From the SelectedWorks of Kirsten Jarrett January 31, 2014 Living in the Past: Preservation, interpretation, and engagement, and the 19th early 20th century home Kirsten Jarrett Available at: https://works.bepress.com/kirsten_jarrett/8/
Dr Kirsten Jarrett LIPCAP 2014 Living in the Past Community Archaeology Project
Investigating materiality of domestic life in industrial communities during the 19 th mid 20 th century First stage: pilot targeted samples within four Derby study areas Testing methods to facilitate residents of small housing to record the material traces of everyday activity left by earlier occupants Integrating other sources, e.g. demographic data, photographs, oral history, and family histories
Basic standing building investigations Primarily photographic recording; occasional measured surveys House exteriors & outbuildings especially WCs Toilet Histories ; o asio al i teriors preferably duri g re o atio DIY Ar haeology Garden topsoil artefact surveys Including demolished housing plots Surface artefact surveys Pu li spa es: De olished housi g plots & du ps Community workshops & exhibitions
Derby
Preliminary census analysis indicates employment of residents in local textile mills & agriculture Extents of late Victorian settlement
Some buildings Demolished late 20 century Nearby 18th century + Rubbish dump Village includes a small number of 17 th - 18 th century houses Most small dwellings: 19 th century
Charcoal & clinker, as well as ceramics, glass, animal bone, leather, & occasional metal
Demonstration Case study No. Chester Green
Speculatively built late C19 early C20 terraced houses
Local industries include: Railways Foundries Textile Mills Chester Green
Chester Green Some industrial buildings survive Housing built in late 19 th century by local industrialist for workers Case Study No. 8
Ground floor front room Discovered traces of early activity despite extensive renovation: used evocatively in exploring diachronic changes in domestic environment & use of space
Inside cupboards
Ground Floor back room Paint in scullery
Graffiti on external wall, near scullery door & kitchen window Rear yard & garden Buildings depicted: similar to demolished local framework k itters cottages Peopling the past: Childhood & neighbourhood
19th century housing demolished during 1930s & 1960-70s slu leara es Late C19 / Early C20 terraced houses Replacement housing built on plots in 1970s by Local Authority
Industries mostly textile related: Many tape mills & dye works High density housing: many courts so e a kto- a ks some four room houses many tworoom housing, several streets of late C19 early C20 speculatively built six room houses
Few surviving early mid 19 th century houses
Surviving 19 th early 20 th Century industrial buildings & pubs
Pre-construction excavations of Derby University Business Centre: site of demolished housing
Potential for artefacts associated with C19 housing to surface within modern gardens Post-demolition made ground did not involve importation or removal of soil
Brief survey revealed 19 th century ceramics Former housing plots on recreation ground
Exploring autoethnography as a stimulus to community participation
LIPCAP team member: 6th & last generation to inhabit street of al shouses, adja e t Cou ty Gaol demolished during s ur a i pro e e t. Extended family network nearby
Above: County Gaol facade Below: nearby housing & railway buildings
Surviving mid 19 th century dwellings: former social housing
Late 19 th early 20 th century suburban small terraced housing: speculatively built after extension of tram-line, which provided transport to urban industries and commerce
Lymehurst built 1925-31 Early features revealed, recorded & reinstated
Phases of fireplace modification, suggesting correlations with changing use of domestic space Stratigraphy of erosion to wall paint and floor suggests position and phase of furniture
Lou ge wall graffiti: evoking questions surrounding influence of wider changes upon local attitudes & behaviour Marks o Lou ge floor indicating position of furniture: provoking questions surrounding changing use of domestic space
Early 20 th century house used as attered Ho e for hildre
Southwell workhouse, Notts. Rails i hildre s ho e (below) - to protect walls from damage by beds - comparable to examples in institutions, such as workhouses
Ashbourne, Derbys.
Walled-in scullery opper al o e - discovered during building surveys Discovery of hidden spaces popular sti ulus for histori al i agi atio! Ashbourne, Derbys.
Photo by house owner Heanor, Derbys.
Heanor, Derbys. Photo by house owner
Historic Map overlays
3D reconstructions
Open source mapping to display discoveries
Learning aids & oral history mnemonics
Care (& display) in the Community Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Open Days Historic Industrial Domestic Buildings What is this house? Private dwelling Built late C18 by local industrialist Strutt for factory workers
Care (& display) in the Community Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Open Days Historic Industrial Domestic Buildings Who lives there / visits? Owner-occupier Visitors = neighbours & those /with family previously employed in local factories
Care (& display) in the Community Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Open Days Historic Industrial Domestic Buildings Why open to public? I itially to get to k o eigh ours Research by occupant and historians reveal local & wider historic value
LIPCAP 2013 Xmas Open Day
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