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This is an old post the vote no longer works you may be looking for this post. The ultimate Shed of the year vote – Which is the best? Our friends over at bletchley park are up for The Wickes “The Building Britain’s Most Proud Of” They are up against such The Cavern, Liverpool, Millennium… Continue reading Vote for Bletchley park as the Building of Britain award
Alex and everyone else has mentioned this recently and we even mentioned it before… anyway we know have the famous huts on readersheds.co.uk Hut 6, scene of some of the most profoundly important work of the twentieth century, the top secret breaking of German Army and Air Force Enigma ciphers by the brilliant Bletchley Park… Continue reading Just Sheds : Save Bletchley Park Huts
The shed friendly Timesonline reports Bletchley Park, the top-secret code-breaking centre which helped Britain win the Second World War, is to receive a “substantial” grant from the government’s historic monuments commission to save it from dereliction. However, the future of the wooden huts where the Engima codes were cracked is still in doubt. They have… Continue reading Grant to save Bletchley Park sheds?
El reg reports The campaign to raise funds to preserve Bletchley Park’s heritage got into full swing yesterday with a cash injection from tech giants PGP Corporation and IBM. But the site, which also houses the National Museum of Computing, needs millions of pounds more to keep it alive. today it’s certainly looking shabby around… Continue reading Bletchley Park & Sheds to be saved?
The BBC yesterday carried the story of a group of almost a hundred academics who are so outraged by the state of dereliction of the Bletchley Park huts that they have written to the Times to call for Bletchley Park to receive state funding. Bletchley Park was the war-time home of Alan Turing and his… Continue reading Bletchley Huts a National Disgrace
I tweet random sheds every other day if I remember – but it’s not me picking them it’s the random shed picking algorithm over at readersheds.co.uk/random Here are a selection that this secret shed picking machine has chosen the past few months, enjoy #randomshed Eve, Unique from Errington, BC, Canada #shedoftheyear http://t.co/zFTh9KfMs1 http://t.co/M8K5Mg5tm1 — Andrew… Continue reading The most amazing #randomsheds you will see this month
Right, If you have not shared your shed for Shed of the 2011 (of course sponsored by Cuprinol Wood Preservation Society!), now is the right time. The final categories are Normal Shed Eco Shed Garden Office Cabin/Summerhouse Workshop/Studio Pub ShedTardis Unique Shed Hopefully Your shed should be able to fit into one of those genres.… Continue reading The final categories for Shed of the year 2011 are …
Well after Shed of the year 2010 and the Shed Winner Reg Miller and his Lady Sarah giving me this great photo. My other highlights for 2010 on shedblog Singing from the same shed – live music in your shed Remember that artist who covered sheds in Fabric? well she is back Annoucement that Cuprinol… Continue reading Shed highlights of 2010 – From Pirates & Fabric sheds to Singing in the shed
Sheddie Andy has been a supporter of readersheds & shedblog for ages so its about time I featured him – he always tips me off on shed stories via twitter and is in the know about all things workshoppy – an asset to the community! Sheddies name Andy Shed name Workshopshed Selfbuild or off the… Continue reading My sheddie : Andy & Workshopshed
I thought I would start up the Q&A for my sheddies again after ShedWeek. So the first one is sheddie Documentally (Christian Payne ) who in his own words is a “Social technologist. mobile media maker. vlogger. photographer. gun for hire. talking, teaching, documenting. ask me for a quote.” And now he can add sheddie… Continue reading My sheddie – @Documentally The Plotting Shed