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- 12 December 1855 (Creation)
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Paid 137 pounds 3 shillings and 2 pence to D. Bradwell and Sons, bricklayers for building works.
Master's Lodge
Cut out to back of stove refit and prepare and fix a new one
Open and clean out cespool and cover cespool with York stone
Stout York stone, hods mortar and time to do
Point to windows
Prepare stones for stove
Put on a glazed pot on chimney. Man and Labourer
Small glazed pot and cement
Work inside chimney and fix 2 stoves, build up work to sides.
Hair mortar
Finish work to stoves, all one side of the chimney was loose and fell down, had to new build it up to make the chimney secure. Fix the stove and repair walals in garden.
Tiles and plaster of Paris
Stables. Repair tiling to roofs, mend and limewash the ceilings and sides, open clean out and make good to drains and jobs.
bundle lath and nails. Repair tiling to stable. Pantiles.
Take out stove, repair to inside of chimney and reset the stove.
Take up and relay part of floor in the back yard. Sand.
College
Make good to floor of servants Boggs
Repair the slating to roofs over passages leading from kitchen
Porter's lodge. Fix a new range and boiler and repair the floor.
Bricks, Sand.
Take pot off the hall chimney and work to and build on a long tube
Porter's house, cement round the range and fix a stove, take up floor in cupboards, cut walls and let in ?; repair the slating to roofs, put on a chimney pot and wind guard. Repair tiling.
Porter's House. Cement in the cupboards and jobs and lash and plaster to entrance of rooms.
Washed sand.
Raise ladders and fix tube on chimney and plaster and jobs
Stucco.
Cut through thick walls for gas and make good do.
Lecture room. Lath and plaster to ceiling. Bricklayer and labourer 2 days.
1/4 bundle lath and nails. 6 hods hair morter. Peck of plaster of Paris. 1 hod fine stuff
1 load sand and carting
1 load rubbish carted away
Porter's House. Take off old wind guard. Work to and fix on a tube
(Crossed out) Excavate for and lay in a drain from the sewer across the common and on to, and through the ditch and fill in to do again, and clear and cart away spare earth as per estimate
Make a foundation for the drain in the ditch, take out mud and quicksand and lay in hard stuff to build on
Drain on the common. Clear a place at end of ditch and build a ? at end of new drain bricklayer and labourer 2 and half days
Labourer 2 and a half days
1 and a half bushel cement. Bricks.
Make a scaffold to cupola, and assist with work fixing new post for vane
Chapel. Make good to ? where smoke escaped from room and clean matting and for buttress
Take up stones in the hall and relay do
Stable yard. Work to drain, clear out cesspools and trap do to prevent stench.
10 large slates.
Take down closet, clean and drain and make good.
Room in cloisters. Repair stoves and fit up stove and repair chimney piece. Fine stone.
House in King Street. Take down chimney and build it in another place.
Finish the chimney and rebuild and reset copper and fireplace
King street. Take off roof, build brickwork for new roof. Make a drain to take away the water, repair old wall, and pantile the new roof.
Finish tiling fix tube on chimney and finish work.
glass pantiles
The Crown Jesus Lane. Repair the tiling and plaster ot the verge.
At Mr Adam's. Repair Slating
Raise ladders and clean out pipes
Dig foundation for, and build a wall across the road to receive iron fence
Prepare and fit stones to receive iron standards.
Raise Ladders and put pot on Mr Spoony's (?) chimney
Mr Luccock (?). Work to fireplace and fix coves.
Cloisters. Take up parts of cloisters and new pave do and repair to various parts.
Retton paving
Repair the plastering under window and under the stairs in Mr Luccoks room.
Porter's Lodge. Limewash back place.
Prepare and work to hearth stone.
Prepare and put a stone to bottom of bin
Front avenue of College. Shift the gravel and gravel the avenue.
Porter's house. Take up the old floor, take out earth and relay the floor, previous to laying down the new wood floor. Also take up and new lay the floor of back kitchen the passage, pantry do.
Take up gateway and work new stuff for repairing do
Work to outhouses. repair pantiling and slating
repair walls and retile roof after rafters were mended
42 duchess slates
Open and trace the pipe to the well, open the well, take off the dam, take up the whole of the brickwork of the old well, had to have the double engine pump deepened the well nearly four feet, new brick the well, fill in to do. new door over do and other work.
4 men worked 2 nights, candles.
Work to the top of Mr Fisher's Chimney.
Mr Luccock. prepare and work to and lay a new Ketton Hearth.
Open flues, and work to repair flues in college hall and repair the plastering for painters in Porter's Lodge
In College yard, take up the drain from the pump to the cespool. Clean out do and relay the drain, it was quite full, build in one of Lowe's Traps, fill in to and pave over do, and jobs.
Three 9 inch glazed tubes
Back premises. pantiling, plaintiling and put on Ridge and point to various roofs, lay fillets, pave in coal house over the well point to roofs inside of places and jobs
Porter's lodge front gate, repair plastering in knife room, oil cubboard and lobby, and limewash do.
Backyards - repair tiling to outhouses, paint inside the pigering (?), new bath and plaster to inside of windows, lay new fillets and put on ridge.
Excavate and basket out earth from rooms, had to carry it into backyards, build walls to receive the new floor of joists. Make good to other walls. build brickwork under partitions to support do and round the hearth.
Finish the walls and make a culvert and let in air
Bricks and bed sleepers and jobs.
Excavate basket out and cart away earth from bed room
underpin partitions and build walls for new floor of joists and make good to places
Bed plates ans jobs
College Kitchen
Work to hot plate
Fill up and around the pump with cement grout to stop the stench which arose. 4 bushels small shingles.
Take down the sink the scullery, clean out and make good to the drain through the wall, build up the sink again, build up brickwork between the walls, where stench proceeded from, rework the bottom of sink, let in stench traps. (had to work all one night)
Finish drain and make good to walls, put in air tubes to ventilate the cesspool on the outside
Boundary wall next the common, repair do, and glass the top in cement.
Job in kitchen
Work to and lay a new floor in oven and mend the crown of do, work to and repair two hot plates, repair kitchen floor and plaster to window in larder.
30 red oven pavements.
CAndles and extra for working in the oven
Wash, mend, limewash and whitewash round stoves and front of oven, finish floor and jobs.
Prepare and lay down paving in scullery. Plaster to sides and mend and limewash scullery and jobs.
6 York paving.
The Library
The staircase, repair plaster to each side of door and t other parts of staircase.
Signed D Bradwell and Sons
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