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Accounts of payments made for labour tasks in the kitchen by D Bradwell and Sons, totalling £40 9s 11d.

Accounts of payments made for labour tasks around college by D Bradwell and Sons, totalling £22 8s 7d.

Accounts of payments made for labour tasks in the buttery by D Bradwell and Sons, totalling £1 15s 10d.

Accounts of payments made for labour tasks around college by D Bradwell and Sons, totalling £78 9s 4d.
Expenses include: payment to bricklayer to make good brickwork; bricks and mortar; make good drain in servant's water closet; repair chimney piece of combination; brickwork for new floor of joists; sand and carting; sleeper walls and bed plates;

Accounts of payments made for labour tasks in college chapel by D Bradwell and Sons, totalling £3 8s 6d.

Repair doors and for jambs &c.
Cost for deal, nails & screws & men's time for work
Mend another door &c.

Total: £1 19s 5d

Paid 48 pounds 8 shillings and 9 pence to Bradwell and Sons for drainage from sewers through to ditch and for drainage at back of Rhadegund buildings.

Rooms,
Take out stove and clear away rubbish and fit stove &c.
Prepare and fit a new stove, mantle shelf &c.
Take out and new fit a stove in cloisters &c.
Repair a door way and jobs, bricklayer & labourer, mortar, cement
Prepare and lay a marble hearth
Paint to chimney and plastering, bricklayer & labourer, plaster, hair, mortar, & fire stuff &c.
Repair plastering, plasterer, labourer & boy, plaster, mortar, parian cement, stucco &c.
Work to stove take out & clear away stove

Total: £6 8s 9d

Bill for maintenance work to college rooms. Total payment of £21 8s 8d, and includes payment for: fixing boarding to fire place in cloisters D and same in Mr Duncan's rooms. In Mr King's rooms: take down the partition; batton the sitting room, study, bedroom and entrance lobby walls and make a door frame; fix new architraves to doors and windows; rehang sash and fix skirting in lobby; remove coal bin and mend floor. Also: laying floor and fixing shelves in Mr Morgan's gyp room. In staircase B: fit a cupboard in the gyp room; laying new floor and joists; line a wall with boarding. Also: line the walls with boarding in F staircase; work to cupboard and rehanging sash in B, Front Court; make a door and fix a cupboard in the gyp room in staircase E, no.5; mend window board and coal bin in staircase J; mend landing floor and rehang sash in no.5. Also includes payment for deal, nails, architraves, flooring, screws, garnets (hinges), bolt, pulls, hook. Received 28th November 1865 and signed by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Bill for repairing floors, doors and other work to college rooms. Total payment of £7 2s 11d. Includes payment for: repairing the floor in rooms 1, 4 and 6, staircase C; mending doors, bins [coal bins?] and flooring in staircase E, room 9; mending floor in room 3, L staircase; work to door in room 3 and 4, B staircase; making and hanging a door in room 2, B staircase; battoning the walls, room 8, K staircase. Also includes payment for floor boards, nails, deal, butts and screws. Dated 28th November 1866 and signed by Thomas Bradwell for D. Bradwell and Sons.

Receipt for £2 5s to D. Bradwell and sons for work done to the college and its estates. Includes payment for repairing the roof in the chancel of All Saints, including cost of labour, blue slate, mortar, tiles and grey slates; also for replacing the decayed chimney pot at Harveys, Jesus Lane, including cost of labour, hair mortar, cement and chimney pot; also for building a higher tube to the same chimney. Dated 28th November and signed by D. Bradwell and sons. On reverse of bill includes list of abstracts for work done during Michaelmas 1864 to the Masters' Lodge, the college the courts etc, the chapel, the rooms the kitchen and the estates, totalling £70 11s 10d.

Two bills for maintenance work to college rooms.
First bill addressed to the Rev, the Master and Fellows of Jesus College from Geoffrey Bradwell. Total payment of £7 9d. Includes payment for: work to the sitting room and creating a new window with architrave mouldings in Mr Sarkine's [?] room; fixing sill to door, creating a cupboard and fixing shelves in room 1, staircase A; repairing window in room 6, staircase F; repairing the entrance door in room 11, staircase E; enclosing shelves to form a cupboard in the gyp room and other jobs in room 1, staircase B; repairing floors in room 2, staircase H and same in room 2, staircase J; fix new door in gyp room in room 5, staircase E. Also includes payment for deal, mouldings, nails, butts, buttons, knobs, bolt and screws Dated 28th November and signed by D. Bradwell and son for Geoffrey Bradwell.
Second bill from D. Bradwell and son for maintenance work also. Total payment of £6 6s. Includes payment for: replacing the old stove in Mr Cooper's room; clearing the stoppage and adding chimney pots to Mr Platts' chimney; plastering the gothic heads on windows; work to Mr Sockart's chimney; repair the plastering in the gyp room and other jobs in Walter Esq.'s room; repairing the plaster in the sitting room and other jobs in Praxter Esq.'s room; mending windowsill in Edwards Esq.'s room; fix stove. in Harris Esq.'s room; replace stove in Mr. Walton's room; same in Mr. Sarkin's and Smethwick Esq.'s rooms; mending and jobs in staircases. Also includes payment for mortar, hair mortar, bricks, cement. Dated 20th November 1863 and signed by D. Bradwell and son.

Bill addressed to the Revd., the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, for D Bradwell and Sons, with charges for repairing the flag pavement in the cloister court; repairing brickwork in the back yard; colouring two water closets; repairing the paving and plastering to 'various parts'; putting up a new ceiling; cleaning and work on drain and cesspool; making paving disturbed by gas good; making walls good; taking up stones in the courts; preparing and laying down two new sink stones; making good to drain and pebbling; repairing the roof of 'our' house; emptying cesspool; cleaning out various drains and traps; building a coal shed in the coal yard; putting in iron ties; making the walls good; 'other jobs'; York stone; tiles; sand; stone slabs; mortar; cement; plaster; colour; men's time to do. Also includes carpentry bill, with charges for repairing the floors of fellows' water closets; work done to joists; mending the fence and rehanging wicket gate in the Porters' yard; fixing posts and mending the fence next to the common; repairing the fence to the porter's house; fixing nails and posts; repairing the sash and fixing the weatherboard to the door; making two oak frames for the drain grates; replacing the lining and casing the pipes in the students' water closets; fixing tenter hooks; wood; nails; screws; sawdust; men's time to do. All totals £27 15s 6d. Paid 1 December 1862 and signed by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Three bills addressed to the Revd., the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, for D Bradwell and Sons, for work done in 1862: the first with charges for work done in the Master's Lodge by bricklayers to the ash pit and hearth; taking out the range, oven and boiler; work on chimneys; work on fireplaces; work done by carpenter to fix ceiling foists to water closet; work done on doors; mending a casement; making a cistern. The second for work done in the Chapel by bricklayers to make a drain for the chapel; work to window frame; work done by carpenters to make a frame; shoring up the slats. The third for work done in the Kitchen by bricklayers to repair the stoves; opening and cleaning the cesspool; making good the paving; repairing the hot plate; work to coppers; work to drains; putting down stones; carpenter's work to prepare and fix a shelf in the larder; and also charges for wood; screws; nails; holdfasts; hods; mortar; 8 pairs of gutters; tiles; bricks; cement; labour and men. All three signed 1 December 1862 by D. Bradwell and Sons. All three total £9 16s 3d.

Bill addressed to the Revd., the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, for D Bradwell and Sons, with charges for repairing the tops of chimneys; repairing the plastering on the staircase; making a scaffold; lots of work done on chimneys; taking out and replacing a stove in the chimney; work done on windows; raising ladders; taking down the parapet and battlement; clearing and carting away rubbish; work to fireplace; reparing slating over bedmakers' room; taking stones off the gate tower parapets; work to walls and mending tiling on other parapets on gate tower; taking off damp plaster and replacing with Parian plaster to stop damp; cleaning the gutters; 'other jobs'; mortar; cement; York stone; bricks; floor bricks; spikes; a chimney pot; candles; bush lime for garden; stourbridge lumps; plaster of Paris; Parian plaster; nails; bricklayers and labourers. On the same bill is listed carpentry work, with charegs for refixing lamp brackets on the staircase; repairing the staircase landing; mending the coalbin; a pair of joints; nails; screws; and time for labour. All totals £46 19s 6d. Paid 1 December 1862 and signed by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Invoice for Estates.

6th August 1859: Woodman's arms: Build scaffold to front and other corners of the two houses, take off the old plastering, and new lath, and plaster and stucco aforementioned. Plasterer and labourer: 6 1/2 days. Boy 3 days. 1/2 load of brick mortar. 3 bundles of lathes and nails. Nails for old lathing and stucco. 2 load of scaffold carted.

18th August: Finish the plastering of lower parts and colouring (of lower parts), strong lime colour. Plasterer and labourer, 1 1/2 day. 9 pails of colour for above and 1 load of stucco.

10th September: Mr Porchers. Ask for estimate to plaster walls of pantry. Asked for restimate to plaster walls of back kitchen and mend the other parts. Repaired top of chimney and slating. Bricklayer and labourer: 1 day. 1 load brick mortar and cement. 2 dutchess stanes and nails.

At Mr Adams, take up the floor of kitchen, leave the pipe to find the well. Take off the door, and after the well was sunk deeper, relay the floor and the paving. Bricklayer and labourer: 1 1/2 day, 8 loads brick mortar, 120 bucks. Deepen the well had to sink lower floor six inches deeper. Bricks for well, 8 loads mortar. Paid men working in the well. Carting away the rubble.

At Mr Parkers: take up floor and relay above, and door over the well. 2 bricklayers and 2 labourers 3/4 day. 8 loads bricks mortar, 120 bricks. Take up the old well, it was too small, dig and brick a new well entirely, including the brickworks and carting away the earth, and refit stone coping to area.

On back: letter from D. Bradwell and sons, confirming receipt on December 8th 1859 of £22 15 s 7d.

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

Bricklayers invoice/bill.

Courts and precincts:
November 16 1858:

• Work to steps after Gas fitters and in front of the paving. Mans time.
• Open and empty drain and leafs from the pump. Repair slating over the offices. Bricklayers and labourer: 1 day, 34 dutchess (duchess) slates, nails, cement.

November 20 1858:

• Take up the old steps front of College, build a foundation for new ones. Prepare the ends of old ones to receive above. Repair the path of front entrance. Repair the slating over the knife place. Bricklayer and labourer: 3 3/4 day, 8 hods of buck mortar, 1 1/4 bushel of cement, 1 hand cart load gravel, 8 slates and nails, 2 hods hair mortar, and plaster of Paris. For the new steps: 10 ft cube of Ketton stone, 36 ft sup. of sawing and plane face.
• Fix the new steps and prepare ends of the old ones to receive them and alter the paving. Mason and labourer 3 days.
• Raise ladders and repair the Hall chimney and clean out the tube, clean out the top of another chimney, clear Gutters and jobs. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/2 day, bricks and cement.

December 1858:

• Take up pavement and relay above with Paris to various places. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/4 day, 1 hod of brick mortar.
• 2nd court. Alter drain and lay in a siphon tap. Bricklayer and labourer 1/2 day, siphon tap and cement.
• Work to floors for gas. Pebble to places and make good for plastering. Bricklayer and labourer 2 1/2 days, 2 hods brick mortar, 2 hods hair mortar, cement and plaster.

February 5 1859: Clean out and make good to drain, mens time and cement.
19 Feb 1859: Dig and enfamine and work to drain.
26 Feb 1859: Make good to drain, dig for and make a new drain to take off the overflow of water from the Bogs. Work to paving and the sill of back gates. Bricklayer and labourer 3 1/2 days. 5 hods of mortar, 30 tiles, cement and 30 bricks.

• Repair the brickwork and put on bricks on end to the dung place, point to the pantiles. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/2 day, 6 hods hair mortar, 1 1/2 bush cement.
• Work to the sewer in the ditch. Bricklayer and labourer 1 day, 1 1/2 bushel of cement.

March 12 1859: Open, clean out and make good two traps. Work to drain and and trap above from the water pipes in the third court and pave over above. Bricklayers and labourers 1 day.1 glaze, siphon, trap, 3 pecks cement, 1 hod brick mortar.

May 14 1859: Make a drain at the back of chapel and other jobs. Dig and earth and lay down pieces of new pebble paving to make the entrance wider. Also lay new piece to the entrance of the garden gate. 31 yards of new paving including pebbles, gravel, and laying complete.

• Take up and relay old paving to parts. 34 yards of paving. 1 1/2 load of paving gravel and carting.
• The Third/3rd Court. Dig and lay in a new piece of Glaze drain and put bricks on edge to the grass plot and work to cesspool. Bricklayer and labourer 1 day, 10 ft glaze tube, 125 bricks, 1 hod brick mortar and cement.
• Take down the four ceilings of servants water closets. Point to roof of sedge place. Open and clean out water pipes next pump and mend the wall of passage to the Buttery. Bricklayer and labourer 2 1/2 day, 4 hods hair mortar, 4 pantiles, plaster of paris, and cement.
• Take off top of wall to servants water closet and build it higher, take off slates to the roof and prepare work to receive the new cistern. Bricklayer and labourer 2 days, 9 hods brick morter, 80 bricks and cement.
• Put four new ceilings to water closets and repair and make good the seats, white wash the walls of above, new slating to roofs, and repair the slating to roofs of knife and shoe place and other jobs. Bricklayer and labourer 2 3/4 day, bricklayer 2 3/4 day, 2 1/2 bundle lathes and nails, 1 hod of mortar, plaster of paris, cement and whitewash.
• New slate to roofs of water closets. 70 slates and nails and putty. Slater and labourer 1 day.
• 1 load of dirt carting away.

College:
December 18 1858: Work to the stove in the Hall.

February 5 1859: Mr Oakleys, raise ladders, take off old top of chimney and fix wind guard. Bricklayer and labourer 3/4 day. 1 hod hair mortar and cement.

• Staircase next the chapel. Repair walls after gas fitters.

April 2 1859: Work to chimney to cure from smoking. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/4 day, 2 hods brick mortar, cement, 2 drain tiles and hair mortar.

April 23 1859: Work in room to hearth stone which sunk.

July 16 1859: Repair the plastering to staircases and passages in the first court. also repair the plastering in staircase in cloisters. Bricklayer and labourer 2 days, 4 hods hair mortar, 1 hod putty, laths and nails, 3 pecks of plaster of paris.

• Mr Westmorlands rooms, take down the ceiling entrance to above, put up a new ceiling and clear away rubbish. Raise ladders and work to top of chimney. Bricklayer and labourer 1/2 day. 3 hods brick mortar, cement, and 1 hod hair mortar.
• Buttery, repair stone door joints and work to where door shuts against. Third (3rd) court, lay the paving against the pump. 6ft 4in sup. stone and cement.
• Repair to walls. Bricklayer and labourer 1/2 day. 2 hods mortar and cement.
• Repair the hearth and jobs.
• Cement and bricklayer and labourer 1/4 day.
• Whitewash the ceiling and walls of above.

Kitchen:
July 16 1859: Examine chimney, build work in side of above to stop the smoke issuing into Mr Jowell's room. Plaster to inside of the round iron, work of smoke stack. Briclayer and labourer 2 days, 8 hods brick mortar, 30 titles, candles, 6 hods of hair pargeting, paid men extra for working in chimney.

• Take down the two coppers and rebuild and new furnace, work to hotplate, fasten stone in larder and other jobs. Bricklayer and labourer 3 1/4 days, 13 hods brick mortar, 3 hods hair mortar, 15 welch (welsh) fire bricks, 30 tiles.

The Chapel
March 19 1859: Point to several lights. Bricklayer and labourer 3/4 day. Plaster and cement.

• Build scaffold in the chapel and build up the interior of blank window. Secure the arch and work on wall which was bulging and clear away the scaffold. Bricklayer and labourer 4 days, 2 labourer 1/2 day assisting, 40 hods brick mortar and cement.

Payment of £69 10s 7d to D. Bradwell and son's for bricklaying services. Includes payments for cleaning the top of the chimney in the Master's Lodge, laying water pipes into the Master's Lodge, repairing college walls, relaying paving after gas pipes have been lain, work to college chimneys, laying new paving in parts of the college hall, refitting the stove in the school room, prepare new stone mullions for windows, plastering the gip room, plastering staircase no.6 and laying a new floor and repairing the walls of the staircase passage, clean the traps and drains in the Buttery, repairs to the walls and raising of the hearth in a bedroom and sitting room, re-slating the roof of the Shoe House and lumber place, cleaning out various cesspools, and repairs to the bottom of the cesspool in the fourth court, laying new paving for the first court and various places in the cloisters, replacing the range and boiler in the porter's lodge, cleaning drains and repairs to various water closets, clean the drains and traps in the cloisters, digging two new cesspools near the close and one in the garden, repairs to various outbuildings, repairs to walls in Fellow's garden, repairs to walls and slate ceiling on Coach House, work to the gates of the Master's House, work to hot plates in the kitchen, fitting a new stove in the kitchen, work to the oven chimney and work to the scullery. Also includes payments for bricks, concrete, mortar, tiles, glass tubes and siphons, slates and nails. Signed by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Bill for bricklaying and maintenance work undertaken at the college, addressed to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College for D. Bradwell and Sons. Total payment equals £60 17s 3d. Includes payment for work done to Masters Lodge: repairing roof of outhouse and wall; work to drain; repairing stable roof; work to flue; building brickwork studs; repairing floor, pavements and plastering; whitewash the cellar, includes cost of mortar, tiles, bricks, cement, plaster, York slab. Work to the college including: clearing top of chimneys and adding a terracotta chimney pot; work to stone gable next to the close; taking off disperser and adding wind guard to chimney; repair hall chimney tube damaged by catching fire; repair marble chimney piece in the Combination Room; repair front tower walls and chimney and put through walls for gas fitters; plastering and maintenance work to cloisters; work to stove and hearth in Servant's Hall and colouring the side walls of the cloisters; including cost of fire tiles, fire bricks, plaster of Paris, putty. Work to the courts and precincts, including: laying pantiles, painting and lime wash on roof; work to garden wall and boundary wall; repair pebble paving; work to drain and clean out cesspools in the courts; take up drains, clean and relay the paving in servants water closets after they overflowed; point pantilings on roof of outbuildings and water closet next to the Close; work to walls and glass opposite bogs; repair wall next to Close following ivy damage; repairing students water closets; repair plaster to porter's house; emptying vaults of water closet; work to sewer; repairs to pensioner's water closet and door frame there; estimate for roofing the shoe house; white wash the ceiling of the porter's house; also includes cost of glazed tubes, junctions and bends, cement, bricks, tiles and slates, plaster of Paris. In the chapel: work to the flashings and the flue. In the kitchen: work to flue; cut away back of hot plate for steam pipe; put on new glazed chimney pot; clean and make good trap from the scullery; work to over; relay hot plate; make good the boiler; clean out cesspool and drain; mend plastering and whitewash; limewash front of range and scullery; includes cost of mortar, plaster and cement. Also includes abstract. Settled 26th November 1864 and signed by D Bradwell for Bradwell and Sons.

Confirming receipt on December 8th 1859, of the Rev D. Corrie, the sum of £44 9d for bricklayers bill.

Summary of work done by D. Bradwell & Sons. No description of what was done, but the following locations are listed, with amount billed for each: the Master's Lodge, College, kitchen, estates, buttery, repairs to rooms. Amount totals £62 1s 6d. Signed by D. Bradwell & Sons.

Receipts for work done to the kitchen, buttery, College rooms, Master's Lodge, and around College, paid by the Revd the Master & Fellows of Jesus College to D. Bradwell & Sons. Smaller receipt for work done to the kitchen, buttery, and College rooms between 24th November 1855 and 6th September 1856. Items billed for the kitchen include: point to window; fasten the mortar and irons to ditto; repair flue of copper; work to flue of copper & fresh bed ditto; work to coppers, new furnace & reset ditto, work to hot plates, repair the oven, mend & whitening the walls & jobs[?]; bricklayer & labourer 4 1/2 days; 25 welch furnace bricks; 14 hods mortar; 4 hods hair mortar; 60 tiles; 2 slates; cement, plaster of Paris; limewash, whitening & size. Items billed for the buttery include: wash & stop ceiling & limewash part of cellar, repair floor etc.; bricklayer & labourer 1 3/4 day & limewash; whitewash the ceiling. Items billed for repairs to rooms include: First Court. D Staircase repair walls of rooms etc.; bricklayer & labourer 1 1/2 day; 1 hod stucco; 2 pecks plaster; ditto repair fireplace in room, bricklayer & labourer 1/4 day; 1/4 peck plaster of Paris. Larger receipt for work done to the Master's Lodge and around College between 17th November 1855 and 18th October 1856. Items billed for the Master's Lodge include: repair the slating & plastering & lay fillets to garden water closet; bricklayer & labourer 1 day; 2 hods hair mortar, 1 peck plaster, 4 slates & nails 12 bath[?] & nails; raise the garden wall & point to ditto; bricklayer & labourer 4 days; 1500 bricks & carting; 2 loads mortar & carting, 1 load sand, 1 cask Roman cement; work continued & finish to raising the garden wall & point to ditto – all the top laid in cement, 2 bricklayers & 2 labourers 4 1/2 days; 1000 bricks & carting; 4 bushels cement & wash'd sand; build a slope all along the wall next the Porter's premises & the roadway, had to rebuild the whole slope nearly, also repair tiling to shed, & repair the brickwork to frames; 2 bricklayers & 2 labourers 2 1/2 days; 30 hods mortar, 150 bricks; 25 tiles, cement etc & 2 loads rubbish carted away; take out stove in bedroom & clear out rubbish, and work to chimney; bricklayer & labourer 2 1/2 days; 10 hods mortar; wash & mend to 4 ceilings, and to the walls of the pantry & passage; repair walls for paint, repair the floor & point to stove; bricklayer and labourer 2 3/4 days; 1 1/2 peck parian cement; 6 floor bricks; whitewash the ceiling and colour the walls; 56 yards whitewash; 27 yards colour; work to chimney, I found the inside so large & loose, had to entirely build a new flue inside the old one & line the new flue with glazed tubes; work to and alter the formation of flue at top put down a new back hearth & reset the stove; clear away rubbish etc.; bricklayer & labourer 6 days; 40 hods mortar, 200 bricks; eight 9in glazed tubes; 1 bushel cement; a new back hearth; 1/2 peck plaster of Paris; wash & mend the kitchen, scullery, larder, entrance, passages, cupboard, water closet in garden, & the back staircase; 3 men 1 1/2 day; 2 pecks plaster of Paris, 1 hod hair mortar; whitewash the above places, 234 yards. Items billed for College include: at the Porter's house, take up floor (rats had got in) dig out earth, stop place in the drain; concrete the floor, with concrete mixed with glass – relay the floor, also open clean out & make good the drain from water closet & pave over ditto; bricklayer & labourer 2 days; pounded lime & concrete; 60 bricks, 5 hods mortar; College, repair floor in archway; the Hall windows, point to eight lights inside & out; new bath & plaster to sides of windows to the buildings next the Paddock; repair pantiling & plain tiling, repair the Ridge, & repair the slating to the porters house, and jobs; bricklayer & labourer 4 1/2 days; 8 hods hair mortar, 1/2 bundle lath & nails, 36 pan tiles & cement; open & clean out drain of urinary & repair floor of stable etc. after the water pipe; bricklayer & labourer 1 1/2 day; 20 bricks; sand etc.; staircase 2nd court, mend to side & point to windows inside & out 1/4 day; 1/2 hod fine stuff; 1/2 peck plaster of Paris & 1/2 peck cement; dig out for & lay in a drain from urinary to cespool, & pave to ditto, take up & new lay part of floor; entrance to Women's Closets & new pave floor entrance to Men's Closets; repair paving in 2nd court, repair paving to Students Closets; point roof of sedge place, clean out & make good to trap of drain; bricklayer & labourer 3 1/2 days; 4 hods mortar, 1 1/2 hod hair mortar, 14 Pr [?] gutters cement; 1/2 load sand & carting; 80 flooring bricks; 1 load sand & carting; 2 loads dirt carted from the back yard; repair plastering to privy; cement to walls of dust place to prevent wet oozing into ditto; bricklayer & labourer 3/4 day; 1 1/4 bushel cement & sand; water closet, build walls of ditto higher to prevent access into College, & work for smith to receive the iron work; 2 bricklayers & 2 labourers 2 1/2 days; 1000 bricks & carting; 1 load mortar & carting & cement; repair the road next the paddock with all loose pieces in the yard & clear up; labourer 2 1/4 days; finish building walls to Students Water Closets, glass these & other walls; bricklayer & labourer 4 days; 2 bushels cement; work to & underpin walls of chapel next garden; bricklayer & labourer 1 1/2 day; 3 bushels cement; 70 bricks & wash'd sand; Mr Fisher's Room, repair after bell hanger; take up paving in passage leading from 1st to 2nd court & repair ditto & put down new piece; 1/2 day; 2ft 4in Ketton Slab; 1 hod mortar & cement; take up the stones in the hall & replace ditto; students water closets, replace open brickwork that was knocked down; take wind guard off Porters Lodge; raise ladders to & put on Chimney Pot & also to College Hall & Job to stove; bricklayer & labourer 1 day; 2 hods hair mortar; 1 pot & cement; repair tiling over Sedge [?] Place & work to chimney; build up wall next Shoe place; 1/2 day; 3 hods mortar; 1 load sand & carting for college; pensrd[?] water closets, lath & plaster 3 ceilings, fine stuff & finish ditto, wash & mend walls & jobs; bricklayer & labourer 1 3/4 day; 5 hods H mortar, 3 pecks plaster, 1 hod putty, bundle lath & nails; wash & mend 6 water closets; bricklayer & labourer 1 day; peck plaster 1 hod hair mortar, & whitewash 6 closets; fix stove in Shoe Blacks place, repair dung place, pebbling, repair the wall & brick borders in courts; bricklayer & labourer 2 3/4 days; 3 hods mortar cement etc.; work to flue of the hall; raise & plant the mulberry tree; make scaffold etc.; 4 men 1 1/4 day; finish making scaffold & assist to plant the tree & take down & clear away scaffold; 4 men 2 days, use of scaffolding & cords & wedges & 1 mat cut in pieces; paint windows, work to hall flue & work in back yards; bricklayer & labourer 1 1/4 day; 1 hod hair mortar; peck cement & plaster of Paris. Total amount billed is £56 16s 1d. Signed by D. Bradwell & Sons.

Bill for repairs done at estates between 10th November 1855 and 9th August 1856. Total amount billed is £4 8s 2d. Signed by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Date and signature appears on pp.4, 7, 10, and 11, suggesting repairs to the Master's Lodge, college, precincts, and kitchen were four separate transactions.

• Master's Lodge: cut away and prepare stone to receive casement etc; cut through wall and dig out drain, in order to clean it out and make it good; take down two old ceilings and part of a third, and lath and plaster new ones; pointing a window, and making and fixing a new casement and frame; repair ceiling joists in bedroom and pantry; take up and repair WC floor, fix pipe casing and seat and riser and fill in with dust; repair floor and shelves in butler's pantry; take up and lay new floor in passage; take down iron bars from windows and fix new ones; take up stove and build up large opening in chimney, contract, and prepare and fix stove; plumbing works on roof; take down and refix wainscoting in dining room; new beads, pulleys, and sash for windows in dining room, study, and landing; fill in space between floor and skirting; repair floor in morning room, and on first and second floors; repair doorway and cistern in WC; make good floor to tile hearth in dining room, and repair wooden chimney piece; prepare and fix architraves in dining room; make and fix a model for hotplate in kitchen; clean out garden privy. Includes cost of bricks, mortar, drainpipes, cement, sand, lath, nails, plaster of Paris, stucco, oak, brass butts, screws, lime, deal, scaffold hire, brass buckles, beads, pulleys, locks, sash fastenings, glue, and wages for labourers, plasterers, bricklayers, and plumbers. Total cost £51 11s 4d.

College: take down ceiling in Mr Goss' rooms, lath and plaster new one; take down plaster and make good after plumbing work has been done; make blocks for pump; take out seat and pipe casing in WC in New Building and fix new; take down and fix shelves in gyp room; ease door in Pump Court and make repairs; ease Mr Robinson's door and alter lock; take out and fix door and coal bin in M staircase; make and fix two ladders to the roof of New Building for protecting slates, and assist in fixing wire caps to chimney pots; refix casing to bell wires in passage; cut away plasterwork for plumbers to do their work, then make good after; take up hearth stone, clear away rubbish, and lay in slates to secure hearth stone from fire; cut away stonework to windows; take down and fix stone mantle shelf in ground floor rooms off the cloisters; repair plastering in staircases, lobbies, and landings in K and L staircases; repair plastering in Porters' Lodge; take down and fix coping dtone on the wall and repair plaster in Porters' Lodge; fix brickwork around chimney and vents in Mr Morgan's room, and repair plastering; repair floor tiles in New Building no.1 and 2. Includes cost of laths, nails, stucco, plaster, mortar, cement, sand, screws, floorboards, deal, bricks, slates, Portland cement, air bricks, ventilator and wages for labourers, plasterers, bricklayers, and plasterers. Total cost £24 2s 8d.

Precincts: take up old WC seat, cut away for plumbers, and prepare and fix new seat; repair brickwork on garden wall; repair roofs of stable and outbuildings; open and clean out drains in garden, round the chapel, and in Old Court; build chimney to gardener's house (including erection of temporary scaffold); repair slating; work to top of chimney and chimney pot; take up and relay pavement in Old Court (so that drains can be cleared out properly); make a grass beater for gardener; repair roof of Ball's house; prepare and fix new casing and splash board to pump and fix standard and fix up with door; open and clean out 5 drains and cesspools, including taking up and relaying stone pavement. Includes costs of deal, nails, screws, lime, bricks, hair mortar, cement, sand, pantiles, bucks, slates, chimney pot, plain tiles, oak, and and wages for labourers, bricklayers, and for carting away rubbish. Total cost £28 12s 3d.

Kitchen: open flues; take off hotplates; open and clean out drains and cesspools in scullery. Includes costs of fire bricks, mortar, tiles, bucks, hair mortar, bricks, sand, and wages for bricklayers and labourers. Total cost £2 4s 1d.

Receipt for bricklaying and carpentry work. Includes work to Master's Lodge: taking up old floor and laying new one; examine flue and work to hot plate; cut away brick work to hot plate and fix a new damper in the flue.

Work to the college: point windows; clear tops of chimneys; work to top of Hall chimney. Take down cornice of room and work to ceiling; repair the ceiling and walls of passage and cement lower part. White the ceiling and colour walls; cut out lights in the Hall and point same; work to staircase ceiling and cement round doorway. Carpenter's work: make a trap door to the roof of Porters' Lodge, fix a slide board to [?].

Work to Courts and precincts. New build work to the side of a door, work to wall and fixing glass on same. Work to wall in backyard: clean bricks and cart them away from the old wall near the new Church into College grounds. Cleaning out drain; work to outhouse; open and clean out five traps and cesspools. Open and clean out drain from the pump and make good as was quite full. Open drain in the last court, found it quite full and opened it all along the court to clean it out; made good and arch over same and lay pebbling. Dig out and lay a new piece of 9 inch tubular drain from the old drain across the grass plot and into the sewer of the servants water closets. Repair and lay the paving in the cloisters. Open and clean out cross drains and cesspools and cover over same, re-laying pebble paving. Take up the drain from the pump and paving. Work to water closet. Open drains and found only dry bricks and full cesspools; lay in drains to provide drainage for whole court. Work to and connect drainage and unstop drains in garden; carrying new drainage system to the side of college and connecting it the old system. Also taking up and newly paving part of the court next to the from gates and the entrance to cloisters.

Carpenter's work: fixing iron bars to frame, assisting with Fire Engine [?]; mend the skirting and fix fillets and work to door in the Porters' Lodge. Fixing two new seats, risers and bearers to the Fellows' Water Closets. Also making good the skirting and casing the pipes. Mend the fence next to the Common; mend the fence in the Close and fix and tar hooping. Take down seats and risers in young men's water closets and mend casing. Mend fence on the Common. Refix seats to Water closet. Mend the gate leading to the Close and the adjoining fence.

Work to the kitchen: work to hot plates; mend the paving in the Larder; bed[?] mortar and pestle; take off hot plate and repair the flue; take up stones in scullery, clean out drain arch over the scullery and relay the stones; work to range and chimney; work to new furnace.

Carpenter's work: repair chopping block and affix new legs; fix bearer to dresser; new face dresser plane over dresser in pantry, prepare and affix a rack for spits. Refix shelf in Larder and move a cupboard there; prepare and fix a new shelf, make a new end to the fire screen and make a dust box.

Also includes cost of materials: floor bricks, bricks, mortar, sand, plaster of Paris, cement, tiles, tubes, bends, nails, deal, bearers and screws, tar, tenter hooks, oak.

Includes abstract on the final page of the receipt breaking the cost down into Master's Lodge, The Courts and Precincts, the College and the Kitchen. Pencil notes breaking the costs down between carpenter and bricklayer. Total cost £52 3s 6d. Receipt dated 28th November 1865 and signed by D. Bradwell and Son.

F. Blyth - to prepare and fix a sash and frame in bedroom.
B staircase - repair wall framing etc
C staircase - ease casements
D staircase - ease door and fix catch on same
F and G staircases - paint round windows
Room A1 - repair plastering
Room L12 - take out and refix stove
Kirkpatrick's rooms - make and fix a sash forming a double window in sitting room; rehang sashes and fix new beads, and ease door (incl. materials: lime, sash bead, nails)
A, B, E and F staircases - paint round all windows, also hire of bricklayer, labourer, and use of plaster and cement.
Room K1 - new latch on bedroom door; ease casement and fix fastener
Room K3 - prepare a new 4 panel door; alter door jambs; rehang sashes and fix new beads; repair coal bin on the landing; one new casemen and frame in gyp room.
Room K4 - rehang sashes in bedroom and fix new lock to gyp room and fix new fastening on sashes.
Room K5 - rehang sashes and new beads; new casement and frame in gyproom and one on the landing.
Room L6 - rehang sashes and fix new beads and casement frames in bedroom; repair coal bin on landing. Includes parting beads, sash beads, line, lock and latch, sash fastenings, nails, deal, brass butts, glue, wainscots, screws, buckets, men's time.

• F1 - new stone chimney piece, make good to wall, new sash beads.
• F2 - repair floor, new beads, new lock to door.
• F3 - new beads, new stops and sash fasteners; rehang sash and new door etc.
• F4 - new beads and pulleys, new casements and frames; rehang sashes, stops and lead weights etc.
• F5 - new beads and pulleys; rehang sashes and mend doors.
• F6 - new beads and pulleys; rehang sashes, new door and one casement frame on landing. Includes sash beads, run parting, cord, nails, pulleys, sash fastener, lock, deal, floorboards, butts, glue, screw pulley, brass nails, run, oak, brass butts, brass turn-buckles
• G staircase - similar repairs to those carried out in F staircase, including replacing/repairing beading, sashes, casements, doorframes, pulleys, turn-buckles. Includes materials and men's time.
• L staircase - similar repairs to those carried out in F and G staircases, including replacing/repairing sashes, beading, casements, door jambs, coal bins, skirting, rehanging doors; preparing and fixing circular molding to gyp room, refixing cupboard in room 11. Fix fastenings on casement, refix lamp, and fix block on floor to stop door. Includes materials and men's time.
• Similar repairs carried out in A, B, C, D, and E staircases, including materials and men's time. Shutters rehung in B3; new panel door hung in C2; cabin hooks needed to repair window boards and install new casement and frame on landing in C staircase; door jambs altered in E staircase and 3 new panel doors installed.
• Old floor taken up in E staircase and sound boarding fitted to receive pegging, new floor and skirting fitted, fit out joists and alter water tap in Mr Morgan's gyp room. Includes materials and time.
  Total cost £103 1d. Received and signed off in a different hand by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Lists amounts for 1862 rent due from Sheppard and Bird Michaelmas last to Reverend Dr. Corrie Master of Jesus College Cambridge, for £36, first quarters and second quarters income tax at 7s 6d each, half year's at 13s 6d totalling £1 8s 6d. £34 11s 6 noted under (by check' with total sum given as £36.

Receipt for taking down encaustic tiles and clean and fix new ones to jambs of fireplace and hearth - including costs of labour, plaster, a jack, and cement - in Mr Morgan's rooms, M staircase (rooms 1, 3-6), N staircase (rooms 1-4), Lecture Room, Mr Crouch's room, O staircase (rooms 1-4);
For repairing plaster over door in Q staircase (rooms 5 and 6), P staircase (rooms 1, 4-5);
For making a model for stove, and for repairing floor and ease door in Mr Morgan's rooms;
For repairing chimney piece in F staircase, room 4;
For making and hanging a door, preparing jambs to receive the door, repairing two other doors; lining wall with boarding, and punching down the nail heads on the staircase in Mr Fairbairn's rooms (including cost of materials);
For preparing and fixing tiles to side of fire place in Mr Crouch's room;
For repairing and fixing two casements and frames in bedroom and pipe room in B staircase (including cost of materials);
For repairing the plastering in Mr Campion's and Mr Whiteley's rooms;
For painting [?] windows and repairing plastering in C and D staircase;
For taking down, cleaning, and refixing tiles to the fireplace (including cost of labour and materials), making good the walls, fixing the sideboards, and fixing the ventilator in Dr Westmorland's rooms;
For making good the walls in Dr Thompson's room;
For repairing plastering in bedroom and over door in sitting room after putting in new ventilators in L staircase;
For repairing plasterwork and digging out earth for new floor in L[?]'s rooms (including costs of labour (labourers and bricklayers), bricks, mortar, and waster disposal);
Various other similar repairs (windows, plastering, doors etc.) in B3, I2, I5, I9, C2, H1, H9, F1;
Preparing and fixing 3 casements and new door and frame and jamb linings in lecture rooms and repair floor (H1), including costs of material (deal, screws, casement fastenings, and labour time);
Rehanging and repairing shutters in E1;
Work to windows and fixing cabin hooks in C staircase (including brass hooks and screws, and 11 hours labour).
Total cost £33 14s 7d.

Repairs for various college-owned properties between November 1873 and July 1874, including 38, 39, and 45 Jesus Lane, Hansons [?], and 37 Jaden Street. Repair costs include raising ladders, repairing tiling, bricklaying, rehanging sash, fixing fence, cutting away for the plumbers to access the pipe, fixing plasterwork, buying all the building materials (bricks, hods of mortar, tiles, screws). Total amount £7 5s 4d.
Costs brought forward as new repairs carried out August to October 1874 at 41 Jesus Lane (taking up old posts and fixing new ones) and Jesus Lane cottages (repairing tiling and repairing/rehanging sash), including paying labourers' wages and for building materials (nails, laths, hods of mortar, tiles). Final total: £15 10s 11.

Bill addressed to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College for a journey to Hinxton to survey the buildings at the Rectory and make a valuation of the sewer. Total cost £3 13s. Signed as received by Bradwell and Sons.