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.
