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Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1874/155
Title
Receipt for Room Repairs
Date(s)
- 4th December 1876 (Creation)
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Item
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2 items, paper, in envelope, alongside 151-154.
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Scope and content
Receipt for repairs to bedrooms, gyprooms, landings, and lobbies across staircases A-N. Works include:
- Washing, stopping with plaster, and whitening ceilings (and sometimes cornices) to bedrooms, gyprooms, landings and/or lobbies.
- General cleaning down and painting.
- Stripping down wallpaper and colouring to closets.
- Graining and varnishing new girders.
- Colouring walls in bedrooms and gyprooms.
- Knotting and priming new woodwork.
- Cleaning furniture.
- Painting, marbling, and varnishing chimney pieces.
- Graining and varnishing girdes of pillar and entrance door and frame in B3.
- Painting chimney-piece in E6 black.
- Varnishing and/or skirting and small sashes.
- Mending walls with plaster.
Total cost £57 12s 6d. Signed by Walter Flack Sen.