Some repairs

A few random walls I've repaired in and around Whitby & Goathland.  The old and the new are, I hope closely matched in style, although this is helped by the use of the original stone or stone of similiar type and size being used for the repaired gaps.

Above = Next to Whitby Abbey

Hawthorne Hill Farm - Goathland

Bayness - nr Robin Hood's Bay

Whitby Laithes

I spent most of the summer of 2017 repairing this.  Many of the the through stones had come from the Abbey which you can see in the background.

Ordinary walls in Extra Ordinary places

Malton has many stone building and walls.  We are in sandstone/limestone country.  But this wall, is made from what appears to be slate from Wales or the Lake District.










And these two pictures are in London.  Plenty of stone in London, but these are 500 ft up on the top floors of the Sky Garden (20 Fenchurch St).

A bit of Ireland in England - Hawthorne hill fm, Goathland

I've repaired a few styles but this is the first one I've  built from scratch.

The owner was talking to be about walls.  I mentioned that in Ireland many walls were built with the stones placed vertically.  He said......  And so here we have a bit of Ireland in England.

Walls on steep & bouldery ground.

 At the head of Great Fryup in North Yorkshire a wall runs down from Mark Nab.

This is probably the steepest ground I've seen a wall on, in the National Park.  Where it reaches boulders which themselves make good barriers the wall terminates (right) or below, and seen from above the wall runs between the big boulders.

The Wall is quite steep and as you can see the stonework is in perfect condition despite what must have been very difficult ground to work on.

Goathland Wall

So, there was a big pile of stones from some field wall which had been dismantled.

"Can you make me some walls please?".  

The long gradual curve on the middle picture is always the difficult bit as it is difficult to keep the curve regular and even batter with the correct width at the top.

I'm quite pleased with the result.  Although it is only a small amount of walling there are 4 wall ends and 3 corners in total.  Just to add to the small difficulty of making the curve I also had to make the wall around the curve gradually reduce in hight to make it end at top rail of the old gate. 

Galloway Dyke

I've driven through Scotland for many years and never seen, or perhaps noticed a Galloway Dyke before.  These are constructed with the stones at the base horizontally laid, as most walls are, but the top portion of the wall is laid with the stones vertically orientated and normally of single construction.  Both the pictures below are of the same wall and can be found A83 in Glenn Kinglas, Arygyll

 |I have only ever seen one of these before and that was in Eire and is found on this blogg.   (see:-More Irish Walls)