Moving a House by Camera
Mining and industrial areas in Britain are extending into many districts that were once lovely country, and many beautiful houses have been pulled down or abandoned on this account. But Mr. E. B. Itoyden, of Bidston Court, was too much attached to his home to think of anything of that kind. He resolved to move his house bodily to a place where the country was still country. The new site chosen was at Frankby, on a hillside above the Biver Dee. A firm of builders undertook to take the house to pieces and re-erect it in the new position. To enable them to do this with every detail correct the camera was called in, and more than a hundred photographs were made. The house was moved in largo portions at a time. Each of the wonderful Tudor chimneys,, for instance, was taken down complete and removed just it stood. Thanks to the camera's help, Bidston Court now stands as it did before. The 1 work of removal took more than threo years.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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177Moving a House by Camera Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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