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A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Somerset
Survey 1 - The Bridgwater & Taunton Canal
Survey 2 - Hancock's Brewery, Wiveliscombe
Survey 3 - Electricity in Taunton, 1807-1948
Survey 4 - W. H. Pool & Sons, Engineers
Survey 5 - Taunton Gas, 1816-1949
Survey 6 - Dening of Chard, Agricultural Engineers, 1828-1955
Survey 7 - Bogs and Inundations. The draining of the Somerset levels
Survey 9 - Donyatt Pottery, 11th century - 1939
Survey 10 - Rural Water Supply
Survey 11 - The Somerset Coalfield
Survey 12 - Mills around Wiveliscombe
Survey 13 - Somerset Brick & Tile Manufactures
Survey 14 - "Now You See It, Then You Didn't" - The Inter-Channel Stop Line
Survey 15 - Mills of the Isle and its Tributaries
Survey 16 - The Minehead United Turnpike Trust
Survey 17 - The Gas Works of Somerset
Survey 18 - From Field to Factory (Somerset Flax & Hemp)
Survey 19 - The Phoenix Works, Chard
Survey 20 - Cheddar in the Industrial Age
Survey 21 - The Development of Crawler Tracks and Tractors
Survey 22 - Rode in the Industrial Age
Index to SIAS Bulletins 1 - 100 (including supplementary index to Bulletins 101 to 111)
Journal 1 - 1975
Journal 2 - 1977
Journal 3 - 1981
Index to SIAS Journals 1 - 3
Somerset Roads - The Legacy of the Turnpikes.
English Bronze Cooking Vessels
The Coaching Era
1861 Easton Amos Land Drainage Machine
Sailcloth, Webbing and Shirts - The Crewkerne Textile Industry
Parrett River Trade

Gazetteer

A comprehensive guide to all the most significant
industrial archaeological sites in the County of Somerset.

A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Somerset

Ed. Peter Daniel

Published 2019 in collaboration with the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA)

80 pages

Maps

Illustrations

£5.50 including postage and packing

Surveys

SIAS Surveys deal with various industrial archaeological subjects in the County.

Survey 1

The Bridgwater & Taunton Canal

C. A. Buchanan

Reprinted 1990

27 pages

Maps

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 2

Hancock's Brewery, Wiveliscombe

Mary Miles

Reprinted 2001

32 pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 3

Electricity in Taunton, 1807-1948

D. Gledhill and P. Lamb

1986

32 pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 4

A Village Industry - W. H. Pool & Sons, Engineers

D. W. Warren

1988

44 pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 5

Taunton Gas, 1816 - 1949

D. Gledhill

1989

44 pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 6

Dening of Chard, Agricultural Engineers, 1828 - 1955

D. W. Warren

1989

44 pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 7

Bogs and Inundations.

The draining of the Somerset levels

I. Miles

40 pages Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

1999

68 pages

Illustrations

£7.50 including postage and packing

Survey 12

Mills around Wiveliscombe

M. Bodman

48 pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 13

Somerset Brick & Tile Manufactures

B. J. Murless

2000

54 Pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 14

Now You See It, Then You Didn't

- The Inter-Channel Stop Line

D. Warren

2000

22 pages

Maps

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 15

Mills of the Isle and its Tributaries

D. Warren

2001

New Edition 2017

36 pages,

Maps

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 16

The Minehead United Turnpike Trust

L. A. Clarke

2002

72 pages

Maps

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 17

The Gas Works of Somerset

D. Gledhill

2003

76 pages

Maps

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 18

From Field to Factory (Somerset Flax & Hemp)

S. Buchanan

210 x 210mm

80 pages

Illustrations

£10.50 including postage and packing

Survey 19

The Phoenix Works, Chard

Derrick Warren

210mm x 210mm

68 pages

Illustrations

£7.50 including postage and packing

Review (pdf)

Survey 20

Cheddar in the Industrial Age

Peter Daniel

146mm x 210mm

100 pages

Illustrations

£6.50 including postage and packing

Review (pdf)

Survey 21

The Development of Crawler Tracks and Tractors

Derrick Warren edited Peter Daniel

44pages

Illustrations

£5.00 including postage and packing

Survey 22

Rode in the Industrial Age
Peter Daniel
A5
56 pages
Illustrations
Maps
£7.00 including postage and packing
An account of a village in north-east Somerset through the rise and fall of its industries.

Other Publications

Index to SIAS Bulletins 1 - 100

(including supplementary index to Bulletins 101 to 111)

£3.00 including postage and packing

Journal 1 - 1975

£3.50 including postage and packing

Journal 2 - 1977

£3.50 including postage and packing

Journal 3 - 1981

£3.50 including postage and packing

Index to SIAS Journals 1 - 3

£2.50 including postage and packing

Somerset Roads - The Legacy of the Turnpikes.

Phase 1 (Western Somerset) and Phase 2 (Eastern Somerset) NEW combined edition.

Spiral bound in three volumes:

Text

Gazetteer

Maps

B. Murless and A N Other

Edited by C. Cooper

£60 including postage and packing

PRINTED TO ORDER - delivery time is approximately 14 days

English Bronze Cooking Vessels

Published by the Somerset Museum Service, now South West Heritage Trust, with support from SIAS

£5.00 including postage and packing

The Coaching Era

Geoff Body & Roy Gallop

Published by Fiducia Press

2003

54 pages

Illustrations

£7.00 including postage and packing

1861 Easton Amos Land Drainage Machine

Westonzoyland Engine Trust

24 pages

Full colour

150mm x 210mm

Illustrated

£4.00 including postage and packing

Sailcloth, Webbing and Shirts - The Crewkerne Textile Industry

Richard Sims

176 pages

200 photographs, maps and plans

£16.50 including postage and packing

Sailcloth, Webbing and Shirts deals with the role of the textile trade in Crewkerne and the surrounding area. The project has been supported by Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society and Somerset Natural History and Archaeological Society. It covers the textile industry of Crewkerne and the surrounding villages of North Perrott, Haselbury Plucknett, Lopen and West Chinnock.

The author writes:

“For many years the staple of Crewkerne’s local economy was its textile trade. From suiting the Royal Navy’s ships with sails to webbing for arresting NASA’s space shuttle. Remarkably, until now, no definitive history of the Crewkerne textile industry has been published.

"The evidence has been taken from a wide variety of sources, providing a comprehensive history of every known manufacturer along with details of their sites of manufacture.

"Part 1 of the book describes the growth and development of the industry as well as the raw materials and their processing into sailcloth, webbing, horsehair cloth and shirts.

"Part 2 looks at the manufacture of sailcloth, webbing and haircloth from its cottage origins to the workshop in Crewkerne and the surrounding villages.

"Part 3 deals with the factories and Part 4 focuses on the manufacture of shirts, which carries on in the town today. It details the history of the firms and their factories.

"Sailcloth, Webbing and Shirts documents an industry and way of life whose legacy still endures. Family trees are included to show how the major manufacturers, such as the Mathew, Bird and Haslock families were related."

Parrett River Trade

Geoffrey Body and Roy Gallop

Published by Fiducia Press

2006

40 pages

32 photographs, maps and plans

£5.00 including postage and packing

An account of the barging activity along the waters of the Ivelchester Navigation, the Parrett Navigation, the River Isle and the Westport Canal; its origins, the schemes to canalise and improve the rivers, and the boats, boatmen and cargoes involved in the trade between Bridgwater and the heart of Somerset.

OUT OF PRINT - Coker Canvas - The Textile Industry of the Somerset/Dorset Border

Richard Sims

210x300mm

147 pages

Photographs, maps and plans

£16.50 including postage and packing

OUT OF PRINT - Devon Leather - An outline history of a lost industry: nineteenth century tanners and tanneries

Martin Bodman

210x300mm

165 pages

Photographs, maps and plans

£16.50 including postage and packing

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