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Subject: Re: [OM] Gamlingay roofs
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 21:00:26 +0100
Thanks, Jim.  It was embellished and em-goldened :-)

No.  It’s “Suffolk Pink” and people accept it as a fact of life in this rural 
area – as long as it doesn’t go too too far :-)

Chris

> On 2 Apr 20, at 18:34, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Nicely done, Chris, even if the brightness is embellished.  I love the bright 
> chimneys on the right.  Did the neighbors get a vote on the pink paint job?
> 
> On 4/2/20 12:17 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> I’m on the Steering Group for our village’s Neighbourhood Plan, an attempt 
>> by the Government to give local people a say in how development progresses 
>> in different sorts of community.  The roofs of the “historic core” of the 
>> village are an interesting part of its heritage and the SG asked me to 
>> provide more photos for the NP.
>> 
>> The NP is delayed by the current crisis, of course, but it means that there 
>> is time to spend on this sort of work.  And I can take some of these photos 
>> without leaving the confines of our garden.  There are rules which proscribe 
>> this sort of photography without permission from the owners of the property, 
>> but since this is for the community I’ve judged it a reasonable activity.
>> 
>> One of the photos is here:
>> 
>> <https://photos.google.com/u/1/share/AF1QipPoNwJcQh4nPMvTG2xIdW37V7VzT8Bxzv7TfvnOw7P40U6XpNBvIdM1BkrpdLSILQ/photo/AF1QipNdTcNOcs77p6o5-kW4kMj3BOYfKQwmXEqOLH24?key=c0dabURfbTd2VWNaTHZLU2RCbE9HQ1UwcUtKRXpB
>>  
>> <https://photos.google.com/u/1/share/AF1QipPoNwJcQh4nPMvTG2xIdW37V7VzT8Bxzv7TfvnOw7P40U6XpNBvIdM1BkrpdLSILQ/photo/AF1QipNdTcNOcs77p6o5-kW4kMj3BOYfKQwmXEqOLH24?key=c0dabURfbTd2VWNaTHZLU2RCbE9HQ1UwcUtKRXpB><https://photos.google.com/u/1/share/AF1QipPoNwJcQh4nPMvTG2xIdW37V7VzT8Bxzv7TfvnOw7P40U6XpNBvIdM1BkrpdLSILQ/photo/AF1QipNdTcNOcs77p6o5-kW4kMj3BOYfKQwmXEqOLH24?key=c0dabURfbTd2VWNaTHZLU2RCbE9HQ1UwcUtKRXpB
>>  
>> <https://photos.google.com/u/1/share/AF1QipPoNwJcQh4nPMvTG2xIdW37V7VzT8Bxzv7TfvnOw7P40U6XpNBvIdM1BkrpdLSILQ/photo/AF1QipNdTcNOcs77p6o5-kW4kMj3BOYfKQwmXEqOLH24?key=c0dabURfbTd2VWNaTHZLU2RCbE9HQ1UwcUtKRXpB>>>
>> 
>> Our house, a former pub, is the first on the left.  You can just see the 
>> “ghost sign” on the gable end over the street; it says something like 
>> "Royston Fine Ales”.  I suspect that another sign was erased somehow on the 
>> near wall, replaced with newer Cambridge Yellow bricks, but on the northern 
>> side a ghost sign remains, “Royston Fine Ales and Bottled Stouts”.
>> 
>> It wasn’t this golden glow when I took the photo, but Luminar 4 provided me 
>> with the wherewithal to alter reality a smidgeon . . .

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