Thursday

Reinforcements
Sue Mabbett and Jules Carter arrived, replacing several people who had left during the week.  Jules continued the work in the No.3 porch to render and tile the sink splashback; Sue agonised over what colour to paint the Married Common Room and settled on yellow again.

Ladies Showers
With Ladies Showers now partially trashed, the next job was to replace the window lintel with concrete ones.  Thomas Moore found that the old one was in extreme need of going to the bonfire; it was wet through and rotten.  Even by the dubious standards of Powell Street lintels, this one was bad.

Still up there .....
The chimney party were still up there adding courses of blocks.  This time they had left their tent up, but in the end did not need it as the weather had improved.

Long Common Room fire
Before the chimney could be lined, a new fire back had to be installed.  Simon Amatt worked out the rather complicated layout to ensure that the fire and grate were in the right place, then cemented it in.

No.3 painting
The heavily used corridor to the Gents Showers and Changing Room, plus the stairs up to the drying room had not been decorated for years.  Nick Davies and Thomas Moore removed some render from the stairs wall as touching it with no more than a paint brush would have brought it down anyway.