How pieces of the Spanish Armada ended up in this pub

[@wayinfront1]

The Black Pig pub in Staple, Kent, is a 14th century pub but acquired beams from the Armada along the way. There are houses in London and further north that also have them.

[@neilmclachlan3931]

i bet there's enough original timber to build 3 Armadas

[@glynnwright1699]

Our house has a floor between the living room and main bedroom that supposedly was the deck of a Spanish Galleon wrecked off the Isle of Wight. And very wonky and squeaky it is, too.

[@nickbarber2080]

I co-hosted a walk in Rotherhithe with a Museum of London archaeologist who showed where there had been a ship-breaking industry in the 19thC He showed us where ships'timbers had been used to make the barge-beds where the ships were dismantled,some nearby buildings which had used ships' timbers in their construction,and even,for some larger timbers,which ship they had come from...

[@phoebebrown2883]

Try Pembroke Dock in West Wales. We had a naval dockyard here and my house which was built in 1860 contains wood from the ships built there. The floor in my front room is made of 16inch elm planks.

[@trs4u]

Imagine having sufficient oak forest we could build multiple fleets out of it. Another thing spent and not replenished.

[@irtnyc]

Newenglish yankee here. The Navy's ravenous appetite for old growth forest, and marking of the prime stands of trees as crown property, was a minor but non-trivial contributory factor to the eventual revolutionary war. Paradoxically it made outlaws of regular people which backfired over time. Bearing in mind colonial Massachusetts (which originally included what's now called Maine, but was originally IIRC Yorkshire county, Mass) was 500 miles from SW to NE corner ie 100+ miles farther than from Penzance to say Newcastle. And mostly old growth forest for thousands of years prior. Today, sadly, it's mostly new growth pine and suburban sprawl; and we too have lost the old oaks (including to shipbuilding and timberframing) and more recently elms, to disease. But there is at least one massive old tree still here just 50 yards from our boundary, over a stone wall that dates to the 1630s. It was apparently left standing for centuries to shade the livestock, which is remarkably civilized. I wonder where Spain got their oak, in that era?

[@tonys1636]

The Navy did replant Oaks but taking 200 years minimum from Acorn to useable tree ships were steel before most could be harvested and never enough planted as landowners used the cleared land for agriculture, the Navy running out of land available

[@tonys1636]

Recycling has never been a new thing, stone age man did it.

[@vikingblood0408]

Perhaps there is Viking Ship lumber out there also in use????? "Woodn't" surprise me!⛵

[@briangilbert3884]

Fabulous! I'd love to visit & maybe watch the footies! Maybe someday

[@scottburton509]

Amazing!

[@skepticalbadger]

The Chesapeake Mill is documented, but all that's mentioned re ship's timbers in the Historic England listing for the Jolly Sailor is "some reused ships' timbers for later support". Later. I.e. not built using Armada timbers, which would have long since been reused or rotted away by the time this building needed support.

[@Rob-e8w]

I did wonder what proof they had of the timbers being from an Armada vessel. Still, a good shipwreck yarn always helps to sell the beer.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

If it was built in 1516 how did it use timbers from the Armada? That was 1588.

[@johncamp2567]

Absolutely fascinating!!! 😯

[@stephenjames674]

Cool, i will add that one to my list, anyway Looe is a lovely place.

[@Horizon344]

Interesting.

[@dilysroswell2245]

Shhhhh, careful lol , sPain might put a claim on them as they have on The Rock Of Gibraltar 🇬🇧❤️

[@garryferrington811]

I didn't get a big pile of adverts with this.

[@fugu4163]

Recycling has always been a thing i guess.

[@pegasus6724]

Into the dark arts

[@tomhenry897]

Cheap wood

[@pegasus6724]

The Spanish lost all of their ships and this man works for the Spanish