This blog, following the creation of the new timber Jacobean theatre, will include a regular series of photo journals, like this one, interspersed between the posts that describe the work in much more detail.
The first timbers arrive
The road into Stanford Dingley, the small village where we are based, has seen a lot of activity as lorries deliver timbers to our workshops for the fabrication of the theatre's timber framed structure.
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With timbers that can sometimes weigh hundreds of kilograms, our
craftsmen make good use of the small crane to unload the lorries |
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| The forklift is used to shift timbers into their correct groupings prior to the inspection of every timber |
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| Each timber is carefully inspected and checked for its size, the type of conversion and the quality of the timber |
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| Some of the oak timbers on trestles in the yard |
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All the timbers are marked to identify their position in the structure.
Historically this was usually done by incising numerals into the timbers. We generally use some form of modern marker pen that can easily be removed - but more on this in a later post |
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| Callum and Richard begin marking out - in the cold! |
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| Richard marks out a timber that will eventually become a turned column. |
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| Inside one of the barn workshops, Guy and other craftsmen begin marking out other timbers. |
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| Our lines marked on the end of this timber are drawn across the annual rings, each ring being one years growth for the tree |
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| Everyone needs a tea break |
Our next few posts will be about the full size two bay 'mock up', part of the initial design for the Jacobean theatre (you may see a glimpse of it in a couple of these photos). Building the mock up has benefited us considerably and has also proved of great interest for the researchers, designers and theatre practitioners.
We will be back with more posts and photographic journals in the new year and include further updates on
our twitter account,
Seasons Greetings, Anne Payton.
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