Jamie Mayers

YouTube video by Baumgartner Restoration The Secret Garden Reborn

If you need some chill, slow viewing to remind you of the good in people right now, then here you go.

Master restorer Julian Baumgartner using his magic to save a painting of Frances Hodgson Burnett for her granddaughter, after it was almost destroyed in the Texas floods.

And doing it pro-bono.

Had a go at Kintsugi. Look, I'm better at building repairs...

Confused. Why are we talking about urination in the context of a perfectly formed golden croissant.

(I am hesitant to ask if it's french drains all the way down as that feels like tempting fate on your behalf...)

"...wibbly wobbly timey wimey" historic bridge wobble considerations (...I assume said wobble gets filed under intangible heritage values or something)

View through a pointed gothic arch of the northern side chapel in Leicester cathedral

View of the west window of Leicester cathedral from under the crossing tower. Exposed roof timbers are painted in variety of colours, light timber choir stalls in the foreground

View of the underside of Leicester cathedrals chancel roof. Blue painted timber boards with golden stars at intervals from the underside with dark roof joists under this. The primary beams are mainly dark painted with details picked out in bright colours

View of Richard IIIs floor mounted stone monument in Leicester cathedral. A pale stone rectangular form with an inscribed cross. On the base the dates "1452 - 1485" are inscribed.

More photos from Leicester cathedral proper

Assorted photos from the Leicester DACs training day/visit to Leicester cathedral's new visitor centre

Our beloved emperor has refined and specific tastes

Realised the allotment cat was not dead, the weird wounds/lost fur on its arms from when we saw it last had healed up, is still as much of a tart for attention as ever
(Muppets Christmas carol voice) "And allotment cat, who did *not * die..."
Well, I didn't see it personally but my wife facetimed me

Photograph showing a close up of stones with alternating tooling patterns between their faces. Like some kind of maniac was in charge.

West front of Bradford cathedral. A tower with corner buttresses separated into four stages by string courses with a parapet with corner pinnacles. Stone wings to either side.

View looking up at the chancel roof of Bradford cathedral. Vault with blue inset panels

View of the ceiling of the crossing tower in Bradford cathedral.

Belated AABC 2025 conference photos from Bradford Cathedral. The varying tooling patterns between different faces of the stones in the 20th century extension probably distracted/upset me more than it should.

Extensive, Enthusiastic Cementitious Repointing.

Best Croissant

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Sir Gilbert Scott restoration.

A black cat sitting in a car boot next to a bag looking up at the camera

Allotment "helper"

Urgent message from the emperor

Soft capping on ruinous structures

2025.06.26_ Stockton and Darlington Heritage Action Zone The Stockton & Darlington Railway opened on September 27, 1825, connecting places, people, communities and ideas and ultimately transforming the world. The Stockton…

Posting as a reminder to self

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Okay I have like... twenty minutes but a lot of y'all noted the church on yesterday's house so, let's talk about deconsecration! I will end the thread with some fun church conversions currently for sale, as little a treat

Plague pit but also somehow all the incoming services (and stop cocks) have somehow been routes through it?

the clerestory windows, seen from scaffolding inside the building.

A view of a window from outside the cathedral, high on the scaffolding.

A chapel covered in protective plastic sheeting, the altar boxed in with plywood.

Leicester Cathedral with a digger inside, tearing up the floor.

Tomorrow Leicester Cathedral open their new Heritage and Learning Centre. The culmination of years of work and renovations.

On Sunday, my newsletter Church Climbing will come out with stories of my many visits to the Cathedral over the years of closure and construction.
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Assorted pictures from the SPABs Repairs of Old Buildings course from last week. A mix of lectures and site visits to live sites. Lectures on materials by masons, specialist brickwork contractors and timber conservation specialists of particular value. Now to decode some of my handwritten notes.

A certificate for an architect accredited in building conservation

Well this has been a few years in the making/achieving. I am simultaneously relieved and pleased and very tired

Re 11) and 12) who wouldn't want a perfectly reasonable quality of life amendment for when one really craves a Shower Toast to accompany one's Shower Beer?
Followed swiftly presumably by a Shower Death

An update from our Director, Rachel Morley, about the upcoming repair projects.

As we look forward to completing repairs at Gumfreston, Llangua, Llanddoged, and Bodwrog, we’re also excited to announce six new repair projects for the 2025–26 financial year.

Another visit to Southwell

Studies for His Mind | Clare Bucknell In 1877 the German classicist Adolf Michaelis had almost completed the research for his catalog of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture held in British

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Posting by way of reminding myself to read

A 1-1 metal sculpture of a model kit with kanji and a human-sized figurine

A model-kit-look postal box

a green train ticket machine that looks like a model kit

90% of Japanese plastic model-making kits hail from Shizuoka, so the city looks like this:

Searching for castle site visit photographs with cats for Serious Professional Stuff

1/ Aneurin Bevan, born on this day in 1897. As Labour's Minister of Health and Housing, 1945-51, he built 805,000 council houses whilst insisting on high standards: homes were one-third bigger than the pre-war average, a three-bed home had two inside toilets.