Going back in time to preserve the future

April 4th, 2008 by Julie

Dave Tabner (left) with Steve McGivern, Camphill’s maintenance manager 

THE latest project in the career of plastering boss Dave Tabner has taken him back nearly 50 years - to his very first job.

In 1961, Dave was as a 16-year-old apprentice helping to plaster a joiner’s shop in Botton, on the North York Moors, on behalf of The Camphill Village Trust. More than 47 years later, and after many other plastering jobs at Botton, Dave has returned once more to Danby Dale to work on Camphill’s latest development - Martin House, a £900,000 residential property that will become the charity’s flagship for sustainable design and materials. (more…)

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