Your query has prompted me to consider putting the Ironmasters District in
Middlesbrough on the SMR as an entity as well as its separate sites. The
existing term 'INDUSTRIAL ESTATE' would suit our purposes as the district
was an area of land specifically divided in to plots for manufacturing or
commercial concerns with shared infrastructure.
Peter, Tees Archaeology
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Subject: Stafford Shoe Manufacturing Quarter
> In the mid 19th century Staffords Boot and Shoe industry changed from a
> small scale affair with lots of village outworkers to a mechanized factory
> oriented national business apparently surpassed in scale only by
> Northampton. The many manufacturers seemed to focus their factory building
> activities on a tightly defined area to the north of the town. The
> Victorian
> district that grew from this "green field development" activity has a very
> distinctive character and was once a complicated mixture of shoe factories
> and houses and related businesses, such as carton manufacturers sawmills
> and
> timber yards, as well as all the usual domestic stuff like corner shops,
> pubs etc. Many of the factories were built amongst the houses some with
> semi-domestic facades, one even bucked the industrial trend of small paned
> windows by using conventional domestic sashes. Some of the terraces have
> strategically placed carriage entrances to allow access to small "garden"
> workshop businessess such as sawmills for the manufacture of wooden heels.
> The SMR site type thesaurus has names for many of these individual
elements
> but I can't find a suitable term to describe the district as a distinctive
> whole. It isn't a model village which implies the development input of a
> single person or company nor could anyone realistically describe the area
> as
> being the product of a utopian vision. On the other hand it isn't just any
> group of terraced streets which consists wholly of housing with the
> occasional shop. For our Historic Environment Record the area needs to be
> represented both as individual sites and as a distinctive district. Does
> anyone know of a suitable term that I may have overlooked, or if not are
> there any ideas out there for a term and it's place in the thesaurus
> heirarchy - Industrial or settlement?
> thanks - Andrew Kirkham
> Information Systems Manager(Historic Environment)
> Staffordshire County Council
> Development Services Department
> Environmental Planning Unit
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