Stanley Mill, Gloucestershire

Stratton, Michael; Trinder, Barrie

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“…The Scottish Royal Commission has undertaken this kind of national survey, Graham Douglas producing a typology of waterwheel development in Scotland. The English Royal Commission's textile mill survey is a valuable initiative (GiIes & Goodall 1986), and isolated surveys of other important mills, like Stanley Mill, in the south of England (Stratton & Trinder 1988) should be integrated into the large scale survey being undertaken of the north of England (see Textile Mills 1988). But there are many other industrial structures where a national typology is needed, and one which takes into account both chronological and regional variation -lime kilns, brick and pottery kilns, glass kilns, coke-fired blast furnaces, arsenic calciners, waterwheels and turbines, maltings and warehouses.…”

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Industrial archaeology: a thematic or a period discipline?

Palmer

1990

Antiquity

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A thematic or a period discipline?Industrial archaeology has generally been defined as a thematic discipline, concerned with only one aspect of man’s past activity. Although the term ‘archaeology of industry’ was used in the 19th century, it was Michael Rix who used the phrase ‘industrial archaeology’ in print for the first time (Rix 1955). He later defined industrial archaeology as ‘recording, preserving in selected cases and interpreting the sites and structures of early industrial activity, particularly the monuments of the Industrial Revolution’ (Rix 1967: 5). The emphasis on the term ‘industrial monument’ followed a need to define an industrial class of Ancient Monument so that some examples would be scheduled. Industrial archaeology, then, grew from the need to record and preserve standing structures threatened with demolition rather than an inherent desire to understand more about the historical period of the monuments. It was perhaps felt that understanding of the industrial revolution period was more readily arrived at by other means, particularly written historical evidence. During the ‘rescue’ years of the 1960s and 1970s, archaeology was one of the two areas of fastest university expansion and very popular in extra-mural teaching. But none of the archaeology departments took up industrial archaeology, although many of the extra-mural departments did; it is largely as a part-time, amateur interest that industrial archaeology has flourished ever since. The author’s post as an industrial archaeologist in the Leicester archaeology department is one of the first occasions on which the specialism has been given a place in full-time undergraduate archaeology courses.

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Industrial archaeology: a thematic or a period discipline?

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1990

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“…Inevitably this called for large hectares of space which often could only be supplied on out of town sites away from the railway network, making many goods yards and warehouses redundant. 18 At the same time the concept of long-term storage fell out of use, and the transhipment centre became the dominant form of store. The fate of the railway warehouse was sealed by the sharp contraction in Britain's railway system in the mid-20th century.…”

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The Archaeology of the Rural Railway Warehouse in North-West England

Nevell¹

2010

Industrial Archaeology Review

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This article studies in detail two rural railway warehouses of the mid-19th century from North-West England. Structures such as these were an integral part of the branch lines and secondary lines that developed across the network during the mid-to late 19th century. The two warehouses recorded here each refl ected the needs of the railway company. The warehouse at Delph was a multi-purpose structure, whilst the Summerseat warehouse appears to have been a small cotton warehouse and was notable as surviving almost completely intact. Both represent the Victorian approach to industrialised transhipment and redistribution brought about by the railways. They also demonstrate how vulnerable such structures are to early 21st-century redevelopment pressure.

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The archaeology of industry; people and places

Palmer

Orange

2016

Post-Medieval Archaeology

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Stanley Mill, Gloucestershire

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Industrial archaeology: a thematic or a period discipline?

Industrial archaeology: a thematic or a period discipline?

The Archaeology of the Rural Railway Warehouse in North-West England

The archaeology of industry; people and places

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