Pinfolded - 11th April 2012

The walling fairy evidently called by last week despite the forecast snows and left the wall in really good shape for Roger, the Richards, the Grahams and myself to finish off and clear the site.

Richard the Younger will be posting some of his time-lapse photos and I hope you'll agree the results are well up to standard.  The photos aren't bad either!  The weather was kind and didn't hail on us until we'd finished and were headed home.  We have much to be grateful for.

We have a taster day next week and I will let you know where our next project will be as soon as ... I've actually found somewhere!  watch for Wally-Mail and if you know of a site where we could start more or less immediately, please let me know.

Good job no-one knows who he's calling a fairy. 

UPDATE! A selection of  Daguerreotypes 

As promised here are some photos of the finished pinfold - and a few snaps of how we got there.

Before we got our hands on it.

After we'd finished messing about (At least I hope I've got them in the right order)

DEMOLITION!

REBUILD!

Richard

P.S. I'll attempt to make some sort of video out of the photo's I have taken. Don't hold your breath though. It may take me some time.

Winksley photos 21 March 2012

The view of the pinfold about to hold 10 stray wallers

The team briefing



It is always best to stand back in amazement



At close of play

Updated by Tony

Ten Go To Winksley

OK so it wasn't the easiest site to find but, in the end, ten of us made it to the Winksley pinfold which made for some tricky manoeuvres once we got started. 

Richard set up his tripod and camera so we could look forward to 'Winksley - The (Slightly Jerky) Movie as he snapped the various stages of stripping out and reconstruction.  The Grahams, Phillip and Roger tackled the smaller of the two gaps while the Ems, Paul, Richard, Tony and myself stripped out the larger stint and began reconstruction. (Note: interesting that the original wall had mainly stringers throughout and very few stones with their length built into the wall).  (Note2: The inside of the pinfold was the 'pretty' side with larger, more uniform stone as opposed to more random coursing on the field side).

By t'end o' t'day the smaller section was complete and looking handsome and the main gap had risen four courses from its new foundations.  One more week (two tops) should see it done.

Thanks everybody.