00:00Dean is over there, hiding. Dean is the other brick inspector.
00:14And Bydos is helping us today with some carpentry. We're just doing some temporary
00:23support structure for the roof structure. When Emma first looked at this building in 2015,
00:30she did her survey and then I did mine about two years ago and Emma felt at that time that
00:37the parapet wall did not look original because the bricks were different to the main walls and
00:41just the whole thing just didn't look right. And that hunch was confirmed when we took it down
00:47because what we found was this is the backing brickwork and what they've done they hacked
00:54away the wall and then just built a skin of brickwork in front of it. And all of these
00:59dobs of mortar are cement. There was a painstaking testing. We brought the guy down didn't you?
01:07Yeah. Yeah so they do a lot of testing and get the colour consistent. It's actually a high quality
01:13building built with local materials so these bricks would have been probably made in this area
01:19probably by bricklayers working who grew up around here.
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