Another multiple working week.   Sunday afternoon, Mike, Jim and I had a go at trying to get the handrails and decency board sorted out but had a rather frustrating afternoon. We also had a visit from Roger Mills of Hetherington Lamps who is making the two lamps for the saloon.  This was  a very useful meeting and the final design details were settled.  However on Tuesday Paul, Jim and I gathered at Whitkirk for one final work session up there.  We had to steam bend some ash moudlings to go round the inside of the foor frames in the saloon. This meant digging out our old steamer and making two new moulds that had the correct shapes. All went well and this was the result.

Not a very good phone picture but it shows what we achieved.  The ends were trimmed and we put it in the car to take to Middleton.  

The next day we reassembled at Middleton.   Paul chopped out the holes for the refurbished door locks and Mike managed to sort out the decency panel bolts on A side.  I was away most of the morning but then after lunch we got the decency board taken off and Mike then undercoated the back of it.  Jim and I worked on the handrails over the B end canopy and by the end of the afternoon had sorted them and finally fixed all the stanchions in place and jointed the handrails.  All in all a good day was had.  Yesterday I collected the last brass patterns from Gerald and this morning toom them to Derek Harpers to be cast.  These are the brackets for the destination boards and the handles for the bell rod.   All in all some good progress.