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The Offerton Hat Works and Stockport’s Felt Hat Industry Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Steve Tamburello
Stockport became one of the leading centres for the British felt hat industry in the 19th century. An archaeological survey of the Offerton Hat Works that was carried out between May 2019 and Febru...
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Editorial Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Ian Miller
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Park Glasshouse, Birmingham — a Site of 19th-Century Innovation Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Rachel Williams, David Dungworth
In 2020 excavations took place on the site of the former Park Glasshouse, Birmingham, established in 1788, and subsequently the location of the Baker and Allen German Silver Works, opened in 1895. ...
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Lead Houses: White Lead Processing at the Chester Leadworks Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Rachael Matthews, Ric Buckle, Liz Govier
The Chester Leadworks was established on the north bank of the Chester Canal in 1799 and is best known for the production of lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars, although lead sheet, pipes and washer...
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The History and Archaeology of Hendon Sidings Enterprise Zone, Adjacent to Prospect Row, Port of Sunderland Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Philippa Hunter, Simon Cosedge, Michael Nicholson, Rachael Lightfoot, Robin Holgate, Joseph Empsall
Developer-funded archaeological investigations were undertaken by Archaeological Research Services Ltd within Hendon Sidings Enterprise Zone at the Port of Sunderland in March 2021 and during the s...
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Industrial Heritage in the Czech Republic Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Axel Föhl
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Keith Falconer
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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L.T.C. ROLT: A Collector’s Bibliography Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Chris Pickford
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Abstracts Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Ian West
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Ian West
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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John Rennie ‘Engineer of many splendid and useful works’ Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Keith Falconer
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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The Installation of Electric Bells and Telephones at Hatfield House: Lord Salisbury’s Adoption of Communication Technologies in the Later 19th Century Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Lucie Clark
ABSTRACT This article explores the installation of electric bells and internal communication telephones at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, well known for his fascination in all aspects of science and new technology. The installation process of these pioneering new technologies at Hatfield House, their location within the house, how they functioned
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‘The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales’ — A New Industrial World Heritage Site Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-03-10 David Gwyn
ABSTRACT UNESCO’s inscription of ‘The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales’ as a World Heritage Site in 2021 added for the first time a cultural landscape of quarrying to the World Heritage list, the culmination of a 12-year bid process for Gwynedd Council as the promoting local authority. Its six Component Parts exhibit clear visual and functional relationships with the wider landscape of Snowdonia
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Stories from the Cold Hill: Reassessing the Bryn Oer Tramroad Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Rhys Morgan
ABSTRACT The history and development of the early 19th-century Bryn Oer Tramroad in South-East Wales has been considered previously by Gordon Rattenbury and John van Laun, but archaeological monitoring and walkover surveys carried out during conservation works to the tramroad in spring 2022 have yielded new data. In particular, fresh evidence for the tramroad’s drainage system, turnouts and gateways
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The Heritage of the Textile Industry, A Thematic Study for TICCIH, The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Massimo Preite
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Technology, Economics and Canal Development; An Early Technical Book and What It Reveals Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Nigel Crowe
Published in Industrial Archaeology Review (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Unravelling the Story of the Lefka Railway Complex in Piraeus, Greece. Past, Present and Future Perspectives Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Theodora Chatzi Rodopoulou, Giorgos Farazis, Jason Zorzos
ABSTRACT This article sheds light on the story of one of the most important vestiges of railway heritage in Greece — the historic railway complex of the Piraeus-Athens-Peloponnese Railways Company (SPAP) — once the largest 1m gauge system in Europe, located in the Lefka district of Piraeus. Starting from its establishment in 1886, the article discusses the complex’s development and its progressive
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A Further Phase of Archaeological Investigations at Swalwell Ironworks, Tyne and Wear Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Rupert Lotherington,Ian Miller,Gerry McDonnell
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Digging Bath Stone: A Quarry and Transport History Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Peter Stanier
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The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 James Douet
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The Work of Stott & Sons for the Linotype Company at Altrincham 1: The Works Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Roger N. Holden
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Technological Innovation and Industrial Decline: The Case of the Automatic Loom in the British Cotton Industry Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Kenneth C. Jackson,Behnam Pourdeyhimi
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Structures of the First Industrial Age in Rijeka, Croatia — from Timber to Iron Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Adriana Bjelanović,Nana Palinić,Marko Franković
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Hathorn, Davey of Leeds: Manufacturers of Steam Pumping Machinery 1872–2016 Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Geoff Wallis
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Industrial Letchworth, The First Garden City 1903–1920 Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Chris Barney
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Paid Casting Cleaning at Hopewell Furnace Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Brian Schmult
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The Technology and Construction of Houses Built for the Munition Workers of the First World War Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 John McGuinness
ABSTRACT The increase in the production of armaments following the outbreak of the First World War led to an expansion of existing factories and the building of new manufacturing facilities. Alongside this rapid growth was a need for additional accommodation for the workers. Due to the shortage of both traditional building materials and tradesmen, many of these developments used non-traditional materials
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The Steam Pumping Stations of the London Main Drainage, 1858–75 Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 James Douet
ABSTRACT London’s Main Drainage was one of a number of projects in Europe and North America in the mid-19th century to design and retro-fit a sewage network in cities struggling to cope with unprecedented health, sanitary and environmental problems caused by industrialisation. The Main Drainage was both the most ambitious of these, and the first in the world to be based around steam-powered pumps.
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Coming Out in the Wash: Investigating Manchester’s Public Baths and Wash-houses Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Ian Miller,Oliver Cook
ABSTRACT Manchester experienced an astonishing rate of growth from the late 18th century to become the first industrial town in the world by the 1830s. Its industrial prowess was fuelled by remarkable engineering talent that was drawn from across the country, coupled with the migration of workers on a scale that was unprecedented and unforeseen. The living conditions, sanitation and health of the burgeoning
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A Miller and His Mill: The Story of John Else and Warney Mill Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Kieran Gleave
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Workers’ Housing at the Former BBC Site in Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Rosemary Banens
ABSTRACT Numerous archaeological excavations across Manchester have exposed 19th-century workers’ housing, with each new investigation enhancing the understanding of urbanised industrial living and domestic life. This paper examines the excavated remains of workers’ housing and other structures exposed during excavations at the former BBC site in the Chorlton-upon-Medlock area of Manchester. A variety
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Chatham Historic Dockyard, World Power to Resurgence Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Keith Falconer
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Labour and Technology Migrations in the Iberian Peninsula — The Case of the Spanish Millano Family’s Woollen Mills in Portugal (Late 19th–Early 20th Century) Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Mário Bruno Pastor,Eduarda Vieira,Juan Manuel Cano Sanchiz
ABSTRACT This article studies three woollen mills (Torre de Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes and Vila Nova de Gaia/Porto) built in the north of Portugal from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th centuries, by a family of Spanish migrants, the Millanos. The circumstances of this family’s migration, its impact on the local communities and even the location and description of their mills were barely
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Steam on the Sirhowy Tramroad and its Neighbours Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 David Gwyn
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Industrial Lowell and the Dawn of the Anthropocene Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Kevin Coffee
ABSTRACT Established in 1823 as an industrial enclave, Lowell, Massachusetts, was described by a network of canals that diverted waterpower to an array of integrated cotton textile mills. The qualitative advances in engineering and materials science, which drew from and propelled the productive consumption of industrialisation, were particularly manifest in the construction, equipping and powering
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The Vulcan Works, Southport: The Archaeology of an Edwardian Car Factory Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Ian Miller,Lewis Stitt
ABSTRACT The widespread adoption of the motor car had what was perhaps the greatest impact on the physical and social landscape of 20th-century Britain, and yet virtually none of the early car factories have been subject to formal archaeological investigation. In 2019–20, Salford Archaeology carried out a comprehensive survey of the former Vulcan Works, a purpose-built factory that was erected near
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Structures of the Proto-industrial and Early Industrial Age in Rijeka, Croatia Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Nana Palinić,Adriana Bjelanović
ABSTRACT The proclamation of Rijeka as a free port in 1719, and the construction of the lazaretto (naval quarantine station) of St Charles Borromeo in 1725, initiated the economic and urban development of Rijeka, which grew from a small coastal town into a significant centre of manufacturing and industry. With the lazaretto and the largest factory, a sugar refinery built in 1750, the city’s first manufacturing
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Olive Oil Soap in the Holy Land: Background, Technology and a Newly Discovered Workshop in Jaffa Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Yoav Arbel
ABSTRACT The production of soap made of potassium and olive oil is a centuries-old industrial tradition in the Holy Land. A popular local and export commodity, olive oil soap from the region was traded as far as Turkey, Yemen, the Sudan and the highly profitable markets of Egypt. Thriving in a land notorious for hygienic deficiencies, this industry reflects various aspects of the social and economic
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Aqueducts & Viaducts of Britain Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Michael Messenger
Whether seeing an aqueduct or viaduct striding boldly across a landscape or glimpsing it peeping between buildings in a close urban environment it is always a joy. A dramatic statement, previous generations would see it as man conquering nature, it is impossible to ignore. No matter how hard he has worked on other sections of the line, it is the soaring viaduct, or aqueduct, that will carry the engineer’s
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England’s Co-operative movement: an architectural history Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Ian West
Whether seeing an aqueduct or viaduct striding boldly across a landscape or glimpsing it peeping between buildings in a close urban environment it is always a joy. A dramatic statement, previous generations would see it as man conquering nature, it is impossible to ignore. No matter how hard he has worked on other sections of the line, it is the soaring viaduct, or aqueduct, that will carry the engineer’s
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Industrial and engineering heritage in Europe, 50 winners of the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Keith Falconer
societies. Subsequent chapters document this continued growth through to the 1960s, with the CWS moving into financial and other services and needing ever-larger offices, warehouses and factories, and the retail societies expanding into department stores and, later, supermarkets. The CWS also set up its own chains of shops, under what was to become Co-operative Retail Services (CRS) to enable it to
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The railway revolution; a study of the early railways of the Great Northern Coalfield, 1605–1830 Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 David Gwyn
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Legacies of the First World War: Building for Total War 1914–18 Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Geoffrey Stell
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Proceedings of the 1st International Early Engines Conference Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Ian West
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The Archaeology of 20th-Century Factory Management: Four Factories on the Team Valley Trading Estate Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Ronan O’Donnell, Kayt Armstrong
ABSTRACT This article seeks to determine whether changes in factory management during the mid-20th century can be archaeologically recognised. 1 The 20th century witnessed significant changes in management practice which are understood historically. In order to examine the archaeological record of these changes, archaeological and historical research was carried out on four factories on the Team Valley
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In Celebration of the K8 Telephone Kiosk – Britain’s Last Red, Cast-Iron Phonebox Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Nigel Linge, Andy Sutton, Andrew Hurley, Neil Johannessen
ABSTRACT Whilst every country in the world has introduced phoneboxes onto its streets, the United Kingdom stands alone in having adopted the red phonebox as a symbol of its national identity. However, that symbol is of phonebox designs produced by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1925/35 and not of the more contemporary ones that followed it. When introduced in 1968, the Bruce Martin-designed K8 kiosk or phonebox
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Inventory and State-of-Conservation Survey Model for Railway Heritage: The Case of Turda–Abrud (Romania) Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Ruxandra Coroiu, Dragomir-Cosmin David, Octavian Coroiu, Cornel Ciupan
ABSTRACT This article explores the state of conservation and key characteristics of the Turda–Abrud narrow-gauge railway heritage as a basis for discussion in the probable event of its future restoration for tourist purposes. The aim of this research was to create a record of the aesthetic and technical features found on site, to be used for prioritising critical heritage preservation interventions
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‘ … One of the Most Severe Duties … ’: Landscapes of Timber-getting at a Former Tasmanian Convict Station Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Richard Tuffin, Martin Gibbs, Don Clark, Marcus Clark, Peter Rigozzi
ABSTRACT The British colonisation of Australia was made possible by its co-option of unfree labour. Unwillingly placed at the leading edge of the colonising wave, the convict provided the labour power and skill through which land was alienated from its original inhabitants, infrastructure created and services rendered. A key feature of this process was the clearance, ‘improvement’ and targeted harvesting
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Working-Class Housing: Improvement and Technology Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 George Sheeran
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Coker Canvas: the Textile Industry of the Somerset/Dorset Border Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Peter Stanier
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Restoration Rewarded: A Celebration of Railway Architecture Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Grahame Boyes
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The Buckley Potteries: Recent Research and Excavation Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Ian Miller
pared with the Neolithic; this is glaringly wrong and the table of five types of stone usage in prehistory should have been modified in several other ways. In term of research and publication, all too often the archaeology and history of quarrying has been the poor relation to the investigation of, and published output for, historic mining; this book helps redress the balance. Despite its imperfections
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The Permanent Way of the 1805 Congleton Railway: New Evidence from Fieldwork Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Rowan Patel
ABSTRACT The Congleton Railway was opened in 1805, traversing the Staffordshire/Cheshire border. Fieldwork carried out on the route in 2018 resulted in the discovery of numerous components of its early cast-iron trackwork, allowing the construction of this short colliery railway to be understood in significantly more depth than has previously been possible. Examples of two types of cast-iron rail,
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A Pendulum of Innovations and Challenges: Technological System and Industrial Heritage of Sulphur Mining in Northern Chile (1887–1993) Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Francisco Rivera
ABSTRACT Located at the Bolivian border in the Antofagasta region, Ollagüe saw the emergence of industrialisation and capitalist expansion through sulphur mining activities during the 20th century. This article presents both an historical synthesis and the industrial heritage of Ollagüe to show how the innovations in the sulphur mining technological system go hand in hand with the global economic context
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A Model for Industrialisation in the Derwent Valley: Application of the Manchester Methodology in the North East of England Modified to Demonstrate the Benefit of the Process on the Local Social Structure Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 John Bowman
ABSTRACT This paper contributes a case study on the Manchester Methodology — a tool for studying the process of industrialisation — focusing on the Derwent Valley in the North East of England and discussing the social structure relevant for industrialisation. In this case study the social structure has been moved from a top-down hierarchy of ownership to a bottom-up concept of social benefit, thereby
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The Rolt Memorial Lecture 2019: Landscape without Machines: Remembering the Little Things Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Peter Stanier
ABSTRACT This paper concerns aspects of the granite industry in South West England, appropriately the region for the 2019 AIA Conference. It turns aside from spectacular industrial archaeology to address a concern for some of the little things that are so readily forgotten. The subject is parochial but shows how over two centuries a relatively little industry and its little quarries in Cornwall and
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The Imprint of the Spanish Tobacco Industry on the Urban Landscape: Permanences and Absences of an Industrial Memory Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Carolina Castañeda López, Fernando Vela Cossío
The preservation of old industrial buildings implies their treatment as reused elements for the development of the dynamics of today's society, in a second life where their recovery for citizenship...
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Spinning Yarns: A Tale of Landscape Archaeology in the Leen Valley, Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Stephen Walker
ABSTRACT The cotton-spinning mills developed in Nottinghamshire by George Robinson and his sons in the late 18th century were acknowledged by contemporary writers to be pioneering. Faced with a crisis in their water supply, their early use of steam power was ground-breaking. Furthermore, their impact on the landscape was considerable. From the 1960s, researchers identified surviving earthworks and
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The Delvers, Delving along the Derwent — a History of 200 Quarries and the People who Built them Industrial Archaeology Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 John Barnatt
converted to other private use) and private individuals. The restorations recognised by the awards have been extended to cover station roofs, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, signal boxes, goods sheds, tea rooms and coal drops, and smaller projects such as a cast-iron gent’s urinal, lighting columns and mileposts. The competition was extended to the Isle of Man in 1987 and to Ireland in 1992. Some 227 locations