Quite a Building
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 19 Oct 2013 22:57
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Quite a Building, Solid, Strong and Built to
Last
 A strapping
building, must find out more.....
 The previous church moved two hundred
yards down the ‘main street’ whilst the ancient water
tank and strapping house stood rock solid
during a cyclone. The concrete water tank is one of many built around the
northern group by French contractor, Louis Brell, whose daughter married into
the Marsters Clan.
 
 Tae Pae
(Good Leg) – his left leg was badly injured above the ankle (but he flatly
refused to let ‘them’ amputate it), hurt it when he was retrieving the massive
branch from the tree, that went on to make the impressive table in the yacht club – phew, keep
up....holds the keys. His mum used to live in the house and when she died,
inherited the building, he readily agreed to open up for us to “look inside.” He
would very much like to turn it into a museum but cannot get his family to
agree, help, sort......etc.etc. The island people here seem to all be able to
argue in an empty paper bag....... So for now he uses it as a store shed.
 Not a bit of
damp and still smelt of a sea going girl.
  However much do these beams weigh ???
 Very neatly
built.
 A natty
window.
 Patriarch of the clan, William, and
his sons gathered the wood from the remains of wrecks
which struck the reefs around Palmerston and set to work building the first
house on the island. Despite numerous hurricanes, the old house stands firmly
planted.
 
 Substantial nails
and hinges.
   There is evidence of age so.....................
   Considering it is over a hundred years
old, for the most part, is in good order.
 ................We may have to be
enter it into the ‘shack with a view’ category in this years ‘One Careful
Owner’.
ALL IN ALL STOOD THE TEST OF
TIME
THE WIDTH OF THE TIMBERS WAS
ASTOUNDING |