Well although I don’t watch a lot of telly I was interested to see what would win the BBC T.V. show’s vote for Restoration Village. There were millions of pounds worth of work being spoken about and I thought that they might need a quote from a good reliable builder.

Seriously though it was gratifying to see that so many members of the British public are so interested in the restoration of beautiful old buildings and will vote in such numbers. For those who didn’t see the programme the winner was Chedham’s Yard in the Midlands – which is a little bit out of our geographical area anyway.

It’s an old blacksmith and wheelwright’s yard and it seems the first job there is work on the foundations as they are unsafe – so plenty to do before the structural work can begin. The Yard is going to be restored and used as a working museum.

It will be one of those places where they’ll have someone dressed up as a blacksmith lecturing hordes of school kids no doubt, which is good news for some unemployed actor somewhere. Most of the kids won’t have any idea what a blacksmith did of course as it doesn’t involve a computer.

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