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Once up a time, there was a red brick building in Carlisle that just wanted to be useful. That building was called Granville Hall. All through its life, it wanted to be useful and to be helpful. It was very good at being useful and it was very fond of being helpful. Once, it was… Continue reading ›

Following the successes of our previous projects in restorations and renovations, Croft View Developments was launched so that new and future projects could be taken from purchase, through renovation and restoration, all the way to the day you move in. The first of these projects is Granville Hall, which is just off Newtown Road in… Continue reading ›

It’s a time for the green fingered amongst us to share best practice about all aspects of garden maintenance and care. So, as National Gardening Week is drawing to a close, the Royal Horticultural Society advises that we do the following in our own little patches of Eden. Watch out for late frosts. Protect tender… Continue reading ›

So, it’s happening… the two days of summer this year is upon us – ice creams all round! This morning on the way to work, I passed a shirtless dog walker well aware that this may be the only day shirtlessness can occur and he was clearly determined to make the most of it. We… Continue reading ›

This weekend is the big bank holiday weekend and traditionally the perfect stretch of time to catch up on all those DIY projects you’ve been putting off since Christmas. What could your project list contain? Maybe you have a newish house and all those ‘settling’ issues have started to appear – gaps behind the skirting… Continue reading ›

The year was 2000 and I was embarking on a new adventure – adulthood! Questions around what I wanted to be when I grew up suddenly took on a new meaning as I was grown up and needed to become what I wanted to be. But what was that? A study of my ambitions was… Continue reading ›

Due to Croft View Construction’s continued success, we are looking for a new person to join our small, dedicated team as a Contracts Manager. Croft View Construction is a successful family run construction company established in 2006. At Croft View Construction, we pride ourselves on our quality of service and the values we work by… Continue reading ›

If rainy day summer holiday film matinees taught me anything, it is how to identify a cowboy. You only have to picture John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, or Clint Eastwood and you are half way there. Watch them walk, hear them talk, see the subtle flex of fingers in that inevitable close up of a hand… Continue reading ›

You know that person who lines up pieces of paper on their desk at equal distances and who will absentmindedly rotate a rogue pen two degrees anti clockwise so it is parallel to the ruler it sits next to? We all know that person; we may be that person. Well, that is Adam, proprietor extraordinaire… Continue reading ›

It’s that time of year again when we begin the ‘will it, won’t it’ of weather preparation. Every year, we wonder whether this will be the year of the big freeze that plunges us into wintery conditions for weeks and makes our daily commute interesting in the wrong way. We have seen our news feeds… Continue reading ›