unsuccessful in profeSSional builders have been disastrous. I would also suggest that t he use finding anyone prepared to make them . Evidently 23 000 is too small a number of Portland cement should be avoided like the plague. As a backi ng it is too to be an economical proposit ion for a commercial pottery -and too many for a inflexible, generated heat 'causes excessive cracking and the pointing looks quite craft potter to handle. ~ ) To cut out for and build in blue Staffordshire horrid. I have found hydrauliC (not hydrated) l ime mortar to give a completely brick headers left project ing and fill in flush between with red M-tiles. This satisfactory result. wou l d mean that a great number of t he r ed tiles would have to be notched round Mr. Duckham also makes reference t o tiles hung over bat tens , whi ch I alwa ys the project i ng header. This 1s technically possible and Milton Hall were considered a myth until the Wye symposium, where I learned of one posit i ve prepared to do the notching at no ex tra expense, overall it would be a very example at Canterbury and have since visited Boys Court, near Suttan Valence, expensive operati on. My estimate of t hese alternative methods would vary from Kent, where David Easton is restor ing hi s c 15/ 16 framed building.