WINSHAM WEB MUSEUM

Building Specification for New Farmhouse
at Broadenham Farm
1901

It is easy to forget ,some 110 years after the above document was produced how much time and effort would have gone into the preparation of a specification such as the above. Imagine producing the above without a calculator or a computerised spread sheet or a typewriter or a word processing facility linked to a printer.

When it came to building itself, just image the effort involved in delivering the materials to site. No lorry or fork lift truck. No mechanical hoists. At best a steam traction engine might have been available for the really heavy transport work. Most likely it was done by horse and cart.

Courtesy of Mrs Jean Smith