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- 19th July 1926 (Creation)
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10 items, paper
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The first sheet contains a receipt for £463 0s 2d for works at Malcolm Street, 51, 53 and 43 Hills Road, 20, 21, 22, and 60 Jesus Lane and New Square. The following nine sheets list the invoice.
16 Malcolm Street - For repairing main roof with 4 new slates, repairing cement listings, providing and fixing new 30" chimney pot and making good to chimney stack, repairs to roof as per estimate Feb. 22/26 (£11 0s 3d)
51 Hills Road - Back Kitchen: Taking down carved mantel piece and packing up and carting same to our Works, Cleaning chimney piece, Taking out old range and rendering over the recess in cement and sand. Building up in breeze slabs to form chimney piece and rendering over same in cement and sand and providing and fixing stone shelf. (£16 19s 11d)
51 Hills Road (c'td) - To repairs, etc., all as your specification, our estimate and your order of Dec. 8th/25, for repairs, etc., all as your enquiry, our estimate and your order Nov. 14/25, preparing for and laying new grano floor to Larder, preparing for and fixing land pipes in wall of front garden, preparing for and laying new red pressed tile hearth to fireplace, taking up slab and cutting out old pipe, renewing pipe, refixing slab and making all good, fixing gutter at front, preparing and painting wood and iron work to staircase and front sitting room, repointing to brickwork of steps leading from Back Yard, basement W.C.: removing old ceiling, rebuilding wall to support under steps and also to forming wall at back of pan and fixing Poilite sheet to form ceiling, repointing around window and door frames to front of house, providing and fixing tiles around scullery sink and making good, cutting up old and forming new grano cill to back door and making good, interior: taking out defective and fixing new skirting to landing (£105 8s 3d)
55 Hills Road: To repairs and painting as your specification and your order of Nov. 14/25, decorations to offices all as your specification and our estimate and your order of Feb.8/26, pointing to iron window frame and repairing arch in front of premises, pointing north wall, Taking up slabs in front doorway, filling in with hard core and relaying paving and making food, repairing lath and ceiling of Clerk Office, Front of building: Building extra course of brick work to raise wall and piers under coping and re-setting copings, providing new where necessary and repointing (£172 19s 6d).
43 Hills Road: To rebuilding porition of garden wall etc. as per specification and estimate dated Feb. 10th, to taking down extra portion of wall at East Side and rebuilding up same and filling in old chimney flue and rebedding and fixing coping (£49 8s 6d).
20, 21, 22 Jesus Lane, Grove Cottages and 60 Jesus Lane: To painting and repairs all as your specification, our estimate and your order of Nov. 12/25, repairing slate on roof of Outhouse at 60 Jesus Lane (£79 12s 0d).
New Square: Repairing main roofs with 30 new slates and refixing up loose ones etc. at No. 37, Repairing cistern of W.C. at No. 37, rebuilding up brickwork to arch of chimney breast in 1st floor front room and make good to plaster and refixing mantel piece at No. 38, repairing slates to main roof, supplying 2 new soakers and refixing up others and repointing brickwork around chimney stack at No. 39, stripping and renailing slates to off roof, providing new where necessary, previously renailing loose battens. Making good to ridge and verge etc., raking out and repointing brickwork to main chimney stack, and taking down and clearing R. W. pipe and refixing at No. 28 (£15 11s 9d)
47 New Square: To repairs to W.C. on Ground Floor all as our estimate and your order Dec. 19th/25 (£12 0s 0d)