Monday 14 September 2020

Upcycling our Heritage





It is great when bits of Carbrooke Heritage are rescued and reused as would have been in the past. For example the old church at Carbrooke Parva (Caudle Springs ) was pulled down and the materials used to extend our church in the village. When the Commanderie was dissolved, the materials were used to build or renovate other structures in the village.

Roger Weston tells how he rescued the old school gate posts;
This was rescued by me over twenty years ago, when the spoils from excavations in the school playground were removed and dumped in a local rubbish pit. I realised this section of masonry was too good to be buried and lost so I recovered it and it has been a central feature in our garden.
You probably have a copy of the old sepia postcard showing mothers waiting for the children to come out of school, if so you will see the gates had three masonry pillars and this section of the gates is from the central pillar having a hinge pin on two opposite sides.
I often wonder if other remnants of that impressive portal were saved by any other Carbrooke residents and like ours; hopefully are used as a garden feature or incorporated into some similar feature.
Roger has enclosed the photos of the post as a garden feature. Also the photo of the posts in situ outside the school early 1900's

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