Archive for the ‘Restoration’ Category
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Herefords in the Deer Park
Posted on by Last autumn we welcomed Harry Dark and his Hereford cattle. Those of you have been following the nature recovery project at Trelowarren will know how much we wanted cattle back on the ground to drive soil recovery with all its associated benefits. Last autumn we were delighted to welcome Harry Dark and his herd […]
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The Sofa – Victoria’s Blog
Posted on by The Sofa Septimus: ( to Thomasina) We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again […]
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Victoria’s blog – Christmas at Sea
Posted on by Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson https://poets.org/poem/christmas-sea A poem at Christmas needs to have a good narrative drive and not be too full of itself as a poem. Epiphany is the time for the tragedy of TS Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi, but on Christmas Day I think Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, full […]
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Compliance – is not designed for exceptions – Victoria Vyvyan’s Blog
Posted on by ‘When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions’ (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V) Compliance – is not designed for exceptions February is open season for Compliance. It’s those long dark days and endless storms. Half way through January Compliance look at each other and say, ‘Something must be done’ and they pick […]
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Water outside – Water inside – December blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by We’ve had a wet autumn. The rain has come from all of the cardinal points. It has drifted sideways in veils; it has poured down vertically in sheets; it has battered the windows so hard that some just gave up and blew out; it has come in gusts and flurries making the scaffolding groan like […]
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The Pepperpot Lodges to be restored to their former glory
Posted on by The two iconic Lodges that mark the entrance to the Trelowarren Estate on Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula are to be restored as part of a ten year, £200,000 project with Natural England, which will also see the surrounding land returned to natural Cornish Heath – its original 1750s’ landscape. The long-term project by the Vyvyan family, […]
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Pond restoration
Posted on by After a two year discussion with English Nature our Higher Level Stewardship contract was eventually signed last year enabling three large capital projects to be scheduled – the relining and repointing of the Pond on the Garras drive, replacing all the estate cast iron railings which were melted down to make munitions in WWII and, […]
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Raising the Clock Tower
Posted on by Daphne du Maurier commented on the beautiful sound of the Trelowarren clock (made in 1757) when she first visited the house in 1930 but in 1972 it was stolen. The stable clock at Trelowarren was stolen in 1972. Until then the sound of it ringing out the hours could be heard for miles around and […]