Building Update and Scenes from Around the Campus (#1200 - 1230)

1200. The enormous drill for the sheet piling arrived yesterday. George Cadbury Hall is background right. (29/MAY/2014)

1201. The soil at the end of the teaching wing is being built up until it is raised to the height of the first floor - which will connect with the ground floor of the new school. (29/MAY/2014)

1202. The soil at the end of the teaching wing is being built up until it is raised to the height of the first floor - which will connect with the ground floor of the new school. (29/MAY/2014)

1203. The soil at the end of the teaching wing is being built up until it is raised to the height of the first floor - which will connect with the ground floor of the new school. Unfortunately the rain yesterday slowed the process down. (29/MAY/2014)

1204. View of the building site from first floor of the OLRC. The ground in the background has also been raised. (29/MAY/2014)

Meanwhile, around the campus...

1205. A mossy bollard is all that remains of Johnston House. (29/MAY/2014)

1206. Rhododendrons where Johnston House once stood. (29/MAY/2014)

1207. Bees visit the rhododendrons where Johnston House once stood. (29/MAY/2014)

1208. A single peony in the bushes where the front of Johnston House once was. (29/MAY/2014)

1209. A single peony in the bushes where the front of Johnston House once was. (29/MAY/2014)

1210. Wild Sweet-Peas have become overgrown in the bushes where the front of Johnston House once was. (29/MAY/2014)

1211. Wild Sweet-Peas have become overgrown in the bushes where the front of Johnston House once was. (29/MAY/2014)

1212. Wild Sweet-Peas have become overgrown in the bushes where the front of Johnston House once was. (29/MAY/2014)

1213. Hydrangeas coming into flower outside Alan Geale House. (29/MAY/2014)

1214. Hydrangeas coming into flower outside Alan Geale House. (29/MAY/2014)

1215. A rose in The Close. (29/MAY/2014)

1216. A wild rose in the close. (29/MAY/2014)

1217. A wild rose in the close. (29/MAY/2014)

1218. An rusty drain cover and old deck chair, forgotten, in the close. (29/MAY/2014)

1219. A hundred-year-old paved area in The Close. (29/MAY/2014)

1220. A hundred-year-old window in The Close. (29/MAY/2014)

1221. Roses growing in someone's garden, in The Close. (29/MAY/2014)

1222. Foxgloves among the ferns and Japonica in The Close. (29/MAY/2014)

1223.  Foxgloves among the ferns and Japonica in The Close. (29/MAY/2014)

1224. An abandoned sofa in a hidden corner of The Close. (29/MAY/2014) 

1225. Another hidden corner of The Close. (29/MAY/2014) 

1226. A row of very tall, straight ferns, with Alan Geale House in the background. (29/MAY/2014) 

1227. A tree with a deep hole close to Alan Geale House. (29/MAY/2014) 

1228. a yellow rose outside Alan Geale House. (29/MAY/2014) 

1229. A pale blue egg, possible a Robin's, found outside Alan Geale House. (29/MAY/2014) 

1230. A lovely rose outside Alan Geale House. (29/MAY/2014)