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samn40 11-27-2012 15:37:16 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Took some pictures of very old English cottages last week, just for you lot that don't get over here to see them....! Some of them date back to the 15th century. Also took snaps of a little old town in Essex and of course the old church. Not my best ever pics but they were taken out of the car window and I was driving! Sam [Reply]   [No Email]
samn40 11-28-2012 17:12:54 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Yes Ron..I know of Haylocks...I bought a Massey Ferguson 168 off him a few years back. Sam [Reply]  [No Email]
samn40 11-28-2012 17:12:31 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Yes Ron..I know of Haylocks...I bought a Massey Ferguson 168 off him a few years back. Sam [Reply]  [No Email]
samn40 11-28-2012 17:12:05 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Yes Ron..I know of Haylocks...I bought a Massey Ferguson 168 off him a few years back. Sam [Reply]  [No Email]
Ron in NS 11-28-2012 08:34:37 142.166.169.50 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Thanks for the great pics, Samn. I was born in what is now Cambridgeshire, and have been back a couple times, so I know that scenery very well. I still have lots of relatives over there, one in particular is a tractor dealer that specializes in old tractors. You may want to drop in for a look. S R Haylock Antique Tractors [Reply]  [No Email]
SweetFeet 11-28-2012 04:31:44 70.35.103.74 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Samn40, Great photos. Favorites are the first three and the cathedral with the blue sky. Love the color of the cottage in photo 1. (Our home is a traditional white farmhouse.) Interesting support beams in photo 2. In photo 3, what is the scalloped portion along the roof ridge? Is it metal? Have never seen anything like it. This post was edited by SweetFeet at 04:33:43 11/28/12. [Reply]  [No Email]
samn40 11-28-2012 17:10:07 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to SweetFeet, 11-28-2012 04:31:44   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see The scallop is actually part of the thatch, different thatchers, different patterns. this is the crown of the roof where the thatch has been bent over the ridge and fastened down. So instead of cutting of the straggled 'tails' they instead make a feature of it. [Reply]  [No Email]
hughb 11-27-2012 17:21:04 12.232.190.86 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   GGGGrandfathers place in Old Weston. The Swan. [Reply]  [No Email]
Tony in Mass. 11-27-2012 18:36:19 76.127.225.182 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to hughb, 11-27-2012 17:21:04   Holy cow Hugh! Your parents gave that up to live in Ellenburg Coronors New York??? I could think of better places for a young couple to have adventures.... [Reply]  [No Email]
hughb 11-27-2012 20:09:23 12.232.190.86 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to Tony in Mass., 11-27-2012 18:36:19   Tony! Thats my GReat great great great grandfather. Back to the 1800s. Lots of good ale. [Reply]  [No Email]
James Babcock 11-27-2012 17:03:32 184.156.231.145 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   The door frames in those oldest houses are very short because back then 5 feet or so was the average size. My stepdaughter is close to 6 ft tall, and when we stayed at a place in the Cotswolds, she had to stoop way down to get into her room. [Reply]  [No Email]
samn40 11-28-2012 01:03:30 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to James Babcock, 11-27-2012 17:03:32   James...you want stooping ...the first house is a bed and breakfast we stayed in ...this is what you had to stoop under to get across the bedroom.....! It is part of the structure of the roof and only about 4 foot off the floor, right across the middle of the room. The house had been an old 'Hall house' with only a single storey high roof. A couple of centuries ago someone added another floor and this had to be left in place to keep the roof from pushing the walls out!. Sam [Reply]  [No Email]
showcrop 11-27-2012 16:10:56 75.67.231.80 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Once when my wife and I were over there we saw a house that was getting a new thatched roof put on. That was interesting to see. Thanks for the pictures. [Reply]  [No Email]
Tony in Mass. 11-27-2012 16:05:56 76.127.225.182 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Potatoes? I know Sam likes big french fry (chip) potatoes. Thatch roof and wat'l n' daub. Amazing they are still standing. See the last place on the right before the church? It's a pub! Magic it tis! I was there once. Free house, Carling black label on tap, 75P. Good value. [Reply]  [No Email]
samn40 11-27-2012 16:20:03 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to Tony in Mass., 11-27-2012 16:05:56   Amazing YOU are still standing after all that Black Label, Tony! Oh and still more amazing... you are still living after that Big Mcdonkey you eat the other day!! LOL....Sam [Reply]  [No Email]
samn40 11-27-2012 16:04:32 81.154.213.65 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   Sugar beet, the shovel is loading it on to a riddle/elevator and into a 40ft tipper truck. Sam [Reply]  [No Email]
Bob Bancroft 11-27-2012 15:40:34 97.73.64.160 Report to Moderator	Re: English cottages in reply to samn40, 11-27-2012 15:37:16   What's the pile? Cobblestones? Sugar beets? ?? [Reply]  [No Email]