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Construction History Society

@constructionhist.bsky.social

Construction history worldwide. Materials, technologies, systems and people relating to construction in the past. Journal, members' magazine, conferences etc To get a follow-back tell us your construction interests. https://www.constructionhistory.co.uk

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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d ago

lol okay it’s meant for stone usually not pointing so test it on a small patch first or ask Reddit, but basically spread some yoghurt on the patch that’s cleaner the rest, it’s encourages natural bio aging very quickly. Wash off after a week if no rain

David Booth@caleydave.bsky.social · 3d ago

Vent: Let's talk about why this is a one-way ticket to the Buildings At-Risk register. That is not a natural hill they are digging into, that is a thin layer of top soil on top of Shale brought in from West Lothian which was used to cover a concrete building built on the floor of a Quarry. 🧵

David Booth@caleydave.bsky.social · 5d ago

And if Nature and wildlife is your thing this is the current view on google maps. This is on top of the bunker. (The cooling stack is in the middle) of the cleared area. If they hit the roof of the R4 this it becomes a multimillion pound damp problem. Corstorphine Hill is a Nature Reserve.

Earth removal on the top of Corstorphine Hill by Barnton bunker. The building to the south is the WW2 Sector Operations Room in Barnton Quarry. The Cold War Rotor R4 is buried to the North of it, including under the cleared area. The cooling stack in in the middle of the cleared area.
Celine Camps@celinecamps.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited to prepare for an upcoming talk where I'll present one of my dissertation chapters on the invisibility of screws and their makers (in historical scholarship, archives, and museums) Finally giving them the spotlight they deserve ❤️ 🔩🔬 #HistSTM 🗃️ 🏛️ 📜

Screenshot of my title-page powerpoint slide for my upcoming talk "(Re)Assembling Arts. The Invisible Screwmaker and the Construction of Objects in the Early Modern German-Speaking Lands," showing an early modern screw under a microscope.
Dave Stowe@davidstowe1919.bsky.social · 2w ago

List and catalogues useful in terms of manafacturer's output and process, cut, shape, method of glazing, and use of bricks and tiles - although preference for me would be something physical and set in a local context where possible. Link and source in Alt.

Selection of brickwork and glazed tiles made at the Farnley Iron Company Ltd: "Catalogue of glazed bricks, porcelain baths and other glazed & sanitary goods made at Leeds from Farnley fire-clay." (1900). https://archive.org/details/catalogueofglaze00farn/page/26/mode/2upSelection of glazed bricks made at the Farnley Iron Company Ltd: "Catalogue of glazed bricks, porcelain baths and other glazed & sanitary goods made at Leeds from Farnley fire-clay." (1900).
Construction History Society@constructionhist.bsky.social · 2w ago

A genuine request to all our followers: 1. Do you think that there is any point in keeping collections of manufactured building materials such as bricks, pipes, tiles etc? 2. From the point of view of future historic research, would photos suffice or should the physical items be kept too? 3. Why?

Construction History Society@constructionhist.bsky.social · 2w ago

It might have been mentioned before, but the Construction Historian cannot resist picking up a brick.... Whilst on a day out with the Panel on Historic Engineering Works, in Ayrshire, we passed this derelict mill at Laigh Milton near Kilmarnock. This brick was rescued from there. More info in ALT

Milton Mill. It was at various times a lint mill, seed-cleaning mill and a hone mill (making sharpening or honing stones). In more recent times it was a hotel and restaurant for decades but has been derelict for over 10yrs now. More here: https://www.ayrshirehistory.com/ref_mills_of_the_river_ayr_hume.html Brick from Tho King & Co, of Bellside, Lanarkshire. The use of reversed lettering was commonplace at one time: each worker had a unique mould pattern so that all the bricks seemed to say the same thing but each was slightly different, eg by reversing one or more letters. This was so that the worker could be paid for the number of bricks they made. Info from https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/king-t-bellside-2/
Municipal Dreams@municipaldreams.bsky.social · 2w ago

Woonschool (Housing School), De Ravelijn, Maastricht: 104 homes, school and community centre built by the Catholic housing association Sint Servatius in the 1950s specifically to 're-educate' slum families deemed antisocial.

Housing on wooded central square behind children's playgroundTerraced, yellow-rendered housing on wooded streetSchool buildingCommunity hall
Municipal Dreams@municipaldreams.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 New on Substack, Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’ - England's first rural council housing, in 1894. One of my favourite posts: historical significance and a good story. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/stow-road-...

Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’

They called them ‘Thingoe’s Follies’ – the eight homes built on Stow Road in Ixworth, Suffolk, which formed the first council housing built (in 1894) in the English countryside.

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