Latest News from Mellor Archaeological Trust
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Stockport’s Weir (Wear) Mill, has been acquired by, Capital and Centric, who have a £60m plan for a residential conversion bring 250 flats to the town in its first Greater Manchester project.
The Mill is a Grade II listed former cotton mill located in the heart of Stockport Town Centre at the intersection of the River Mersey and the railway viaduct (listed Grade II*). It was started around 1790 and added to, particularly in 1831 and 1884. In 1840, the Stockport Viaduct was built over the river and over Wear Mill.
More information on the 'North West Place' website
https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/capital-centric-confirms-stockport-mill-purchase/
And on Historic England’s website here
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1268049
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You may have watched a programme on 29th June 2020 on BBC4, called ‘Black and British: a Forgotten History’, presented by the historian David Olusoga, which focussed on the supportive relationship between the mill workers of Rochdale and enslaved Africans in the American South, and featured ‘Cotton Famine Road’. This was a road improvement project, running for a mile and a half across Rooley Moor, on the outskirts of Rochdale, from Catley Lane Head Village to Ding Quarry, devised by the Poor Law Guardians to provide paid work for unemployed and impoverished cotton workers during the ‘Cotton Famine’ of 1861-65.
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Considerable time has been spent cleaning and weeding the Old Vicarage Iron Age site. Its looks have been improved over the last few weeks no end, and the newly cleaned up site is well worth a visit.
Bob Humphrey-Taylor, Chair of Mellor Archaeological Trust, is looking for someone to lead a small team to keep it in its good condition. If anyone is interested or know someone who may be able to help, please let Bob know. It should only take a couple of hours a month during the season, to keep on top of it.
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Thank you all for your continued support on this exciting Community Project.
Dear Investors and Friends of The Wharf Marple,
We hope that you are all safe and well and managing to cope in these strange times.
At The Wharf we are continuing to work towards achieving our funding target and we are pleased to say that despite the difficulties that we are all facing the community is still stepping up to support this wonderful project. A big thank you to all our Investors and supporters!
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Please read this paper, we have recently had published, on the website. This is the most prestigious archaeological journal in the world. The highly qualified editorial team rigorously peer review all submissions for publication. So a real feather in our cap to have ours accepted and published.
Bob Humphrey -Taylor, June 2nd 2020
1. Introduction
It is widely accepted that climate change, augmented by the rapid in- crease of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions since pre-industrial levels, will have considerable impacts on our environment, society and heritage (Pachauri, Reisinger 2007). The impact of climate change on our cultural heritage is receiving much attention, understandably concentrating on coastal areas that will be threatened by sea level change both eustatic (Daly 2010; Croft 2013) and, more recently, isostatic (Pet- tersson, Jonsson 2017).
This paper outlines the approach of one project to these threats and problems - STORM: Safeguarding cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management, a project co-funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, specifically concen- trating on the UK pilot site at Mellor, Stockport. The STORM project aims to develop a novel set of tools, models, techniques, and services to aid owners of cultural heritage assets in protecting their sites from the impacts of both climate change and natural disasters amongst other threats.
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