Fell Foot Farm, Little Langdale

At the same time the major rebuilding of a barn wall is taking place at Fell Foot, Little Langdale.  As you can see from the photographs, this work involves propping the floor and the whole roof to dismantle the wall and then rebuild it.  For this work we are using a local contractor, John Charnley, who is the son of our tenant farmer Philip Charnley.  The finished results will be in the next blog.

Galava Gate Roman Fort, Ambleside

It has been a while since our blog was updated but we have not been idle.  Our builders have been working with volunteers on the Roman fort at Galava Gate, Ambleside.  Works include de-turfing, cleaning and consolidation of existing walls.  Phill, Adam, John and Bryan have worked with different volunteers over the past 15 days helping them with the consolidation work on the walls of the fort that were last excavated in 1913.  The work has been carried out in conjunction with archaeologist Jamie Lund. The event is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and forms part of the Windermere Reflections programme.