So we hired a concrete shooting tube thing. Well you'll see.

The ensemble of vehicles can be seen parked in the picture above during some more of our car park blocking antics.

Once the concrete started flowing it took just one person to wander around spraying it into the correct place. This had to be done in a controlled and organised manner as the person on the end of the tube cannot directly turn the flow on or off.

The man on the tube was followed by an army of hard workers who used spades and forks to ensure that the concrete flows into all those hard to reach back bits.

To the Left Andy J and David W can be seen laying down on the job again. There must be a small problem or has someone dropped a contact lens into the concrete?

Where Davis and Andy are fiddling with drainage trenches is now the fire escape.

In the picture to the right John and Andy are pushing the concrete in and around the drainage pipes that we set into the slab. It wasn’t until Summer 1999 that we finally fitted a drain cover onto this drain. The concrete was poured during May 1995!!

The rectangular bits of wood that have bolts sticking out of them mark the level that the concrete must reach. The bolts will later be used for fastening the walls to the foundations.

All this work was obviously done before lunch. As a scout we can tell this by studying the way the light is falling around the workers. That and the fact that Dave Gardener hasn't turned up yet!

David Weller spent a lot of time using old bits of wood to construct tools like the one that can be seen here. These tools were generally indispensable and made our lives so much easier. His noggin jigs were an engineering work of Art but more of them later!

In the picture to the left they are checking the level before proceeding.

Bizarrely all of the Ventures resisted the temptation to leave there mark in the drying cement. Even more bizarrely none of the local wildlife strayed through the cement either.

Anyway. After all this work, we thought that the concrete and cement work was all over. Oh how wrong were we! In this picture Alan can be seen pouring hand mixed cement into the driveway.