15 Responses to The Fence

1. Dale says:

   September 19, 2020 at 11:22 am

   But they are the most interesting to photograph, aren’t they?

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2. Andrea Stephenson says:

   September 19, 2020 at 1:30 pm

   Curious…it looks like something else, maybe a bannister, being used as a fence…

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   • crispina kemp says:

     September 19, 2020 at 4:48 pm

     The fence went on for several sections. I thikn it was specifically made. Besides which it was around the grounds of a genuine Elizabethan house. Not the sort of folks to skimp.

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3. ofmariaantonia says:

   September 19, 2020 at 1:44 pm

   I love this fence. I just want to give it a hug! (Okay, not really. But I do feel quite curious about the history behind this fence. Was it built by someone who wasn’t all that handy? Did the ground sink? It looks like maybe parts of it were replaced.) Oh, there are stories this fence could tell, I’m sure of it!)

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   • crispina kemp says:

     September 19, 2020 at 4:49 pm

     I’ve no idea of the history other than to say the house whose garden it guards is a genuine Elizabethan hall. It’s beautiful. Really well cared for. Strange then that the fence is so run down. It looks like it’s been repaired several times.

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     • ofmariaantonia says:

       September 21, 2020 at 1:19 am

       That is very interesting. Hmmm.

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     • crispina kemp says:

       September 21, 2020 at 12:20 pm

       We’re a weird lot when it comes to our history!!!

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4. Shweta Suresh says:

   September 19, 2020 at 2:10 pm

   Clearly?

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   • Shweta Suresh says:

     September 19, 2020 at 2:11 pm

     Oops, a typo. *Clearly!

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5. Brian Bixby says:

   September 19, 2020 at 2:51 pm

   One of the interesting aspects of fences is that, while originally meant to be functional, by marking boundaries and preventing straying livestock, they became ornamental as well. If one thinks of fences as functional, it’s funny to see a fence that only covers, say, a few yards on either side of a gate.

   My home town’s “new” cemetery was built with a fence of stone pillars connected by two thick wooden railings. Probably it was partly ornamental, partly to keep out neighbors’ livestock, for the town was mostly farmland in those days. Since then, the surrounding area’s gone to houses and woods, and the rails have decayed and are now often missing. So there are these stone posts marking the old boundary, but they no longer serve any real purpose. They just look a bit quaint.

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   • crispina kemp says:

     September 19, 2020 at 4:52 pm

     I was just taken by how immaculately kept the house is (Elizabethan, genuine) and how ragged the fence. Odd, I thought. Maybe they haven’t gotten around to that yet?

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     • Brian Bixby says:

       September 19, 2020 at 4:58 pm

       Or perhaps they see it as not worthy of restoration? Who knows?

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     • crispina kemp says:

       September 20, 2020 at 2:30 pm

       Maybe it’s on the agenda for later?

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6. H.R.R. Gorman says:

   September 19, 2020 at 6:17 pm

   It seems like it had interesting construction in the first place, given the weird top board.

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   • crispina kemp says:

     September 20, 2020 at 2:34 pm

     I think it’s very old. I do wonder if there’s a preservation order on it. Saxlingham is a kinda special village, full of old houses

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