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The tiler had finished the tiling of the being installed in the woodwork room and gymnasium. Most of the bricklayers were at the gymnasium. work on the south wing. A few of the A walk is being made right through the roof bricklayers had been discharged owing to of the building so that in case of necessity insufficient bricklaying for them. the roof, water tanks, or electric wires can By the end of the week everything on the receive attention. south wing was up to ground level. Hot This walk has now been boarded through water pipes were in position in the the gymnasium and the woodwork room. woodwork and metal room, also they were Many cases of ceiling board, called format, running along the corridors in a permanent had arrived from Sweden. They were made cement channel. The channels were not to of wood-pulp and each board measured 4ft be filled in, but covered so that they can be x 10ft. attended to at any time. Plumbers were working in the woodwork This was the last trip to the school before room. All the window frames were in the 1939 summer holidays. position, labourers were boarding the roof of the central hall and digging channels for water pipes. For a short time we watched the welder welding two pipes; he did this by means of a fierce flame produced by mixing oxygen with acetylene. The flame was so fierce that the welder had to wear dark glasses. 17-7-1939 23rd Week The tilers were tiling the roof of the craft room and the flat-let; also the corridor on the east side. The shortage of tiles was because they are only brought from Bridgewater when the meat van is returning to London. A load of white glazed tiles, which will form a partition between the sinks, had arrived from the Leeds Fire-Clay Company. These tiles were made of Shepwood Pottery. Gratings for the tops of the drains had arrived. Four radiators had been put in the woodwork room. The men had built in the rafters over the When we visited the building after our staff rooms. All the bricklayers were holiday we noticed great improvement. We concentrating on the south wing and both noticed that practically all the building was staircases had been erected to the first floor tiled and all the guttering finished. level. Much glass had been fixed in position, the All the windows were in position in the glass came from Pilkington's, of St Helens craft rooms and the south wing. The walls in Lancashire. had been built up between the frames, most Inside we found the plasterers working. of the work is being done in the inside of They are from the Gyp-roc Company, from the building. Rochester on the Medway in Kent. The Some radiators arrived from Messrs. Rosser plaster comes from Haveton Hill on Tees. and Russell Ltd., from Durham. They were 11