Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Old Dive's History of Norwich Castle - Part the Eleventh - 1121 Revisited - Chapter VIII - "Remove Carefully For Architectural Salvage"

 Meanwhile …

Demolition can be tremendous fun. Pick up a sledgehammer and bring out your inner two-year-old.

"Whaddya mean it's the wrong stair?" 

Gotta love the sign saying "Remove carefully for architectural salvage" …

4 comments:

Petrea Burchard said...

Hey, somebody might want to buy that stuff. Souvenirs!
We have a store in town called Pasadena Architectural Salvage. It's the proverbial treasure trove. And not cheap.
https://pasadenaarchitecturalsalvage.com/

dive said...

Cool! I have a lovely mahogany Georgian fire surround that I … er … salvaged from a building by slipping the site manager a tenner.

This stuff, however, was a service stair put in in the 1960s and worth jack. The sign was a joke. Builders gotta have fun, too.

Petrea Burchard said...

But! In 20 years, that service stair will (would) be 80 years old, and folks will say, "The original 1960's plywood service stair! One of a kind! 500 pounds sterling!"

dive said...

Bwa-ha-haa, Petrea. Wonderful!