All Saints' Church 1949

"The tower was completed with cleft oak shingles on March 29th1885. On March 29th 1949 (64 years to the day) Messrs Bakers of Danbury completed stripping them ready for re-shingling the tower. The shingles failed because they had been fixed with alloy nails which corroded and split the shingles; and the shingles began to fall about 1935.

"The present oak shingles were saturated in an oil soluble copper compound which is estimated to double their life, held secured with copper nails." From the history of All Saints' by A.D. & D. Ost.

The photo is from the collection of P. Ost.

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