Conference Room/Chapel where red stained glass window from Old Retreat Chapel will be placed
Scott overseeing the whole project!
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Update on Building Work at Drumalis
February 2008
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| New Kitchen with Wall Cladding | ||
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| Work in Progress in New Dining Room | ||
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| Dining Room with Main Entrance in the Background | Little Nook at Entrance to Dining Room | Sr Margaret Rose checking out the new chapel/conference room |
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Conference Room/Chapel where red stained glass window from Old Retreat Chapel will be placed |
Sr Margaret Rose keeping a close eye | Sr Anna - pleased with progress! |
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Scott overseeing the whole project! |
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| While the building proceeds, in spite of the bad weather, the snowdrops have come out close to the rubble saved from the old building | Looking at the Conference
Room/Chapel from the Garden |
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| Scott keeping a keen eye on the whole process | Looking towards the section where the circulation and link area will be built | The first 21 bedrooms are almost ready |
Every so often the Sisters think back to February 2007 and it
is a moment of encouragement to see how far we have come
February 2007
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| Stained Glass windows are removed from
Chapel (15 February 2007) |
Windows are stored to be re-used in new
building (15 February 2007) |
Workman strips 60s building interior
prior to demolition (23 February 2007) |
The 60s building is reduced to a shell prior to demolition (23 February 2007) |
March 2007
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| Roof of Chapel is removed (7 March 2007) |
Demolition in action (8 March 2007) |
Scott oversees building work (11 March 2007) |
Sr Margaret Rose, Sr Anna and Scott (14 March 2007) |
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| Large Chapel comes down (14 March 2007) |
Bedroom Corridors are demolished (21 March 2007) |
Demolition nears completion (21 March 2007) |
60s building with Heritage House in the
background (22 March 2007) |
April 2007
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| The last remaining wall of the sixties building | The marking out of foundations begins (2 April 2007) |
Rebuilding begins (23 April 2007) |
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| Sr Margaret Rose checks up on progress |
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May 2007
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| Kate & Lily, Parish Retreat
Promoters from Antrim, visit the site |
Kate & Lily with Sr Margaret Rose |
1000 Club Founder Members, Maurice Jordan, Terence & Michael Donaghy , inspect the site |
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The new building begins to take shape |
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June 2007
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| The metalwork which will form part of the new chapel/conference room | Katolska Skolan, school staff from Sweden on a trip to Drumalis while the building takes shape behind | ||
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| Tommy, site foreman with Sr Margaret Rose standing on the newly constructed first floor! |
July 2007
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| Parish Retreatants from Portaferry, Holywood and Poleglass bless the new building | Roof joints are visible in the background of the photo | Linda, chef and Lea, manager of in-house services check up on progress in the new kitchen | |
August 2007
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| Roofing arrives | Joints for roof for a small structure are visible | Materials arrive daily |
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| Within a month the same structure with its roof is near completion | |
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| Bedrooms take shape | Scott is never far away from the building work! |
February 2008
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