Archive for January 2025
Tipner East Regeneration, Portsmouth
Client: Pre-Construct Archaeology on behalf of Temple Tipner East is a brownfield site situated on Portsea Island, on the eastern side of Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire. Until the middle of the 20th century, most of it was tidal mudflats, with the remainder under pasture. The dry land was first utilised for industry in the 1850s,…
Read MoreNew Monks Farm, Lancing, West Sussex
Client: New Monks Farm Development Ltd New Monks Farm, which lies c. 12kms west of Brighton, was a large area of former grazing land sandwiched between the South Downs National Park and the English Channel. Much of the site had been the subject of a landfilling and landscaping exercise which introduced many thousands of tons…
Read MoreStaples Corner, Brent, London
Client: Group 1 Automotive Staples Corner is a major transport interchange in London, with interconnected roundabouts and flyovers linking the A406 North Circular to the A5 Edgware Road and M1 motorway. The two roundabouts are separated by the London to Sheffield mainline railway, and bounded to the north by the River Brent. Its name comes…
Read MoreChingford Audi, Cork Tree Way, London
Client: Group 1 Automotive Cork Tree Way forms part of Cork Tree Retail Park, a shopping centre beside the A406 North Circular in Chingford. The name is a reminder of the Cork Manufacturing Co. Ltd, whose ‘Langite Works’ occupied the site until 1983. From here, the company’s famous ‘Chingford’ cricket and hockey balls were exported…
Read MoreHS2 Phase 2B heritage asset database
Client: HS2 Ltd PCA Heritage designed, developed and continues to maintain the heritage asset database used by HS2 and its Phase 2B heritage teams. The database manages data on nearly 20,000 heritage assets present along the two legs of the Phase 2b route (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds). The database answered the…
Read MoreHale Wharf, Tottenham, London
Client: Muse Developments Ltd and the Canal and River Trust Hale Wharf is an 1.8 hectare island site in north London bounded by the Lee Navigation Channel to the west and the River Lea Flood Relief Channel to the east. The site belongs to the Canal and River Trust, the successor body to British Waterways.…
Read MoreLower East Street, Middlesbrough
Client: Bowmer + Kirkland In 2024 PCA Heritage undertook historic building recording of two abutting walls on a former industrial site in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. The work has resulted in a permanent Historic England Level 2 record. The two brick and steel-framed walls were the remaining parts of a structure which had been built within…
Read MoreBromley-by-Bow Gasworks, Newham, London
Client: Pre-Construct Archaeology for Temple Group Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks was developed on a 170-acre site at Bow Creek, beside the River Lea, between 1871 and 1882. It was Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company’s largest gasworks, comprising a group of nine gasholders and a valve house. During WWII (1939-45), two gasholders suffered significant damage. The gasworks…
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