Circular from the Architects' Office, Poor Law Commission Office to clerks of works about the fitting of windows and instructions on keeping a notebook of 'every matter relating to the Building of a unsatisfactory nature'. This circular is from the documents relating to Castleblayney Workhouse.
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As the printed specification had stipulated, these ironmongery elements were sourced and supplied centrally from Wilkinson's office. The list is divided into the following sections: Ledged and Sparred Doors, Doors to Store Rooms, Carpenter's Patent Locks, Stock Locks, Drawback Locks, Norfolk Thumb Latches, Bolts. Castleblayney Union Workhouse is now part of St. Mary's Hospital.
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"Drawing shewing general construction of the window frames and cast Iron lights. The Windows which are of different sizes to the one shewn are to have the construction similar, the lights to be calculated for size". Printed drawing with inside and outside elevations of window, plans above and below transom, section and full size details. Mallow Union Workhouse is now Mallow General Hospital.
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Printed elevations and plans showing 'manner of construction' of 'Privies between Idiots Yards and Men and Women's Yards', 'Privies at rere of the Infirmary buildings', 'Cesspool under Dead House' and 'Cesspools in Boys and Girls Yards'. Mallow Union Workhouse is now Mallow General Hospital.
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Particulars of fixtures for Castleblayney Workhouse. Material is listed under the following headings: Rail &c. for Bedsteads, Grates and Stoves, Iron Boilers, Dressers, Water Works, Baths, Painting (of letters on doors), and Shelves. Castleblayney Union Workhouse is now part of St. Mary's Hospital.
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Note to a Mr Stuart requesting that he inspect a ventilator at Mallow 'which admits rain & ascertain the cause' and that he mark on the ground plan 'the exact arrangement of all the steps and inclines to the fronts of the Doorways' and the exact locations of drains. This note is from the documents relating to Mallow Workhouse.
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