Engineers Report Book January 19th 1875
I beg to report the current wages at the Goldstone works;
J Baker 2/10/- a week Engineer
T Waite 24/- day Stoker
G Cosham 20/- day Stoker
King 22/- day Stoker
Adams 22/- Labourer
R Alderton 1/- a week Office boy
A Colessida 26/- Is a fitter and repairs meters and fixes the same, and sluice and sometimes assists the turncock
My Notebook September 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to report that the mountain of material in the store changes the shape of the undertaking. Plans and documents have been clarified free from copyright and reproduction issues, -and importantly costs, thus the publication has taken on a new life. The Jackdaw and the Engineers Notebook Series inspire and Waterworks memo’s, notes and plans have been scanned and reviewed over this recent school holiday.
On a recent visit to the workshop ideas were discussed. Whilst partaking of a beverage with the Goldstone workers ‘Brass’ as a title is now discarded on discovering it is an alloy and not present in the machinery (only on plaques around the building.) After talk of the true description of a cog I returned to notice the silence of the building and the sound of the Edward Funnell clock. I proceeded to film the situation. Adding this feeling of standstill to my mind map a clear theme and final title emerge – in the words of Wordsworth ‘All that Mighty Heart Stands Still’
My thoughts no longer feel compromised, but fed, by all the findings which now, through their own quality and quantity, find their own life in a unique pubication.
