For Folly Mon

As promised,





The Ruinette at College. This one has now been dismantled and a bigger one built in another workshop, but I don't have pics of that one.

 

Amazing!!!!

AMAZING!!!! I Would LOVE TO COME TO YOUR College!!!! You Could BE MY TEACHER ANY Day!!!!!!!! FOR ANY 1 THAT HASENT DONE SO ALL READY CHEQ OUT ZIGGY SCARCHFIELDS WEB SITE The Politest way i can Describe His Site is it is As CooL As A POLAR BEARS FOOT STUNNING!!!! Nice 1 For The Pics Zig

 

:D:o Cheers Folly, you'd love it at College.

 

Im intrigued, what on earth ?

 

Hi Neville,

I'm glad you asked.

I work on and teach about conservation of our built heritage. Using traditional materials and techniques combined with the lastest technology to keep the buildings that we have for as long as possible.

Its not good to let students loose on an actual building without training, so the "ruinette" lets us guide them through techniques before going live on real historical material.

 

Ah riiight ! So basically you've built a shoddy wall inside, then you make the poor students repair it Makes sense ...

Presume you have similar "play rigs" for things like roofs then ?

 

Yep, taking apart, re building, piecing in bits of stone, grouting, pointing, rendering, running plaster moldings & mortar repairs.

There's no roofing course at West Dean but they do a Timber Frame Repair course at the Weald and Downland Museum next door.



The Museum is a huge site where timber framed buildings are re erected.





Well worth a visit.

 

Thanks Ziggy...i LOVE seeing pics like that!

 

Nice one Penny, here's a link to the site,

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum | Home Page

Have you seen the 10th Kingdom? Part of the series was filmed there.

 

I need to come and live by you!!!! TALK ABOUT THE COLLAGE OF KNOWLEDGE!!!! Hats OFF TO YOU ZIGGY!!!!! FOR SAVEING AND KEEPING THE GRATE IN GRATE BRITAIN!!!!! YOUR THE DON!!!!!

 

WOW!!!!!!!!!! SOLD TO ME AND THE BRIDE!!!! THATS A DAY OUT FOR US IN THE NEAR FUTURE :yess:

 

Check out the events page before you visit Folly Mon,

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There's a lot going on there.

They also do courses in all sorts of stuff. I've been on the Ritual Protection Course there, learning about signs & objects put into buildings as protection against bad spirits.

Things like this Child's Shoe from the 1790s

 

Thanks For That Ziggy I Will Try and Do The Steam 1 love Steam engines Fred Dibna i collect model steam toys Mamods as i carnt afford a Traction Engine Well use full Info Thank you!!! just having My Air Cooled Engine Re/Built in my camper That will be a nice running in Drive for the old Girl

 

Your students would have fun in our house..looks like it's been purpose built for educating them in various traditional techniques...but we just inherited it like this! After removing bulging wallpaper then knocking off crumbling wet plaster in the kitchen, I've discovered a crack in the wall that goes right through to outside render! I thought I only needed to go on a course to run a mould to repair the cornice work...now I realise I need to go on courses to learn to do lime plastering, grouting, rendering...etc!!

Can you recommend any traditional good luck charm I could wedge in the crack before repair?! This 'crack' is where the new (100 year old) extension was added to the original part of the house.

 

Anything used and personal to you and the family, objects found are always worn or broken, kitchen utensils, shoes, toys etc.

Might be an idea to put some helifix ties across the gap before covering it up



Just to tie it all in.

I can talk you thru the lime plastering etc.