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MEETING No 2 - THE UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN

This meeting took place on 11 June 2025 at 7pm, again in the foyer of the University of Lincoln's Architecture Department.  It was a small group of Trevor Oliver, Neil Cook, Robin Brittain and your reporter, David Glew.   HERITAGE OPEN DAYS   The national Heritage Open Days in September were discussed, which this year would have the theme of“Architecture”.  For a number of years EMESS had joined this event by putting on a display at the mud-and-stud barn at Tumby Moorside.  This year would have been another good opportunity to meet the public, but it had to be missed through not having enough members, and not enough time to arrange anything.  Buildings of earth would not have been considered as architecture with a capital “A” in the past, but attitudes towards vernacular architecture have now included these types of buildings, even if they are at the bottom of the scale !   ARCHIVES   There had been a discussion at the last meeting...
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MEETING No 1 - THE UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN

This took place at 7pm on 21 February 2025, in the foyer of the Architecture Department.  It was prompted by Jenne Pape's talk to the Lincolnshire Family History Society on 19 October the year before, but we couldn't all get together until February this year.  We found the entrance hall of the Architecture Department quite convivial !  Those there were : Trevor Oliver (chair), Neil Cook (treasurer), Marcin Kolakowski (host), Robin Brittain (EBUKI), Jenne Pape and David Glew (your correspondent).   Jenne reported that a colleague, John Hart, is wanting to expand the recorded history of mud-and-stud buildings.  She also said the County Council would like to bring up-to-date their record of mud-and-stud buildings within the county.  The original record is now 25 years old after being published in the book by Rodney Cousins entitled “ Lincolnshire Buildings in the Mud-and-Stud Tradition ” .  Jenne also said she might have time to help sort out Rodney's...
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THE SOCIETY IS STILL HERE ! AN UPDATE

For a period since 2018 the East Midlands Earth Structures Society (EMESS) has been quiet.  There have not been any formal meetings, but there have been informal workshops here and there.  The members have also been working on their own projects throughout the County.  The main one of these for the near future was obtaining planning permission for the construction of glamping pods to be built using a variety of earth-building techniques.  In other words, not just the local mud-and-stud method, but rammed earth, light clay, clay blocks, etc.  Also, they would be new-builds and not just the repair of existing cottages or barns ! Elsewhere, repairs have continued to be carried out on some of the 400 earth buildings in the county, mostly in the area of East Lindsey.  The Withern Cottage at The Village Museum in Skegness has not been neglected, having been lime-washed.  Research work with the University of Lincoln Architecture Department has continued....
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New year, Same mud

Hi everybody, I hope you all had a merry Christmas and New Year. We are starting the new year with a 'hands on' workshop on the weekend of the 24th and  25th of February . Geoff is looking for help with repairing an internal wall at Langton by Partney. The work is all indoors,  we will be mixing mud, applying daub and a finish coat to part of the wall. Anyone wishing to come along please contact me for more details. Regards Trevor
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EMESS AGM

Our Annual General Meeting will take place on: Tuesday 10th October 2017 at: University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Campus,      Minerva Building, Room MB1019(first floor)       starting at 7pm. There will be a presentation by Archaeologist Naomi Field on her research into mud and stud followed by the AGM. We will be discussing our future events, workshops, fundraising and potential charitable status. All are welcome to meet and discuss. The more heads we have the better! Trevor Oliver Chairman
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MEETING AT THIMBLEBY AND FUTURE EVENTS

Our last meeting was at Thimbleby near Horncastle at the end of July. Starting with a walk around the village to see the Mud and Stud cottages with thatched roofs, with a reminisce of Rodney Cousins' life work finding all of these buildings over twenty years ago. The meeting was successful with discussions about our future events this upcoming year. We have many upcoming practical workshops for both members and non-members alike. The Clayfest in June that our society took part in was highly successful, and from that we will take forth the use of natural building materials. We have many projects and upcoming events including; 1) Heritage Opening Day(HODS).               these will take place on Saturday and Sunday 9+10th September 2017 at the Heritage Skills                 Centre at Lincoln Castle. We will be building a mud-and-stud panel and a lancet arch using             ...
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EBUKI Clayfest Photographs page

Our EBUKI Clayfest photographs page is now up and running! Have a look at what we got up to! ---------------------------------------------->
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