Transforming old building ruins into an outdoor kitchen 

Are you going to finish excavating around the outside perimeter ??? The work you have done so far is absolutely beautiful. I am jealous ... I would love a retirement passion project like this one. What an amazing find. I'm seeing pergolas, archways, fruit trees and landscape fountains .... The only limitation is your imagination at this point.

I was wondering how you were doing just yesterday, I even checked to see if you had posted a video and then this popped up this morning. It looks terrific, your hard work is certainly on show.

I love this! You could have easily made this into 12 videos. So much work involved! Thank you for sharing!

❤ Very cool video I liked commented and shared. I look forward to more.

@@jamesbell8861 I will excavate around the perimeter on the downhill side (the side with the doorway) but not the uphill side I think. and yes I am planning an archway build, but I'm doing a video to talk about my vision for the place.

Eg. Remember when they burnt the toast😂😂😂😂🤡

Thank you, glad you liked it.

@@afontirs great work, looking forward to seeing more progress!

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It's obvious what's next.... 🍕 Pizza 🤣

Thanks for the info. I am starting to think that this building may have been a communal kitchen/utility space for a row of cottages and they shared this one. as there were 3-4 other buildings in the row, described as cottages on the map.

@@afontirs Welcome. Again congratulations ! We bought a 3 in 1 up in Ardudwy in the 1970s. It was attached to a newer more substantial house at one end. Formerly road workers cottages from the turnpike days (1830s) The 'free' end dwelling had all 3 privvies behind her kitchen. with a narrow crack of an access passage serving the 3 units. A small patch c. 10 feet square attached that that end cottage was originally some sort of squat utility area , backfilled to wall plate from the field above. I dug it out. Remains of leather buckets with zinc bindings, fire residues aplenty and a barrow load of (mostly ) limpet and tellin shells . This property was a clear mile uphill from the beach. I was puzzled until an ancient quarryman passing by told me that around 1920 there was a tremendous strike of slate workers which brought on a lockout by the quarry owners. Starvation followed. Children were sent to the shore for shellfish. These were boiled often in laundry 'coppers' and used as food by families. The shells were then burned and crushed to be fed to poultry as chicken-grit (makes egg shells) Similarly small springs and ground water seeps were harvested and used as a communal water supply. At our place the water was also collected (for three houses) in a redundant cast iron 'copper'. Citizen archaeology has much interest. Ardudwy has a vast store of very ancient built environment which 'experts' like the National Trust are only beginning to realise. It is a heartland of Welsh language so perhaps there has been reluctance to share with a less than popular incomer. There used to be a learned society for "Study of Welsh Vernacular Architecture" Also recommended reading is Oxford Agrarian History of England and Wales Vol. 5 With a masterly section on old Welsh farmhouses. This would fascinate you. Unfortunately now wildly expensive on second hand book market but very likely on shelf at your county library. NLW at Aberystwyth will certainly give reader access to you. Thanks for a marvellous series. Hugely popular !! and deservedly so.

​@@afontirsAs a PS. Try the brief Wikipedia entry for Rural Historian Joan Thirsk. A most interesting academic. She was editor of the Cambridge series , Agrarian History. Much is there 😊

It look awesome 👌

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Thank you. I became a lot better at the stonework as I went on, plenty of time to practice! It will definitely get used for cooking different things, not just pizza. Pizza is just the starting point.

Very impressive 👍. Will you add a seating area?

Thanks very much. 😊

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I would like to think so too! thanks

Thank you so much!!

Thanks!

haha, I know I always say this but I am hoping to change my habits and post more frequently, a few more videos by end of the year, though they won't have as much progress obviously!

Thanks Lee