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Field site visit to see restoration practices. This visit focused on USAID's NJIRA (Pathways to Sustainable Food Security) project's work with the Khole watershed. The barrier of rock and grass help slow the water flow and allow plants to grow.
February 2018
Machinga District, Malawi
Photo Credit: Sabin Ray, World Resources Institute
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
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.