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

Concrete Aphrodites in the shed

Almost like a concrete version of China's famous Terracotta army

Almost like a concrete version of China's famous Terracotta army

Some left-over lions in the grass

Some left-over lions in the grass

Brenda takes a well-earned moment out

Brenda takes a well-earned moment out

Hauling concrete about - several tons a day

Hauling concrete about - several tons a day

A friend of Geoffs has a whole collection of machinery in a shed

A friend of Geoffs has a whole collection of machinery in a shed

Prepping a miniature gas-powered engine

Prepping a miniature gas-powered engine




"Mad" Sue mows her lawn

Nosher's much-loved first car

Nosher's much-loved first car

Brenda (bottom-right) in the Wilbye School Netball team

Brenda (bottom-right) in the Wilbye School Netball team

Brenda's school photo from the 1950s

Brenda's school photo from the 1950s

The Stuston Lightning-tree, which was pulled down around 1999

The Stuston Lightning-tree, which was pulled down around 1999

Sue in the dark

Sue in the dark

Bonfire night

Bonfire night

Billingford Windmill

Billingford Windmill

Billingford Mill and the heath

Billingford Mill and the heath

The church of St Mary, Diss

The church of St Mary, Diss

Diss Publishing Bookshop

Diss Publishing Bookshop

Geoff gets Winnie the Ferguson TE120 (Little Grey Fergie) ready for cider making

Geoff gets Winnie the Ferguson TE120 (Little Grey Fergie) ready for cider making

Geoffrey and Winnie

Geoffrey and Winnie

  
   
   
   
   

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