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Meeting House
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November 2000 - rebuilding the Ayton Meeting House
is now well and truly underway
The work started in October 2000 after a long period of
deliberation and application for planning approval, granted mid October - so there was very
little delay before the contractors - Tom Willoughby - moved in.
This is the first progress report - others will follow,
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The meeting House entrance - adorned with builder's notices and hard
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Jane Campbell (Bye) - complete with her hard hat - peering into
the Meeting House from the entrance hall.
No prizes for a caption!
What she saw was the view below to the interior of Meeting House - never to be seen like this
again.
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This photograph shows the Meeting House with most of the destruction completed in preparation for
the refurbishment.
The floor is to be replaced and the steel reinforcing seen in the photo has now
have been covered in concrete. The sills of the three windows have also been lowered now that pupils
do not have to be dissuaded from gazing out of the window, or peeping in! |
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This view is from the entrance looking east towards
the window overlooking the graveyard.
The floor is down and the dividing walls are beginning to appear.
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From the graveyard window end - it is good to see
plenty of thermal insulation ready to be inserted in the next stage of construction. |
| Progress is good and thankfully the opening phases of the work
did not disclosed any major
unexpected faults with the structure. |
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