Left to right: John Bowman, John Pickin (Geoff Wallis, Marilyn Palmer) David Pope. Penny Middleton, Peter Brown, Anne Andrews, Jim Andrews, John Robinson

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Alvaro Mora-Ottomano won the Funded Award for Archaeological Building Recording and Investigation, Royal Worcester Porcelain Works – The Bone Mill.

The Unfunded Award went to John Barnatt, on behalf of the PDMHS Conservation Team for High Rake Mine, Little Hucklow, Derbyshire. Excavations and Conservation at an Important Nineteenth Century Mine in Mining History Vol 18 Nos 1 and 2 Summer/Winter 2011.

The Student Fieldwork and Recording Award went to Fiona Deaton Tankerville Lead Mine Conservation Management Plan and the Postgraduate Dissertation Award to Fiona Fyfe (left) From Factory to Flowers: An investigation into the transfer of industrial heating technology to country house gardens.

There was also a highly commended award: Kate Mitchell, The Sustainability of Bottle Kilns in Stoke-on-Trent.

The Occasional publications Award was given to Philip Newman for The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor, English Heritage, 2011, and a highly commended award to Michael Cressey and Ron Fitzgerald, Force and Fabric – Archaeological Investigations at Stanley Mills (Perth), Archaeology Report number 5, Historic Scotland, 2011.

The Journals Award was given to the Norfolk Industrial Archaeological Society for their Vol 9, 2011.

A Special Journals Award was given to Leicestershire Industrial History Society for their achievement in putting their Bulletins, 1970-2007, on digital format. It was received by Keith Drury (left).

Celina Fox receives the Peter Neaverson award from AIA President Marilyn Palmer (left) for her book “The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment”, (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009. 576pp., illus., ISBN 978 0 300 16042 0).

The Peter Neaverson award was won jointly last year by Celina Fox and J R Hamilton and M H Jones for their book “Neither Here Nor There?” The mining and transport of iron ore from the Brendon Hills to South Wales, Exmoor National Park Authority 2010. Unfortunately Mike Jones could not attend in Ironbridge.

The President’s Award following the conference in Penryn, Cornwall, was split between two sites: King Edward Mine in Troon in which the presentations took place. Part of South Condurrow on the Great Flat Lode, this mine was taken over by Camborne School of Mines as a training mine and equipped according to modern practice between 1897 and 1906. It ceased to be used for this purpose in the 1980s and a small group was formed to preserve the mill complex and turn it into a museum of tin dressing, now owned by a joint company from the Trevithick Society and the Carn Brea Mining Society.

Marilyn Palmer is pictured with Tony Brookes, who taught at Camborne School of Mines after a varied career in mining and now devotes much of his time to the King Edward Mine.

The other plaque was presented to Libby Buckley, a Director of the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. Founded in 1997 when the Cable Station ceased to have an active role, it is now owned and run by the Cable and Wireless Porthcurno and Collections Trust (the PK Trust) and houses an amazing collection of artefacts concerned with the communications industry, secret World War II tunnels and, like King Edward Mine, is a valuable resource for local schools as well as visitors to West Cornwall.

The Main award (funded) went to the M74 Completion Project by Headland Archaeology UK Ltd and Pre-Construct Archaeology (PCA) for a vast landscape project centred around the M74 and demonstrates how the public can become engaged with industrial archaeology. As a work in progress we look forward to seeing many more reports about this project in the future. The award was collected by Andrea Smith (Headland) and Peter Moore (PCA) at the conference (left).

A worthy runner up and to whom we awarded a highly commended award was Tom Dawson and SCAPE at St Andrews University for The Eroding Limekilns at Boddin Point Angus: Preservation by Digital Record. This included an impressive fly though animation of the lime kiln which had been recorded in 3D using modern technology.

The Main (unfunded/volunteer) award went to Clyne Heritage Society for their important piece of recording on the Extractive Industries of Brora. The initial research strategy of rescuing evidence threatened by coastal erosion has blossomed into a full-scale project to understand early coal-fired salt-making and relate it to general economic trends in this early outpost of Scottish industrialisation.

The Occasional Publications Award went to Ken Hollamby and Stewart Squires (left) for Building a Railway: Bourne to Saxby, and was received by Ken Hollamby.