Renovation Process

January 30, 2025

Perhaps not in the way you think! Lavinia Stamps is always thinking of ways to put the Environment first in our business, however this is not what we're discussing here. Let me explain. While teams have been busy renovating the bones of the Dreamatorium from inside, outside has been a hive of activity too! The […]

Early Bird Shoppers

November 28, 2024

On a routine visit in the middle of summer, Kevin had to call for help as some particularly loud potential customers had arrived and the shop was still mid-construction! This mother duck and her ten children had gone for a lovely midsummer waddle and wandered a little off course right through the car park at […]

A Gem of a find!

November 28, 2024

When looking at things in the archive that might have something to do Plas Coch, I came across a real gem. Of all places... ...on the back of a menu. This, however, was a menu with a difference. This was a menu from the 1960's when Plas Coch was a Banqueting Hall. Inside there is […]

The Men in White Suits

October 31, 2024

Every morning as I drive into work I pass Plas Coch. It's a lovely view, however one morning it was made even more special by this exclamation: "Why, on earth, are there men in white suits on the roof?" This was not something I ever thought I would say! Neither did I think that the […]

The Case of the Self-Dismantling Fireplace.

October 31, 2024

I popped over to Plas Coch to take some photos of the completed work to date. The sun was shining, the sky was blue and there were birds whistling a happy tune. I'm doing this to set the scene. It was, my friends, a perfect day. I went through taking my photos in every room […]

Is there anybody there? ...Well...is there?

October 30, 2024

On the 18th May 2023 at around 14.00 hours Tracey, Kevin and I had a meeting at Plas Coch. Not an ordinary meeting. It was a meeting with people who, unbeknownst to them, had spent many an evening in our sitting rooms. On television. So meeting them, we were nervous and excited. We really shouldn’t […]

The Writing's on the Wall

September 26, 2024

The work at Plas Coch is starting to turn a corner. Where we had been taking things away and discovering the property's hidden depths, now we are starting to put it all back together. So we weren't expecting this. First there was some flaking plaster. A little of the plaster had been removed and some […]

The Aliens have landed?

September 26, 2024

No! Everybody relax...these green people are in protective suits and cleaning the beams. The beams were stripped using a low pressure specialised soda blasting method. This gentle and non-abrasive method doesn't remove any original marks like carpenters marks and carvings. To the left you can see an example of the before and after. Once the […]

Medieval Graffiti ..?

September 26, 2024

Once this had been photographed and mulled over, we couldn't work out what these lines were? Instructions to visitors? Beware of the dog? There were many possibilities. So we contacted Matt Champion who has written a book on Medieval Graffiti, specifically those found in churches. His reply was very interesting. In his opinion : "The […]

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