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Felling an Elm Tree in the grounds, the houses of London road are seen to the left behind the tree, and The Crescent to the right Reverend Bate of Welwyn, Rev Stebbing of 17-4-1939 Ninth Week Tewin, Rev de Candole of Ayot St Lawrence, Rev Ingram-Johnson of The men employed were eighteen labourers, Kimpton, and Rev Wade of Woolmer ten bricklayers and three asphalters. The Green. asphalters commenced to make the stoke hole water proof. 1-5-1939 Eleventh Week All the bricklayers in the stokehole were trying to keep ahead of the asphalters. Very little work could be done on Monday Many bricks and much sand arrived on as the weather was very unsuitable. The Monday. One scaffolder started work and work continued on the walls of the also another bricklayer. gymnasium and the central hall. The stage classroom floor was prepared for One man was scaffolding and another was the foundation of cement. On Wednesday shuttering, which was making moulds in most bricklayers were in the stoke hole. which another man put reinforced concrete The asphalters were keeping pace with the to make lintels (or door heads) and bricklayers; other bricklayers were working templates. on the foundations. This concrete was comprised of two parts By the weekend twenty three labourers and shingle, one part sand, and one part cement. twelve bricklayers were employed. The lintels were reinforced with three bars of half inch steel. 24-4-1939 Tenth Week The templates or smaller concrete blocks were to be built on the brick wall to take the The men employed were twenty one weight of the steel girders. labourers, thirteen bricklayers, three On Wednesday the top classes visited the asphalters, two men cutting down trees, and building. They examined a heap of shingle two men putting down pre-cast flooring. and discovered many specimens of sponges, Sand from Waterford and Smallford, Belemnites, Churts, gryphoea, Worm Casts cement from Gray’s in Essex, more bricks and many far travelled stones. and the foundation stone arrived. They found that the labourers packed Most of the men were at work on the twelve bricks in each hod and that the foundations of the gymnasium wing, central bricklayers were using sand limed bricks hall and stage classroom. The stage class- made from the lower green sand of room floor had been cemented. Bedfordshire, for the inside of the On the Saturday of this week the foundation gymnasium. These bricks are cream and can stone was laid by the Bishop of St Albans, easily be washed. accompanied by the Bishop of Bedford, 6