Helen Hughes

And a Merry Christmas to you. All the best for 2024!! A Christmas jolly in Newcastle last weekend. Adore those tiles.

Restored metal windows looking splendid painted in their original 1930s green.

Henry VII Bed (1486) - The Face of one of the lions. Note the medieval red paint on the nose and eyes - and the power of the carving.

First sculptures of women installed in the Long Room Trinity College Dublin. Why so long? youtu.be/ul8ItMl7hIs

Booking now my lecture Crime Scene Investigation - The Autopsy of a Wooden Bed. Will kick off the Tudor Bed Study Day at Saddleworth Museum, Uppermill - 22nd April 2023

There is a restaurant bang in the middle of Harrow School called The Old Etonian. Odd you may say? The owner had asked the school for permission to call it The Old Harorvian but had been snubbed so he put the knife in. Ha ha.

Social distancing in a cherry-picker. Note the screen. Removing samples from Lee Dingle Bridge, Telford.

Socially distancing in a cherry-picker.

On location Lee Dingle Bridge - Ironbridge George. Sun rinsing. Waiting to be hoisted up in a cherry picker to take paint samples. Lovely to be out on the job again

In Pembrokeshire stumbling across traces of Henry VII. Apparently 14 year old Henry Tudor hid in a cellar in Tenby (under Boots the chemist) before getting to the beach (tunnel below this cafe) and then escaping to France. Returned 14 years later - the rest is history.