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Sunday 20 March 2022

ALL THINGS IN WOOD - SEPIA SATURDAY


This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt photograph features a school woodwork class (all boys).  A number of my immediate relations were/are teachers and trainers - but no photographs of them at work;  and my great grandfather, great uncle and uncle were all joiners, but again no images of their handiwork.   

 So instead I turned to  memories of many happy holidays with All Things Wood - fences, signs,  steps, bridges, carvings and having fun.


WOOD IN BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, STEPS & SIGNS


 A timber yard in Ruhpolding, Bavaria - looking across the meadows to the church
 
 
A wooden gate leading into the woods at Earlston, Scottish Borders 

 
Wooden steps up this large rock, near Kewick in the Lake District, England.  
 
Wooden steps up to a covered bridge in Kaprun, Austria.   


A traditional Austrian chalet in Kaprun, with the wooden balcony, shutters and fencing. 


 
A typical dining room/bar in Austria and Bavaria with the wooden panelled wall, wooden shutters and carved chairs.

 
A typical Cape Cod cottage, with a picket fence  
on the Island of Nantucket, in New England.  
 
Christchurch, Cambridge which I attended whilst working in the USA, 1965-66.  Now designated a National Historic Site, Christchurch  was founded in 1759 and built in the  traditional New England clapboard style.  There is a beautiful and elegant Georgian simplicity to its interior. During the American Revolution,  the church was attacked by dissenting colonials for its Tory leanings, but George and  Martha Washington attended a service here.


 
 A reconstruction of the old wooden North Bridge at Concord, Massachusetts,  where in 1775 local Minutemen fired the first shot in the American War of Independence and forced the British to retreat back to Boston. 
 
A  traditional covered wooden bridge in New Hampshire, New England

A wooden jetty and boat house on the island of Martha's Vineyard, New Engla
 
 
 

Walking sign in Earlston in the Scottish Borders
 
 
INSPIRED BY WOOD 

 Swan boats on Lake Bled in Slovenia .


In St. Gilgen Austria,  a carved wooden balcony with a lovely image of a little dog - or is it a cat? 


 A carved figure outside a shop in in Austria. 
"Schnitz Verkstatt"  means "woodcarving workshop"  

Two of eleven wicker woodland creatures, created around a metal skeleton, by a local  artist,  and on display  in Priorwood  Gardens, a National Trust  property in Melrose in the  Scottish Borders.

 

 
 Owls  and a Squirrel carved at Centre Parcs, Whinfell Forest, Cumbria. 


 
AND FINALLY - YOU CAN HAVE FUN WITH WOOD

 Our pet cocker spaniel enjoyed on a walk, picking up branches, the longer  the better,  to bring home.  
A welcome wooden bench on a mountain walk near Innsbruck, Austria - I hasten to add we got up on high via a chair lift!
 

Not my idea of fun - but here is our granddaughter on the high tree trek walk at Centre Parks in Whinfell Forest in the Lake District.

Helping Daddy unload logs for the fire.
 
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                                 to share their family history through photographs
 
 
 
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6 comments:

  1. Lots of wood here! That last photo reminds me of the beauty of a good stack of firewood and of my kids helping their father gather in the winter wood when that was all the heat we had. Ah, the good ol' days.

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  2. What fun wood photos...lots of beautiful shots. The Swiss buildings had great decorations.

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  3. You've chosen great examples on the art of wood. I often think that history focuses too much on the metal machines of the industrial era, overlooking the era of wood which was much longer and deserves just as much attention. For centuries mankind developed great skill in wood construction techniques that led to amazing wooden ships, wagons, buildings, furnishings and more.

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  4. Great post full of all kinds of wood! I recognized the old (rebuilt) Concord bridge as that's where 36 Sonora High School students posed during the history trip I chaperoned in 1992. :)

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  5. Thank you all for your kind comments . It was amazing what images I had reflecting the theme of Wood.

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  6. I love all the carved wood.

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