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Old clothing material find
Whilst digging up the old tiles (tomettes) on the first floor, I came across this bit of material that was buried in the mortar holding the tiles down. As the mortar was on the crumbly side, it came away quite easily. It’s four different types of material – a straw-coloured light-weave hessian, a blue felt, an…
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Old Magazine find
As the internal partitions start coming down to replace all the rotten floor beams beneath, I’ve come across a few little finds. This is a nice coloured publication from 1919, just after the First World War. It was found blocking up a hole where there was an enormous mouse nest running half the width of the…
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Pottery find
I recently knocked out a small piece of the right front wall of the house to install a new postbox. French postmen don’t get off their electric bikes so need somewhere accessible to drive up to and deliver. There’s even a set of standard heights and positions. Quite anal really. He told me where he’d…