23rd of March.

Despite being an extremely cold day, there were four of us out at 53. I got there late and fully expected to be the only one, but Brian from Hampshire turned up, as did Allan and Darren.We got to work on the rear floor at the back of 53, which is now done, we also started taking the left hand panelling off and Allan even managed to extract one of long bolts that clamps the platform steels to the main frame by the doors. It was very muddy and it must be mostly clay, not earth. I also manged to dig a small drainage ditch form the extension to the channel at the side of the building and am now thawing out at home!