Quasimodo

A couple of pictures of a lead roof that I was able to take this morning. This is a church tower roof that was rebuild in the 1880s. I have included my foot (size 10)  to give an indication of size. I hope that this may be of help.

In my younger days, I worked for a rose grower for several years. Roses were grown as a field crop for sale as bare root plants. It was long hours and very hard work in all weathers, but enjoyable all the same.

When creating the climbing roses, for your arch, I would avoid using yellow roses, as this colour was not common for climbing roses, in England, until after WW2. You cannot go too far wrong with red, white and above all pink climbing roses.

I hope this helps.

Ade,

I have been following your blog with interest as I grew up in North Wiltshire. I have sent you a PM with digital copies of microphiche images from NRM.

Duncan