The rebuilding of the hospital in the eighteenth century : part 2 / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E.
- D'Arcy Power
- Date:
- [1927]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The rebuilding of the hospital in the eighteenth century : part 2 / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The large passage still leads from the old kitchens to the administrative block, and was used for conveying the food on the occasion of the Venison Feast and the View Day dinner, which were held in the Great Hall. The whole digging for the foundations, including an additional five pounds for digging the areas, cost £478 13s. 9d. There is an account on December 10, 1757, 44 For making a cesspool in the fore kitchen 44 (i) at Mr. Teste’s [Justin’s] in Well Yard . 8/2 (ii) at Mr. Lee’s ..... 8/7 (iii) Att Mr. Verrie’s ..... 8/7 In October and November 1757 44 reduced Grey Stock bricks ” were being laid at £6 5s. per rod. On March 10, 1758, Richard Norris “ agrees to erect and make all the scaffolding for the Masons for the New Building on the East side of the said hospital and find all manner of materials and strike and take away the same when the Masons have done, for the sum of seventy five pounds £75.” On the same day, March 10, 1758, Robert Willis & Co. offered to deliver clear of all charges 4 4 Barr lead for the use of the Masons for the Building at fifteen pounds ten shillings per Tun or Pig Lead at fifteen pounds 2/6 per Tun.” There is nothing more till March 30, 1758, when Mr. Ralph Allen writes that he has to pay 15s. a ton freight during the war, which is more than double the former charge. My proposal in the year 1730 was only to build the first pile of the Hospital on a calculation by which I found myself a benefactor of full five hundred and fifty pounds. Upon Which Sir Richard Brocas ye then President desired to know whether I would consent as this was a public Charity to build the remainder upon the same terms if the Governors should approve of my executing the first pile. My answer was that the motive which induced me to undertake the first disposed me to go thro’ with the re¬ mainder upon a presumption that the other buildings should be carried on from time to time without any con¬ siderable obstruction by the Governors. 44 But when the first pile was finished I was made to understand that there was no Money then left to go on with the Remainder of the Building, neither did they enter on the Second Pile til in the year 1736. But as no material](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30801254_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
