Lovely old buildings, but the timber looks like it could do with a new coat of something... tar was used here, before they started using the traditional red paint made from a by-product of the iron industry.
Lovely old buildings, but the timber looks like it could do with a new coat of something... tar was used here, before they started using the traditional red paint made from a by-product of the iron industry.
The fashions in beam painting change regularly here about every twenty years. For a long time black,tarry beams were 'in', then for a while it was a sort of silvery limewash (like the house here), then about five years back our double jettied guildhall had the beams - and infills- painted the sort of reddy colour that old barns and houses in Sweden are painted.Looking back, I see I've illustrated the guildhall on Tuesday, 17th June,08, so you can see what I mean. Regards, Pa.
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Lovely old buildings, but the timber looks like it could do with a new coat of something... tar was used here, before they started using the traditional red paint made from a by-product of the iron industry.
Ha-ha, my code word to comment this is
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Lovely old buildings, but the timber looks like it could do with a new coat of something... tar was used here, before they started using the traditional red paint made from a by-product of the iron industry.
Ha-ha, my code word to comment this is
ailing
and then it didn't work!
Now it's "patolow", fingers crossed
The fashions in beam painting change regularly here about every twenty years. For a long time black,tarry beams were 'in', then for a while it was a sort of silvery limewash (like the house here), then about five years back our double jettied guildhall had the beams - and infills- painted the sort of reddy colour that old barns and houses in Sweden are painted.Looking back, I see I've illustrated the guildhall on Tuesday, 17th June,08, so you can see what I mean. Regards, Pa.
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