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Bespoke awnings at the Trafalgar Tavern

11 Jun 2018

A previous article we posted about the Grade ll listed Trafalgar Tavern, in Park Row, Greenwich, described the traditional Victorian awnings we installed on front of the Tavern ground floor.  However, in order to complete the restoration of the building to its full 19th Century glory somehow we had to manufacture new fixed awnings identical to those seen on the photograph alongside taken on, or about, 1900.

Fortunately, the Riverside elevation of the pub still had the original fixed canopies and our craftsmen were able to use these as patterns to re-create awnings identical to those in the early photographs which satisfied the challenging criteria set by all interested parties.

Using all the skills our Morco craftsmen are renowned for they set to the challenge with a will, constructing the frames, utilizing our very own RIB system of manufacture, and then marrying these   with  finely shaped timber valances hand made to the precise pattern of the existing awnings.

The resulting whole is now a worthy tribute to a fine old building which itself relates to one of the most historic events in the history of our country, the Battle of Trafalgar;  the greatest victory of Lord Horatio Nelson's, and as every sailor knows, sadly also his last.

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