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'The Hotties' - Excavation and Building Survey at Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House, St Helens, Merseyside (Paperback)
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'The Hotties' - Excavation and Building Survey at Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House, St Helens, Merseyside (Paperback)
Series: Lancaster Imprints, 10
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The remains of Pilkingtons' No 9 Tank House represent a unique
survival from the 19th century, an period of rapid development
within the glass industry characterised by innovative but
short-lived design. These remains are now recognised as the most
complete known glass furnace structures of their era. Between 1991
and 1997, Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (now Oxford
Archaeology North) conducted a programme of standing building
survey, excavation, and oral and documentary research, targeted on
the remains on the 'Hotties' site, in St Helens, Merseyside. The
tank house was purpose-built by Pilkingtons in 1887 for the
manufacture of window glass using the blown cylinder method; the
cone house element of the complex still stands, and is an
impressive Grade II Listed building. The investigations revealed
the surviving base-level remains of a continuous tank furnace, with
its regenerator chambers and gas supply flues still largely intact.
This report on the excavation of the site includes chapters on the
historical background to glass making at Pilkingtons, the phases of
construction and redevelopment at the 'Hotties' site, working
conditions and industrial relations, and a discussion of the role
of Pilkingtons in the development of the British glass industry.
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