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Sherds CA 405
Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.
Tim Tatton-Brown has drawn Sherds’ attention to the obituaries that were published in several newspapers last month for the late Trev (Treleven) Haysom (1942-2023), who was, says Tim, ‘a great mentor of mine’. Tim helped Trev obtain planning permission from Dorset County Council to extract Purbeck marble that has since been used in a number of high-profile building conservation projects, including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey and for the repair of the abbey’s Cosmatesque pavements (see CA 359).
Opening a new quarry in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is difficult, if not impossible, but it helped that 11 generations of Trev’s family had been
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