REVIT Heritage Report.pdf

Torfaen County Borough Council
REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites
The site consists of:
• a large building of 1921, in a poor condition and with little hope of restoration;
• a market of 1937; and
• a market last part of 1952.
Today the foundaries remain, as the only trace of this industrial heritage in that part of
the island.
In 2001 it was proposed for demolition, but La DRAC asked for the retention of the 3
furnaces 1937 and recommended conservation. To be transformed into a sheltered
garden.
The Alston Site: Rue la Tour d’Auvergne.
A former foundry of Voruz family forming the Workshops and Shipyards of Brittany
The centre of the site was occupied in 1893 by the Chantiers (Shipyard) Oriolle and
after liquated the Chantiers (Shipyard) Brosse and Fouche. The Voruz family needed
to expand their production and created, in 1840, a new foundry on the Prairie au Duc
of 22,00m 2 of land. In 1909 the business was dissolved as Voruz and sons and
became Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretange (ABC).
The Erdre Canal: runs from Nantes to Brest. There are number of statues, and
castiron levels on the banks of the canal de l’Erdre and the bridge de l’Eluse, and the
1885 bridge de la Motte built by the Voruz family as part of the Alston site.
The port hangars of the Antilles quay (18, 20, 31, and 32).
The idea is to propose an economic value for the port heritage by developing activities
attractive to the economy and uses as public entertainment space and re-use as
restaurants, artists and commercial centre for nautical centre.
Transporter Bridge, Pont Anne de Bretagne
In constructed in 1903 from Fosee quay to the left bank of river Loire. 76m high and
extending to 141m, it was suspended from cables and rails on pylons. Electrically
powered. The piles of the bridge are today put to a valuable use as the piers for the
quay Francois Mitterrand.
Historic shipyards
The three main sites are:
• Les Ateliers (Workshops) et Chantiers (Shipyards) de la Loire, (ACL) 1881 ;
• Les Chantiers Dubigeon, 18 th century and 1914; and
• Les Ateliers(Workshops) et Chantiers (Shipyards) de Bretagne, 1895 (ACB).
The shipyards were important in WWI up to WWII.
Ateliers et Chantiers de Nantes began conversion in 1994.
The workshops and shipyards are re-used for a technology centre, centre of history of
work, the history of the navy and an inter-cultural centre with a permanent university.
The Dubigeon shipyard there are three large industrial workshops. Dubigeon is aa
important symbol of the area’s industrial heritage.
The Slipways
The slips are the main element of the site for fabricating boats.
• Slipway No. 1 for submarines.
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