13 December 2003
180 degree Panorama of Poplar St
Our premises coffee coloured building centre before we started

 


The Council's Plans for the area
Our Premises above arrow number 2


13 March 2004
The existing partitions walls are removed
Left to right: Martin , Stephen


Miles lends a hand

 


3 April 2004
The bare shell once the old internal walls have been removed


10 April 2004
Rip down old lath and plaster ceiling

 


5 April 2004
Stephen Sanding the floor of the (future) office


11 April 2004
The first brew in the 50 litre pilot brewery
John Timpany (Brewery fabricator and brewing guru!), Martin (Brewing Student!)


11 April 2004
Mashing in
John tips in the malted barley as Stephen (left) mixes the grist with the hot liquor (water)

 


19 April 2004
Borrowing Keith's nailgun certainly speeded things up on the wall framing


18 April 2004
Phew! That's one wall finished

 


22 April 2004
More demolition!


26 April 2004
The casks finally arrive, and we manage to get all 44 of them
into the trailer, in Martin's truck and on the roof rack
Don't worry, Stephen didn't have to hold them on all the way home!


26 April 2004
Now for another messy job, Sandblasting those old Jarah Beams
and get the paint off those cast iron columns
They were so busy that the only time they could fit us in was in the evening, 6-8pm
Very noisy, 160dB, what must the neighbours have thought?
That's the insulation waiting to go into the ceiling.


27 April 2004
Next morning, and now for a quieter job, stripping the
paint off those old bricks, using acid and steam

 

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