Parking and planting
Natural England’s work on the car park area has finished for the year. It looks a lot smarter and the new planting should improve the look after a few months […]
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Tarting up and Roman recycling
Meanwhile, in the ante room of the Roman building, work continues, finishing off window details, adding more dots to the ceiling design and generally tarting up. A trip to the […]
Room service
Work is progressing with the furniture for the Saxon longhall, with 8 benches completed and three trestle tables on the go. In the spirit of cross cultural relations, two ‘Viking’ […]
Longhall revealed and rumours of Vikings
At long last the old education building has been demolished, revealing the Saxon longhall over its entire length. Now there is lots of room for the Viking trading boat and […]
Romans go dotty!
More work on the Roman ceiling – the pattern is becomming increasingly dotty. By popular vote, the serving girl was named Aurelia.
World’s largest longbow
Last week Terry’s enormous longbow was tested for the first time. It was immensely powerful but the short length of the arrows proved to be a problem. The bow may […]
Roman decoration
A dramatic day in the Roman building when the ceiling in the ante room came to life as Anne and Dave added more colour to the design. Very striking but […]
Saxon furniture
A busy week saw lots of progress with furniture for the Saxon hall. The Viking style chairs are almost finished, the benches were having their final touches done by Marian […]
Steam and hinge success for doors
The latest steam bending experiment worked very well – steaming a piece of cherry in a pipe and using an array of clamps to hold it in shape in a […]
How to steam a door frame
This week some experimental wood steaming took place, using a Viking method for steaming ship planks. We were trying to form part of a curving door frame to replicate the […]
