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The manholes for the drains in front of the building were being bricked and drains to the sinks and lavatories were being laid. Large girders for the roof had arrived from Dorman Long, Middlesborough, and steel trusses for the roof from Dawnays, Welwyn Garden City. Above and below, London Road was blocked when the tree carrier broke down The main entrance with Clerk of Works Mr H. Page of Knebworth 22-5-1939 Fourteenth Week During this week the fence round the school 5-6-1939 Sixteenth Week was put up, the last wing was started, the main entrance door and the boy’s door were On Wednesday of this week we visited the erected. building. The first thing we noticed was All the foundations were finished and one some steel scaffolding which can be put up corridor was cemented. Some of the floor of very quickly and easily. the flat was cemented and many window Some manholes had been bricked up and frames were erected. cemented in the front of the building. The walls have been built much higher and The floors of three classrooms and one floors of two practical rooms were practical room had been cemented in the concreted. More sand and bricks had south wing. Owing to the rise of the ground arrived. there will be six steps here. The mechanical tamper has some petrol in 29-5-1939 Fifteenth Week the bottom and a wick draws the petrol up into a cylinder. A magneto at the top causes The boy’s cloakroom walls were finished an explosion. The tamper costs ninety ready for the roof. The corridor walls to the pounds. woodwork room were completed. In the We saw some planks nine inches by four gymnasium the doors and window frames inches and they were of Douglas fir from were fitted. Canada. The main entrance doorway was completed There had been a shortage of wood owing and the stairs to the staffroom were being to the government using it for the huts for erected. the militia. The headmasters room and library walls One man was erecting some steel trusses for were being built. In the south wing, the roof of the north wing. The bricklayers classroom floors were being rammed with were concentrating on half of the front. the mechanical tamper. 8