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6-3-1939 Third Week During this week six labourers were employed. They concreted the first section of the sewer trench across the existing playground. Another skimmer and an excavator arrived. Skimming continued and on Wednesday a small concrete mixer arrived, and a large concrete mixer came on Thursday. On Friday another skimmer arrived and many more bricks arrived daily. 13-3-1939 Forth Week During this week many more bricks arrived. Excavations ceased. The lorries were unable to move owing to the mud. The next day sleepers were laid to make a roadway for the lorries; the skimmers ceased work owing to the mud. On Wednesday the excavations started A load of iron pipes arrived from again. The wire for reinforcement arrived Kilmarnock. from Stafford. The men commenced to concrete the foundations. Fire brick from Stourbridge 20-3-1939 Fifth Week arrived also fourteen rolls of wire reinforcement. Fourteen labourers were at work and one bricklayer. The stoke-hole was completed and men started digging out the foundations. Brick-layers were building the sewer man- holes and they used hard-stocks from Essex for those. Some of the labourers were filling in the first part of the sewer trenches and tamping down with a mechanical tamper. The asphalt for the stoke hole arrived this week. An excavator left at dinner time, and the bottom of the stoke hole was concreted. Slates arrived for the damp course. 27-3-1939 Sixth Week During this week the labourers continued digging out the foundations. Three men arrived from the Trinidad Asphalt Company, and they asphalted the stoke hole. Nearly every day this week sand and shingle arrived for the making of concrete. Excavating the Boiler Room 4