{"id":7886,"date":"2011-08-16T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:53:24","slug":"wooden-cobblestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=7886","title":{"rendered":"Wooden cobbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe streets of London were once paved with end grain cobbles and end grain flooring has been used widely in engineering and other industries because of its durability,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/welsh-wood-can-load-new-2673143\">Coed Cymru\u2019s director David Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Next to Braithwaite House are wooden cobbles, blocks of wood on end, as seen in butchers\u2019 blocks, a small square of them within a cobbled lane to the left of Braithwaite House in Bunhill Row in the City of London. Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_4468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7889\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Img_4468_th\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_4468_th.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_4469.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7887\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Img_4469_th\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_4469_th.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> &#8211; 30\/3\/12 &#8211; I&#8217;ve found some more.\u00a0 Walking up Pentonville Road towards the Angel, on the left just after the junction with Penton Street I walked behind a car waiting to pull out from the layby outside 98-100 Pentonville Road and there beneath gaps in the tarmac, are wooden cobbles. If I&#8217;ve got the address wrong then they are not far from there, check the adjacent lay bys outside buildings there in case I&#8217;ve got the number wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I found several bare patches, and touched them to be sure. I&#8217;m surprised the tarmac sticks to them at all to be frank and it would be much nicer if it were to be removed and the ends varnished, what a lovely sight that would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe streets of London were once paved with end grain cobbles and end grain flooring has been used widely in engineering and other industries because of its durability,\u201d Coed Cymru\u2019s director David Jenkins Next to Braithwaite House are wooden cobbles, blocks of wood on end, as seen in butchers\u2019 blocks, a small square of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28823,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions\/28823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}