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PS I guess this means you don't know any barrellmakers in Moorish Spain but
I
will wait for John Leeke.   Coopers might do the job.

My dad said I'd have a rough row to hoe if I wanted to be a roofer or a
cooper. Although his uncle was a cooper, first at the brewery in
Shrewsbury, Shropshire Co. (1890s) then at the Tivoli Union Brewery,
Denver, where my granddad was designing and building the hydrolics. I met a
contractor at one of the blues clubs in Chicago (Preservation Conference
1996?) who did some of the preservation work at the old Tivoli in Denver. I
guess none of this gets you to Moorish Spain, except that in an old letter
my great uncle said Spanish "flags" were the best for caulking hogshead
stave joints.



John
by hammer and hand great works do stand
by pen and thought best words are wrought

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