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Swellendam Church Tower

In this video, the goodly folk of Swellendam demonstrate for us how not to remove a rotted wooden church tower. The little kid is a hoot — “It will get vrot and it will fall off on someone’s head”. The church tower has since been restored to its original iconic profile.

Published at 2:48 pm on Monday 10 May 2010. Categories: Architecture Errant Thoughts South Africa Tags: , .
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It’s probably not the desired response, but the end of this vid makes me giggle madly every time.

— Bernadette 10 May 2010 11:31 pm

Only thing that comes to mind is “oh no!”.

— K. Dontoh 11 May 2010 7:52 pm

Wat ‘n ramp! Ek lief Swellendam en al sy historiese geboue! In 2007 het ek my Nederlandse familie soontoe geneem. Ek is dol oor die hele Overberg distrik – Bredasdorp, en veral Waenhuiskrans (Arniston).

Dankie dat u die verhal met ons deel.

mvgr Dave (Amsterdam)

— Dave Cooper 13 May 2010 1:49 pm

Ja, dit is ’n baie pragtige deel van die land. Hermanus, Waenhuiskrans, Die Kelders, en ook die kleine plekke soos Elim, Genadendal, Greyton, etc.

Die plat landskap tussen Bredasdorp en Agulhas moet herinner aan Nederland.

— Andrew Cusack 13 May 2010 3:47 pm
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