I've been meaning to write about this for ages. But something we're noticing a lot of in this house is the way layers have been added upon layers, covering up what was original about the house and its finish as people over the decades have 'modernised'. I've already written a fair bit about doors, which is one example, but over Christmas, I thought it would be interesting to explore the crazy paving in front of the house. Apart from anything else (its sheer ugliness for example...) the level was way too high and it was blocking the air vents...
So a bit of shoveling and pickaxe work later, what should we find but the original Victorian tile path! Very exciting.
Amazing what people will cover up in the name of modernisation. But then again, all things Victorian were deeply unfashionable in the 1960s and 1970s I guess. Looking ahead, maybe this poor path is destined for another 50 years under cover as we realise that our heritage and period obsession of the 1990s and 2000s was just a fad and that we had nothing to fear from the future after all...
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