Reanimating Industrial Spaces: Conducting Memory Work in Post-industrial Societies

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by  Hilary Orange

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REANIMATING INDUSTRIAL SPACES
Conducting Memory Work in
Post-industrial Societies
Hilary Orange
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reanimating industrial spaces: conducting memory work in post-industrial societies/
edited by hilary orange.
pages cm. — (Publications of the institute of archaeology, university college
london; 66)
includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. industrial location—history. 2. industrial archaeology. 3. collective memory.
4. social history. i. orange, hilary.
hc79.d5r43 2014
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Materials, ansi/niso Z39.48–1992.
Contents
illustrations 7
Preface 11
introduction 13
Hilary Orange
1. inhabitants and inhabitance: archaeology and Memory 28
in industrial spaces Paul Belford
2. a Permanent state of decay: contrived dereliction at heritage 49
Mining sites Peter Oakley
3. urban exploration as heritage Placemaking 72
Bradley L. Garrett
4. the long Path: landscape, Memory and the spectral 92
Lisa J. Hill
5. listening to industrial silence: sound as artefact 108
Jeffrey Benjamin
6. spaces for children: school gas chambers and air raid shelters 125
in second World War britain Gabriel Moshenska
7. concrete Memories: cultural Production in an albanian 138
communist factory Emily Glass
8. iron Production in uganda: Memories of a near-forgotten industry 158
Louise Iles
9. collective Memory, Working-class identity, and the reanimation 176
of community in the (Post-) industrial sugar landscape of
central aguirre, Puerto rico Sam R. Sweitz
10. benders, benches and bunkers: contestation, commemoration 191
and Myth-making in the recent Past Hilary Orange
11. digital heritage, industrial Memory and Memorialisation 212
Caradoc Peters and Adam P. Spring
12. reanimation or Danse Macabre? discussing the future 235
of industrial spaces Paul Graves-Brown
index 248
about the editor and contributors 253
Illustrations
Figures
figure 1.1 conventional forms of reanimation in the united Kingdom. 32
figure 1.2 location and extent of telford new town. 35
figure 1.3 archaeology as material memory. 39
figure 1.4 engagement of former inhabitants of industrial spaces 41
with archaeological sites.
figure 2.1 interior of the bath house at the no. 8 dredge complex. 50
figure 2.2 the Processing Mill at Kennecott. 56
figure 2.3 interior of the Processing Mill at Kennecott. 57
figure 2.4 the goldstream dredge no. 8. 60
figure 2.5 interior of a house at bodie. 63
figure 3.1 control room a inside battersea Power station, 75
london, united Kingdom.
Figure 3.2 Bonfire Night from atop a smokestack on Battersea 76
Power station, london, united Kingdom.
figure 3.3 looking out over the blast furnaces of sinteranlage, 80
duisburg, germany.
figure 3.4 the twisted interior of sinteranlage, duisburg, germany. 80
figure 3.5 the remains of the assembly line, fisher body 21, 83
detroit, Michigan, united states of america.
figure 3.6 a message left behind, fisher body 21, detroit, 84
Michigan, united states of america.
figure 4.1 sketch map of the forest of dean. 93
figure 4.2 railway road, november 2008. 97
figure 4.3 laura daly’s work for Reveal, april 2006. 99
figure 4.4 fred turley’s medal card. 100
figure 4.5 lightmoor colliery spoil heap, november 2008. 101
figure 4.6 boundary stone, lightmoor enclosure, november 2008. 103
figure 5.1 house of Maryanne amacher, 2010. 110
figure 5.2 view from high line Park, 2012. 116
figure 5.3 untitled, 2011. 118
figure 6.1 school children line up in the playground during a gas 129
mask drill at old Woolwich road school, greenwich.
figure 6.2 children inside a school air raid shelter. 130
figure 7.1 concrete factory looking south across upper working 142
platform, showing metal moulds and structural damage
to remaining buildings.
figure 7.2 recording and translating the on-site interviews. 143
figure 7.3 upper platform looking north showing goliath cranes, 144
rubble and utility pole mould.
figure 7.4 the former concrete factory workers taking a 145
post-interview shade break.
figure 7.5 Prefabricated mushroom-shaped bunker in situ with 147
concrete components and metal reinforcements exposed.
figure 7.6 Miri Çarçani in 2009 demonstrating the mechanism by 150
which metal cables were fed across the lower platform.
figure 8.1 relative location of bunyoro in western uganda, the 162
three survey zones of the 2007 fieldwork, and key towns
and kingdoms.
figure 8.2 Mwenge sites and areas mentioned in the text. 165
figure 8.3 Walking survey in rural Mwenge. 166
figure 8.4 a local gentleman at the site of Mirongo, who came 167
to visit us during our excavations to show an old hoe that
had been curated within his family for many generations.
Figure 9.1 The sugar mill, administrative offices, and plaza at 177
central aguirre, ca. 1920s.
figure 9.2 location of the mill and company town of central 178
aguirre on the south-central coast of Puerto rico.
figure 9.3 graduate student carmelo dávila interviews nelson 180
nieves regarding work and life in the community of
central aguirre.
figure 9.4 aerial view of central aguirre, 1932. 183
figure 9.5 Jose ramon rivera describes life in the company town 185
of central aguirre and what it means to be an Aguirreño.
figure 10.1 view of botallack coastline from Kenidjack headland. 192
figure 10.2 Memory map of botallack drawn in april 2008. 199
figure 10.3 the quarry on Kenidjack headland with cape 200
cornwall in the background.
figure 10.4 dick thomas’s memorial bench. 204
figure 10.5 the footings of the Wheal cock winding engine house 205
upon which the CFR installation was built.
figure 11.1 epipolar image of the löbejün cylinder, germany. 219
figure 11.2 Plaque from the back of the löbejün pedestal. 219
figure 11.3 view of carnon stream engine house, devoran, 221
cornwall, toggled between point cloud
and photometric model.
figure 11.4 Point cloud of towanroath engine house, st agnes, 222
cornwall, generated by a faro laser scanner.
figure 11.5 spring and barton with leica laser scanning equipment 222
north star Mining Museum, california.