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Concrete and Machines - Stuston Miscellany, 1992

Former landlords and current friends The Castells had been toiling for years making concrete garden ornaments for supply to several local (and a few not-so-local) garden centres and suchlike. Despite this particularly hard way of life taking up most of their waking hours for around 30 years, they apparently took not one single photograph of it, so the only ones in existence are the few featured here. The business has now been sold following their retirement, and the sheds and ornaments have now all gone. Proof that taking a few photos at random can end up being a significant and sometimes solitary record of a whole way of life.

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Concrete Aphrodites in the shed	Almost like a concrete version of China's famous Terracotta army	Some left-over lions in the grass
Brenda takes a well-earned moment out	Hauling concrete about - several tons a day	A friend of Geoffs has a whole collection of machinery in a shed
Prepping a miniature gas-powered engine
"Mad" Sue mows her lawn	Nosher's much-loved first car	Brenda (bottom-right) in the Wilbye School Netball team
Brenda's school photo from the 1950s	The Stuston Lightning-tree, which was pulled down around 1999	Sue in the dark
Bonfire night	Billingford Windmill	Billingford Mill and the heath
The church of St Mary, Diss	Diss Publishing Bookshop	Geoff gets Winnie the Ferguson TE120 (Little Grey Fergie) ready for cider making
Geoffrey and Winnie

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