| newsletter no.19 - august 2008 - The Secrets of Old Jamestown | |||
This construction work absorbs the remnants of an old warehouse at the Napoleon Street end of Sister’s walk into a new building for a new purpose. To give an old building a new use is admirable in principle. However the lower mud mortar stone walls are supporting walls built with concrete block, lintels and mortar. Concrete make an unhappy marriage with traditional forms of wall construction in both visual and engineering terms. |
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This newsletter is based on information provided by Ben Jeffs a multi-faceted Building Conservator who is currently in St Helena and involved with an archaeology project which has revealed a unique slave burial site in Rupert’s Valley which will undoubtedly prove to be of global significance due to the scale of the burials and its historical context. Ben is Director of Blackfreighter, an independent Building Conservation and Archaeology practice based in Leicestershire UK. Email: ben@blackfreighter.net |
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