ABSTRACT
'Industrial archaeology', wrote Angus Buchanan in 1972, 'is concerned with investigating, surveying, researching and, in some cases, with preserving industrial monuments.' At that time industry was synonymous with mining and manufacturing, the processes of exploiting raw materials and of transforming one physical good into another resulting in an addition to its value. In industrial archaeology at least, Food, Drink and Tobacco sector is very nearly synonymous with corn milling, for close on three-quarters of all the articles in this sector were concerned with this production. Some of the articles on corn and textile mills, for example, included comment on power, but under this heading only some papers have been included in which power was the central issue. Even chemical industry, widely associated with the later 19th century and after, fits the emerging pattern with regard to dating, scale, rural location and complexity.
