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03FEB09: The dig under 6 inches of snow.	15MAR09: Collapse by the side of the shaft	31MAR09: Freeing a rusted-up screw-jack needed for the shaft.	02APR09: Heating the straps to form end-hooks
03APR09: Fabricating one of the bottom straps for the shaft.	03APR09 The jacks and bottom hooks about to be checked for size	08APR09: The completed assembly of jacks and bottom straps.	20APR09: The bottom of the shaft showing ladder, strappings and the jacks.
20APR09: Bottle jack and bottom attachment for a strap in position.	20MAY09: The "new" security grill fitted to the entrance.	04JUN09:10 tons of aggregate delivered to the site.	04JUN09: Wriggly tin base for the agregate
18JUL09: Temporary shoring and run-in at the base of the shaft	18JUL09: Temporary shoring and run-in - detail	18JUL09: Syphoning the pool	02AUG09: Annie Audsley, Alice Audsley & Roger Galloway digging a trench for drainage pipes.
02AUG009: Roger Galloway trimming the hole he has just drilled.	02AUG09: Two new blue drainage pipes in the shaft.	05AUG09: The drained, but still soggy, depression.	05AUG09: The drainage sump (a yellow plastic bucket).
05AUG09: For comparison, the undrained next depression with a 16 inch deep pool at the bottom.		10AUG09: Cracks in the drying mud.

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