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I wish they’d do it more often. So many times they get away with it.
Like with trees with preservation orders on - people cut them down and then shrug and say 'well, they're gone now...'
It’s like how inconvenient buildings getting in the way often seem to catch fire.
They could train Harry to retrieve used glasses and wash them up!
Quite a few of the other local pubs didn't make it through Covid, sadly, so there's a few less than there would have been in your time! Explains why the Frankland is doing so well... (well, that and the fact that my son and his wife are turning it into a lovely place to go!)
We expect a detailed report on your findings in due course.
The former owner of The Globe in Milverton, Somerset didn't think so. When he undertook renovations back in the early 2000s something really quite evil was disturbed. This manifested as unpleasant poltergeist behaviour with beer taps being left on causing costly wastage, glasses and bottles smashing and the manager pushed on the stairs etc. They weren't laughing about it when I met them in 2006, quite the opposite. They had to bring in a medium who advised them to always keep a lamp on in a certain corner and this immediately calmed down the activity. They may have also called in a priest, but when pressed he was a bit coy about it all. I was under strict instructions never to turn the lamp off at the base (it was also wired into a wall socket with no on/off switch).
I'm sure a lot of the time it is. It's just something to put in the advertising. Although pubs tend to be old buildings with the associated tunnels, shaky walls, dodgy electrics and on busy roads with vibrations from passing traffic and I think this might account for many of the 'hauntings' that go on.
Looks like they will be forced to undertake a brick by brick reconstruction. It’s a hollow victory though when one can only walk into a facsimile of the original building.
The new shop is twice the size but look at the left hand side it has the same window pattern. You can’t see it on the modern picture but the roof looks similar too. I wish I’d found out more about the haunting.
Trouble is that it will never be the same no matter how they do it. Cement will be used instead of lime (for mortar), silicone sealant instead of putty etc. Even if they do use the old methods, they won't be done with the same skill. Ever seen a joiner putty in a window, or a plumber wipe a lead joint? Very few people could do those today.
I think they have to use as much of the original material as they can.
My friends are making repairs on their 19th century school. The building was converted in the 1980s and quite frankly it was botched. Their repairs will have to use lime mortar to let the granite breathe properly and keep out the damp, replace iron drainpipes like for like, be as authentic as possible because it's a listed building. The authorities today are a lot more picky about that kind of renovation. And it ain't cheap!
Yes, iron downpipes and guttering alone aren't cheap.
They only live twenty miles down the road, I don't need to stay. But I DO have to drive over Sutton Bank to visit, so tend to go only when the weather is fairly clement (Sutton Bank was closed most of last week due to snow and ice).
