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| RichardW |
Castle buildingThis sounds like a good idea.Building a castle from scratch the old fashioned way. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10440300.stm |
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| Rob R |
25 years? That's about the pace of building here at Rosewood... | ||||
| Gervase |
Tsk! Bloody cowboys, rushing the job like that. | ||||
| Barefoot Andrew |
Got a roof yet? 
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| sean |
I'm not completely convinced that installing a mobile home counts as building. | ||||
| 12Bore |
Beats James May and his Lego 
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| Rob R |
Yep, just waiting on the services being completed. 
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| Barefoot Andrew |
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| Bulgarianlily |
I am proud to say that we have the world's most beautiful chicken house.
I mention this, as the young French traveller that built it for me, previously was a volunteer carpenter on this castle. He took from working there an idea for a timber pegged traditional roof structure that he eventually wants to build on a house in France, and made it in minature as the roof of our much needed chicken accommodation. It was all made with hand tools, has five sides, a grass roof, and a hand carved rooster on the top! Really pleased to see all these articles about the castle. |
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| ksia |
Any chance of a picture? It sounds lovely .... and I need ideas for a duck house. |
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| zigs |
Very interesting.
I've rebuilt parts of the black castle in bristol & taken the roof off of dunster castle in somerset but i've never built one from scratch. nearly finished this project, who knows ? |
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| zigs |
Dunster roof
The view from the top 
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| Mutton |
Great thread, gorgeous pictures.
Wish I had a job like yours Ziggy I love old buildings. (Only problem being no head for heights at all - 6 feet up and I'm wobbling. )
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| zigs |
Can take some getting used to, first time up the Dunster castle scaffold was a bit dodgy. There was an open stair case on the side of the hill, not that high really but being on the side of a hill already & looking down on the top of mature trees 
When i got to the top, i had to step onto the parapet of the castle, just needed something solid to stand on 
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