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A mechanical tamper was in use tamping down the soil. Water will be supplied from the reservoir at the top of the playing fields and a water tank will be placed in the basement of the school. Sixty manhole covers and steel girders came from Dawnays at Welwyn Garden City. Breeze bricks arrived from Letchworth, they are made of crushed coke and cement and are used when the wall has to be bored. A wire fence has been erected along one side of the school, and concrete posts which are 4rt 6ins apart and set in concrete to support the wire fence. Mr Sparrow of Codicote is seen here tamping One labourer was digging holes ready for down one of the sewer trenches. the scaffold poles. The wall of the gymnasium was measured and the width was fourteen inches. A load of Stafford blue bricks had arrived from near Wolverhampton, and many more red facing bricks from Shoeburyness, near Southend. They also examined the precast flooring over the stoke hole and discovered that it was made of long bars of reinforced concrete. The concrete steps to the stoke hole were made and fixed, and many more window Pulling down the hedge in the field frames had arrived this week. The travelled by rail in a large L.M.S. container which was brought from Welwyn North Station on 15-5-1939 Thirteenth Week the L.N.E.R. delivery trolley. The total cost for the window frames for this school is Men were concreting the floor of the £1750. gymnasium, woodwork centre, the changing The top classes could see quite plainly that room and the boy’s cloakroom. the site was not level. They thought that it The boy’s entrance was erected and the men rose four feet from the entrance door to the were building up the sides of the north wing woodwork store room. and central hall. Several iron water pipes were being laid and Several window frames were put in position the sewer pipes had been laid as far as the and the labourers were digging out the building. foundations for the south wing so that it They thoroughly enjoyed this forty minute could be cemented. visit to the building especially as the The fence round the Rector’s garden had weather was favourable and workmen very been erected. The tractor was ploughing and helpful. levelling the school garden. Some dark brown sewer pipes came from 8-5-1939 Twelfth Week Stoke-on-Trent and white porcelain ones came from Erith near Dartford in Kent. More of the scaffold poles had been erected The men were still working on the main and also some window frames and six more entrance. door frames. 7