Traditional roof specialist & consultant.I train professionals homeowners & craftspeople in trad materials. Make handmade slates SPAB Fellow ‘99 UoY archeology
Derbyshire UK (sometimes)
Joined June 2010
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A flash of orange 🍊
Do any buildings near you boast a beautiful pantile roof?
They're most commonly found in East Central Scotland, the Lothians and Fife! Originally, imported stock from Holland would've landed on the East coast.
More about them: ow.ly/dy5Y50G8Iyi
ALT A traditional stone house with a pantile roof
ALT Two well-used pantiles on a table
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Interested in learning more about local heritage or exploring further afield? We still have spaces available on our tours Saturday 11th September 11am/1pm. Book via the website. @heritageopenday @DerbyDaysOut @derbyheritage @VisitDerby @DerbyshireGuide @HeritageFundUK
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Look what's ready for pre-order! Black and White by the Sea UK AMAZON
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We made a podcast! I loved getting the chance to chat about vernacular Irish buildings with my co-host Roisin & our lovely guests. Check it out & if you enjoy, please tell a friend🔊
Heart to Hearth: chats about Irish vernacular buildings
🔥💛 Episode 1 of our new podcast is out now! 💛🔥
Available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud or wherever you get your podcasts.
We hope you'll tune in, enjoy the chats & share with a friend soundcloud.com/user-81042217…
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#LovelyLychGates @BreconCathedral dates from 1900, now in need of reroofing, so will be more lovely soon, in collaboration with @rooftraining
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All hands to the pumps.
We’re hiring! We need more hands on deck so search @indeed over the coming days if you fancy working with us, or just send your CV straight to [email protected]
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Any forestry people out there speculate on how sustainable current Uk consumption of timber framing species such as Larch and Douglas fir is? @andyheald @WoollyMaggot
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The ones of us that do are only custodians, they'll all change hands in time.
They are a blast to drive, and the public react to them with great affection - at bus stops it is common for people to stick their hands out, even for the old ones!
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HEY! We're #hiring! Are you a:
⚒️ Leadworker
🔨 Carpenter/Joiner
🪨 Fixer Mason
🧱 Dry Stone Waller
🏠 Roofer
👷 General Builder
🩹 Plasterer (I know, there's no emojis of actual plastering, I'm angry too)
See our FB for full details
Apply: [email protected]
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Reminder to employers in the conservation & heritage industry in Ireland that the free @SPAB1877 jobs bulletin goes out monthly to all SPAB members & it's free to list any job vacancies you have, be it for craftspeople, heritage organisations, architects or other - get in touch!
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🙂 remember it well - used to find the distinct variety of specialist shops we had available fascinating, great street scenes, a real reason to visit places
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Slate, slate, Severus slate...
Did we get that wrong? 🤔
Well we think a slate tour of Scotland is the perfect way to spend #HarryPotterDay anyway ⬇️
ow.ly/tJrl50E8zFJ
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Anyone lost some trains? Hidden in some woodland in North Wales is an abandoned private narrow gauge railway, slowly succumbing to nature @GrimArtGroup #abandoned #urbex #railway #industrial #industrialheritage
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Our @ChemicalScience paper is now out! Lots of hard work from @klyfung, Steve Skowron and my PhD supervisors @A_Khlobystov @DrGrahamNewton as well as collaborators from @ePSIC_DLS and the SALVE project (Prof. Ute Kaiser) at the University of Ulm. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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This event was done on behalf of @dhbtrust - sharing the stories of our #builtheritage with audiences
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It's our first live event of 2021!!! So happy to be onsite, doing what we love... sharing the story of the Gasworks and Sudbury Village in "real-life". Thank you Emma for exploring the history of #sudburyhall as one 'stop-off' of the tour. @Sudbury_HallNT @VisitDerby
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Popped down to my favourite place @williamblyth_uk these are the Barco’s ready to be fired tomorrow
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It’s alive! Weeks of work (and still a bit of tidying up to do!) but we got there. @Shopify @ShopifySupport thanks for your help, you’ve been amazing. whitmoreandwhite.co.uk