The BBC's Restoration Village programme has Chedham's Yard in Wellesbourne as one of the three Midlands buildings people are able to vote to restore. We took a visit to this crumbling but fascinating time capsule of rural life. Three workshops crammed full of tools, benches and equipment, including a wheelwright and a working forge, started in the early 1800s and untouched since it closed in the 1970s. You can vote for it to be restored!
On the beams in the Wheelwrights workshop are snippets of weather records, such as the one below, which reads that the last day of October 1934 there was a "heavy snow storm".
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So why are all the tools and things still there? Were these people just major pack rats? And why haven't they been auctioned off since 1970?
Not sure why the tools are still there - guess there was no market for them now that power tools have cornered the market.
We were pleased to see that Chedham's Yard has won the Midlands round of Restoration and goes forward to the national final in a few weeks time though.
And what are pack rats?
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