The building work goes on despite rain, sleet, wind and, yes, SNOW!

So this is the old Church Street swimming pool. It was taken out of service a few years ago and filled in. Now it's being "unfilled".

As you can see we have quite a few Archaeologists on site. They watch the big digger at work and then call a halt if anything of interest comes up. They then dig a pit or two to explore the find... if any.

Though it might be nice... we're kind of hoping that they don't find anything too interesting as that would hold us up a lot. They found an old well near to the Mulberry tree. Other than some post holes, bits of goat bone and the odd oyster shell. Steyning used to be a port until about 1350 ish.

Here's my first attempt at a video using my still camera in "Video" mode. It'll be interesting to see what the quality is like. The first one is in the sleet. I put the shorter one in to show the snow!!



Yup... real live SNOW!

The way they are digging there will be a new Blog entry pretty soon! These were taken around the 12th of January 2010.

Steyning in the January snow.

Some views of Steyning High Street in the recent snow. Our friendly Post Office, local (Award winning) Greengrocer and our "out of everything snow related" hardware shop.

Mmmm.... Truffles, our local cake shop. And some of their cream cakes.

Part of the Lower School frontage in Church Street. The parts either side of the brick middle are both now computer rooms! (400 years old!) The timbers are real but the "plaster" was replaced with fibreglass 20 years ago to avoid ongoing maintenance.

Some of the houses have plaques showing their age... 1771 isn't that old though. :-)

Saxon Cottage built around 1550.

The Lyche Gate of St Andrews Church.

And the Churchyard.

The Church itself. The statue of St. Cuthman, the patron Saint of Steyning, was made in 2000 and looks at the site of the "modern" (12th Century) church built on the site of the original (9th Century).

And the tree goes.... TIMBER!!

As you can see it snowed just before Christmas.... but that didn't stop the builders digging down. That electrics cupboard is still there... if that goes all of Bennetts and Matron's house loses all power!




This is a nice old Beech tree.... (you can see the trimmed Mulberry in the background.... that will be moved behind Bennetts to hopefully survive and thrive.) but unfortunately the new build will come all the way over there and the roots will be a nightmare therefore it's completely in the way and has to go. :-(

T I M B E R!!!!!

And there we go.... but the work of a few minutes to bring low. Then the whole thing gets sawn up into managable chunks.

So then the big beastie starts to move earth BIG TIME! The whole plot has to come down in height to lower the profile of the new building.

And then... full cycle.... back to snow again! Hopefully the bad weather won't bring too many delays. (Did put an end to my "Sales" trip to Bluewater though. :-(