St Paul's Church, Penketh. Rebuilding in progress....

This is my photo record of the rebuild project.
I am hoping to visit regularly to take photos of progress.
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Links to earlier (and later) pages, now by dates:

Tuesday, 25th October, 2016

Not a good day! Some progress but not as much as hoped for.

We had a long break when neighbours complained that their electricty had been cut off. We stopped work while this was investigated, but it turned out to be a faulty power cable buried somewhere under Victoria Road or Bank Gardens.

Eventually got back into things, but then we were stymied by someone in Victoria Road who had left a BMW just where it was likely to get clobbered if anything slipped! Eventually left a polite note to request moving it for tomorrow! The garage lives to see another day!

I've now added videos to some of the images, including yesterday's page. See that page for details.


Video
Running repairs to the digger.

Video
A bit of tidying up before the fun starts

Video
Punching through the ceiling

Video
And more messy work.
The grab gets stuck near the end
of the video...

Video
Pulling at the front steelwork.
Missed the moment when it came away!

Video
This one was reluctant to part!

Video
Delicate removal of the side door.

Stripping the roof.

All has gone quiet - the lights have gone
out over Penketh (at least bits of it)

We have a new digger driver.

Video
Removing the office roof.

Video
Demolishing the office wall

Video
Demolishing the end wall of the extension.


The building fund is growing, but slowly. We have received promised grants, but still need quite a bit more to fund completion. We have do have enough money to make a start on the fitting out process, but it will only cover part of the job. The sooner we have the money the sooner we will be able to complete the building and start making use of it.

If you would like to make a donation towards this, then please click this link. Thank you!

We have recently received a number of donations which are much appreciated. If one was from you, then we are deeply grateful. Thank you very much!