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Restoration House, Rochester was the Satis House, home of Miss Havesham in "Great Expectiations." It takes its name from the stay of Charles II on the eve of the Restoration of the Monarchy.
These photos were taken in 1999 with my first digital camera, a one megapixel Kodak DC210, and have been uploaded to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens on 7th February, 1812.
In 2006 gallery space was converted into a public conservation studio and for the next two years visitors were able to watch the painstaking restoration process. Now fully restored and back in its original frame, the painting is on permanent display at Manchester Art Gallery
"The composition of this picture is fine and the painting beautiful, but the subject cannot fail of producing the most unpleasant feelings... it is to be hoped that there are few who would nauseate their friends by placing it in their galleries."
Observer, 4 June 1837
www.manchestergalleries.org/microsites/salvaged/the-project/
Lee Payne and Juan Cruz, Kaibab NF equipment operators with Lisa Kennedy and Maria Sandberg, videography team standing alongside the restoration equipment and juniper slash pile. Williams Ranger District. 9-24-19. DSC1955. Photo by Dyan Bone. Credit the Kaibab National Forest.
Cause for inspiration. The tractor on the right has been fully restored to a very high standard. www.reborntractor.net