Fourteen pinned pages of receipts for repair work under the Jesus College Bursar's account with Mr. Favell, Ellis and Sons across college between 1878-1879, including that on The Masters' Lodge, The Courts, Roofs, Buildings, Staircases (B, C, L, F, N, M and P), The College Buttery, Cloister, Chapel, Library, The College Stable, Lecture Rooms, The College Kitchen, the Estates (45 Jesus Lane), and twelve Students and Fellow's Rooms (staircases B, K, L, F and A). The work totalled £62 2s 9d and there is a summary of the places worked on on the final page. Was signed as paid by Henry Ellis (?).
Work in these buildings includes: painting, garden repair, releading window casements, ceiling whitening, glazing and re-glazing, pruning, puttying, adding a pump and skink to the kitchen, soldering, redecorating and colouring, cleaning and varnishing, scrubbing off old whitening, papering, repairing taps, replacing screws and valves, mending doors, cleaning roofs and rain water pipes, cleaning and outfitting new Indian rubber band to basin valves, tending to pipes after frost, thawing and collecting pipe valves, unstopping sinks, repairing fixtures, cleaning and connecting bathrooms (W.C.s), various wood working, repairing taps, replacing glass, mending lead work, painting pneumatic tubes, removing old pipes from the ground, stopping cracks with brown paper and plaster.
Building supplies and labour costs for many of this work also included especially that of painters and plumbers
Most extensive work to the Master's Lodge (3 pages) , with a note that the painting, papering etc. done to Cloister Bedroom and dressing room is charged to Miss Holroyd. Work to the Master's Lodge includes repairing to W.C. in Garden, repairing taps after frost, drilling out old screws, fitting new valours and staunch screws, releading and cemending window casements and puttying and banding new glass and casement of new frame; to pump and sink in kitchen, solder to mend, painting the case, to Cloister bedroom and window: unleading and cememting casement, glazing, puttying, banding casement to trace frame; to Drawing Room: whitening ceiling, moulding to cornices, colouring, cleaning off old writing, papering ceiling and cornice, protecting paper, paining window opposite drawing room, to spare bedroom and ante-room, whitening ceiling, papering, scouring and touching up paint, cleaning off old whiting, preparing ceilings; Small Bedroom (South) whitening ceiling and painting; to Miss Holyrod's Maid's Room: skirting boards, rails and pegs and lights purchased, papering and cleaning old whiting, rubbing down walls and preparing woodwork; Miss Holroyd's dressing room Lobby, whitening ceilings, painting and skirting, mullions of windows, sashes, paper, rubbing down and sizing walls. Includes charges for the wire, labour costs (plumber, painter, men), nails, squares of glass, moulding grey, maifin (?).
To Courts, Roofs, Buildings, Staircases and Rooms, work followed on from New Building Account from last year: taking lead light out of windows on P staircase and reglazing for whitesmith, to M repairing tap, new bran plug, grating and screws, to N mending door and gas lamp, new valve for tap, to B small squares of glass and glazing; regulating (?) pupils and servants W.C. and purchasing and connecting new valve to tap, to WCs (M. E. H. Marjans (?)) work connecting new door lever; cleaning out roofs and rain water pipes of Cloister and chapel; mending lead work on roof over lodge, soldering and cementing; taking up W.C. cleaning, repairing and refitting new India rubber band to basin valve; to B. D. and A, thawing taps and pipes durinng frost; to Porter's Lodge 1 square of glass in ventilator; to B. after frost soldering to joints of new pipe and new screw bases to tap; to Pensioner's W.C. thawing and cleaning out ice, connecting and fitting air vessels after frost; to F mending pipe after frost; 8 w.c.s cleaning out ice, correcting, fixing new basin; flashings to skylight over servants w.c.; Pupil W.C.s thawing and correcting after frost; to F mending pipes after frost 1/2 credit from old pipe; to D mending pipes after frost; servants urinals soldering and fixing; repairing taps in F; unstopping sink to staircases; repairing taps to sink with new valve and new plug; preparing and painting skylight of servants W.C., to Grove painting and wiring to gate next to Common; work done on Roof of Chapel and tower, soldering to mend old lead and over new screws, recovering door; glass in F staircase, painting and varnishing door to Lecture Room C, painting tablet and writing "Lecture Room C3"; taking down, repairing and refixing rain water pipes next to the Grove; to E and F Staircase two new valves, new glass in K Staircase; cleaning and converting two W.C.s in Garden; to Roof over B plumbing work and mends to leadwork; to C painting new coal but; to A Staircase washing off old whiting and colouring from ceiling and walls, rewhitening and recolouring and carbon scouring wood work; to Pupil's W.C. and urinal cutting away cement wall, making joint to pipe and repairing tap; to B Staircase securing pipes to sink, repairing tap, soldering grating to sink; to L new valve; to C new glass; to Porter's Lodge new Glass; to Library Roof mending to lead work. Including labour (plumber and man), arm joints, putty, spirits, charcoal, joints, lead by bricklayers, clout nails, arm joins, new valves, wall hooks, brass washer and waste, taps.
To College Buttery: painting pneumatic tubes for bell, one square of glass; new valve and quarter day's labour for one plumber to taps.
To College Stables: to opening ground, taking out old pipe, laying new made joints, plumber and man's labour, new extra strong pipe, soldering to two joints, coal, credit for old pipe.
To College Kitchen: new bucket to pump, valve and leather, new valve box and valve, labour to fitting up and fixing the above.
To Estates: at 45 Jesus Lane: lead for windows, nails, three hours labour for plumber to fix the above, glass in sash, painting new woodwork, credit by 18th of old lead.
To Students Rooms: to B3 whitening ceiling of Gyp Room, painting skirting and sashes, labour of painter; to B6 preparing and colouring walls, whitening ceiling to entrance; to K Mr South keeping room, whitening ceiling, painting green, to skirting, sashes, chimney piece, pinking in moulding and flats dark green and red, painting bedroom skirting, nails, sashes, rails and pegs, to entrance varnishing o old oak painting and sashes and skirting and rail, whitening ceiling, washing off old whitening from ceiling and stopping cracks, rubbing down walls, mending with paper and plaster, cleaning and scraping off old paint, stopping facing and preparing for painting, labour to reparing walls to entrance, repairing wood work, plumber; pieces of paper (brown, red), labour; to L10 keeping rooms, whitening ceiling, cleaning off old whiting, preparing ceiling; L11 Gyp Room whitening ceiling, colouring walls, labour; L12 Keeping Rooms, whitening ceiling and cornice, painter labour, cleaning off old whiting and stopping cracks; to L4 Keeping room, painting, nails, chimney piece, lights, picking in moulding to doors, cleaning off old paint and preparing work; to L3 Keeping Room, painting, repairing sashes, painting chimney piece marbling and varnishing, varnishing bookcase, whitening ceiling and cornice, labour to washing off old whiting and preparing ceiling and cornice, cleaning off old paint and papering work; L6 Keeping Room whitening ceiling and cornice, staining oak and varnishing, work on sashes, chimney piece painting, marbling and varnish work, labour to cleaning off old whiting and preparing ceiling, cleaning facing and preparing woodwork.; F5 Keeping Room whitening ceiling, labour to working off old, stopping up cracks; to A5 Keeping Room, whitening ceiling, painting skirting, painting stone mullions and lights, sashes, Chimney piece marbling and varnishing, labour to washing off old whiting from ceiling and cleaning and preparing wood; F4 Keeping Room whitening ceiling, labour to washing off old whiting, stopping cracks, painter's labour.
