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Carpenters at work picture by Willi Goldberg, a The Plasterers at work 13 year old evacuee living at Sherrards. On leaving school Willi started work as a Furrier The plasterers were plastering the girls In the central hall men were fitting cloak room ceiling and the walls of the shuttering along the hot water channels. three lower classes. They had also finished There was a white tiled guttering round the the walls of the central hall. edge of the floor in the cloakrooms for the In the gymnasium the floor joists had been overflows from the sinks. The upper nailed in position and the wood has arrived classrooms were being plastered also the for the floor. The wood was oak and comes first one on the ground floor. from Australia. The two paths at the back of the central hall The walls had been pointed which made had been filled with brick rubble. We their appearance quite different, the ceiling visited the basement and the domestic boiler of the central hall had been covered with was alight. tentest ceiling board and now the ceiling is A man was levelling the ceiling in a staff nearly finished. cloak room. The science room floor had The gas fitters had been laying gas pipes in been completed in the herring bone pattern. the floor of the science room and the electricians had been working in the roof. 16-10-1939 38th week The carpenters had been fixing picture rails in the class rooms. A pen-fold fencing had been put up round the site, and the catches on the window 9-10-1939 37th week frames were put on. The guttering in the boys cloak room was The first thing we noticed was some more put in for the over flow from the sinks, and brick rubble for a road base. There were an asbestos covering was put over the pipes many door frames in position which had in the corridor to keep the cement off the had the first coat of paint. pipes. The ceiling in a corridor had been sized. In A white china drinking fountain was erected the south corridor two men were plastering by the boys lavatories. The fountain came the ceiling. The men had finished sanding from Messer's. A . Harris and Son. Some the gymnasium floor and it had been treated copper work came from Rotherham, and with oil, it looked very nice. seven doors were put on the boys lavatories. The bricklayers were working on the boys Brick-bats from Welwyn Garden City were lavatories, seven lavatory pans had been put put down on the paths and the playground in with a galvanised partition between each. to form a foundation, and some wood was Large bolts were being fixed in the stage put round the edge of the paths. classroom for curtains and scenery. 13