The new stamped-concrete yard seen head-on to a stone wall with red-framed French doors and three horseshoes set in the render above.
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Outside the forge: the yard, the red roof, the doors

Inside the forge has had most of the attention. On 1 October the outside caught up in a single day.

The doors

Red doors, and three horseshoes

The new French doors in the stone wall have red frames, still under their blue protective film in these photographs. Above them, set into the render, are three horseshoes. The ground in front had been mud and a cement mixer on 28 September. By the 30th it was graded to gravel, ready for the pour.

1 October, evening

A yard poured, then stamped

The slab went down on the 1st and was floated smooth by dusk, with the forge doorway glowing orange at the left. The crew worked on after dark under a floodlight, pressing a stone pattern into the concrete while it was still workable, then a cobble border around the edge.

The freshly poured and floated concrete slab at dusk in the courtyard, timber shuttering along its edge, white rendered walls, a dark roller shutter and new windows in blue film, the forge doorway glowing orange at the left.
Poured and floated, at dusk.
The stamped slab at night seen at an angle, showing a cobble-pattern border around a flagstone-pattern field, the forge doorway glowing orange at the left.
Stamped, with its cobble border, later the same night.
The forge at blue hour, a lit window showing the roof trusses, a tall floodlight tower at the end of the gravel yard and the white cottage to the right.
Working late: the forge window lit, the floodlight still on.
The same day, by the cottage

A roof off at lunchtime, a red one on by evening

While the yard was being poured, the small outbuilding next to the cottage lost its roof. By about one o’clock it was down to the rafters, with the red corrugated sheets waiting on the gravel. By six it had them on.

It is a small building and a small roof, but red on that white wall is a bright thing to come home to.

The low outbuilding between a whitewashed shed and the cottage with its roof stripped to the rafters under a blue sky, red corrugated sheets lying on the gravel.
About one o’clock: roof off.
The same outbuilding with a new red corrugated roof on, white walls and dark doors beside it and the cottage's slate roof and chimney to the right.
About six o’clock: red roof on.
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The cottages above Mulroy Bay are open while the forge takes shape. Come and see the place for yourself.

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