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Angmering village descended into chaos while Roundstone Lane was closed for four days so that they could install sewage pipes to the new Swanbourne Park housing estate. Trade at Manor Nursery was hit very hard, during what would normally be our absolute busiest week of the year ... the week leading up to the second May Bank Holiday.
Property - Photographs of developments that included entranceways, administration block, swimming pool, painting, resurfacing, murals, library, playgrounds and other projects - Photographs taken over the period 2000 to 2002. These photos were used in the first edition of the Newtown School website www.newtown.school.nz/
This is a slightly different view of the building work going on behind Manor Nursery in Angmering. I had to scramble through the brambles to take these photos! I hope to be able to see more. Next time I'd better take a ladder ...
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This particular machine is operated hydraulically ... other types are rotary (more like drilling). This one bangs the rods in.
One part of the test removes cores of soil to test for any contaminants there might be, plus the general soil type and what different layers there might be. Another test is done by banging rods in to test the density of the soil ... that one is done by seeing how many "bangs" it takes to push each rod a set depth.
This machine could go down 29Soil testing ... each rod was a metre in length. I did not see the entire operation, but there were at least 5 rods down there ... possibly more. This part of the process was for testing the soil density by seeing how many "hits" were needed to push the rods to certain depths.
This machine could go down 20 metres, although they did not go that deep today.
This machine could detect electric cables underground. But it had not occurred to them that there might be irrigation pipes and gas mains running underneath!
I only know where some of them are ... others were dug in years before I got there. Luckily they did not burst anything!
Between my trip to Paris and Easter, it has been a couple of weeks since I was able to take photos of Swanbourne Park ... since which time, the show house has opened. So far, viewing is by appointment only so I have not been able to look around it.
Property - Photographs of developments that included entranceways, administration block, swimming pool, painting, resurfacing, murals, library, playgrounds and other projects - Photographs taken over the period 2000 to 2002. These photos were used in the first edition of the Newtown School website www.newtown.school.nz/
Property - Photographs of developments that included entranceways, administration block, swimming pool, painting, resurfacing, murals, library, playgrounds and other projects - Photographs taken over the period 2000 to 2002. These photos were used in the first edition of the Newtown School website www.newtown.school.nz/