INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY THE BULLETIN OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY f 1.25 FREE TO MEMBERS OF AIA Polish feature * s*,lrirr,*i''e AIA lronbridge Award o Marconi centenary o Bull engine oldest beam engrile house o coalfield housing o World Heritage Site c Bovisa Current Research and Thinking in Industrial Archaeology: The Pre- Conference Seminar at Manchester 20OO INDUSTRIAL The AIA's traditional pre-conference seminar was shaoed a site.Surface remains can be a reflection of held on 8 September 2000 in the hallowed underground working methods and can therefore be ARCHAEOLOGY surroundings of the chapel at Hulme Hall, which the key to understanding how and why a site was NEWS 116 worked well until the sun came out. since there worked: they can equally be very misleading. Ihis was no black-out! The organisers apologise for paper asserted that it is necessary in studying the 20()1 this defect to both speakers and delegates at archaeology of mining to consider carefully the what was otherwise an extremelv successful symbiotic relationship that exists between the Chairman gathering. surface and the underground remains. Dr Michael Harrison John Walker (Greater Manchester I 9 Sandles Close, the Ridings, Droitwich Spa, WR9 8RB Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson Archaeological Unit), also, with Michael Nevell, a Vice-Chairman winner of the AIA Fieldwork and Recording Award, Prof Marilyn Palmer took as his title 'From farmer to factory owner: a School of Archaeological Studies, The University, Our first contributor was Tim Smith (Greater Leicester LEl 7RH model of industrialisation from the Manchester London Industrial Archaeology Society) on evidence', In Tameside in Transition, they took the Secretary the weight-loaded hydraulic accumulator and new monument types established for the period David Alderton accumulator towers, on which Tim is the 48 Quay Street, Halesworth, Suffolk lP1 9 8EY 1600-1 900 which were included the undoubted authority. He discussed their in RCHME/English Heritage Thesaurus of Treasurer development, nature and use and showed slides Archaeological Monuments, and tried to relate these Michael Messenger of the towers used to house them. Around 100 144 Lake Road East, Roath Park, Cardiff CF23 5NQ to the seventeenth and eighteenth century social towers survive in Britain but only a quarter of structure of the area. Ihe history of the social lA Review Editors these still contain their accumulators. The groupings was followed and the monuments they Peter Neaverson and Prof Marilyn Palmer adaptive re-use of towers was also touched upon School of Archaeological Studies, The University, were responsible for analysed, suggesting it was the Leicester LE1 7RH but what do you do with a redundant - wealthier tenant farmers who were the driving force accumulator tower? behind the industrialisation of the region. Michael lA News Editor Paul Sowan (Subterranea Britannica) Dr Peter Stanier Nevell himself described the recording work being 49 Breach [ane, Shaftesbury Dorset 5P7 8LF described some technologically advanced late- undertaken on canal warehouses in the north-west. nineteenth and early-twentieth century limekilns in Affiliated Societies officer This complemented a paper by Simon Taylor the south-east of England, the importance of which Prof Ray Riley (English Heritage) on packing and shipping 8 Queen's Keep, Clarence Paradg Southsea, Hants have been recognised under the Monuments warehouses Manchester, An examination of the PO5 3NX in Protection Programme as high priority candidates for warehouses of the merchant cotton exporters of scheduling. Close liaison has been established Sales Officer Manchester, based primarily on first-hand Roger Ford between the Surrey WildlifeTrust (seeking to improve Barn Cottage, Bridge Street, Bridgnorth, Shropshire investigation of some of the best surviving examples, the kilns as bat hibernation sites) and industrial WV1 5 5AF has been canied out by EH northern Architectural archaeologists an interest in the kilns with Survey section over the last four years. The survey has Librarian and Archivist themselves. John Powell indicated their progressive methods of construction, Ray Riley and Tony Yoward (Southampton do IGMT, lronbridge, Telford, Shropshire TF8 7AW architectural style and servicing in the face of University Industrial Archaeology Group) took us changing economic factors, both locally and globally, Honorary Vice-Presidents into the realms of structuration theory, using ProfAngus Buchanan Sir Neil Cossons and the impositions of legislation, from the mid- nineteenth-century Portsmouth as case iohn Hume Stuart B. Smith milling in a nineteenth century to the First World War, study. They discipline, industrial argued that, as a The seminar closed, appropriately, with a Council Members archaeology focuses upon artefacts. Yet artefacts are Mike Eone ur Kooen Lafi contribution from Patrick Greene (Manchester John Crompton Roger Ford the product of decision-making, but the decision- Museum of Science and Industry) on the David Lyne Philip Morris makers are themselves subject to a variety of conversion Liverpool Road Station, Manchester, Tony Parkes Prof Ray Riley of pressures, only local also the Stuart Warburton not at the but at into an internationally renowned museum. 15 national and international scales. Using structuration September 2000 marked the 1 70th binhday of the Liaison Officer theory which sees decision-makers influenced by lsabel Wilson Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the 20th AIA Office, School oiArchaeological Studies, top-down and bottom-up influencet the paper anniversary of celebrations that initiated the rescue University of leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH endeavoured to bring together all the factors acting and conversion process. The first phase opened on 5 8 01 16 252 5337, Fax:01 16 252 5005 upon millers at the time, thereby placing the e-mail: [email protected] Seotember 1983 and now The Museum of Science industrial archaeology of milling in its socio- Website: and Industry in Manchester is one of the largest of its www. industrial-archaeology.org.uk economic and political context. lhey argued that the kind in the world. His paper concentrated on the discipline of industrial archaeology would be archaeological approach taken to the conversion, strengthened if more attention was paid to the which was the subject of his article in Industrial environment within which artefacts ooerate. Archaeology Review vol /Vll, no.2 (1995). Delegates Martin Roe (Universities of Leicester and had plenty of opportunities to visit the Museum in Bradford) and winner of the Student Category in the the course of the conference. COVER PICTURE AIA Fieldwork and Recording Awards, discussed the Ihe next seminar will be held in Cambridge on Grinding wheel and pentrough recorded in 1998 at relationship between surface and underground Friday 17 August 2001, continuing the theme of the Abbeydale Works, Sheffield, where fundrng has archaeology on metal mining sites. He argued that current research and thinking in industrial (see been obtained for repairs Regional News, many archaeologists have either failed to take note archaeology, and the Editors of Industrial pagel 5) of or have failed to understand, the underground Archaeology Review welcome advance notice of Photo: @ Crown Copynght NMR activity on mining sites and how this might have ootential contributions. 2 INDUSTRIAL AR1HAE)L)GY NEW, 116 The AIA lronbridge Award Winners of the biennial Eritish Archaeological have suffered, present abnormal challenges to storeys were demolished on safety grounds. By Awards were announced at the Great Hall of those who wish to ensure the survival of their the mid-l 970s, it was in serious danger of Edinburgh Castle on 16 November 2000. The contribution to landscape and community. collapse. Adaptive re-use has in this case rescued ceremony was opened by Lord Montagu of The judging panel (Chairman John Crompton, a building of great historical and architectural Beaulieu and the presentations were nade by with Miles Oglethorpe, Robert Carr, Nigel Sunter merit from the brink of disaster. The New Lanark HRH Prince Hassan of Jordan, who is Patron of and Peter White) have selected three entries for Conservation Trust has drawn together funding the Council for British Research in the LevanL special mention. The architects Buschow Henley from several sources to consolidate the building One of the awards, the lronbridge Award, is have converted a late nineteenth century and restore the upper storeys in a faithful replica sponsored by the AlA. The winner this year was warehouse in Shepherdess Walk, London, to of the original form. lts new use is as a high the New Lanark Conservation Trust for its work ground floor commercial space with 50 dwelling quality hotel, retaining some of the large floor on the No.l Mill at New Lanark. The following is units on three and four floors above. The external spaces and some of the structural components. lts based on a citation read by Lis Toms before the form of the building retains its outline. The economic viability already provides an income Award was presented. courtyard and dwelling unit interiors combine stream to support the work of the Conservation modern access features with the retention of the Trust in other parts of New Lanark village. In It is now generally recognised that archaeology major elements of the original building, and the forming a partnership with a local college for no longer confines its interests to finds and top floor units include