https:\/\/wearedigitalbydefault.co.uk<\/a> to possibly rescue \/ save the thred from digital extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThat is what is above this for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There it stopped, or so I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An itch got scratched, and room 3 began to take shape in the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No small undertaking, as all the machines upstairs would need to go downstairs, into a new machine shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except that area was full to the brim with old stock, horrible floors full of lintels and very fragile in places, and as tough as old concrete in others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that needed to be sorted first, made into a full machine shop, get all those ‘toys’ down and installed and then – begin on what will be the final room in these premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the story to date, how it evolved, what needed to be dug up, made good, levelled, straightened, strengthened and generally renewed…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No way can I just do it all in one post, as there are many images, and nigh on 2 years have gone by since it began, but, finally, we are making big headways into ‘getting there’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The building is very, very old, a Victorian foundry that was once ‘Bailey & Pegg’ producers of items for the military (cannons \/ cannonballs no less, for the Crimean war) and then onto more mundane cast items such as pipes and other industrial items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is an absolute nightmare to work on. It fights every mm of the way, throwing inumerable challenges at you – daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing but nothing is easy, and once you know that, and it sinks in as fact, then you can begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This part of the story can begin with making the machine shop, in readiness to get all that big stuff down into it and working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Currently, room 1 looks like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n
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