Much progress is being made. In the photo above the new tiled floor of the WC can be seen. This has been done in the same style as the floor around the hearth in the original Ladies Waiting Room. In the photo below you can see that most of the tongue-and-groove ceiling as well as […]
The Trust restoring 120-year old Bricket Wood Station, which should be complete this summer, is seeking proposals for the operation of the building as an Edwardian-style tea room. Anyone interested in finding out more is invited to download and respond to a ‘Request for Proposals’ (RfP) briefing document, which can be found here: Responses may
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It’s been a while since our last update but our Project Manager, Paul Amsterdam, and his merry men, have nonetheless continued to make excellent progress. Since October, work has mainly been focussed on the interior fit-out. Plastering is now well underway in all three rooms; the main tea room seating area, the archive room, and
A symbolic milestone was reached on Thursday 6th October when two of the three chimneys which once adorned the station were reinstated. These two chimneys are in fact ‘dummies’ made from a Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) framework, faced with brick slips, which are slices of real brick bonded on to the GRP frame. These chimneys
These images need no introduction. Here is a long-awaited sight and something that many thought they’d never see again. Above all else, windows and doors help return character to a building, never illustrated better than in the transformation now occuring at the station. Soon the building will be ‘dry’ and work can then commence on
It has been a little while since our last update but a lot has been happening in the meantime. Most strikingly of all the first window has been installed as shown in the photo above, in the South West end of the building adjacent to the old Goods Yard (now occupied by Artel Scaffolding). These
In the last few weeks, light and life has really started to return to the building. As can be seen from the photos, knocking out of the blocked-up doors and windows has been completed, brickwork cleaning has finished and re-pointing has commenced. Ad-hoc brick replacement is being undertaken, this involves a careful process of matching,
In the last 10 days or so, progress has been made towards making a new connection with the mains water system and sewer, and brickwork cleaning has moved to the platform side of the building where, as you can see, the rather lovely original colours of the bricks are starting to see the light of
With work starting on the restoration this week, the first task has been brick cleaning. These photos show what an instant difference it makes – really bringing out the original colours. The contractor doing the brick cleaning and repairs (Barwin) is also taking out the blocked-up windows and doors, and will be re-pointing the entire
After nearly 5 years of behind-the-scenes effort, endless negotiations with Network Rail, funding applications, and Covid delays, we have finally done it – work has started on the restoration. On Sunday 22nd May 2022 a tiny bit of history was made as the first ‘Heras’ fencing was put up in the car park and a
