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It was a great pleasure to eventually meet the two exchange artists from our partner organisation in Hungary: Ruziska Tunde and Eniko Kontor. They had responded quickly to our invitation and we were to find their enthusiasm and focus typical […]
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The kiln-building course is in three weeks…today we visited the site to see how things are progressing. Bit of a scare when we were told there was not a hope that the “Welfare Facilities” would be ready in time, but […]
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SMOKELESS KILN BUILDING COURSE The 18th Century remains of Manor Farm form the last part of the historic Sheffield Manor Lodge site to be restored. An important part of the redevelopment will be the construction of the first urban smokeless […]
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Two potters from our Hungarian exchange group are now set to come to England for the duration of the kiln building week. Tunde Ruzicska and Eniko from the artists group ‘Cerative’ have booked their flights and will arrive at Manchester […]
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Well, this really is a constantly moving feast – one step forward, two steps back as we come across aspects we hadn’t thought of but inch by inch we are getting there, and it is certainly exciting as the realisation […]
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On November 30th Sarah and I had a meeting with Andy Sheppard, Head of the building team. He had predicted the reservations expressed by the metal worker over the height of the chimney and suggested that the footings for the […]
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During October, we had freed up time for kiln building but as the decision to house the kiln outside the stable block had been taken we had to wait for the builders to complete their restoration of the roof. This […]
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Meeting 3rd October Penny and I met with Sue France and the building team. After all the to-ing and fro-ing that has been going on, this was the most promising meeting so far. We have a new site for the […]
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Since our last meeting with Green Estate (see previous blog entry) Penny emailed Mike and Andy a more detailed diagram of removable bricks at the base of the flue and slots for dampers in the chimney base. She also visited […]
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5th September Meeting Part Two There was some confusion over the bricks and building materials for the kiln – we learnt that we needed to be very specific about the types of brick necessary – it wasn’t enough to talk […]
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5th September Meeting with Sue, Andy, Mike, Sarah and Penny Part One We met to discuss the building of the kiln. The restoration of the buildings was proceeding rapidly and the time had come to renovate the roof structure. Andy […]
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Meeting tomorrow to discuss details of the kiln. Green Estate have not yet seen the new design for the kiln and we have not seen the progress made at the site, so its going to be exciting to see what’s […]