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... Colleges REPOINTING ELIZABETHAN BRICKWORK: Workmen at Cambridge concentrate on renovat ing the bricks and the stone window embrasures of St. John's Second Court. Practically unaltered and having a beautiful plum colour, the brickwork led Ruskin to describe the ...
... is peeling off-- e.g., windowsills, porch columns, gates and treat in a similar manner. Brickwork. Sooner or later the mortar binding together exterior brickwork succumbs to the weather and the hard outer surface becomes cracked and crumbly until in bad ...
... along a carefully-defined line THE TOP OF THE CHIMNEY FELL FIRST As a result of this unexpected develop ment, the flying brickwork went through a roof, but the main part of the chimney fell in the prepared position fixed by the Royal Engineers THE TOP ...
... years and the brickwork thoroughly examined. With the coming of the Diesel locomotive a great deal of this work will no longer be necessary', as the corrosive fumes from a steam locomotive's exhaust have always had an adverse effect on brickwork. But the Severn ...
... RESTORED CLOISTERS In this picture the workmen are placing 1 a stone in one of the partially-restored j arches. Much of the brickwork is new, but a piece of the original arch has still to be removed from between the bricks. THE CLOISTERS AS THEY WILL BE AND ...
... dry- rot in an all-wooden building the timber can usually dry out before serious damage is done if there is no masonry or brickwork to act as a reservoir of moisture to keep the wood in a persistently damp condition. Since 1939 there has been a great increase ...
... Self-contained. Compact. Ready to instal. Oil-burning. BUT MORE. Much more. No time out to replace refractory lining or brickwork. There is none. Instead, a wet-back combustion chamber. With this, 3-passcs of combustion gases give rapid circulation. Lively ...
... difficult smoke stack of this famous north country boiler factory. Air Marshal Plank, who organized the climb, told how the brickwork, though the smoke-stack was rotted with the fumes of typical smoke, offered scant foothold. But the Schwerpas were splendid ...
... city of Bagdad from the catastrophic flood waters. ONCE A NEW INDUSTRIAL AREA EAST OF BAGDAD: In the foreground stand large brickworks marooned amid the great flood waters of the Tigris. The floods were caused by abnormal snowfall in Turkey and Kurdistan ...
... concrete slabs for the surface, plain wire being used for reinforcement, and the internal support walls are of honeycombed brickwork. After drying, the corn is tipped into the hopper of a home-made elevator, put through a winnowing machine and sacked off ...
... Although traditional in its cruciform plan, the Cathedral uses new ideas and methods in its construction. The exterior is of brickwork with facings of I; Clipsham stone. Reinforced concrete has been used for the roof vaulting. There are many different decorative ...
... homogeneous mass of argillaceous baked earth that constitutes the elemental brick Continued on following page) THE LARGEST BRICK-WORKS IN THE WORLD-- AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE LONDON BRICK COMPANY'S NEW WORKS AT STEWARTBY All the main buildings of the factory ...