Conservationists have discovered graffiti that is 100 years old on the walls of a shepherd hut in Dorchester. The writing reveals that even back then people were obsessed about the weather.
The cabin in Dorchester was being restored when workers came across pencilled writing from shepherds who used the hut as shelter during the lambing season when they were needed day and night. It was Johnno Farrar, carpenter of Plankbridge Shepherd Huts was the one who discovered the writing on the walls.
It would seem that many of the shepherds used the wooden walls as a diary to record the weather conditions they endured or to note their daily tasks. Some of the extracts of the writing include:
From March 1-7, 1903 one shepherd recorded the weather conditions for one week as ‘stormy, wet, fine, stormy, wet, fair, wet’ for seven days.
“This weather is enough to make a man swear black is white and red is blue and chills through the **** of his trousers and cut his throat with his shirt collar.” February 6, 1907.
The weather was ‘cold enough to kill the devil’. February 12, 1909.
Mr Farrar said: “We have been commissioned to restore a lot of these huts that have been rotting away in the corner of a farm somewhere for the last 100 years. In recent years there has been a bit of a trend to turn these old wooden cabins into holiday lets.
“These huts were mainly used for shelter during the lambing season which took a few weeks and the shepherd would have had to be close at hand throughout that time.”
“The pencil has lasted well and hasn’t faded with the years. It is fascinating to read after all this time.”
The huts are being refurbished into holiday lets which will cost £6-8,000. Some have also been converted into offices and a sauna.
If you have graffiti that doesn’t have quite the same historical value then contact companies that offer stone cleaning services and the application of magic graffiti . This industrial coating protects and prevents surfaces from unwanted graffiti.
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