II. For this bed of concrete to be ‘well rammed’ was composed of ‘5 parts of broken bricks and 1 part of the best stone lime freshly burned’.

Be still my beating heart!

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P.S. You can also discover my tale about the parish rectory and a priest with delusions of grandeur!

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