Tag: marble

  • Cemetery revisit and a great surprise

    Cemetery revisit and a great surprise

    A few weeks ago I had a wander around the cemetery in my village St Frichoux. I wanted to try and find the graves (or rather tombs) of the old house owners. Some names and dates. In France they generally have these great big stone and marble graves, several metres high, sometimes very ornate, marble…

  • New Discoveries

    New Discoveries

    This old place doesn’t give up its secrets easily! Features that I thought might have been original, aren’t, but it took some working out. I was delighted to see that the old decorative plaster surround was still intact when I bought the place. I was convinced it was an original feature, as was my brother…

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