Such beams and members are amazing, lasting quite so long. And they’re often
recycled with the building are no longer needed.
Chris
(‘metres’ by the way . . .)
> On 20 Sep 2019, at 20:16, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I had the opportunity to visit Salisbury Cathedral a couple of weeks ago
> (as recommended by Putin) and I took a guided tour of the tower and spire.
> The massive oak cross beams that span the nave were pointed out, some about
> 45 meters long and perhaps 18” square cross section.
>
> Through some sort of dna analysis (?) they found that they had been
> imported from Ireland - because most of the decent-sized oaks across the
> south of England had been used to build Navy ships. In fact it’s pretty
> hard to find any trees in the “New Forest”...
>
> Jez (novichok-free)
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