6 NEWS HELP PLEASE: POST-1939 LISTINGHOUSING IN THE NEW TOWNS AND RURALHOUSING Dr Mervyn Miller writes: The English Heritage Post- 19 39 listing programme 1s masterminded by Dr Diane Kay. Its first listings - educational buildings - were announced last March. Analysis is now taking place by building type by English Heritage with external consultants. I have received contracts for Housing in the New Towns and Rural Housing. The 21 New Towns in England, commencing in 1946 with Stevenage, and culminating in Milton Keynes, have been recognised as an outstanding achievement in community planning. Carrying forward the Garden City Movement into an era of state development under the New Towns Act, they were often planned by eminent consultants - including Sir Frederick Gibberd and Richard Llewellyn Davies. Layout and FORTHCOMING ISSUES - DEADLINES AND THEMES The next issue, Spring 1994 will deal with 'Traffic management, paving, street furniture and signage'. COPY DEADLINE FRIDAY 18TH JANUARY for posting out on 4th March. The following issue, Summer 1994 will deal with "Impossible Buildings" - those large and/or difficult ones that require unusual or innovatory solutions to conserve them. COPY DEADLINE 15th APRIL for posting out on 3rd June. Other contributions, experiences, case studies are welcome at any time (space permitting) but if you have a burning desire to see a particular topic covered let us • know. accommodation standards were generous, and the architectural 1m age represen red skilful, pragmatic modernism, seen at its best in the estates of the 1950s. There were also notable experiments with patio housing, and the Radburn layout separating pedestrians and vehicles. My remit also covers the 'expanded towns such as Basingstoke and Thetford. By con erase, postwar rural housing is under-researched, yet the involvement of architects such as Tayler and Green brought a freshness to the rural scene, very different from the forced vernacular style often seen in present-day village development. To review, and to prepare contextual reports, with selected examples recommended for listing is a great challenge, but one which is a logical outcome of my long interest in Garden Cities, and new communities generally. Much of the initial work will be 'desk top' based, using sources such as the Pevsner Buildings of England volumes, and contemporary professional journals. However, contact from ACO colleagues would be very welcome, particularly in cases where the sensitive character of original designs is under threat. It will also help me to draw up a fieldwork programme for the final selection. Please contact me - sooner rather than later as my deadline for corn pletion is 28 February 1994. Dr Mervyn Miller, Chartered Architect and Town Planner, 11 Silver Street, Ashwell, Baldock, Herts SG7 5Qj. Tel: (0462) 742685. INDUSTRIAL INITIATIVE Paul Collins and Tanya English are two industrial historians who have recently established a venture called Industrial History Services based in Lond·on and the West Midlands providing a broad range of expertise from field survey work to on-site interpretation to historical research and evaluation. Initial visits, including those to sites, are free of charge followed by fully costed quotations tailored to individual requirements. Further details from either: 38 St John's Vale, London E8 4EN, Tel: 081-691 3000, or from Beech Haven, Cobden Street, Stourbridge DY8 3RU, Tel: (0384) 394014. FUTURE EVENTS RECORDING FARM BUILDINGS 15 January: One-day conference on the recording of farm buildings being jointly organised by the RCHME, the Historic Farm Buildings Group and York University's Centre for Conservation Studies. Follows on from limited surveys of farmsteads in both England and Scotland by both Royal Commissions. Aims to encourage recording by both professional and non-professional groups. A range of different recording objectives and techniques will be presented to enable both national and local deposits to be made for future reference and research. Further details from: Davina Turner, RCHME, Shelley House, Acomb Road, York YO2 4HB. Tel: {0904) 784411. DENDROCHRONOLOGY 27 January: One-day conference on dating of wood and woodderived products using tree ring analysis. Will cover theory and basic concepts; radiocarbon dating; what constitutes good sam pies and how they are obtained; a practical session showing how samples are dated and other applications of the techniques. Cost £95.00. Derails from: Monica Hale, Faculty of Human Science, Guildhall University, Old Castle Street, London El 7NT Tel: 071-3201126. SCOTTISH LIME WORKSHOP 11 and 12 March: Two one-day lime workshops to be run at Blackburn House, a large Palladian-sryle farmhouse built by the agricultural reformer George Montcrieff in 1762 in Edinburgh. Participants will be able to learn about handling this most important and versatile of building materials. Cost £45.00 either day including lunch. 30 places only, booking by 31 January. Details from: Philip Wallace, Blackburn House Trust, Kings Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL. CONTEXT 40 I I I
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