INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1(',4SPRI1{G I 994 THE BULLETIN OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INOUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY 95 pence FREE TO MEMBERS OF AIA Belfast trusses o TICCIH in Greece o Ulster lA visit o Newcastle seminar Waltham Abbey o Lincolnshire airfields o publications o regional news cleverly restored and converted to an education and TtcclH 1997 training centre; and an extensive and still equipped tile works which is to be restored as a 'cultural centre', John Crompton demonstrating again a commitment to adaptive re- use for community benefit. Volos is served by railways The 1997 Conference of The lnternational Commtttee of standard and metre gauge. INDUSTRIAL for the Conservation of the lndustrial Heritage was Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, is a hosted by Greece, in Athens and Thessaloniki. Your fascinating place, the geometrical streets of the ARCHAEOLOGY representive repofts on the events. modern town laid out after a huge fire in 1917 in the NEUIS 104 old town below the hilltop citadel. Layers of historic Mid-afternoon, and the heat hits hard as soon as cultures, Roman, Byzantine and Jewish (Salonica was Spring 1998 you reach the 'plane door; very different from a one of the few cities in Europe where Jews were rainstorm in the half-light of an Edinburgh early encouraged), appear between the modern buildings, morning. Athens at the end of June, a half-hour bus springing from the lower levels which mark the ground AIA OFFICERS scrum away, is even hotter. surfaces of earlier centuries, 'European City of timetable begins with Culture' in 1997, the TICCIH Conference had been President The Conference - Hilary Malaws registration on a Sunday morning in the Centre for built into the summer's cultural programme Y Felin, Tyn-y-graig, Ystrad Meurig, Dyfed SY25 6AE Neohellenic Research where there's an exhibition of Millennium committees please note! Vice-President historic scientific instruments, a very full satchel of The rest of TICCIH 97 was based in the Dr Michael Harrison programmes and leaflets to read, and lots of people Conference Centre at Thessaloniki's International 19 Sandles Close, The Ridings, Droitwich Spa WRg 8RB to meet if your language skills are up to it. Eventually, Expo site, a fact proclaimed by a 3-metre high poster Treasurer 1 00 delegates gather in the lecture theatre for a brief at the entrance. The list of 160 delegates showed Michael Messenger welcome from the Presidents of TlCClH, Louis 24 countries from Canada to Uruguay, with Japan '144 Lake Road East. Roath Park, Cardift CF2 sNQ Bergeron, and of the Greek Section based at the and Russia well represented. Britain fielded a strong Secretary Centre, Vassilis Panayotopoulos. delegation reflecting the diverse groups and interests Amber Palrick - 4 Gratton Road, Cheltenham GL50 2BS The Athens part of the 1997 Conference which make up lA in Britain from the Royal concentrated on visits, first to metal mining sites at Commissions, English Heritage, Historic Scotland, lA Review Editors Museum, Trevithick Trust Peter Neaverson and Dr Marilyn Palmer Agia Triada in the province of Lavdotiki, Industrial lronbridge Institute, Science School ol Archaeological Studies, The University, Leicester archaeology goes back a long time in this part of and of course the AlA. lt s interesting to note the pads LE1 7RH Greece, to opencasts, mines and ore-processing of the world which weren't represented: Africa, India, lA News Editor sites whence the ancient city states collected their Australia and, perhaps predictably, China; is distance Dr Peter Stanier wealth of silver. As in later times, ore processing the only factor? 49 Breach Lane, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8LF depended on water, a very scarce commodity in this The 'conferring' part of the conference began Conlerence Secretary baking limestone landscape, and the arrangements on the Wednesday morning after more welcomes, David Alderton from the Minister for the Aegean. The 48 ouay Street, Halesrworth, Sufiolk lP19 8EY for storing water in rock-hewn cisterns are impressive. including one In the afternoon, after an address of welcome and a major theme, Maritime Technologies, springs from Alfilialed Societies Liaison Ofi icer provided timeless Greek relationship with the sea, and the Gordon Knowles sumptuous buffet lunch by the Municipality the 7 Squrrrels Green, Great Bookham, Leatherhead, Suney of Lavrion, we visited the extensive site of the French foundations of that relationship was expertly brought KT23 3LE Mining Company founded in 1875 and closed in home in John Robinson's keynote address. During Membership Secretary 1989. Many of the buildings and their machinery the three days there were nearly 80 papers from 85 Prol David Penett suruive, together with the complex of flues running delegates, with Britain contributing strongly to the 33 St Margarets Road, Brockley, London SE4 1YL to a hilltop chimney. Now the central buildings are sometimes parallel sessions. Sales Olficer being converted to a 'technological-cultural park' In the first session on Maritime Heritage Roger Ford Technical University of Recording Prolects, Keith Falconer (RCHME) spoke Barn Cottage, Bridge Street, Bridgenorth, Shropshire annexed to the National WVl 5 6AF Athens, an enormous project which demonstrates on 'Recording English pods and docklands' and Terry Greek determination to do something with their James of the Welsh Royal Commission on 'The sea Publicity officer Ann Aldedon industrial heritage for present and future generations. and industry - approaches to an integrated 48 Quay Sfteet, Halesrvorth, Suffolk lP1 9 8EY The day ended with 'real' Greek archaeology, at the comouterised database'. Stuart Smith contributed - Fieldwork and Recording Award Officer Temple of Poseidon overlooking a shimmering a paper on 'Global Communications a Cornish view' DrVicloria Beauchamp Aegean Sea as it has done since the 5th century to a session on Maritime Heritage Research and c,/o Hawley Building, Division of Adult Continuing Education, BC, after which the whole party was entertained to Documentation, and Mark Watson (Historic Scotland) University of Shefiield, 1 96-1 98 West Street, Shetfield S1 4ET another sumptuous buffet meal by the Greek Section joined Dimitra Babalis to explain 'Leith's dockside of TlCClH. transformation through warehouse conversion'. John Honorary Vice-Presidents (National Prof Angus Buchanan Sh Neil Cossons Monday found delegates heading for Piraeus, Crompton Museums of Scotland) John Hume Sluart B. Smith Athens' port for many centuries and now an extensive contributed 'Coal exporting ports of Fife'to a session Council Members industrial zone which was viewed from the afterdeck on Seaports and their ldentity, and a session on Dr R. J. M. Gsn M. Coulter of a landing-craft type ferry. This day's welcome and Maritime Constructions Technology heard Michael D, Cnnstone J. Cromplon lunch was provided by the Pod Authorities, after Stratton (University of York) speak on 'Construction D. Eve (co-opted) S. Gould J. Graham J. Harrison (co-opted) which we toured the older industrial areas (cameras technology and 20th century maritime installations'. J. Powell P. Sauller (co-opled) not welcome) and visited the battleship G Averoff P. Sillitoe S. Warburlon built at Livorno in 191 1 and armed at Elswick on the C. Whittaker N.Wright (co-opted) T. & M.Yowad (ccopled) Tyne. Not only are all the guns and loading equipment still in place, so are the four compound engines and ADVERTISE IN the 23 coal{ired boilers. COVER PICTURE Tuesday required an early start for the northwards IA NEWS journey, a long and hot 400 miles to Thessaloniki. The restoredllax scutching windnillal Heule neat Kontijk On the way, we visited the port of Volos, which has a in Belgium (see Preetjes Miil, page 10) See page 15 for details Photo: Mailyn Palmer tobacco warehouse, earthquake-damaged but now 2 INDUSTBIALARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 104 A secondary theme, Industrial Landscapes in Edessa, towns which stand on the edge of cliffs over good reason why TICCIH 2000 should be the best Mining Areas, was continued from the Montreal which water tumbles in spectacular display, and both ever. Another reason is Britain's claim to have Conference in 1994. Again, Britain made a strong are restoring and adapting their mills for community 'invented' lA in the first place, though an international contribution. Stephen Hughes (Welsh Royal cultural use, Inevitably there was the municipal perspective does bring the claim into dispute; but Commission) spoke on 'Components of the mining hospitality - local fruit served as we explored the best reason is that we should have the best landscape in Wales', Anthony Streeten (English Naoussa's former woollen mill, once driven by a resources, of achievement in recording, in Heritage) discussed 'Managing change in the mining horizontal wooden turbine; lunch on a shady open- monuments preserved, and in humans who enthuse landscapes of England', and Richard Williams talked air terrace on the cliff edge; and an evening buffet and practice lA lt will depend on us all , of course, on 'The treatment and preservation of Cornwall's with the workers on the Edessa Water Park project from all our diverse institutions, societies and interests, historic mining landscape', and their families. Edessa had a complex of small to pool resources and pull together. The AlA, the Presenting and listening were both subject to mills at the head of Greece's biggest waterfall, Science Museum and English Heritage have joined risk, the former from sophisticated prolectors which drawing power from the water several times to grind forces as joint lead sponsors, and many other groups wouldn't respond, the latter from simultaneous grain, crush sesame seeds, saw wood etc., and these have expressed their supporl. Dates are in place, translation which frequently lagged well behind, are being stabilised and restored to form a leisure beginning August 30 in London, providing a choice especially when French was being translated to and cultural park.