Tread carefully...

As some of Scrobs' readers know, we live next to the village church, and little/big dog chooses to walk around the boneyard on some occasions! I still like the walks, and always marvel at the intricate stonework of the delightful building!

My construction roots have often enquired into the way some construction was carried out, what materials were used etc., and that curiosity often manifests itself on wondering how such large stones could have been quarried, brought to the site from miles away, prepared, and most of all, lifted to the top of the tower, which is around sixty feet high!

Of course, the larger pieces of stone are at the bottom, and smaller pieces higher up, but a builder's electric lift wasn't actually invented all those years ago, and scaffolding would have been pretty rudimentary, but what sort of crane system was used to lift these heavy items?

The answer was easy to find...

What an absolute treasure to uncover after all this time!

It makes perfect sense to see how the work was carried out, albeit incredibly dangerous for the poor bloke under a ton of sandstone, swaying in the wind...

I've now got to work out where they placed the machine, and will look for a few dents in the ground from when the rope broke occasionally...