As Promised Pics Of My Progress

Well the Gate is Hung & Working i made the postes out of Artic Lorry Bumpers From Work Brand New Box Section the Gaffer only Charge me £45 for 21 foot of it :WINK1: Trade price
The Cast iron urns i got from a wrought iron gate maker and welded them on top of my posts the posts am 3ft in the ground
This Gate Came off The local Salvation Army built in 1765
i hadent got the money when i spoted this for sale in a Antique shop
But wot i did have in the Garage was 2 Cast iron Ranges 1 Large Carl Brookdale nice and ornate with swinging gales and a Small Victorian 1 Both Id Got For Free When Removing Chimney Breasts out of Houses & NOT WONCE BUT TWICE TOLD TO THROW THEM IN SKIPS
When i Bought them Home OH Said Wot on Earth am you going to do with them??? we Aint got a Chimney

i said i Doa Care i cleaned them up got some black ledding grate polish and left them to stand in the Garage i also had Around 700 bricks off the job
My old Gaffer Asked me wot do you want them for??


My Reply if you want the Truth I Dont know yet I Fancy Doing Something in the Garden

When id ran out of bricks i got the rest out the Skips
i built the well 1st then went on to build the folly

iv had this gate 18 months lay on its side in the Garden and Im over the moon to finerley got it hung today i got my Cill bricks from the stourbridge colliage of Art built 1899

I Got 6 in Total & am Going to Try ONLY TRY & Make a Entrance Door Way out of them in the front of the Arbour im going to have a go at building
Hope You Like Cus For Me My Old saying Its to Die For

 

Cill Bricks 6 sets Including End Pices from the Stoubridge Colliage Of Art built in 1899 to Do with the Famous Glass Blowing Cone Here in Stourbridge Demolished in 2000 sat in a Reclomation yard till Today when i got my big Onds on Em

 

that is Stunning! ...

 

OMG Nick its totally amazing!! You have such a natural talent and an artists eye for these sorts of things!! It's PERFECT!!!

 

Folly




Since you are the builder on here, a nice Wisteria growing over that would look mint or a rose "rambling Rector" if you need a name

you could do a little Lord of the rings movie

The gate looked fab when I saw it lying on the floor but now its hung up its like history lesson in your garden (very nice I hope the OH loves it)
Spruce

 

Nice one Nick, you're building a small cathedral really.

 

if you were in South Africa, you would make a lot of money with your work ....

the big thing there is security, so people are installing fancy burgular bars that cover the whole window, driveway gates and even gates on the insides of their homes (most homes there are single storey .... i.e. bungalows, so they install a security gate that secures the bedrooms from the rest of the home, and that is normally installed in the passage/hall)

 

Bravo Folly Mon. Youv'e made my grey afternoon shining bright with these photos. I think someone maybe thinking of head hunting you for a slot on your local TV.WHy not ??
Keep on rockin. kid.... ( not just the ones holding up the new gate!!)

 

Great.

 

mate, that looks fantastic!!! you have a great talent and a superb eye.

well jel..........................

 

AMAZING Follymon

 

Good work, Follymon!

 

Top notch that mate

 

wot lovely Posative Comments ALL From the Bottom of My Hart its My 1st Attempt @ Anything iv Never Done Anything like this Before

To Be Totley Honest As Any 1 on Here Knows or Knows Me
I Never So Much As Cut a Lawn before i started this Aprox 18 Months ago

Truth is I Disliked Gardening

God Only Knows Why??

Funny Aint IT That it Become MY Savior

From The Dole Drink & Drugs

And NOW LOVE IT WITH A PASSION

God Bless Every One of Ya

 

I've been naughty again

BBC Gardeners World might be in touch Nick