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1 NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY AUTUMN 2()()6 THE AULLETN OF THE ASSOCATON FOR NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOTOGY FREE TO MEMBERS OF AA -L J \ \ lronbridge weekend o Alsace Tour o conference award presenaio ns o Reigae's railway London waerway plans o Balmoral Bridge o ERH. reg ional news

2 AA '::' NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 138 Auumn Henney Road, Eah BA2 2DR Chanmafl School of Archaeoloqy andancien Hisory Universiy of ei.erer, Lelceser LE 7RH vi.e-ch.iman Mike Bone sunnysidqavon clo5q Keynham. Briliol Bs31 2UL Bany Hood 9 Kennedy Park, Perer(uh r, AberdeenASl4 ole 8ru.e Hedqe 7 Clemer Close Wanaqe, oxfordshne 0X12 7ED la Review diror Dr David 6wln Nani y Felin. Llanlly,iniRoad, PEn y 6roe!, Caernarfon LL54 6LY la News dio Dr Pee. Sanier 49 Breach Lane,5hallesbury Do6ei 5P7 8LF Aliliaed Socieries off i(er Prol Ray Riley 8 Queen s Keep, Claren(e Parade Soulhsea P05 3Nx Conlerenae Secreary 60 S(hool Lal]e Hill Ridware, Rlgeley Wsl5 3QN Endangered Sies oflicer 0r Mike Neve Univ rsiy of Mancheser Archaeology Unil, Universily of Manchene( oxford Road, Man.hefr M13 gpl Librarian anda.(hivisl do lglvt, lronbridge, Tellord, ShropshrrcFS 7Dq Publidy officer lonalhan Brggs 46 Arowsm h Dnve, Slonehoue CLl0 2QR Re.ordinq Awards Of icer Dr Vrlo.ia Beauchamp Pa6onage Cour Pa6onaqe Cre( n Walkley, Sheffield 56 5Bl Sales ofji. r Roger Ford Barn Coage Bridge Slreel, BridgnonhWVl5 6Al David Ald (on {Heflraqe Link) Chris ne Ball Dr Robed an (8A Award, Dr Pau Co lins {Parlnershipr) David Lyne (Conserva on Award) 4ichael Mesrenger 0r [.4ary N4ills Dr Mrles oqlehorpe (TlCClH) Paul Sauller (E FAT'l) Honorary Vi( -Pr ideng Sn Neil Cossons iohn Hume Sluan 8. Smih Liaison Oficer AA Oflice School ol Archaeoloqy ard Anoen Hilrory U,riveriy of Leice(er, Lei.ener LEl 7RH E Faxr archaeology.org.uk COVER PCTURE Chinney of Sandy Mill, Rolon, Lancashire. oe<enber 2(n5; denolished 15 february 2006 page 16) l AA ronbridge Weekend Conference on Brewing fhis yea's AA honbridge Weekend Conference was held on April on he subjea of brewing. fhe weekend afraded 12 people, who heard speakers on a good variey ol opics relaing o he brewing iodusry. Glorious weaher for he Sauday aferooon lield visi around Coalbrookdale made up for he dismal resuls a he evening's aferdinner quiz! Ray Riley lnroducing he weekend, Mike Bone discussed he imporance of beer in an age when waer was impurg when brewing was an imporan source ol employmeng and indeed when he public house was a cenre of social life for many people. He offered an overview of he processes in maling and brewing hrough a helplul flow char and diagram. A paricularly ineresing poin was he imporance of domesic brewing; he pracice seems o have been common in Wes Yorkshire, where i is conceivable he aciviy was designed for consumpion wihin he home. ln common wih many oher indusries, brewing was placed on a subsanial,acory basis in he early nineeenh (enury and brewery size gradually increased hereafer. espe(ially wih he adven of he railway, allowing breweries o reach disan markes. Dr Lynn Pearson developed his heme, showing how breweries expanded verically, and where hey could hey purchased adjacen properies, A an early dae in he nineeenh cenury some breweries in large owns had become really subsanial; by 1815 Earclay Perkins in London was producing 300,000 barrels a year. Once he railway came on he scene he size of he local marke los is imporance, allowing Buron on Tren o prosper, led by Bass and Allsopp. ln 1870 Bass was producing one million barrels annually - he larges brewery in he world. As he size of breweries rose specialis archiecs emerged; one o hese was William Bradlord who designed 60 breweries, including hose a Hook Noron and Harvey's a Lewes. Somehing easily overlooked in he moorised age is he former imponance of accommodaion for horses. lndeed, disribuion probably employed more han brewing iself is oo ofen hough ha paricular places are uniqug when in ruh here are general prin(iples governing brewery aciviies irrespecive of locaion. Using Somerse as an example, Mary Miles raised he quesion as o why some breweries ougrew heir local marke and came o supply oher owns as well as heir own. The Anglo-Bavarian brewery a Shepon Malle came o possess 250 agens around he counry and delivered is beer inernaionally. he railway helped o keep disribuion coss a a manageable level, while waer qualiy was an issue, bu Mary argued ha he key was enrepreneurial skill. By using maps ol ied propenies i was clearly demonsraed ha brewers were no concerned wih couny boundaries, hence parly invalidaing sudi s a he couny scale. Concluding, Mary noed he role ol women as brewer knocking he sereoyped image. For mos people, vinegar is associaed wih ish and chip lile hough being given o is mehod of producion. lim Smih has made a special sudy of he indusry and offered a fascinaing insigh ino he aciviy. Vinegar was brewed by he Romans; differen grains may be used while here are hree possible processes: fielding, soving and quick, which was inrodu(ed in By 1833 here were several large vinegar breweries on he souh bank of he Thames using he fielding process which is space exensive, requiring barrels o be sored ofen in he open or nine monhs. Tle bes known is Sarson's brewery in Eermondsey, which Tim surveyed, giving us he benefi of his work. The Saurday afernoon field rip was led by Paul Belford, an archaeologis, who has been involved in excavaing waer(ourses in he viciniy of Coalbrookdale, Six ponds and heir dams, some vesigial, were visied, many adiacen o roads mos ol he gahering had driven along bu never noiced, The las sie, Upper Forge, was addiionally he sie of wha was believed o be he oldes excavaed maling in he UK, daing from 1612; nohing was o be seen, bu i was relevan o he conferen(e heme, and he weaher was marvellous, The afer-dinner quiz ook he form of an unseen examinaion, all he quesions being abou phoocopied phoographs. ludging by he ousanding low scores he quizmaser had obviously overesimaed brewery knowledge; he runs he risk ofbeing replaced.the winner was Mary Miles. rrli' l_--.'..,] '. 2 NDUSTRAL ARCHAE1L)GY NEws 3B

3 l lhe long fk - all o ln nees frcn he.onference.ene The sunday morning session was inroduced by Tony Yoward, who had made a video of he relurbishmen of a small one-man brewery he Golden Lion, a Souhwick in Hampshire, by he Souhampon Universiy la Group in l was no saic exhibiion, for beerwas acually brewed, drunk and boled, alhough for one day only. Cusoms and Excise were unhappy wih such a one-off, bu reason riumphed and Pro[ Asa Briggs was able o open proceedings. Beer has never been brewed again, bu a leas he place is now a sales cenre for specialis beer. he video cerainly brough alive he hands-on work ha some la groups underake. A he oher end ofhe brewing process is he pub. Ray Riley oulined some of he changing beer house and pub designs in he nineeenh Receo didacic indusial archaeology exciing noe ineres han he sie ieelf Phoo: RaY RileY Phoo: Ray Riley cenury as compeiion caused landlords o evidence of maling in he medieval period, and diversify. An increase in floor space was linking his o curren archaeological findings. His occasioned by lhe need o offer a room for (ommens cenainly indicaed he chronological meeings, an area or billiards and for progression from 'dir' o 'indusrial' archaeology, enerainmen, ou of which grew he music hall. and in his sense were hough provoking. The magisraes allowed brewers o build large here were only wo members' conribuions. pubs in reurn lor he closure o small premises, sarka Jirouskova from he czech Te(hnical and specialis archiecs were usedo design ruly Universiy in Prague repored ha abou'1,000 eclecic srucures which dominaed he working breweries survive in he Czech Republic, and ha class areas in which hey were ereced. D sign considerable sae funding is being made feaures were offered for Porsmouh, concluding available for preservaion. he archiedure of he wih inerior plans lor a range of differen plos. l breweries shown was disincively difleren from is hough ha l.k. Brunel iniiaed raional bar he Briish experience. Georqe Crucher design; he cerainly drew skeches for Swindon commened on he fae of a wide range ol saion, bleweries in Hampshire, London, Andrew Davison brough he formal paper Buckinghamshire Dorse and oxfordshire since sessions o a close, looking a he documenary he 1960s. AA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006 _ SLE OF MAN Thc 2006 AA Annual Conference will be hclcl a Deugl s on lrc lslc of Man oll 8- l0 Scpcmber. There is no Friday preconlcrcnce semirrar his ye'ar. bu he rnain conrence q ill bc lls usual ovcr hc u'eekend frorn Fridav evcning lo Sunday, *ih a pos-confcrcncc adcliional progrrnnle frorl Su day o lhursclal'. l0 l-l Seplcrnber. Thc AA was loundcd in 973 on hc sle of M an and clespic he prssage oi 3-3 years hcrc is sill r1r uch o see. Mos f amous ly hcrc is he Ladl lsabclla. he largerl u'aerrhccl in Europe. 72fi 6in (2lm) diarneer. a Laxcy. Therc are nlany oher ml'al mining relics, as rvell as corn and lr'\lilc nills. Horse rilnrs sill pll hcir radc along Douglas Promenade anl lhe Manx Eleclric Railway akes a sunningly bcaulilul rourc'alons lhc eas coas. The surnmi ol Snaelell (62lnl) is sill only accessible by he Snacfell Mounain Raihvny. 'l he lsle ol Mrn Railu al' from Douglas o Por S Mary operacs luring hc sunmer \r'ilr sean. On h. roads hc TT course has ineresing ealurcs. As an isllnd. hc sca hs hacl i rnljor inf-lucncc. q ih cvidence lf harbours, lighhouscs. shipbuilding. rr4rcwalks lnl kippcr rnroking. Tlrere is au cxccllcn Ma ime Museum a Caslcown. Tourisnr had a l,1]ajor impac since hc laer Vickrrian periocl. This conferencc rvill be hoel-bascd \\ ih lecures. dinnc'rs und accomrnodaioo nl he Claremon Holcl in Douglas. Boh lhe Dcparmen of Tourisnr ilnd Manx Naional Herila_qe have assurcd us ol-r wamr welconrc on his lriendly and aracive island. Join us on hc lslc of Mau in Booking deails fronr: The AA Liaisorr OfTicer. AA Office, School of Archaeological Sludies, Universiy of Leiccser, Leiceser LE 7RH 0l l , Fax: 0l , e-nrail: AA@le.ac.uk NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 138 3

4 Repor on he AA visi o Alsace fhe AA spring visi o Alsace ook place on April, and was based nainly in Srasboug fron which a number of differen ours were made. Ou sincerc hanks go o Paul Sauher and Sue Hayon lor devising hk vey ineresing visi and naking all he arrangenens, which worked exrenely smoohly. Addiional hanks go o for he infornaive guides she wroe fo us, and 'ue fron which freely adni have cribbed mos ol he infornaion below. Our hanks go also o he ohe Paul, our driver, who lor a second year drove us safely and wih aplomb, despie he renoeness of some sies down narrow lanes or even racks. David Alderon This year's visi required an even earlier sar han la5! bu nevenheless he (oach go off from Vicoria only a few minues lae, and a lenghy journey brough us o our hoel in luxembourg by early evening. A line warm evening lured some of he pary o ea in he old own, perched above he juncion beyveen wo ravines and linked o he new own by some fine bridges and viaducs. The following morning we had an hour or so o invesigae he la of Luxembourg ciy, using a very uselul bookle wrien by sue Hayon. Mos people managed o see a leas he raher impressive saion and is wo roundhouses, one convered, one under conversion, before we joined he coach or he run o Srasbourg. he hoel in Srasbourg was in a crescen opposie he saion, he whole area laid ou on he grand scale, wih he square currenly being refurbished.he saion proved well worh a visi, a large and elaborae building wih some inriguing inerior sculpures and a fine rain shed. Like all he saions we saw in Alsace, i was designed by German ar(hiecs in he period of German rule belveen 1871 and 1919, and was deliberaely impressive. We had he afernoon o explore he ciy using Sue's our noes. Boh on his day and he wo following evenings he excellen ram service provided a resfulway back o he hoel, once one had masered he inricacies o, buying a icke. Srasbourg was much more medieval han mos ol us had expeced, and he archaeology was mercanile raher han indusrial, bu sill lascinaing, We also discovered a wide variey of local lood specialiies, served in enormous porions. 0n he Wednesday he visi sared in earnes.he firs sop was in Colmar, again by he saion, which reained races ol Germanic scrip. Probably he mos impressive building here was he enormous and elaborae own waer-ower, 53 meres high. ilany of he public buildings again showed Germanic influence. ln Mulhouse, where we spen he res o he day, we (ould lirs choose beween he railway and he auomobile museums.he formerwas in wo pars, one a very convenional bu good collecion of locomoives and railway vehicles, he oher more reminiscen of'seam' a Swindon, wih a planned roue and video presenaions using archive film o illusrae various aspecs o he railway hisory of Alsace including quie a lo on he railways in warime. We hen visied he workers' housing in he Cie de Mulhouse, ereded behveen 1854 and 1900 as somehing o a model developmen. Schools, a church and a marke were provided, bu as he housing was buil o encourage owner occupaion, laer individual house improvemens have raher bluned any earlier uniformiy. 'Cluser'housing, of four houses occupying he corners of a square block (as a DarleyAbbey) are ':* numerou and here are also rows of high qualiy back-o-backs as well as erraces and semideached dwellings. All houses have reasonable gardens and he whole is generously laid ou. Our final visi also involved a choice beween he Musee D'impression recording he calico prining indusry lounded here in 1746, and he Musee du Papier Pein which deals wih he wallpaper prining indusry esablished inl792 using similar echnology. ln 1833 he local calico priners formed a sociey o creae an archive, collecing samples from all over he world. The aim was o inspire heir designer, and in 1888 hey buil his impressive museum o hold he collecion, o which have been added examples of prining machinery The wallpaper museum was founded by he bigges manufacurer, lean Zuber. afirm which is sillin business,again, icombined preserved machinery wih a fine collecion of wallpaper samples. lhursday saw us heading for he hilll and lor La Mine Gabe Goes (Gif of God). An enhusiasic young lady led us on an underground our ofhis preserved silver minq which managed o reain he feel of underground exploraion (hard has, miners'lamps, wellies, walking along a flowing adi) wih a clear presenaion of he e(hniques used in irs 400-year hisory. The mine isel had been opened in he sixeenh cenury and worked more or less coninuously from he eigheenh (enury o unch was aken a he Ecomusee d'alsacq a collecion of some 70 buildings from he area, arranged as a raher more convin(ing village han mos Briish examples. Sadly here was oo lile ime o see he sie horoughly, bu a large sawmill using waler power o drive a verical saw go my aenion. T ' : ) : : r=--!. T {i.- -. a u.. s,"*r. ';l!..!,lx l l!, [iiilr,r,,, "r'r: li r, h i',,[i ',, ffi'' = WawpweQd vefkal saw al he E@nuee dalsdce ploo: David Aldefdl Sube diesel inside he khoenenboug Fol phoo: David Alaleon 4 NDJSTRAL AR.HAE)L)GY NEWS 138

5 -il s--- Enance o he S.hoenenboug Fod he nos eanerly fo of he Magino Line v Er T k,l i - Phoo: David Aldenon lhe Aeville indi\ed plene on de canaldu Mane au Rhin rcplaced 17lock wha i was oqned in l 9 Phoo: David Aldenon r r ll F--_"-"""1-r i E E a >- )ia r:.f fl;.:l i:,*1 -. E*.,"r Azviller inclined plaoe winding engines 'll?: \. -.-] }- fr.\ // \ Pl- H p r 1 Phoo: David Aldefon \ Our final official visi was o he village of Klingenhal, a major cenre for he manufadure of sword blades. As in Sheffield, producion unis were small scale, bu here he whole rade was organised by an enrepreneur and qualiy was conrolled by an army officer. The more dedicaed of he pary saw everyhing bu go soaked o he skin, while he less dedicaed noed he looming black cloud and qo back o he coach before he rain saned! A leas he coach was parked opposie he main premises of he leading enrepreneur he Coulaux brohers. An ineresing day ended wih a wineasing. A low arch, which looked as i i migh conver our coach o a charabanc, sopped us reaching our inended grower, bu luckily we found Rober Blanck in obernai who. despie he lack of noice, made us very welcome.afer a visi o his cellars (no very exciing hough wih some impressively large holding barrels), he Alsaian wine we ased proved quie good enough for mos ol us o succumb o a leas a bole or!vo, despie he problems of geing i home from vlcoria by public ranspon, our inal complee day sared wih a visi o Schoenenbourg For, he mos easerly for of he inerwar Magino [ine. Because of shorage ol ime, we concenraed on he cenre o he for and did no visi he gun emplacemens. Wha was obvious was an impressive aenion o deail in he planning ol he forress. he enran(e was proeced by defence in deph, and he hean of he forress was buried deep underground. Here i had is own rail sysem, a Sulzer diesel powered generaing saion, deep well wih pump ilered air supply o proec agains gas anacks, living quarers, hospial, workshops ror mainaining he plan and sorage for muniions, food and fuel o las a siege of some monhs.he effeciveness of he design was shown when, despie a siege of several weeks and bombardmen by shell and bomb, fewer of he ganison died han workers who perished during is conslrudion. Only one iragino ine fonress was capured, he res coninuing o resis unil aler he Peain governmen negoiaed an armisice (effecively a surrender) in June For many of us he nex visi proved a pleasan surprise, as he Musee Francais du Perole in Pechelbronn did no sound exciing. Despie is small size, he inrodudory film and he displays revealed no only he echnical hisory o, he exracion of oil from oil-bearing sand bu quie a lo o he social deail, from he iineran vendors of oil skimmed lrom pond surfaces, o he effecs on he village ol heallied air aack which desroyed he refinery in 19/14. Oil had been colleced lrom he surface of ponds and marshes from very early imes and was used firs lor lubricaion and somewha dubious medicinal purposes. Oil was seriously exraced afer 1768 using sand lirs lrom underground qalleries, bu laer pumped ou. ln his area was pioneered exploraory drilling for oil ('1813), and i had he world's firs school of oil echnology. Afer lunch we made our way o he inclined canal plane aarzviller on he Canal du Marne au Rhin. This opened in 1969 and replaced 17 locks NDJSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 138 5

6 ! F i \ L K i".. i&' r) \ -,: (u / '.+ /i claude Chappe elegaph ower Phoa Davd Aklenon Mechanisn in he Chappe elegraph ower Phoo: David Aldefon on he seep climb ou of he Rhine valley. Boas are lowered 45 meres in a waer-filled caisson down a ransverse inclined plane. Alhough provision was made lor a second caisson, rafic has never been sufficien o jusify he cos. The only oher ransverse plane ever buil was ha a oxon in Leicesershire, opened in Afer visiing he power room wih is huge elecric winding engines, we had a boa rip down he plane, and along o he oo of he old fligh where he remains of he boom lock could be seen, and back again. our final visi was o a resored Chappe semaphore ower. Claude Chappe demonsraed a pracical semaphore sysem in 1792 and he French Assembly enhusiasically seized on he idea. The firs messages were successfully ransmied beween Paris and Lille before he end of he year. Chappe used a sysem of arms a good deal more complex han he Briish admiraly sysem (a ower of which we visied a he AA Guildford conlerence). ln he French sysem here were 196 combinaions and, unlike he Admiraly sysem, Chappe's elegraph became available for commercial messages. The sysem flourished unil he arrival of he elecric elegraph in he 1840s and '50s. Our final nigh was spen in lvlez, hough here was no ime for more han a quick look a ye anoher very large Germani( railway saion and a huge railway waer ower which many o us could see lrom our hoel rooms. 0n he following day an unevenful bu very pleasan run brough us back o London on schedule. The following iems are available from he Sales officerl NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVTW BACK SSUES Volunes - Vl Vol. l. No. 1j Vol. lll. No. 2; and Vol. Vll. No. 2: sold ou per se (16 issues):fl8.00 plus P + P f8.00 inland, PO.A. overseas per volume (3 issues): f5.00 plus P + P f3.70 inland, f5.00 overseas per issue: f2.00 plus P + P f1.00 inland, fl.80 overseas Volumes Vll - Xl per volumer 8.00 incl. inland P + P, add f3.60 ove6eas per issue; f4.00 incl. inland P + P, add f1.90 overseas (ex(ep Vol X No.2 (Texile, ard Vol Xll No.1 (Mining)r f4.50 incl.) Volumes XV - XVlll per volume: f12.00 in(. inland P + P add f3.60 overseas per issue: f6.00 incl. inland P + B add fl.90 overseas Volunes XX - XX (new forna) incl. inland P + P, add E2.60 overseas Volunes V - XX se Half f77.00 fa REVEWS from Vol. XX onwards are only obainable fiom Maney Publishing, Hudson Road, Leeds LSg 7DL. AA SALES AA REGONAL GAZETTEERS Cambridge & Peerborough [1.95 Derbyshire {5.50 Ken f4.95 Scoland, Forh & Clyde: f5.50 Swansea; l.50 Devon Her{ordshire & Lea Valley Nofh Wes Wales: Souh Eas Wales Wes Midlands: P + P exra: one copy: f0.65 inland, f 1.15 overseas. Two (opies: f1.00p inland, f2.00 overseas. Three copies: f1.80 inland, f2.50 overseas six or more copies: hall posage Ten or more copiesr pos-free TlCClfl 2000 Transacions f6.00 (half price) pos free, P&P overseas [2.60 AA TES (blue) 6.95incl P+P f4.95 f5.50 J.95 f4.95 f1.50 All pr,es are for surface mailing A dis(oun i5 dvailable o 0oor.:ellers on dl, AA publicd.ons. Clpoue\ rnojld oe rade payab,e o'rhe A\oudlion lor ndusial Archaeooqy and sei wih orcjers o: Roger Ford, AA Sales of{lcer, Barn Coage, Bridge Sree, Bridgnorh, Shropshire WV15 6AF The AA acceps paymens by he following credi cards:access VSA MASTERCARD Please wrie for sales slip 6 NDUSTRAL ARCHAE)L)GY NEWs 137

7 AA NEWS Change of Chairmanship and Liaison Officer shall be dropping ou of he Chairmanship for a year as am giving up he Headship ofhe school of Archaeology and Ancien Hisory a he Universiy of Lei(eser on 1 Sepember and hen have wo research fellowships o ake up in he firs is a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in Williamsburg in Virqinia and he second an All Souls Visiing Fellowship in oxford afer Chrismas. These are o help me wrie, wih Eleanor Conlin Casella, he Cambridge Manualof Hisorical Archaeology, which will of course include some indusrial archaeology! Mike Bone has kindly agreed o sep ino he breach from he lsle of Man Conference o he 2007 Conference in Preson, when hope o ake up he reins again for my final year as Chairman. lan Wes has also kindly agreed o ake over book reviews, a leas for he period will be in he USA, and he can be conaced a he School ofarchaeology and Ancien Hisory Simon Thomas, our Liaison Officer, lef us on 30 June as his cycle raining and courier a(iviies were aking up more and more of his ime. He has done a grea deal for AlA, for example dealing wih subscripions and direc debis as well as he many queries ha now come o us by . We wish him every success in his cycling work. hope ha by Sepember i may be possible o appoin anoher Liaison officer bu for he momen we are using someone on a casual conrac in he Universiy who will be dealing wih Simon's mail and s for he momen. So, here may be sligh delays unil we have someone more permanen in pos. Marilyn palme Presenaions of he AA Conference and ln iiaive Awards 200s The presena on for he 2005 conference awards ook p ace on B lu y Since he Presiden, Angus Buchanan, was fully occupied wih Brunel evens, he Chairman, lvlarilyn Pa mer, presened he awards, accompanied by David Lyne and Pau Co lns from AA Council as we as lan l\,4ichel and Sephen Newon from Derbysh re Archaeoloqica Sociey who organ sed he 2005 AA Conference. The ma n Conference Award was presened o Crich Tramway Museum, where he de egaes had spen an evening during he conferen.e. The lmuseum is siuaed in a disused quarry in Cr ch, a sie suggesed o he founder members of he Tramway Museum So.iey by voluneers from he Talyllyn Raiway who were lifing rais from he disused nanow gauge minera ra lway which inked Clffe Quarry a Crich o he Clay Cross Company's ime ki n5 a Ambergae. The firs ram acquired by he Sociey was a hotse drawn ram fon SoLlhdnpon and hr' wa, lhp rdn r- which pubic rides were firs ofered n Since hen, he sie has been ransformed wih covered accommodaon for a fee of over F ---=) -l h*, r5 Mailyn Palne pesening he 2005 Confercnce Award o ceoffrcy Claydon, prcsiden of he hanway Museun Sociey, beside Souhanpon 45, he horse ran i5 acquied by he Socief phoo: David Lyne rams and suppor vehicles, a cobbled sree wih re-ereced buildings including he splendid falade of Derby Assembly Rooms, and a purpose-buil exhibiion, workshop and library and archive aciliies. TheAward was received by Geoffrey Claydon, he Presiden of he Sociey. We were lucky enough o srike Edwardian Day, when large numbers of people were wearing Edwardian dress.sadly, hough, we missed he suffragee demonsraion! An AA member summed up he appeal of his l\4useum in he nominaion forms for his award, when he said: 'l is a remarkable creaion over nearly 50 years on an iniially unpromising sie. The preservaion and L. h '.1 -!.._/ resoraion are o a high sandard and he ram ride and exhibrs (ombine hisory and fun in an unforced way. The Exhibiion Hall presened as a rade exhibiion is a wonderful idea and he saf are friendly, cheerful and communicaive.' The Museum is open daily lrom April o ocober and a weekends and half-erms for much of he res of he year - see heir websie wwwramway.co.uk The lniiaiveaward, a cheque, was presened o he Friends ol Pleasley Pi, a far less well known organisaion ha he Tramway lvuseum Sociey bu one ha equally relies on voluneer effor and labour. This colliery was sunk in 1873 as par o he easward move of he Prcsenaion ol he 2005 lniiaive Awad o gob Mecalfe, Chaiman of he Friends of Pleasley Pi, in f@n of he rcsored Noh Winding Engine phoo: David Aldefon 7 f L\ \ "( ) \ T lj n.5-,i.'l'1 Tili.lr NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 137 7

8 No nqhamshire and Derbyshire Coalfleld when i became necessary o explo deeper seams under a greaer overburden.0riginally owned by he sanon Coa and lron company, he colliery ceased operaion in The s e wa5 in danger of being demolished bu was ised Grade ll ln 1986 and finally scheduled en years aer. l was by hen very derellc and was on y rescued from furher deerioralon by he deerminaion of a small group of voluneers who have succeeded in gaining s!bsania funding from he Eas lvidlands Developmen Agency and Eng sh Heriage. l is o be he cenrepiece, or perhaps he gaeway o, a Counry Park creaed ou of he spo lheaps behind he co lery buildings. Described by an AA member a5 'an ousanding survival, boh he engines and heir spl.ng. he (ollipl is in a very s'i(rng po5l on wih is all chimn y, wo engine houses and wo unusual concree and cas-iron headsocks. The engine houses conain wo win cylinder horlzona enqines, he older of which has been resored o working order wih assisance from AA NEWS Markhams & Co. Ld of Cheserfield who had orig nally supplied he second engine and rnodified he firs. The award was received by Bob lmecal{e, Chairman of he Friends of Pleasley Pi. Deeqaes o l-e A A Cor'erpnc" rr 2005 werf pracically unanimous in nominaing his sie for he lniiaive Award. The sie is usualy open on Sundays and here are special evens o mark Heriaqe Weekend each Sepember. l is ceralnly a sie o wach for fuure developmens, and personaly was asounded a he changes which had aken pla.e slnce Peer Neaverson and visied he sle in 1992 when we were researching our book on lndusrial Landscapes ol he Eas Midlands - we could no even ge a decen plcure lvery much enjoyed presening hese awards o wo very deserving sles and hope ha he nfq1qr6q Awao\ d e d\.uc(e5s{ul. l\,,larilyn Palne Sending book reviews Please noe ha all book submied for review should be sen o lan Wes, 5choo ofarchaeo ogy and Ancien Hisory, Universiy o{ Leiceser, Leiceser LEl 7RH. Regional news and correspondens We welcome Fred Hamond (75 ocksley Park, Belfas BT10 oas) who has agreed o ake over as Reg onal Corresponden in lre and The services of our reg onal correspond ns are highly va ued and hey al need your suppor. However, la News is a.ue y awar ha here is s a vacancy in Souh Wes England. There is a so a long-sand ng b ack hole in he indusr al Nonh Eas (Norhumberland, Durham) where we are seeking sorneone who cou d suppor he Norhern England corresponden, who is based on he oher side of l'p Ppnninp.l (o'rp on ne'rbprs. wil^ojl hpa'inq from you \,!e don' ge he news Please conac he Edior if you can help in any way. Live and le live! Having read w h grea neres he responses o Roger Ho den's eer, '0ur fascinaion wlh machines' f/,4 News 136), hough i was abou ime ha l, as (o quoe Roger) 'our one and only Professor of lndusrial Archaeology', pu my own houghs on paper. am de ighed, as am sure our Newsleer Edior is, ha books and aricles can sir ro many people ino puing pen o paper. As one of he previous Edios ol lndusrial Archaeology Review, one did someimes wonder if anyone ou here ever read ll Lr(p lar Wes (a Ne^ 7). ll inl ir rs very imporan ha we undersand he echnology ha les behind he sies and srucures wih which we engage. \4y earlles book was a sudy of one of our earlies mach nes whlch was developed for socking knring in he reign of he f rs Queen El zabeh (Franewark Kniing, Sh rc Publicaions, '1984). Peer Neaverson and became fas(inaed wih he machlnes used for dressng in ard lead Undusrial Archaeology Review, Val. 12, 1989, 20-39) and wih he colliery pumping and winding engines a Gyn Pis in Souh Wa es (/,4,qeview,13, No.1,199a,1-14). Bu indusrial sies do no exis ouside human acion; machines were made by people and operaed by people. To ake Roger Holden's ow1.pp, idl ) ored. ne rasdldron o' powe. in exie mills, is imporan o realise wha a difference he addlon of a waer wheel or a seam engine made o he lives of he workforce. They had o conend wih a power source ha d d no ire ike human or anima musce and his ofen mean he inroduc on of shif work as he enrepreneur sough o maximrse he reurn on his caplal insallaion. The powered machines a so, of course, enabled he weaker muscles bu rinb"r 'ingprs ol worer o oo"rdle 'p-.i-g LETTERS frames and weav ng ooms, resu ing in a change of employmen for men - a shif in he gender ba ance in he workp ace, if ha phrase s no considered 'esoer c verbiage' (Hughes, /,4 ilewr /Jr. Wha all h is means is ha we need o hink no lus abou he ma(h nes hemselves bu abou wha heir insal aion mean, boh in erms of aleraions o buidings and o working pracices. ln archaeo ogica erms, we are conexua sing he arefac or, as Angus Buchanan sa d in 1972, 'assessing he sign ficance ofhose monumens in he conex of social and echnological hisroy' llndus al Archaealogy in Riain, 197 2, 2A). lfully ac.ep he (riicism ha he language used in modern archaeologica wriing is ofen obscure. Andrew 5elkirk, Edor n Chief of Cuffen Archaeology and he scourge of many eminen archaeologiss, runs a column known as 'Gobbledegook corner'which ldo recommend o readers of /,4 /VpwJ- He recenly ook o ask for is dense phraseology a book eniled Prehi5lo,7 a Very Shof lnrcducion (0UB 2003) by he new Regius Professor of Ar(haeology a oxford, Chris Gosden, and, as in recen issues of // /verv his has given r se o a spae of leers. However, and speak as one who eaches archaeology - prpri(rori( Fisorica a1d indu\ridl - 1 a Lrniversiy environmen, ha i is he language familiar o sudens who flock in heir hundreds o conferences of he Theoreical Archaeoiogy Group (TAG), which was he birhplace of Case la's and Symonds' lndusrial Archaeology: fuure Diecions casigaed by Roger Holden, as we as o conferences of (HAT (Conemporary Archaeology and H sorical Theory) which maglne wou d alarm Roger even morel Bu how many young people do we see a our own conferences? Those of us on Council hope ha he membership.an be susained by hose recenly relred and able o conribue o he organisalon, as has happened un now. Bu we do have o remember ha we are more han any oher perlod so.iey addressing wo audiences. 0ne is ha fam lia r o us from our very popular Annual conferences - and don' worry here are no pans o change ha formal The oher s made up of young professionals n archaeologica conrac unis and curaoral archaeology who have come o realise he mporance of he indusrial her age and wan o know more abou i, bu who have been rained in a very differen environmen from hose of us who have been AA members for decades. AA Council has o ry o sa sy boh aud ences lf i is o remain a vibran organisaion, which is why he pre conference seminars (excep n he lsle of l\,4anl) are inended o consider recen research and hlnking in lndusr al archaeology and he word'hinking'was chosen del beraely. l is also imporan ha \\re coninue o run occasional seminars, like he one which led o he publicaion of Undersanding he Workplace ard he framing of an academic research agenda which has pu us on a par wih oher perlod archaeological so.ie s. Ye, a he same ime, we have Annual Conferences in hand uni 2009 and a o more useful gazeeers ofsesl hink ha AA has been large y successful in marnaining his very d fficul balance beween our wo audiences. ln 2000, Neil Cossons, one of he'o-"der. of ol, dis( pl ne. sounded d wdrn ng when he compared indusr al archaeology wih rural and folk sud es, suggesing ha boh grew from he mourning of a recen pas and were inherenly'generaional', in ha as he foundlng proaqoniss died, so oo had he lmpeus and commimen largely evaporaed (Neil Cossons, 8 NDUSTRAL ARCHAEoLocY NEWs 138

9 LETTERS Pespedives on lndusrial Archaeology, 2000, 13). Tra his has NoT happened in indusrial archaeology is eviden lrom he debae in he pages of /,4 rverys which has promped his response! Bu we have o go on saislying boh audiences. ln 2008, we are planning a ioin conference wih our fellow sociey, lhe Sociey lor Pos- Medieval Archaeology, in conjuncion wih he lrish Pos-lvledieval Archaeology Group, and he lndusrial Heriage Associaion of lreland, o ake forward in an inernaional conex some o he ideas pu lorward in Undersanding he Wo*place. his meeing is appropriaely iled 'Crossing Pahs or Sharing Tracks', since SP[4A also deal wih he indusrial period and we wan o be able o work wih hem, no in compeiion wih hem. Bu also in 2008 we have a promised Annual Conference in Wilshire! So, AA member come o one or come lo boh, bu please suppor your Council in heir srenuous effors o preven indusrial archaeology being a one-generaional even. la, a business approach Marilyn Palne AA Chanan lcame oala wih a degree in meallurgy and he experiences of a 36- year indusrial managemen career wih a major inernaional group and 12 years as a small Business Advisor in he local Enerprise Agency, have been disappoined o read he commens on 'Undersanding he Workplace'and men versus machines versus people wih a sense o sadness. Surely we know ha all we sudy is he resull of he aciviies of people. People invened, designed, buil, invesed in and operaed he machlnes o provide goods or services which oher people were prepared o buy o mee heir needs. Wih he excepion of some governmen-run delence supply indusries, allw sudy are privae businesses, usually run by owner-managers who made he decisions required by h ir businesses. All he business decisions in which lhave been involved were made following consideraions involving people - cusomer employees, suppliers, inancier officials and more. Alhough nowadays we have a specialis managemen jargon o refer o each of hese differen fields of consideraion hey sill are, and always were, abou people and an assessmen ol heir reacions o wha he business was doing and planning o do. Eusiness decision-making is based on exercising judgemen in he inegraion of srongly differeniaed informaion, Surely we can all recognize ha he subjecs we sudy and wrie abou came ino being because ofbusiness managemen decisions made in some pas ime by people assessing risks and opporuniies and judging he behaviours of ohers. We are usually looking a buildings, arelacs or records which provide snapshog in he sory of a business. To appreciae hese fully we need o keep in mind heir place in ha sory his in urn calls lor a broadly based awareness o he business conex of he subjec of any differeniaed sudy. owner managers were usually srong personaliies, wih differen characerisics. ln common hey had a firs aim o avoid failure, a second o achieve securiy and only afer ha were hey able o go for growh and give luli expression o heir individualiy. Many did no reach securiy or gromh. They all behaved in ways rue o hemselves in he conex of heir PUZZLE CORNER imes; hey should no be judged in our value sysem - which exiss only in heir fuure! My wish is har people involved in he sudy of indusrial hisory and archaeology would find a way o a broader appreciaion of he business conex ofhe subjec hey are sudying. sugges ha he basic issues have remained remarkably consan and hey could ry o find he way o his broader appreciaion by seeking he opporuniy o alk wih people who have business experience and have ineres in indusrial hisory Richad Hauee ichard@hafree,ory.uk Paddingon saion As someone wih fond memories of Paddingon saion, was amazed o rcad (la News 137)hal Span Fou he GWR'S Edwardian rain shed, is under hrea of demoliion, despie having Grade lised building saus. Ye considering wha happened o Brighon wes Pier, anoher Grade srucure, shouldn' perhaps be so surprised. The rouble in Briain is ha Heriage is oo much associaed wih counry houses and hisoric churche raher han he indusrial sociey whi(h led us o become he'workshop ofhe world'.we do have our prioriies wrong in my opinion, and i is he ask of bodies like he AA o figh for wha remains o, he people's heriag. Tim Mkkleburgh 33 Lilelield Lane, Grimsby Lincolnshirc DN31 2AZ ledior's noe: SAVE Biaio's Heiage is one body fighing hard for our heiage and ib excellen repor on Span Four is highly reconnended - see la News 131, page l, for deailsl he wreck ol an unknown wooden sailing vessel off ifle Ganinick lsland in he lsles of Scilly was discovered by Todd Sevens and Phillip Robers in Members ol he lslands Mariime Archaeological Group have measured a number ol individual elemens o, he cargo o produce basic skeches, bu heavy concreion of he individual componens of he cargo and heir posiions made accurae measuremens difficul. Many more objecs sill remain o be measured, drawn and idenified, alhough some are difficulo ge a.l has been suggesed ha his may be a mid-nineeenh cenury wreck and he iems o he cargo could be mining equipmen or even seam engine pars. Bu wha are he objecs? hese sample skeches by Todd Sevens may give readers a clue. lf you have any suggesions, or wish o see more, please conac David Carer, david.jcarer@iscali.co,uk, ortodd Seven odd@islesofscilly,lreeserve.co.uk. A, six-spoked coqged wheel 10f diameei Sins wide B. spoked sedion of 10f cogged wheel c. cable-carrying wheel apparenly6 on lhe sie.3f'l'lins diameer,5 rins wide. D. Cylinder; broken ino many pieces, approx 5f long and 3f Sins diameer E. Solid cogged drive wheel, 3f 4ins diameer Pipe sedions of various sizes.is one is 6f 1in long and 1f 9ins diameer G. Solid iron piecs lengh 5f 1oins, widh gins H, Sraigh pipe wih end flange 6f 1in long and 1f 3ins diameer. Many on sie, ol varying sizes /^\ /zr1_-1\.-i..rl-f\ =l!=rll r-----s-17 G c E E il = H El El F= E _.6--r o ffi il H -il 1l N) NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 138 9

10 NEWS Railway reaches Reigae wo cenuries oo lae Tweny hree of he 3-fee long casiron 'ram plaes' or rails of and/or similar o hose of he Croydon, lversham & Godsone lron Railway (CMGR), which operaed in beween croydon and Mersham, are now on limied public display in Reigae, he inended erminus he line never reached. hey have been sored in Croydon for some decades, belore which hey had rormed par of a ramway sysem in he underground quarries a Godsone. Alhough, oddly, Reigae was no included in he company's name, he eas Surrey own was he inended main desinaion o he CMGR, auhorised by is Ad o '1803. This horse-drawn ramway was in effec an exension o, he Surrey lron Railway, opened from Wandsworh o Croydon in1803. he exension, however, was buil only as far souh as he chalk pi lime works and underground building-sone quarries a Mersham, where he juncion was o have been for lhe branch o Godsone, and whence he main line was o have coninued o Reigae. hese wo Surrey plaeways are now recognised as he wodd's second and hird public railways (he Lake Lock Railroad near Wakefield being he firs), alhough he firs and second auhorised by parliamen. unds ran ou when Me6ham was reached, and so did he ime limi wihin which he coninuaions o Godsone and Reigae were auhorised o be buil. When he CM6R closed and was dismanled, making way in places for pars o he new London & Brighon Railway beween Coulsdon and Mersham, he iron ram plaes and he sone sleeper blocks were sold.a number of hese second-hand ram plaes were subsequenly laid as a ramway in he underground building-sone Typc quarries below Godsone Hill. hus he railway, or a leas some of is rails, reached Godsong presumably in he lae 1830s or '40s. They are known o have been in place by he 1860s. The quarries are below he A22 almos 2 kms o he nonh of he village cenre, whereas he originally inended erminus was o have been abou 500 meres o he souh, a Godsone Green. A number o he iron ram plaes lrom Godsone quarries came ino he care of he Croydon Naural Hisory & Scienific Sociey Ld (CNHSS) some years ago and have been sored in he own from whi(h he line sared in Two ol hese, along wih our sone sleeper blocks, have for some years been on long-erm loan o he Amberley Working Museum in Wes Sussex, where hey are on display. As he Sociey has been unable o make any saislacory arrangemens for any of he plaes or sl epers o be displayed a Croydon, and has los he enancy of is sorage laciliies here, 23 plaes have now been removed o Reigae for sorage and public display, where hey are on long erm loan o he Wealden Cave and lvline Sociey.here are a leas five differen panerns of ram plae represened in his collecion, as discussed by Bruce Osborne (Proc CNH55, 17(3), 1982) and Peer Bvgess (Proc CNH55,18(4), 1994). The ram plaes ha have a las reached he own are now in he 'caves' a Tunnel Road, abou 500 meres norh of he inended Reigae erminus a Bell Sree, opposie Reigae Priory. Similar plaes are on display opposie 'he [eahers' in Me6ham village (no on he original ramway line) and in he Roary Club Field a Brighon Road in Purley (on he original line). More are a Wallingon ibrary, Furher plae rails once displayed a he op of Mersham Hillon hea23 (no on he original line)were solen in he 1970s. Typc 2 lighr- *irh fhe wo basic ypes ol plae rail ued in he oodsone quade Drawing: peer Buryess The 'caves', he propery o Reigae & Bansead Borough Council, are currenly operaed under license as a low-key visior afracion by WClilS, There are four public 'cave days' each yeaq he las wo lor 2006 being 15 July and 9 Sepember, wih conduced guided ours of he wo ses of 'caves' on he eas and wes sides of Tunnel Road, and also ol he Barons' Cave in he Casle Grounds. WCMS members also provide guided ours or pre-booked groups on oher daes by arrangemen. The eas and wes 'caves' are in fac mines for silver-sand which was aken o he Thames-side glass urnaces in he firs half ol he nineeenh cenury. They were commenced shonly afer Reiqae's road unnel was opened in 1824 (he oldes suniving unnel on a public road in he Briish lsles). Tey fell ino disuse as mines in abou 1860 and were subsequenly used as sores or beer wines and spiris; miliary sores in World War l; a rifle range; and air raid shelers and a conrol cenre in World War ll. Since he las war he wes side caves have been used as a corporaion sore, and included for some years public lavaories (now closed) enered from Tunnel Road. WCMS is now creaing a museum in he eas caves, wih displays on sand-mining and subsequen use and aspecs of oher local mineral indusries. Displayed iems now include he C[rGlR ram plaes and (also on loan lrom CNHSS) some large pieces of worked Reigae sone from a medieval undercrof a Surrey Sree, Croydon. Furher informaion abou 'cave days' and group visis may be obained from Malcolm Tadd, Paul W Sowan BW's big plans for Greaer ondon Briish Waerways has big plans for Greaer London. llese include he encouragemen o freigh raflic wih new 350 onne barge he opening up of he 8ow Back Rivers o pleasure boaing as par of he developmen of he lower Lea Valley in connecion wih he 2012 olympics Games, financial involvemen wih Public Houses and numerous canal-side housing developmens. Briish Waerways (BW) now acs commercially in conjuncion wih developers and he prois made are ploughed back ino canals. A one ime propery was being sold o inance resoraion and mainenance bu his is very much a hing of he pas. Now renal income is relied upon. ln Wes London a 26-mile pound, wihou locks, sreches rom Camden o Slough and his is an excellen srech on which o encourage commercial lreigh operaion. A old Oak Sidings a new commercial wharf is due o be compleed in.luly 2006 and could generae up o 300,000 onnes of raffic per annum. he 350-onne barges o be used have deeper draugh han a radiional narrow boa and dredging is necessary lhe sil removed is pollued and has o be reaed belore disposal, and all his is expensive. A new domesicwase ransfer wharf a Willesden will generae furher raffic. 0n sreches o canal wih numerous locks a barge is a a considerable disadvanage compared wih a moor lorry bu here are lairly level sreches elsewhere which are being developed for commercial raflic. ln panicular Bow Eack Rivers will be used o ranspor sea-dredged aggregae and oher building maerials o he olympic Park, sie of he 20'12 Games, and also o Sradord Ciy, a developmen being buil on a plaeau 7 meres above Ordnance Daum.l is comparable in size wih Canary Wharf and environ wih a similar floor area bu no so high-rise. Building work a he olympic sie will occupy only our years bu i is inended ha here will be a subsanial spin-off rom he Games for local people in he shape of a Legacy - house building on a really large scale covering a much wider area which will ake a funher decade and a half or so o complee. BW are o ensure here will also be a boaing legacy. All his aciviy will generae pleny o, commercial lreigh raffic for Briish Waerways and 100- mere locks are planned which will accommodae wo 3so-onne barges a a ime. Plans lor raffic wih 500-onne barges have been shelved as impracical. he fixed bridges on he Grea Easern main line railway are no hough o be a problem and an air draugh of 3 meres will be mainained. l is also inended o work hree barges souhwards o he olympic Park.O ]NDUSTRAL ARCHAEoLoGY NEws 138

11 NEWS from Pickes Lock on he River Lee Navigaion and domesic refuse ls o be ranspored by waer norhwards o he large incineraor-power saion a Edmonon. Briish Waerways policy is o 're-inven' he Waerways, alhough some criics have described BW as 'boaing mad'. Tle 2012 olympics are seen as a'good driver'.l is BW's inenion o mainain he characer of Bow Back Rivers as lar as possible and o conver channels a presen unnavigable ino fully navigable waerways. The waemays o he lower Lea Valley are o be an inegral pan ol he olympic developmen and no jus a backdrop. Howevei much of he raffic will be pieasure boas and very lile in he way of indusry will survive. ln fac he almos oal removal o indusry will be a really major change. hroughou Greaer London he number of new canalside buildings lor housing will be prodigious and BW will be fully involved via companies such as H20 Urban Ld who are building flas and a canalside resauran a Acon Lock, Hackney. This sie was lormerly a imber yard and work is o be compleed by Spring Currenly Briish waerways owns f200 million worh of such propery. 8W will also be developing waerside inns in conjuncion wih Scoish & Newcasle Ld. Recenly 8W acquired he lnerchange Building o he wes o camden Lock and hey inend o reopen he canal basin underneah he building o boaers. l was heir inenion o reinsae he ormer canal basin in fron ol he grea Cubi Granary of 1852 a King's Cross bu unlorunaely his scheme has failed. An exensive waerside developmen is being compleed around Paddingon Basin (see // News 134 page 14). his kind of 'dockland developmen' is ubiquious naionally. A Three Mills he ide mill is o be pu back o work. A waemheel will probably be kep, resored o working order for demonsraion o visiors, bu waer urbines will be used elsewhere o generae elecriciy. Abou 40 homes migh be supplied. The ide will sill go hrough he Mill and he visual appearance o he buildings is o be mainained. One wonders i BW migh make i compulsory for people o go o work by nanow boa.his migh be achieved in he case of housing buil on small islands wihou road access. A waerbus shule could be run o he neares underground saion. Generally he Briish Waerways policy oulined above applies a Naional level. London is no differenlrom he res ofhe counry in he way ha BW operaes - i is now a moneymaking concern. Rober Can SERTAC 2006 his year's Souh Eas Region lndusrial Archaeology Conference wa5 held a he Chicheser lvledical Educaion Cenre on 22 April. Tlere was an overall aendance of around 200, and afer a welcome by Air lvarshal sir Freddie Sowrey, he Presiden of he Sussex la Sociey, Erian Johnson of he Arnberley working Museum described he irs 25 years of his lvluseum. and he changes ha had aken place in ha ime. The Museum occupies he ormer Amberley chalk pi ha a cenury ago was one of he larges in he souh eas. From he 1840s o he 1960s, chalk was quarried and burn in kilns o make lime for morar, for decoraing and lor agriculural use. Many of he buildings and kilns from ha indusry sill remain. Afer describing he hisory o, he sie, Brian hen illusraed he growh o he Museum ha now includes many elemens including he railway and bus collecion, he Elecriciy Hall, he museum of roads and road making, he BT Conneded Earh exhibiion and many more. The second speaker, Fred Sanford, gave us more deail abou he seing up ol he BT Conneded Earh exhibiion ha focuses on he 'public face' o elecommunicaions, covering he developmen of he elephone iself, along wih he work of he elephone operaors and he various engineers. This exhibiion now comprises he mos complee collecion of elephone inslrumens and overhead line insulaors in he counry The las speaker before lunch was Harry Pearman who spoke on A Mole's Eye view o Souh Eas England' and le us ino he hidden secres of dene holeq chalk wells and underground chalk pis. Harry's job is o go and invesigae underground he sudden collapses of ground, especially hose where hey hreaen buildings, and map he exen ol he underground workings ha are ofen quie subsanial. His slides o he size o some of hese caverns where, especially in pars o Ken! chalk has ofen been exraced were quie saggering. was raher glad ha my house was no on an esae where a number of hese collapses had aken place. Afer a buffe lunch Alan Green gave an ineresing illusraed alk on he rise of indusry in he Georgian period. wihin his period was he growh o he,acory sysem due o he number ol invenions ha ook place in a number of indusrie especially he iron and exile indusries. Alan's alk showed us many of he imponan changes ha ook place, and he social effec on he life of he working populaion as many o, hem moved o he new indusrial owns. An ineresing sideline was ha hese new facories became he subjec o 'ourism' by wealhy men and women curious o see he rapid changes aking place. Vlc Michell o Middleon Press fame hen spoke abou indusrie pas and presen, in he small Sussex own of Midhurs. These included brick making, poeries, plasics and pars for moorcars. He also included his own publishing enerprise, bu lam sure ha no many presen knew ha Vic had been a denis, and also an invenor especially o iems conn ced wih he denal profession. he las speaker was Marin Wilson, he (hairman ol he Associaion o, [ondon Pumping Heriage Aracion who spoke abou he pumping heriage of ondon including Kew crossnes and Kempon Park. He also gave us some o he hisory o he nineeenh cenury endeavour ha consruded he waer and sewerage sysem of London hereby eradicaing he diseases and smells resuling from pollued waer. A number ol hese pumping saions are open o he public and Marin hoped ha in due course we would all make he effor o visi. This was a mos ineresing conference, well run by he organising socley. Nex year's conference will be in he new Rural Life Museum a Readinq UniveBiy, and will be on saurday 2l April lohn Brcwn Brunel plaque on he Balmoral Bridge he Presiden of he AlA, Professor Angus Buchanan, and Dr Brenda Buchanan, were able o join he pary on 29 May 2006 o commemorae he unveiling ol a plaque o l. K. Brunel on he bridge a lhe enrance o Balmoral Casle. An aricle by he Presiden and Sephen K. lones in lndusrial Archaeology Reviewin 1980 (vol. 4, no. 3, Auumn 1980, ) had drawn aenion o he curious omission ol any relerence o he bridge by Brunel's biographer5 and he lack of any recogniion of his par in he projec on he bridge iself Ever since, here has been a quie bu persisen campaign o recify his anomaly, and his has a las been achieved by he presenaion o a plaque by he lnsiuion o civil Engineers o he Aberdeenshire Council, which is responsible for he mainenance ol he bridge.lhe plaque was unveiled, moreover, by HRH he Duke of Edinburgh, so ha a singular omission has been handsomely correcled. seems likely ha he Royal Family did no care much for he funcional girder ha appeared on heir doorsep. hey had fallen in love wih he Scoish Highlands in he and bough he Balmoral esae in he 'casle' which hey buil here. in Romanic Gohic syle, gave hem easy access o some splendid mounain counry, and lor some peace away lrom he hrong of public life in london.hey were embanassed, howevei by he presence of a public road on he souh side ol he River Dee, and ook seps o diven i across he river a he enrance o fieir esae. his required a bridge, and Prince Alber commissioned Brunel o provide one in The Prince had come o know he Engineer well, boh hrough he Grea Wesern Railway, which served Windsor, and he Grea Exhibiion o, 1851, in whi(h hey had boh played an imporan par. Brunel presened several opions o he Prince, and he laer chose a design which he lel would be elegan and economical. Bu when i was compleed in 1857, he surviving correspondence suggess ha serious criicisms were made abou he bridge, on accoun boh of is lack ol ornamenaion and is NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS

12 NEWS elasiciy, As a resul, and possibly because of over-work and encroaching illness, Erunel appears o have had nohing more o do wih he bridge, and only a small plae recording'r. Eroherhood, Chippenham, Wils' as he builder was placed upon he parapel. Brunel's biographers seemed happy o go along wih his omission, bu i is one which discredied Brunel and he indusrial anhaeology of Scoland, as i was his only subsanial work norh of he Border. The bridge is also of considerable ineres in is own righ, as i represens an inerim sage in he emergence ol he wrough-iron laice-girder bridge ha was in he process ol becoming a maior areac in he railways o he world. l was his uncional and economical ype of srucure raher han he large 'russ' bridge like he Royal Alber Bridge over he Tamar, or even Rober Sephenson's ubular Briannia Eridge over he Menai Srais, ha came o dominae nineeenh cenury railway consrucion. So i was graiying o see Brunel's role in his imporan enerprise recognised a las in he plaque on he Balmoral Bridge.lhe unveiling ook place in a bleak norherly gale, wih slee in he air, bu here was some fiful sunshine o give charm o a memorable occasion, marking an appropriae ribue o he Enqineer, he 200h anniversary of whose birh we are celebraing his year. Angus Euchanan Gulbenkian Prize for Grea Briain ln his year of Brunel celebraions, he grea engineer's 55 Grca Eiain, pesened in Brisol, has won he Gulbenkian Prizp for museums and galleries. l is encouraging for la ha las year's Gulbenkian Prize was won by he Big Pi mining museum a Blaenavon in Souh Wales. Professor Rober Winson, chairman of he judging panel, said:'fhe 55 Grca Eriain go ou unanimous voe for being ousanding a every level. l combines a ruly groundbreaking piece o conservaion, remarkable engineeing and fascinaing social hisory plus a visually sunning ship above and below he waer line. l\ros imporanly, he [ship] is accessible and highly engaging for people of all ages.' l.k. Brunel designed he world's firs propeller-driven o(ean-going seamship, which was launched here in Brisol docks in Afer many voyaqes she ended up as a hulk in he Falkland lslands from where she was salvaged and owed back o Brisol. in Subsequen longerm resoraion has seen he hulk ransformed ino a fine ship and since a recen 11.3m projec, he SS Grea Briain appears o floa in a 'sea' o glass. Briish Engineerium reprieved Following he sudden closure of he Briish Engineerium a Hove, Sussex, an aucion planned by Bonhams on '10 May included nearly 500 los from he ronahan Minns Collecion, wih many beauiful model seam engines, ec. A privae sponsor haled he sale a he las momen, giving breahing space for a careful consideraion ol he sie's fuure. Hereford Waerworks refurbished 0n 25 lune Sir Neil Cossons, chairman of English, opened he newly-consruced visior cenre and refurbished main building a he Waerworks Museum in Herelord. he work received Heriage Loery unding in Work was delayed when a sub-conracor wen ino receivership bu Speller-lvecalfe of l\4alvern sepped in and compleed he conlrac on ime and wihin budge. The museum now has a dedicaed educaion spa(e, a visior cenre, a new engine gallery for displays and an engineers' workshop. Fuure improvemens include a building or a pumping engine which was insalled a a warime muniions facory o supply waer in case of ire- Where he modern world begins Screened on Channel 4 on 5 February was a 'Time Team' programme abou he firs (unsuccessful) seam-powered coon mill in lvancheser, daing from he early 1780s and excavaed las year under a car park on Miller Sree. Residen Time Team archaeologis Phil Harding described he sie as 'he prehisory of he lndusrial Revoluion,' while Dr Mike Nevell, Direcor of he Mancheser universiy of Archaeological Uni said he lind was'monumenal'...his is where he modern world beqins.' The programme also looked a he appalling condiions o workers' housing. ERH ERH is he European Roue of lndusrial Heriage, a nework of he mos imporan indusrial heriage sies in Europe. l is he common link beween hem all, from disused producion plans o indusrial landscape parks and ineracive echnology museums. The roue's backbone consiss of Anchor Poins': he ousanding indusrial monumens in he former hearlands of he lndusrial Revoluion in Briain, Neherlands and Germany. ln he fuure, ERH J plans o expand hroughou Europe. Anchor Poins in Briain are a Amlwch (Mynydd Parys and Porh Amlwch), Birmingham (Jewellery Quarer), Blaenavon (Big Pi Naional Coal Museum), Brad{ord (Salaire village), Brendord (Kew Bridge Seam Museum), Chaham (Hisoric Dockyard), Cromford (Derwen Valley Mills), Dundee (Verdan Works), Glouceser (Docks and Naional Waerways Museum), Lanark (New Lanark Mills), Liverpool (Merseyside Mariime Museum), Llanberis (Welsh Slae Museum), Mancheser (Museum of Science and lndusry), Newongrange (Scorish lvlining Museum), Norhwich ([ion Sal Works), Penzance (Geevor Tin Mine), Sheffield (Kelham lsland Museum), Soke-on-Tren (Gladsone Poery Museum), Swansea (Naional Waerfron Museum), Tavisock (Morwellham Quay), Telford (lronbridge Gorge Museums), l..r in!fp,q** The new building a he Waewo*s Museun Herclod Phoo: Waewo*s Museun, Herclod \ \ ;i ; y-*r& C *i*? rl Eri.' i a ^&-" T E Sh Neil Cossons wih D, Noel Meeke Moseun Chairnan, a he ollkial opening ol he new Waeruorks Museun Euilding Phoo: Waerwo*s Museun Herclord a,12 NDUSTRAL AR.HAEoLoGY NEWs 138

13 NEWS Wakelield (Naional Coal Mininq Museum for Enqland) and Walham Abbey (Royal Gunpowder Mills). he Anchor Poins comprise he complee range of European indusrial hisory hey will also be he saring poins lor a variey ol Regional Roues as well as Transnaional lheme Roues which are currenly being planned for exiles, mining, urion and seel, manufacuring, enerqy, ranspor and communicaion and waer. lnformaion abou ERH can be ound on he websie wwwerih.ne. Waler MacFarlane & Co. ld Members migh be ineresed o know ha he Scoish lronwork oundaion have jus published a hisory of Waler MacFarlane & Co, Ld, Saracen Foundry Glasgow wih a reprin of plaes from one of heir produc caalogues.he book is hard bound wih gil leering as per he original. his company migh be considered o be he world's foremos archiedural ironlounders. e Scoish lronwork Foundaion ( is he online resource lor archiecural ironwork made or found in Scoland, funded by he Millenium und - RAS. he book is available in he LrK for f25 incl P&P by sending a cheque o he S(oish lronwork Foundaion, 22 Alexandra Pla(e, 5nling, K8 1UN. David S. Michell Norh Sea news A blaze in June damaged Sealand, a former World War ll ani-aircraf plaform off he Essex and Suffolk coas. The derelic plaform was occupied and declared an independen sae in 1967 bur somewha compromised 20 years laer when Briish erriorial waers were exended from hree o welve miles. Neverheless he 'sae' has coninued o exis, alhough no recognized by he Eriish governmen. Coalpor srenghening rewarded Recen work by Shropshire Couny Council and he Borough of Telford and Wrekin o srenghen Coalpon Bridge has won he lce wes Midlands Proiec Award 2006 as well as he Wes Midlands Heriage Award. he bridge is believed o be he oldes cas-iron srucure in Briain carrying vehicles and he srenghening work was considered o have been carried ou wih grea sensiiviy and was a worhy winner. Ceramics guide honoured in naional reference book awards he file Gazeeer: A Guide o Bihh file and Archhecual Cennics Locaionsby Lynn Peason was published in 2005 for he Tiles and Archiecural Ceramics Sociey by Richard Dennis, Shepon Eeauchamp (5l2pp, wih many illusraion A5 paperback. SBN f25.00) l was runnerup and highly commended in he re(en SG (ClLlP)/Nielsen BookDaa Relerence Awards for he ousanding work of reference (prined caegory) published in The Awards are adminisered by he lnlormaion Servi(es Group o, Cll-lP he Charered lnsiue of Library and lnormaion Professional and sponsorcd by he leading bibliographic informaion supplier Nielsen BookDaa. Since '1970, he Relerence Awards have recognised excellence, promoed awareness ol ousanding reference books and producs, encouraged qualiy and se indusry sandards. The awards were presened a he ibrary and lnformaion Show NEC, a a special ceremony on 26 April he chair of he judging panel described he book as'a superbly illusraed auhoriaive guide o in siu Briish iles and archilecural ceramics. As such i lills an imponan gap and will appeal o anyone ineresed in Briain's buildings - hisoric or modern, he use o ceramics in archiecure and he hisory of ceramics manufacuring. lhe main arrangemen is geographically by couny. he individual enries are shor and o he poin bu manage o pack in a lo of inlormaion and derail. And a he nd o each enry are excellen bibliographies. A pracical book o sudy or ake on your ravels. Exremely good value for he qualiy and quaniy of is conens.' For more inlormaion on he Tiles and Archiecural ceramics Sociey see (;o (o DOR REST ncorporain.l/ Over 00 rnes H ReceD conrlcs include rail$a1. and a replica se lll(' lead \culpures. re \lcmorial bronze 'l'urbinia. Lion. Sans Pir Cornwall and Devon ge new World Heriage Sie lrnesco's World Heriage Commiee, meeing in Vilnius, Lihuania, announced on 13,uly ha World Heriage saus has been graned o he Cornwall and Wes Devon Mining Landscape. The complex bid was submined back in January 2005 and is made up of en mining landscapes from S Jus near and's End o he Tamar valley in Wes Devon. lvleanwhile, unding has been approved lor he developmen sage o an ambiious projec o urn Geevor Tin Mine in wes Cornwall ino he UK's fines museum of hard rock mining.his is considered o be he bes preserved in mining complex in Europe and linancial backers include he Heriage Loery und and European Communiy obiecive one. Where are hose la courses? Where in he (ounry are public courses on la (day-schools, pracical, residenial or weekly) being held by universiies, WEA, or oher organisaions over he nex 12 HEA ONS (Engi f,\ ) L Elr)'..1.\ he res(,raion (,1 D ( 1..1 e\l)cr'renc(] monhs? Please keep he AA informed if you know ol local courses which we can publicise in la News and he AA websie. Even if you hear abou one bu aren' planning on aending yourself. 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14 REGlONAL NEWS Scoland irs, apologies o regular readers who were expecing o find his regional repor in he las issue ol // News as pafi of he annual reporing cycle. Your corresponden was overwhelmed by end-of-year adminisraive aciviy brough abou by his new and varied duies, and by his failure o muli-ask effecively, so he grealy appreciaes he olerance and undersanding shown by he edior. his ha as always, been a very mixed year in Scoland. Commencing on a sad noq friends and colleagues norh of he border were very sad o hear of he deah ol Eric Wa, a prime mover in he Scoish lndusrial Heriage Sociey, and well known o many AA members. Elemens of his excepionally valuable archive have been gifed o a variey of relevan insiuions, and he mos imporan indusrial phoographs are o be copied lor deposi in he Naional Monumens Record o Scoland. Perhaps he mos disurbing news of he year has been he collapse and closure of he Dalmellingon and Disric Conservaion Trus, which had run he lormerwaersid lron Work5 sie near Dalmellingon as indusrial museum for many years. The liquidaion followed he wihdrawal wihou warning o, local auhoriy funding (by Eas Ayrshire Council), and has had many disressing consequences. 0f hese, perhaps he mos exraordinary was he aucion of asses by he liquidaor during which,riends and voluneers of he museum bough back iems ha hey had originally gifed o lhe Trus. here are also wonies abou he long-erm fuure ofhe surviving srucures wihin he sie, and Hisoric Scoland are acively working o ensure ha he blas- urnace bank and associaed blasengine house do no suffer in he ensuing period of uncerainy. urher nonh in lrvine, he fuure of he Scoish Mariime l\4useum also seems o be uncerain, and i now seems likely ha he 5/ Carrick (or Ciy of Adelaidel is unlikely o be resored afer he esimaed fl0 million cos was deemed o be prohibjive. his will be a major disappoinmen o many, no leas he people o Souh Ausralia whose forebears arrived in he ship over many decades. l is now likely ha he vessel will be dismanled in a process ha will include carelul recording. No lar away (on he norh side o he River lrvine), he incremenal closureof Nobel's Explosives'Ardeer Facory has coninued. The good news is ha he company has deposied is ruly wonderful archive wih he local reposiory, Ayrshire Archives. Meanwhile, sill urher norh in wesern Renlrewshire (lnverclyde), he ownership of he 'Greenock Cu' (buil during he '1820s) has recenly been ransferred o lnverclyde Council, who are now leading a parnership o repair he cu and is associaed srudures wih Hisoric Scoland and Heriage loery und suppor. Moving easwards along he Clyde owards Glasgow i is sad o repor ha Barbush Mills in lohnsone are o be demolished. ln Glasgow isell i is perhaps ineviable ha BAe Sysems have again applied o demolish he Arrol gian canilever crane a heir Govan 5hipyard. The previous applicaions have cied he need o make space or he pre-abricaion of large pieces of warship, bu somehow demoliion never occurred and he crane was sill used from ime o ime. Now i seems ha he crane is o be condemned o deah once again. This would be a shame given he desrucion ol similar cranes on he Tyne and a Rosyh, and he fac ha oher counries such as Japan (Nagasaki) and Ausralia (Sydney) appear o reasure heir own Arrol cranes wih more enhusiasm. one ol he grea cenres o indusrial archives is siuaed no far rom Govan a Glasgow Universiy Archive Services, which also accommodaes he Business Archives Council of Scoland (BACS). BACS has for many years been an imporan parner in he early warning sysem permiing he imely recording of indusrial sies and he rescue ol imporan archives. A key person in his process has always been he Survey officer, and i was herelore sad o lose Liza Giffen las December afer several years of valuable service. She has moved on o a pos in leeds Universiy, bu her posiion has recenly been filled by David Powell. Despie a period of major reorganisaion, Hisoric Scoland has coninued lo suppor indusrial heriage in a number of ways, boh hrough is Hisoric Buildinqs and Ancien Monumens inspecoraes' aciviies. Recen examples have included funding lor he consolidaion of he Tullibody Old Bridge in Clackmannanshire, inancial suppor for surveys o he sal indusry in he Solway Firh and Brora in he norh-eas Highland REGONAL CORRESPONDENTS fhe blowing engine house a WaeRide honwo&s, Dalnellingon, Aylhe. Afe he Dalnellingon and Disic Conseruaion Trus wen ino liquidaion following he sudden cesaion ol loaal auhoriy lunding herc ap concen abou he sie's luure Phoo: lohn R Hunq 1980, 5C local involvemen in he inerpreaion of he Eunavoneadar whaling saion in Harri and he publicaion ol a echnical advice noe on Scoish lron Srucures by Tom Swailes. This is a paricularly imporan piece o work given he requen alarmis condemnaion of iron frames by unqualified assessors. ln his conex, i is also very good o see he excellen websie and associaed daabase Please suppor your Regional Corresponden by sending relevan maerial which may be of ineres o our readers. Region 1: SCOTAND Dr l\4iles oglehope, RCAH[/ John Sin(lair House, 16 Eernard Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 9NX Region 2: RELAND Fred Hamond, 75 o(ksley Park, Bellas BTO OA5 Region 3: NORTHERN ENGLAND Cunbia, Nohumbeland, fyne and WeaL Durhan and Cleveland Graham Brooks, Coomara, Carleon, Carlisle Cumbria CA4 08U Region 4:YORKSHRE AND HUMBERSDE Nofh, Souh and Wes Yokshie and Hunberside Derek Baylisg 30 l\'luskoka Avenue, Bens 6reen, Sheffield 5l 7RL Region 5: NORTH WEST ENGLAND Lancashie, Me5eyside, Greaer Manchese and Cheshie Roqer N. Holden, 35 Vicoria Road, Sockpor SKl 4AT Region 6: WALES Pa Fros, Caslering Ardaeology, 5 Casle Ring, Ponesbury Hill, Ponesbury Shrewsbury Shropshire 5Y5 oya Region 7:WEST MDANDS Shropshhe, Saffordshhe, Wes Midlands, Waruickshire, Herelod and Worcese John Powell, lronb.idge Gorge Museum Trus, Coa(h Road, Coalbrookdale, Telford TF8 7DQ Region 8; EAST MDLANDS Dehyshirc, Noinghanshhe, Lincolnshire, Leicesershhe and Nofhanponshhe David l-yne, 10 Somerville Road, Leic ser LE3 2ET Region 9: EAST ANGLA Canbridgeshhe, Nofolk, and Essex 'uffolk David Alderon, 48 Quay Sree, Halesworh, Suffolk lp19 8EY Region 10: GREATER LONDON Dr R.,. [4. Car, 127 Queen's Drive, -ondon N4 2BB Region 11: HOME COUNTES Oxfodshhe, Redfordshire, Rekshe, ucki ngha nshire and H enfodsh he Henry Gunson, 6 Clemen Close Wanagg oxfordshire 0X12 7ED Region l2:50uth EAST ENG.AND Hanphe and sle of Wigh 5u ey, Sussex and Ken Alan Thomas, 6 Birches Close, Epsom, Surrey KTl8 5.1G. i a.h.homas@ binerne.(om Region l3; WEST OF ENGLAND SoneBe, Avon, GlouceseBhire, Wihshe and Do6e N4ike Bone, Sunnyside, Avon Close, Keynsham, Brisol BS8 lq Region 14: SOUTH west ENGTAND Devon and Cornwall VACANT,14 NDUSTRAL ARCHAEoL)GY NEws 138

15 i -r- n fhe Caledonian grcrcy, Edinbwgh, in 1974 bhen i poduced'scoch Ale'for Vaux of Sundedand. fhe brcwey has sinae u ived lwo lircs, and is bee6 have won nany prize. De<has PA winning he 'Chanpion Eeer of Eilain' conqiion in ln 2005, he conpany sold $e brcwery o S.ofib Couhge,, vdils conlinuing lo operae he sie a an independen buiness compiled by David Michell and Andrew aing, scoishironwork.org. Hisoric scoland has also been supporing research ino he exracive indusries ol Souh and Cenral Scoland. Anoher imporan projec has been he Moffa Upper Forge excavaion nearairdrie by he Scofish Analyical Services for Ars and Archaeology (5ASAA), a specialis organisaion based in Glasgow. l has been pioneering 'Holisic Conex Analysis' (HCA), which is a mehodology designed o exrac he maximum informaion from indusrial and oher sies wih lile or no exan remains. Meanwhile, no far away, posexcavaion work a Summerlee Rams Ness Lighhouse, Ea Lohian, i no longe operaional and he Norhem Lighhouse Roard have decided o sell he lighhoue iaef Phoo: Cowl Coryigh RCAHMS, 1998 i f i 5C Phoo: lohn R Hune 1974, 5C lronworks has been compleed and a paper wrien for he Proceedings of he Sociey of Aniquaries of Scoland. Every year, Dundee is a hobed o aciviy. Recen evenls have included he dismanling and reerecion of he Dundee Foundry (Gourlay's iron-ramed marine engine works) 30 meres from is original posiion. No far away, he Edward Sree Mill and Consable Works have been convened o residenial use, whils Taybank Works, formerly he UK's las working jue spinning mill, is now being demolished.0n a more posiive noe, Verdan Works has signed up and is par of he UK's European Roue of lndusrial Heriage (ERH). Funher norh in Aberdeen, here remains an impasse relaing o he uure o Broadford Works, and he sae o, he records of he company (including a,ine archive relaing o he mills hemselves) remains uncerain. Aberdeen Ciy Council is coninuing he ligh o ensure heir sale removal, and i is hoped ha he ambiious plans o conven he works ino an urban village will sill be realised. Aberdeen also hosed he launch o a projec designed o ensure he survival of hisoric records relaing o he UK offshore oil and gas indusries. This occuned a he Universiy ofaberdeen, and is known as he'capuring he Energy Projec'. l was originally proposed by RCAHMS and he Business Archives Council of Scoland afer REGONAL NEWS ir v* ( \ T#RTAGE ENCNN]E]ER,]NG Preserung Our Heriage For Fuure Generaons Our dedicoed 35 srong eom provide urnkey soluions in he Herioge including : Mechonicol Engineering Arc hiecurol Meolwork Timber Engineering Technicol Consuling Conservolion Workshops :' r'.:..... resorolion of world's oldes working sleom engine 5m limber woerwheel consrucion newcomen engine echnicol osessmen design & build of lorges cosi iron s'lrucure erecled in he los 80 yeors 22-2l Cdnnyle Avenu., Glogow, Scollon r, G32 6HJ fel +ooq ol F(,x $ osa3 aolar@harilogeenglnecdng.com - Recenl prcjecls 20ol/2002 ww\.hc logccngln..rrng.com ln orpofuing Wal.r MacFarlJn & Conrpany Lld Scois -d Colliefles, -{ *H'E$## A. 3l4-page hard-back +l UK fl5 inc p&p Overseas f20 inc p&p RCAHMS. l6 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh, EHB 9NX +44 ( imnce(rrcahms.gor.uk Packed wih informaion and illusraions A, record of he las decades of he scoish coal indusry h NDUsTRAL ARCHAEoLoGy NEws

16 REGONAL NEWS encouragemen from Norway, bu has since received generous suppor form ToAL E&P UK plq Scofish Enerprise Grampian, and he Universiy of Aberdeen. Ulimaely, he aim is o ensure ha he indusry iself reains he mos imporan re(ord maerial, and ha his is sored in a cenral archive faciliy, preferably in Aberdeen. The exen o, he change now fa(ing he offshore indusry is exemplified by he ac ha Ardersier, one of he main onshore consrucion yards (near lnverness), is being convered ino a residenial and leisure complex as par of he 'Whieness' projec. l is exraordinary o hink ha he UK offshore oil and gas indusry are already muaing ino indusrial archaeology, and i is herefore all he more imponan ha we ake his opponuniy o ensure he survival o, hisoric records belore hey are desroyed as he indusry evolves. Scoland's capial ciy is also winessing a major mariime ransiion as Forh Pors winds down is laciliies in eih Harbour and he 'Walerfron Projec' plans o build he larges number ol residenial unis since he compleion ol Scoland's las new own, livingson. l remains o be seen how much of he harbour area's hisoric labric is successfully inegraed wihin he developmen. ln his conex, i is hearening o be able o repor ha he Scoish Parliamen's cross-pary group on Archiecure and he Environmen has been acively promoing he environmenal benefis of he re-use ol old buildings compared wih high (os of new-build projecs. Also in Edinburgh, i is perhaps worrying o see ha he Caledonian 8rewery maker o wonderful and prize-winning beer (such as Deuchars PA) has been sold o Scoish Courage, who have in urn shu he ounain 8rewery (previously he home of 'Taran 5p cial'). he Caledonian Brewery company remains independen from Scoish Courage, bu he brewery iself now makes a range ol new producs, including he McEwans 70 and 80 shilling ales. Meanwhile, he sie of he ounain Brewery is likely o be re-developed as par ol a major scheme exploiing he seing of he erminus of he Union Canal in Edinburgh. Funher aield, Eas Lohian Council is embarking on a maior iniiaive a Presongrange lndusrial Museum. The plan involves applying for a large HL gran as par of he Living Landmarks programme and readers ineresed in more informaion should visi he projec's websie a Several miles along he coas o he eas ol Dunbar, he Nonhern Lighhouse Eoard have deviaed somewha,rom heir recen pos-auomaion pracice of selling off keepers' houses. A Barns Ness, hey are selling he lighhouse iself, now ha i has been decommissioned. Back in Edinburgh, i has been a relaively quie year in indusrial erm bu work has coninued on he RCAHVS coal book, publicaion beinq planned for June 2006 in pannership wih he Scoish Mining Museum. A broadshee on New Lanark Mills and village has also been published in parnership wih he Friends of New lanark, and he civil engineers Jacobs Babie have donaed he Sir Alexander Gibb archive o he Royal Commission. This conains a lo of wonderful maerial on Scoish engineering projec6 bu also includes a grea deal of maerial relaing o he res of he UK, as well as presigious overseas projecs, such as he Kariba Dam. RCAHMS is also collaboraing closely wih he lnsiuion ol Civil Engineers' Panel of Hisoric Engineering Works (PHEW) on he las in he series ol civil engineering heriage volumes which, ineviably, is on Scoland. This is posing many challenges, no leas because i will be bigger han anyhing ha has gone before. Publicaion is due in Auumn Miscellaneous news iems include he opening o he new lvlonrose Bridge following he demoliion of he owen Williams reinforced concree bridge las year. ln Lanarkshire, on o he mos imporan srucural engineering companies in he UK, Moherwell Bridge, has demolished is main works in Moherwell. Aemps o conac he surviving managemen in order o discover he fae of he excellen company archive have so far ailed. ln Dumfries and Galloway, he closure o he nuclear power saion a Chapelcross is likely o induce recording aciviy, and i is hoped ha he recording will also be possible a Dounreay in Caihness (in he norhern Highlands). here was considerable alarm in April 2006 when he 'Huners' wellingon boo facory occupying he former Arrol Johnson car facory a Heahhall in Dumfries announced ha i had gone ino receiveehip, bu he business was recenly rescued by a consorium. Finally, he Scoish lndusrial Archaeology Panel has now been meeing for over 25 years, bu like oher UK panel aendance has flagged, alhough he meeings remain useful and sill occur wice annually. over he coming weeks, a hard core of members is going o review he aciviies of he panel, and will consider ways in which i can coninue, including he use of he web and . ln paricular, or many amaeurs and professionals wih an ineres in indusrial heriage, i is becoming increasingly difficul o aend panel meeings in he llesh, so he poenial lor exchanging informaion via he new inlormaion echnologies offers remendous opporuniies. Miles Oglehorpe Norh Wes England is perhaps ironical ha in he las l2 monhs he Governmen rerused o suppor he consrucion of a modern ramway sysem on Merseyside, while also on Merseyside a surviving relic o Briain's firs sree ramway sysem was demolished. ln 1860 George rancis Train's Birkenhead Sree Railway Company consruced a line from Woodside erry o Birkenhead Park. his horse-drawn roue was exended in he summer of he following year o he op o Palm Grovq Oxon, where a depo and sables were buil. ln 1877 he line was aken over by he newly lormed Birkenhead Tramways Company, who ereded a new office building a he depo in This single-sorey building, wih'birkenhead Tramway Company' engraved above he door, survived unil early 2006 when i was demolished and he sie redeveloped or housing. The engraved keysone has been preserved a he Birkenhead Museum, Anoher ramway depo which has disappeared o be replaced by housing over he las year is he Sandroyd depo a Colnq buil in 1921 bu only used for rams unil 1934, afer which i became a bus depo unil abou 25 years ago. l sood a he op of a seeply graded secion ol reserved rack down o Coonree, which sill survives as a pah wih secions o ram rack in use as posls a he op. he line coninued o Trawden village where here was a lurher secion o reserved rack which also survives as a palh and secions o, ram rack are sill embedded in he ground a he upper end by he bus erminus, even hough las used in Today, lrawden appears o be a sleepy dead-end village and i may be surprising ha i ever had a ramway. Bu he ramway provided a necessary ranspor service lor he workers a he large weaving mills which exised along is roue. here is now lile evidence of his aspec oltrawden's hisory; Hollin Hall Mill was demolished las year, leaving only rragmens of Black Carr and Erook Mills alhough he village does conain many hand-loom weavers' coages. Elsewhere in he Pendle area, he chimney of Pendle Sree shed, Nelson, eaured in he 2004 Norh Wes England rcpofi (la News 130, page 15) was demolished earlier his year. Furher souh in Hyde, Greaer lvancheser, he major par of he Bayleyfield and Carrfield Milk complex has been demolished for housing re-developmen. This is a significan loss sin(e, commen(ing in 1817, his vas sie had been developed over a long period o serve he venically inegraed exile business of Ashon Brohers and encompassed spinning, weaving and inishing, wih a surrounding (ommuniy of house schools and churches. The Universiy ol Mancheser Archaeology Uni (UMAU)were able o survey he sie before demoliion commenced. Also in Greaer Mancheser, UMAJ were able survey Monarch and Sandy Mills a Royon belore demoliion. The demoliion of Sandy Mill was compleed on Wednesday 15 ebruary his year when he chimney was demolished a abou 1'1.00 in he morning. Fred Dibnah no being available any more, i was blown up raher han being felled by he Dinah mehod. red Dibnah is now honoured by a blue plaque on his house in Radcliffe Road in his home own of Bolon. Paid for by he Bolon & Disric CivicTrus, his was unveiled on he 30 March 2006 by he Mayor ol Bolon, Cllr Frank Whie. l reads 'Home o he lae Dr Fred Dibnah 16 NDUSTRAL ARCHAEoLoGY NEWs 138

17 - Hri iii r ][lu r. gikenhead franway co. olfiae building MBE Seeplejack. Honorary Docorae: Aberdeen & Birmingham Universiies, aris, draughsman, carpener. slonemason, demoliion exper, inuiive engineer, seam enhusias, devoee of our indusrial heriage, raconeur and elevision celebriy. Revered son of Bolon ' The Council has decided ha he mine shaf he was sinking in his garden wihou planninq permission can say and i may become par of - well, you guessed i - 'The Fred Dibnah luulx lllilr ll]]]l l]]llr Experience'. Swan Lane Mills in Bolon, which were vlsied by he AA as par of he 2000 Manch ser conlerence a year before hey ceased coon spinning, are now being redeveloped as he Swan Cenre and he company underaking he developmen were generous enough las year o make a major donaion o he Norhern [4ill Engine sociey. Alhough a repor appeared in he local paper, his welcome publiciy opporuniy for boh he swan cenre and he Sociey was marred by he fac ha r- illll llllllll no phooqraphs were included and he headline referred o he Sociey as'rain rans'l Work a he Bolon Seam Museum coninues and a boiler house has been consruced over he las year, alhough i will be some ime before hey are in seam. he museum is no ye open on a regular basis, bu hose who wish o see progres or see he museum lor he firsime, have an opponuniyo do so his year on Augus Bank Holiday weekend (Sunday and Monday, 27 & 28 Augus) or Sunday 10 Sepember (Heriage open Days weekend) when i will be open lrom around 1oam unil4pm. l is locaed on Chorley Old Road, behind Morrison's sore. The Bancrof Mill engine a Barnoldswick will aho be in seam on he Sunday afernoon o he Heriage open Days Weekend as par of is regular seaming programme; oher daes are 1 Ocober, 22 ocober and 12 November UMAU have had a very busy year as regards indusrial archaeology. ln addiion o he mills noed earlier, hey have also REGONAL NEWS surveyed sanding buildings a Lane End Mill in Heywood, Drydock Mill in lileborough, Acorn Mill in [ees, Broad Oak Mill in Accringon, and a railway goods shed a Summersea in Bury ey coninued work on early indusrial housing in he Mancheser area by excavaing a row of four blind back erraces lrom around 1800 on Greengae in salford. Bu he highligh! which also involved he Mancheser Region lndusrial Ar(haeology So(iey, was he hree day'time Team' ex(avaion of Mancheser's firs coon spinning mill on Miller Sree. lhis recovered he wheel pi and engine bed of he mill. one of he myseries o he sie ha remains is how he waer lea sysem worked during he 1780s and i is hoped ha furher work on his sie will be possible. Roge N. Holden Greaer London The hisoric Ram Brewery in Wandsworh is o close and he 5Xacre sie will be sold. ln 2003 wandsworh own cenre was idenified as a key area for regeneraion and his mus be a facor in he decision o sell, quie apar from he fac ha he demand for radiional beer will almos cerainly dwindle ino insignificance in a decade or so.the Brewery sie is currenly believed o be worh f million and he decision o sell is an obvious business necessiy. Young & Co are o merge heir brewing operaions wirh Charles Wells who will produce Young's beers a he Eagle Brewery Eedford, builr in A he Ram Brewery here are wo Woolf-compound roaive beam engines of 1835 and 1867 which a leas unil very recenly were in working order. Along wih he ac ha younger (usomers are disineresed in real ale, a general ineres in saionary seam engines is almos cenainly coming o an end and he Wandswonh beam enqines are likely o be offered o museums. Wheher someone like Kew Bridge will ake one remains o be seen bu we are pas he era when indusrial museums were aking large exhibis. lndeed mos museums are currenly discarding such arefacs a a scandalous rae. he Ram Brewery is on he oldes coninuous beer-making sie in Briain bu wihou a viable luure he reenion of a lew of he mos hisoric buildings is as much as we can hope for. A he Guinness Brewery in Wes london demoliion has been proceeding quickly and all will probably be gone in a lew weeks, he Guinness Brewery could be demolished because i had a cerificae of exempion from lising. As if his case is no worrying enough, even worse is he siuaion regarding he commonwealh lnsiue, Kensingon High Sree. his Grade ll. lised building migh be demolished lollowing an Aa of Parliamen o de-lis i. lf his becomes a possibiliy, lising a building in he firs place becomes raher poinless - a Consiuional issue. he de-lising o imponan buildings on grounds of financial fl, :!,,'] - - Kepone over he enlrance o he Birkenhead Tanwa's Co. ollice building - wih nisspellinq of 'frahway ih he singular Phoo: Ken Caiod,} fhe Ram Eewey, Wandswoh NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS 1J8 17

18 REGONAT NEWS expediency is a righening prospec and he proposed Kensingon demoliion would se a dreadul preceden. he Commonwealh lnsiue by Harris and Suherland (engineers) was designed and consruced durinq ls hyperbolic paraboloid roof in swep-shell (oncreie was he larges of is kind a he ime and he building reflecs he pos-colonial hinking o is age. is regarded as one of he wo mos imporan buildings in London of is period. The early wenieh cenury exension o l, K. grunel's Paddingon saion in London, lised Grade l, is hreaened wih demoliion, o be replaced by an office developmen. Span Four is on he norheas side of he erminus and he general public may well hink his par of he saion is by he grea man himself - i is a good mach and well done. Tle decision o replace Span our by an offi(e developmen seems shor-sied bearing in mind ha in he near fuure more accommodaion for rains a Paddingon will be needed. f Crossrail is buil i is prediced ha Paddingon will receive an exra 16 rains per houl and generally he curren rend is o run more rains raher han less. The presen congesion a Birmingham New sree well illusraes his. An argumen pu forward for he demoliion ofspan Four is ha i is jus a pasichq bu i is far beer han ha. Eminen pundis argue ha i was designed by leading railway engineers of he day o complemen Brunel's work, maching he exising rainsheds and expanding he spacious feeling ofhe saion. So well does i do his ha i i is o be removed we may well hink he less ol lsambard's original achievemen. To laer vveny-irs cenury eyes i migh appear quie poky. The engineer responsible lor Span our was Waler Young Armsrong, who was he GWR new works engineer lrom 1904 o His work includes he whole chilern roue o Birmingham, viaducs in Cornwall, new saions a Cardiff, Glouceser, Truro, and Birmingham's Snow Hill and Moor Sree. Moor Sree saion Birmingham has recenly been resored o a very high sandard and well illusraes Armsrong's abiliy o combine aesheics and engineering. A visi o Birmingham o see Moor Sree as i is now can be highly recommended. Span Four a Paddingon was buil during he reign of King George V beween 1911 and '1916 and he conracors were Holliday & Greenwood, Currenly he inerior o Span Four is obscured and he general public is unlikely o appre(iae wha hey migh be loosing. l is impossible o make an adequae phoographic record a he momen because o, he cluer. Abou welve ee above pladorm level here is a deck of large boards suppored on scaffoldinq (a crash deck) which covers he whole area norh o, he buffer sops, as lar as he end of he rainshed. his deck was pu up in 1993 for reasons o public saley and he resriced headroom makes he easern side o Paddingon Saion gloomy and depressing. Wha is above he deck is un(lear, here appears o be access o his secre space bu onlyvlp visiors are likely o be admied here. Souh o he buffer sops, as far as he hroa hrough which pedesrians currenly ener he saion a is souheas corner lrom Praed Sree, he rainshed is lined wih whie plasic sheeing orming a false ceiling. hus i is quie impossible o see he inerior of Span 4 and he casual visior when asked is likely o respond - 'Span oui wha span Four?'A view of he exerior can be had lrom London Sree. Span our was he las grea rainshed o be buil in Briain unil he 1990s and Nicholas Grimshaw's Eurosar erminus a Waerloo. Save Briain's Heriage have produced an A4 bookle in suppon of reenion and here is a campaign involving eminen people. l is hoped o repor urher in he nex la News. All his conrass wih he siuaion a King's Cross - S Pancras where i is repored ha Argen Esaes Ld inend o re-erec all he hree lised gasholder frames currenly dismanled and in sore norh ol Bale Bridge Road. These ormed he famous riple and gasholder number eigh, currenly sill in siu, is o be moved o sand alongside he reinsaed riple. Furhermore excellen work has been done o he eas o King's Cross saion where he Regen Quarer, now opening, is a splendid example of sensiive developmen. A leas superficially he overall characer ol he area has survived remarkably inac. A Kew Bridge Seam Museum work on he Bull Engine is proceeding saisfa(orily. Since Chrismas 2005 he insallaion of he valve-gear has been compleed and a new seam pipe has been fied. A he pump end of he engine he repla(emen ol roen boom spring-imbers has been underaken and was compleed by early illar(h When he ime comes o raise he pump under seam hese imbers will provide a irm base o suppor wooden props ha will hold up he pump assembly while he pole is cleaned and he gland repacked. oher asks o be done before he pump pole is raised include adjusmens o he plug rod and re-fiing he air pump drivelinks along wih several gauges and lubricaors. l was hoped o be able o seam he engine in April Anyone ineresed in working on he Bull engine should (ona( Nick Morgan, he ambiious plans of Eriish Waerways for Greaer [ondon, which include he developmen of freiqh raffic wih new 350 onne barges, he opening up of he Bow Back Rivers o pleasure boaing as par of he developmen of he lower Lea Valley in connecion wih he 2012 Olympics Games, are described elsewhere in his issue (page 10). Robef Can z -r-. E a1l cr. f L r H l a\ Paddinglon pedesrian enence o Span 4 hough he hroa Phoo: R l M Caff Paddingon Span 4 hon he nordr 18 NDUSTRAL ARCHAEoLoGY NEWs 138

19 PUBLCATONS Local Sociey and oher periodicals received Absracs will appear in lndusial Archaeology Review. Cumbia lndusrial Hkory Sociey Bullein,64, April 2006 Dorse lndusrial Archaeology Sociey Newsleer 15, May 2006 Grcae London lndusrial Archaeology Sociey NewsleeL 222, February 2006 & 223, April 2006 Lancashire Hisory Quarerly, 913, Winle 2005 Leicese$hhe lndusrial Hisory Sociey Newslene4 28, Spring 2006 Museum of Rah a Wok ryewslefier, Winer 2005 Piers: he Joumal of he Naional Pie6 Soclefl, 78, Winer 2005/6 SAVE Bi6in's Heriage Newsleer, November/December 2005 Suffolk lnduslrial Archaeology Sociey Newslefe4 93, [4ay 2006 Surrey lndusrial Hisory Grcup Newsleer,l51, May 2006 flcch Bullein, 31,Wine 2005 Waerwods: News fiom he Waerworks Museum, Hereford, Auumn 2005 Yorkshhe Hisoy Quarerly,1112, Nouember 2005 & 11/3, March 2006 Books Received he following books have been received lor review ir lndus al Archaeology Review. fhe ferile Mills of Pendle and heir seam engines, by ceoll Shackleon. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing pp, over 270 phoos and drawings. SBN l. hardback f This book gives a deailed hisory of he cofon indusry in he owns and villages of he Borough of Pendle. l covers in deph he hisory of all 157 exile mills and provides deails of he owners and enans who buil and occupied hem. These (ompanies creaed he bulk ol he employmen in he area and were he driving force for he growh and prosperiy o he owns ol he Borough. The book also concenraes on he means of providing he power required o drive he mill in paricular he seam engine. Much echnical daa is included wih deails of enqines TEXTLE MLLS OF PE'DLE AND THER STEAM ENGNES which, bu for he auhor's research over many years, may have been los forever. ln order o assis he reader's undersanding ol he exile mills and heir machinery here are exensive inroducory chapers covering heir developmen, he prime movers which powered he machinery, and here is also a hisory of local seam engine makers.he book provides a valuable resource on he hisory of he Pendle disric. Wilshhe in he Age of Seam, by Peer Sanier. Tiveron: Halsgrove Books pp, 267 illus, l5bn , hardback fl9.99. Alhough Wilshire is renowned or is prehisoric monumen his book shows how is indusrial heriage is also surprisingly rich and diverse. Naionally imporan sies include Brunel's Grea Wesern railway and Box unnel, or he Kenne & Avon canal wih is majesic ligh o locks a Caen Hill, ine aqueducs and he Crofon pumping engines. Trowbridge had imporan exile mill Wilon is known lor is carpes and here were also silk indusries a Warminser and Mere. Underground quarries a Corsham and Chilmark furnished building sone, and here were limekilns, brickyards and even blas lurnaces for Wilshire iron ore. Farming has lef remarkable waer meadows, and indusries based on agriculural produce were maling, brewing and corn milling by waer or wind poweq as well as dairy condensed milk and bacon produce. As well as local iron loundries, heavy r engineering was represened by he swindon Railway Works which employed housands in is day. Te swindon workers' village is one of he bes of is ype in he counry oher indusries included paper, leaher; snuff and rubber. while hydro-elecriciy was generaed on he salisbury Avon. Turnpike roadl canals and railways also had an impad on Wilshire's landscape and economy. SHORT NOTCE fowpah Guide fhe Grand ljnion Canal fsou, by Nick Corble. Sroud: empus Publishing pp, 110 illus. SBN fl2.99. fowpah Guide fhe Souh Orod Cana, by Nick Corble. Sroud:Tempus Publishinq, pp, 100 illus. SBN E' These wo owpah guides lollow similar formas wih an inrodudion, and an overview consising of a very briel (anal hisory and general descripion o he landscape hrough which he canal runs.the canal is hen divided ino secions. Each o hese has a se of subsecion saring wih 'Shapers'. This includes'key acs' (boayard waer poin winding poins and locks), a roue descripion, local hisory landscape, main seflemens, a(cess and ranspor deails (usefully wih phone numbers or bus and axi firms). Following are'basics'. By his erm he auhor means shopping faciliies, eaing and drinking, and accommodaion. 'Seeing and doing' covers local sighs in some deail, culure and enerainmen (including spors cenres), and inally 'Sampling' includes walking (wih one local walk described), cycling, riding, fishing and ohers such as golf clubs. conac deails are liberally provided. Alhough only a localcould check he ac(uracy o he inlormaion given, Mr Corble has accumulaed a vas amoun of useful informaion for he canal or owpah usei hough ineviably very regular updaes will be needed o keep he inlormaion reliable - migh his possibly be done via he web? only one hing le5 hese guides down, he roue maps, which are skechy in every sense of he word, hey are small scale and do no even give bridge numbers. For he walker wih an 05 map, preferably l:25000, hey migh b adequae, bu lor he boaer hey do no replace Nicholson, However, as a supplemen, especially perhaps for he more leisurely boaer, hey should prove very useful. THE BOOK HOUSE The leading indusrial archaeology booksellers since books on all aspecs of echnology & ranspor Lrss rssuso - FnpE SEARCH SERvCE Our new shop is now open, near he op of he village sree, adjoining Fallowfielel The Book House, Fallowfield, Ravensonedale, Kirkby Sephen, Wesmoreland CA17 4NG Telephone and Fax: e -mail : mail@ he bookhouse.c o.uk Open daily excep Sunday & Tuesday: loam-5pm or visi our booksall a many A conferences VST THE AA WEBSTE u *rv. ind usrial-a rchaeologl.org.uk NDUSTRAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS

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