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August 2005. Disaster as the RGHQ kitchen ceiling
collapses.
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This is how the canteen
looked in 1993 Just before the Home office disposed of Drakelow.
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August 2005. The front
section of the kitchen ceiling has collapsed onto the first
two rows of seats in the canteen. Fortunately we had already
spotted the potential problem and the canteen was not in use
at the time. We moved all the chairs out so that the introduction
for the tour following the collapse could be done in the corridor
between the canteen and the womens dormitory.
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Roger makes a closer inspection of the damage.
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With our limited resources, the best we could do was
to clear up the mess and make good what was left. This is how
it looked after we had finished.
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![](../fdtimages/Canteen4.jpg)
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A close up view of the ceiling at this point. There is
still a lot of work to be done. In the near future we will
have to replace the remaining timber beams with R.S.J's
or angle before they rot away too.
Since this was first written we later (2007) had to remove
the remainder of the kitchen false ceiling.
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