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My beloved Wandsworth cabinet - first seen here, has had a hard time.
As I've said, we bought it from a church reclamation shop some years ago for practically nothing. It was in not brilliant shape, after 150+ years of endless crap paint jobs. I finally took to restoring it over the summer, stripping off most of the paint until we reached the wood, as here.
Then things in my life got a bit, um, interesting. The cabinet sat in the driveway, covered by a tarp.
I noticed it last weekend. Being covered had helped it, but the endless rains we have suffered and its untreated condition had it in a bad place. The doors had swollen and the wood was getting damp. I might be having a hard time of it, but no need to let my gorgeous cabinet pay the price. I saw a similar cabinet on ebay go for over £500. The money wasn't the issue (after all, I'm not selling it. Ever.) it was my neglect and my endangerment to my cabinet that got me moving again.
I started to paint it. The wood, once stripped, wasn't really worth keeping uncovered. So the cabinet has been primed and undercoated. It's been moved inside now and tomorrow I paint the top coat.
Incidentally, the 100 year old window seen in the first link of this cabinet has also been stripped and is ready for a glazier to come round on Friday and replace the broken glass with mirrors. I'm done with abusing the pieces of the past because of issues in the present.
BGE’s electric system sustained widespread damage during yesterday’s windstorm, in excess of what the utility experienced during last month’s heavy, wet snow. BGE has more than 1,250 linemen, tree crews, call center and storm response staff actively engaged in the storm restoration effort including nearly 320 out-of-state personnel from New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Customers are reminded to stay informed on restoration efforts via www.bge.com, www.twitter.com/mybge, and www.Facebook.com/mybge. All outages should be reported to 1.877.778.2222.
The former BF Goodrich showroom in Chicago's "Motor Row," 1925 S. Michigan. On the National Register of HIstoric Places.
By Christian Eckstrom, 1911.
More about the current restoration effort here.
One of my earlier restoration works. Original photo was the old style B/W that was hand painted to apply color. Bottom was water damaged and the client wanted it restored to an 8 1/2 x 10 image size...suitable for glossy print and framing. I was going to call this photo "Coal Miner Gets New Boots".
Environmental scientists use box traps in the floodplain of the Kissimmee River Phase I restoration area to evaluate prey availability for wading birds.
H.E. Göran Persson, H.E. Barbara Hendricks, and Wanjira Mathai at the meeting of the Global Restoration Council, Bonn, Germany.
LMS standard 20 ton brake van, M731299 built in Derby in 1944, which is undergoing restoration in the shed at Dunaskin.
Doon Valley Railway, Dunaskin
Waterside, Ayrshire
22 March 2022
Actually it was still a good visit despite this scaffolding,.. there were many other parts of the castle not covered like this.
Crews continue to work on restoring power to Kenmore after a mid-November wind storm. This crew was finishing up work at the intersection of 66th Ave NE and NE 185th.
History
Restoration House was originally two medieval buildings (1454 and 1502–22) with a space between.
They were joined together in 1640-1660 (tree ring data from roof) by inserting a third building between the two, to create a larger house.
The first owner of the completed house was Henry Clerke, a lawyer and Rochester MP. Clerke caused further works in 1670, the refacing of the entrance facade, the Great Staircase and other internal works.
The house was then bought by William Bockenham. It was owned by Stephen T. Aveling in the late 19th century, and he wrote a history of the house which was published in Vol. 15 of "Archaeologia Cantiana".
The house was purchased for £270,000[7] by the English entertainer Rod Hull, in 1986, to save it from being turned into a car park; and he then spent another £500,000 restoring it.
It was taken by the Receiver in 1994 to cover an unpaid tax bill.
The current owners over the past decade have uncovered decoration schemes from the mid 17th century, which reveal the fashionable taste of the period, much influenced by the fashions on the continent.
Charles Dickens
According to the biographer John Forster, the novelist Charles Dickens, who lived nearby, used Restoration House as a model for Miss Havisham's Satis House in Great Expectations; the name "Satis House" belongs to the house where Rochester MP, Sir Richard Watts, entertained Queen Elizabeth I - it is now the administrative office of King's School, Rochester.
Wanjira Mathai, Co-Chair of the Global Restoration Council and Chairperson of the Green Belt Movement.