[Royalty Cinema, Windermere.] Typed and manuscript 'Bill of Quantities for Excavating, Drainage, Walling, Slating etc', in building 'New Public Hall - Kinema etc - in Lake Road - Windermere for the Directors'. By architects Walker, Carter, & Walker.

Author: 
Walker, Carter, & Walker, Architects, Windermere [Royalty Cinema, Lake Road, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria]
Publication details: 
Walker, Carter, & Walker, Architects, Windermere. December 1925.
£100.00
SKU: 16290

[1] + 10pp., crown 8vo. Held together with a metal stud, and placed in a brown card folder, with typed title on front cover. In good condition, with light signs of age and wear. Professionally presented, with the text typed out in columns and the sums and running totals written out in manuscript. An estimate, with costings for a large number of itemised elements, ranging from 'temporary lavatory accommodation for the workmen for all trades' to 'the removal of trees or shrubs as required, and grub up the roots - The timber will belong to the Contractor - and he must here allow for same'. A couple of other entries give a taste of the nature of the document: 'Manholes - average 3'-6" deep, inside measure, regulation size and finish, build with rubble walls, cemented smooth, cement bottom with smooth cement finish, purpose made channels - rould all internal angles - Provide and fix C.I. covers - street strength with air-tight seal to meet Surveyor's requirements.' and 'Build in coke breeze blocks for Joiner's fixings - as and where required - | N.B. The floor level of chair store and basement is approximately level with the bottom of footings of Messrs. Watson Bros. stables and Mr. Martin's bakery. Care must be taken to prop these walls, and the Contractor must here add for any possible damage to same and must make good to the entire satisfaction of the parties concerned'. Entry on 'Johnson's steel wire lattice reinforcement for foundations to Basement floor' added in manuscript. The 'Total Amount of Estimate' comes to £4322 7s 9d. The Royalty Cinema is still in use, a much-loved little cinema in the Art Deco style.