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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Wednesday, 25th October, 2016

More progress today. The BMW was parked elsewhere so things progressed well. I was a bit late getting there today, and they had already demolished part of the back wall.

At the end of the day, everything was down, and they were clearing stuff into skips ready to start pulling up the concrete floor and footings tomorrow.


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Pulling steel away.

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Next beam down.

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Pulling down the columns.

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Pulling down the garage.

Debris - that was the garage that was!

Example of metal fatigue. Mostly the bolts
gave, but sometimes the beam itself gave up.

Last chance to view the splendid brickwork on the
central portion of the back wall.

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Removal of the central section of roof.

The roof has gone.

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Central beams getting the treatment.

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And the lower beam too.

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Shifting debris from the pool.

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Demolishing that central wall.

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Shifting bricks with the grabber.

Baptismal pool full of bricks.

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Start demolishing the final section of roof.

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Demolish the end wall.
This needs editing - I forgot I was recording
in the middle!

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Taking down more columns.

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Demolishing the last bit.

All that's left. Even that will be gone tomorrow.

Site cleared apart from heaps of brick and rubble.


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!