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The Castle By Night
The Castle
UK Food House at the World Scout Jamboree, Rinkaby, Sweden, 2011
The castle was built by a large team of UK volunteers over a period of about 6 months of working weekends, and evenings for those that lived closer. Construction was carried out in a warehouse in Huddersfield.
No local materials were sourced in Sweden as we had to ensure the whole thing would fit together smoothly once we arrived.

Castle Gates

The Castle gatehouse during the day

Castle Gate Build  Castle Gates During the Build

The gates during the build- showing the scale

Castle Arrow Slits  Castle Windows

Windows and Arrow Sllits
I constructed the vast majority of these, made out of ply, match routed to pre-made templates with grooves created freehand with V cutter and paint infill. These were created to be close to traditional gothic arches, but slightly amended to clear the castle structure.

Scaffolding  Screwing Wood
Tower Building  Night Work

The Castle was constructed with a traditional scaffolding frame, water ballasted with timber battens fixed by half couplers to the structure.
The Scaffolding was then clad with the prepainted panels. Each had been produced to fit in one position.

Kitchen

The kitchen in full flow
This is the heart of the Castle complex. Serving several thousand meals per day. This was set up as a full commercial style kitchen. We produced traditional english breakfasts, lunches, cream teas, evening hot beef sandwiches, chips as fast as we could make them (in excess of 250kg/ day) and a lot of cake. We were baking continuously.

Kitchen 1  Kitchen 2
Kitchen 3  Kitchen 4
Kitchen 5  Kitchen 6
Kitchen 7  Kitchen 8
Kitchen 9  Kitchen 10

Some detail shots of the complete kitchen

Busy Castle  Castle Courtyard
Packed Dining Hall  Servery Queue
Happy Castle Crowd

The Castle in action

Antlers  Great Hall Banners  Costumed Staff
The castle was themed with many items, and costumed staff

Guitar Playing  Happy Audience

Evening entertainment on our own stage

Truck Packed

One of two trucks packed and ready to return

The Castle Team

The Castle team
 
(c) M. Pantrey 2013
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