G'day All I have set my husband to making a stile so we do not have to abseil to reach the mail box. I remember simple wooden steps through the hedge row in the Warwickshire area so I had no idea there were so many kinds of stiles depending on where you live in the UK- until I found a wonderful book "The Forgotten Crafts- a Practical Guide to Traditional Skills" by John Seymour Publishers Alfred A. Knopf New York 1984 and 1984 Dorling Kindersley Ltd London ISBN 0-394-53956-7 There are some very interesting sections with illustrations and information on skills which our ancestors may have possessed. For example Wheelwrighting, rope making, lime burning, thatching , ladder making, clog making, tanning and curing, chair making etc etc. There are pages showing the tools used and examples of finished work - so if you are keen to "pad out " the family history It may be worth trying to find a copy through interlibrary loan. There are some pre loved copies available online -and also "Forgotten Household Crafts" by the same author. I have been looking at the illustrations of coracles but have not put an order in --- YET. Happy hunting Wendy Warwick List Admin.

Anything about "Kissing Gates" Now there was a "Clever Clogs" betty<grn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Boland" <wendy.boland@bigpond.com> To: <warwick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:02 PM Subject: [WAR] Stiles & spars broaches & pegs > G'day All > > I have set my husband to making a stile so we do not have to abseil to > reach the mail box. > > I remember simple wooden steps through the hedge row in the Warwickshire > area so > I had no idea there were so many kinds of stiles depending on where you > live in the UK- > > until I found a wonderful book > "The Forgotten Crafts- a Practical Guide to Traditional Skills" by John > Seymour > Publishers > Alfred A. Knopf New York 1984 and > 1984 Dorling Kindersley Ltd London > ISBN 0-394-53956-7 > > There are some very interesting sections with illustrations and > information on skills which our ancestors may have possessed. > For example > Wheelwrighting, rope making, lime burning, thatching , ladder making, clog > making, tanning and curing, chair making etc etc. > > There are pages showing the tools used and examples of finished work - so > if you are keen to "pad out " the family history > It may be worth trying to find a copy through interlibrary loan. There are > some pre loved copies available online -and > also "Forgotten Household Crafts" by the same author. > > I have been looking at the illustrations of coracles but have not put an > order in --- YET. > > Happy hunting > Wendy > Warwick List Admin. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message