This house was bought by the great grandparents of the present owner ninety years ago and had begun to sink on one side. On this day forty people came to help get it straight. The house had not been built on piles as many dwellings here are because of the soft ground. Piles have now been driven in and so the house had to be jacked-up 27cm on the one side. The volunteers had to all work together. Check out the size of the spanners the workers ere using: It was quite a job, but it is now straight hopefully for all time now.
So good to see people happily working together. Let's hope the house will be there for future generations of the family.
Stories like this gives me back hope for mankind. Fingers crossed that house will stay straight(-ish) for generations to come.
Cor Reminds me of the time I had to pour 30 tonnes of concrete under a hall I was converting just to keep building regulations happy
Where I used to live in Somerset there's a town called Langport where nearly all the houses on the high street are leaning backwards. The fronts of the houses are built on top of the now buried Roman bridge, while the backs are slowly sinking into the swamp
Not sure, there's mention of them historically but it's all underground now. The Romans knew the river was tidal so they built a causeway from the bottom of the hill to get to it. About quarter of a mile. The river and new bridge are at 0.40 in this video, that's my Daughter in the river a bit later It gets very wet on the Somerset levels.
