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Concrete Evidence

It was a case of all hands and the cook turning out on the Electricity Department sub-station job at Stoke last month, when the time came to pour the foundations for the maintenance workshop. Walls of this building are to rise 40 ft. and they, and the foundations will have to bear the strain of any lifting that a 70-ton crane inside the building will do. And so the specifications provided for very deep and solid foundations. In three days, the staff of C. J. Strawbridge and Sons poured 373 yds of concrete - a herculean task made a little easier by a fleet of pre-mix trucks.

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Concrete trucks await their turn at the site

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Being the boss didn' t seem to mean much to Mayor, Mr Doug Strawbridge, and he was in there helping too.

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Concrete and reinforcing everywhere