This is perhaps the oldest door in the UK. It can be found in Westminster Abbey, in the passage leading to the Chapter House.
A detailed study of the door showed that the wood was felled after 1032 AD and that the door was constructed sometime in the 1050s. This was during the reign of King Edward the Confessor, who built the Norman Abbey which was consecrated in 1065.
Appears to be stout, also.
ReplyDeleteIf I can keep well oiled I don't see why doors can't.
ReplyDeleteIf that door could talk...
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ReplyDeleteLike the lid on a used coffin, without doubt.
I think at the U of Chicago, there is an incandescent lamp which had been illuminated continuously for 109 years. That was nigh twenty years ago when I read of it.
ReplyDeleteIn my neck of the woods, there is a Dodge 318 used to pump water. It had been running continuously since the early 1960s. It was 2005 the last I looked in on it.
Oh wait a minute. Now I remember. The lamp is at Cal Poly-SLO. I don't know why I thought Chicago.
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