Living in the Past: Preservation, interpretation, and engagement, and the 19th early 20th century home

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1 From the SelectedWorks of Kirsten Jarrett January 31, 2014 Living in the Past: Preservation, interpretation, and engagement, and the 19th early 20th century home Kirsten Jarrett Available at:

2 Dr Kirsten Jarrett LIPCAP 2014 Living in the Past Community Archaeology Project

3 Investigating materiality of domestic life in industrial communities during the 19 th mid 20 th century First stage: pilot targeted samples within four Derby study areas Testing methods to facilitate residents of small housing to record the material traces of everyday activity left by earlier occupants Integrating other sources, e.g. demographic data, photographs, oral history, and family histories

4 Basic standing building investigations Primarily photographic recording; occasional measured surveys House exteriors & outbuildings especially WCs Toilet Histories ; o asio al i teriors preferably duri g re o atio DIY Ar haeology Garden topsoil artefact surveys Including demolished housing plots Surface artefact surveys Pu li spa es: De olished housi g plots & du ps Community workshops & exhibitions

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6 Preliminary census analysis indicates employment of residents in local textile mills & agriculture Extents of late Victorian settlement

7 Some buildings Demolished late 20 century Nearby 18th century + Rubbish dump Village includes a small number of 17 th - 18 th century houses Most small dwellings: 19 th century

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10 Charcoal & clinker, as well as ceramics, glass, animal bone, leather, & occasional metal

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13 Demonstration Case study No. Chester Green

14 Speculatively built late C19 early C20 terraced houses

15 Local industries include: Railways Foundries Textile Mills Chester Green

16 Chester Green Some industrial buildings survive Housing built in late 19 th century by local industrialist for workers Case Study No. 8

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18 Ground floor front room Discovered traces of early activity despite extensive renovation: used evocatively in exploring diachronic changes in domestic environment & use of space

19 Inside cupboards

20 Ground Floor back room Paint in scullery

21 Graffiti on external wall, near scullery door & kitchen window Rear yard & garden Buildings depicted: similar to demolished local framework k itters cottages Peopling the past: Childhood & neighbourhood

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23 19th century housing demolished during 1930s & s slu leara es Late C19 / Early C20 terraced houses Replacement housing built on plots in 1970s by Local Authority

24 Industries mostly textile related: Many tape mills & dye works High density housing: many courts so e a kto- a ks some four room houses many tworoom housing, several streets of late C19 early C20 speculatively built six room houses

25 Few surviving early mid 19 th century houses

26 Surviving 19 th early 20 th Century industrial buildings & pubs

27 Pre-construction excavations of Derby University Business Centre: site of demolished housing

28 Potential for artefacts associated with C19 housing to surface within modern gardens Post-demolition made ground did not involve importation or removal of soil

29 Brief survey revealed 19 th century ceramics Former housing plots on recreation ground

30 Exploring autoethnography as a stimulus to community participation

31 LIPCAP team member: 6th & last generation to inhabit street of al shouses, adja e t Cou ty Gaol demolished during s ur a i pro e e t. Extended family network nearby

32 Above: County Gaol facade Below: nearby housing & railway buildings

33 Surviving mid 19 th century dwellings: former social housing

34 Late 19 th early 20 th century suburban small terraced housing: speculatively built after extension of tram-line, which provided transport to urban industries and commerce

35 Lymehurst built Early features revealed, recorded & reinstated

36 Phases of fireplace modification, suggesting correlations with changing use of domestic space Stratigraphy of erosion to wall paint and floor suggests position and phase of furniture

37 Lou ge wall graffiti: evoking questions surrounding influence of wider changes upon local attitudes & behaviour Marks o Lou ge floor indicating position of furniture: provoking questions surrounding changing use of domestic space

38 Early 20 th century house used as attered Ho e for hildre

39 Southwell workhouse, Notts. Rails i hildre s ho e (below) - to protect walls from damage by beds - comparable to examples in institutions, such as workhouses

40 Ashbourne, Derbys.

41 Walled-in scullery opper al o e - discovered during building surveys Discovery of hidden spaces popular sti ulus for histori al i agi atio! Ashbourne, Derbys.

42 Photo by house owner Heanor, Derbys.

43 Heanor, Derbys. Photo by house owner

44 Historic Map overlays

45 3D reconstructions

46 Open source mapping to display discoveries

47 Learning aids & oral history mnemonics

48 Care (& display) in the Community Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Open Days Historic Industrial Domestic Buildings What is this house? Private dwelling Built late C18 by local industrialist Strutt for factory workers

49 Care (& display) in the Community Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Open Days Historic Industrial Domestic Buildings Who lives there / visits? Owner-occupier Visitors = neighbours & those /with family previously employed in local factories

50 Care (& display) in the Community Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Open Days Historic Industrial Domestic Buildings Why open to public? I itially to get to k o eigh ours Research by occupant and historians reveal local & wider historic value

51 LIPCAP 2013 Xmas Open Day

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