The beauty of sawn wood

[David Humphries]

Is it the grain?

Is it the hand crafted skill?

Is it some primitive draw toward working and being around mankinds first building blocks?

 

Either way, when harnessed, it's just aesthetically beautiful.

 

 

This is a little known/visited part of where I work at Hampstead Heath.

 

It's called the Pergola.

Europes longest covered walkway.

It used to belong to an adjacent property caled Inverforth House, which was built by the soap millionaire Lord Leverhume around 100years ago, the gardens were then bequeathed to the public in the 1960's.

 

Most of the original wood work was destroyed in the big storm of '87.

The replacements were sourced from French Oak, as that's supposedly deemed as being superior.

 

I get enchanted each & every time I walk along it.........

 

 

 

Feel free to add any fine wooden structures you've seen

 

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[RobArb]

nice little coronet added in at the end there

[Xerxses]

That is the most beutiful pergola I have ever seen! Walking along it was one of the things I will cherish the coming cold months...

You do work in, as far as I can judge, one of the most beutiful sites in europe!

Edited November 7, 2010 by Xerxses

[Xerxses]

...and then turning the corner and seeing this! It just blew my mind!!!!:biggrin:

[David Humphries]

Nice shots Tobias

 

There was me thinking that great beomoth of a cam you wield, was a bit too industrial for such fine imagery

 

 

 

there be you & that there same Hornbeam carcass

 

 

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[David Humphries]

...........posted this as a random shot a few weeks ago from London Zoo, but goes in here nicely even if the wood was machined.

 

 

must of been a tempory errection, as it wasn't there on Friday when we took down some Oak browse for the Gorillas

 

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[David Humphries]

nice little coronet added in at the end there

 

 

Just can't help meself Rob, it's like an addiction

 

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[sean]

what wa that fine wooden structure you posted last year David....in kent i think the weekend of an arb show?

[David Humphries]

what wa that fine wooden structure you posted last year David....in kent i think the weekend of an arb show?

 

 

 

Memory's not what it once was

 

 

Thanks for the reminder sean

 

was down the road from the Kent trade show, ocurtesy of Les.

 

We didn't manage to get down there during this years show.

Had heard that they are now using the building.

 

Will try & get back there next year, just so long as the Hama don't drag me off on another Fung hunt through barb wire again

 

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