The sleeper was a chance find washed up on the beach.
It was too big for anyone to just walk off with so I came back with the saw and made it more manageable.
There’s a few more massive oak beams that look as though they’ve fallen off a galleon along the way but I’d need a chainsaw and a crane to get them.
All the wood in that pic was collected from the small “beach” 5mins from the house. which is in Portishead. every week there’s a fresh selection to choose from if you’re quick enough (tide and time literally wait for no man in this instance)
If you just want sleepers and not driftwood then there are loads of online oak merchants that sell sleepers, homebase even sell small lengths of railway sleepers but I doubt they’re cheap.
EDIT:….oops, just realised DrP may not have been talking to me…as you were gentlemen