Traditional Build

Taste of Traditional Building Skills Programme

In a part of world suffering from a shortage of low level heritage skills of all kinds one of our most important programmes ‘Taste of Traditional Building Skills’ helps to raise awareness of the wide range of traditional building, professional conservation, and heritage management skills;  and the potential career opportunities in these fields.
Specialist skills highlighted in the course of our workshops include:

  • Specialist roofing
  • Stone masonry
  • Stained glass repair
  • Gilding
  • Lime rendering
  • Rosemary tiling
  • Conservation structural engineering
Volunteer student architect, Natalia Krysiak trying her hand Rosemary tiling

Volunteer student architect, Natalia Krysiak trying her hand Rosemary tiling

Mary McLaughlin, Chair, Walled City Partnership

 

Gilding at Derry’s Guildhall

 

Specialist Roofing workshop with master roofer Gordon Penrose

 

Specialist stone repair workshop, at Derry’s Guildhall