South Coast Roof Training Centre

1. Heritage Roof Training Programme Mike Fildes Director of Fildes Roofing Ltd and South Coast Roof Training Ltd

2. The Sunken Galley at Watts Gallery, Compton nr Guildford Project completed: 2011 Oak Cleft Shingling at Watts Gallery, Compton nr Guildford Project completed: 2011

3. Caddlington House near Horndean, Hampshire Using natural slates and leadworks Project completed: 2010

4. Kingsham Farm near Midhurst Using Cotswold random stone & associated leadworks Project completed: 2009

5. South Coast Roof Training Centre at Littlehampton

6. Rigs at South Coast Roof Training Centre in Littlehampton

7. Richard Jordan and the five candidates taking the Heritage Skills NVQ Level 3 SAP in Roofing

8. A field trip to a slate quarry The Heritage Roofing candidates warming up on a chilly day at the Weald & Downland Museum in West Sussex

9. Random Slates laid to roof rigs at SCRT by the Heritage Roofing candidates

10. Sorting slates at the SCRT centre in Littlehampton

11. Wooden pegs fixing the random slate to battens

12. Head bedding slates: lime mortar fixes the slates to each other to stop them moving

13. The arrival and sorting of Cotswold stone slates

14. Completing a stone roof – water is poured down the slope to make sure it is water-tight. It was!

15. Using heritage skills to work with the tiles: whittling pegs and cutting tiles by hand

16. A laced valley

17. Swept valleys

18. An eyebrow

19. Curved tiling

20. Torching the underside of a roof

21. Full torching – the lime mortar is the darker stripes, the lighter stripes are the laths

22. Horse, goat and yak hair is used in lime mortar to help bind it.

23. St Andrews Church in Tangmere, West Sussex. Re-tiling and shingling the spire after lightning damage to the roof.

27. Mike Fildes Director of Fildes Roofing Ltd and South Coast Roof Training Ltd Email: [email_address] Telephone: 0845 678 0065