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I have a loose outline of a book about buildings that have been moved, and this is on my spreadsheet of a few hundred examples. I just need a publisher who still does advances.
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Moving a Swedish church across town on 09:55 - Aug 19 with 867 views
The Rushbrooke Arms in Sicklesmere has a rebuilt granary barn (dating from 1480) which was relocated to the current location in the mid-1980s from down the road, I assume not the same way as this Church though.
Moving a Swedish church across town on 10:33 - Aug 19 by GavTWTD
It's on ice then? Just push it.
If you want a building moved on ice, Gav, you want the Gardner Lake House in Connecticut. In 1895 the owner wanted to move his two-storey house to the other side of the lake so waited until the lake was frozen then started to slide it across.
But the ice cracked and overnight the house got more stuck and started to pitch and stayed at an angle, stuck in the ice until spring when the ice started to thaw. It started to sink and came to rest on a 5m deep area, where It became a bit of a tourist attraction with the top floor poking out of the water. People would climb it to fish from, kids would swim its underwater ground floor, and people would ice skate through it when the ice returned.
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Moving a Swedish church across town on 10:47 - Aug 19 by urbanpenguin
If you want a building moved on ice, Gav, you want the Gardner Lake House in Connecticut. In 1895 the owner wanted to move his two-storey house to the other side of the lake so waited until the lake was frozen then started to slide it across.
But the ice cracked and overnight the house got more stuck and started to pitch and stayed at an angle, stuck in the ice until spring when the ice started to thaw. It started to sink and came to rest on a 5m deep area, where It became a bit of a tourist attraction with the top floor poking out of the water. People would climb it to fish from, kids would swim its underwater ground floor, and people would ice skate through it when the ice returned.
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Conincidentally, its demise was seemingly contributed-to by (an American) Norwich!
"The Falls Mill in Norwich had water rights to the lake. Oblivious to the house-moving venture, overnight it drained substantial amounts of water at the dam, creating space between the ice and the water.
This weakened the ice. By morning, the house had broken through."
Moving a Swedish church across town on 11:07 - Aug 19 by BasingstokeBlue
Conincidentally, its demise was seemingly contributed-to by (an American) Norwich!
"The Falls Mill in Norwich had water rights to the lake. Oblivious to the house-moving venture, overnight it drained substantial amounts of water at the dam, creating space between the ice and the water.
This weakened the ice. By morning, the house had broken through."
Yes, but there are countless places in Connecticut and Long Island with name connections to East Anglia. I did a piece of writing quite a few years ago that spoke about a family that migrated to Southold, Long Island.
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Moving a Swedish church across town on 10:47 - Aug 19 by urbanpenguin
If you want a building moved on ice, Gav, you want the Gardner Lake House in Connecticut. In 1895 the owner wanted to move his two-storey house to the other side of the lake so waited until the lake was frozen then started to slide it across.
But the ice cracked and overnight the house got more stuck and started to pitch and stayed at an angle, stuck in the ice until spring when the ice started to thaw. It started to sink and came to rest on a 5m deep area, where It became a bit of a tourist attraction with the top floor poking out of the water. People would climb it to fish from, kids would swim its underwater ground floor, and people would ice skate through it when the ice returned.
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I got distracted from work I actually needed to do so dumped some of the images i have of other moving buildings into a Bluesky thread, in case you are also board:
If any publisher is interested, I have had the loose outline of a book about buildings that have been moved sitting on my computer, waiting for an advance or enough time to actually write something longer than a 2000 word article. This one, for mining, is typical of one reason for relocation.
They have already moved large sections of the historic old town as well, basically moving historic building to save them from subsidence as the whole town is sinking due to mines running under the town
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Moving a Swedish church across town on 14:35 - Aug 19 by vilanovablue
They have already moved large sections of the historic old town as well, basically moving historic building to save them from subsidence as the whole town is sinking due to mines running under the town
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