Well it's been a while since I posted anything on the progress of Barrow Road. After an enjoyable day out at the members day at Taunton I returned to domestic duties and have finally managed to decorate two rooms in the house which included replacing the flooring.

I have now returned to more interesting tasks and have made some progress on the girders for the roundhouse roof. I have nearly completed the six 46ft long girders but have run out of 2mm and 2.5mm 'T' section brass so further work is on hold until fresh supplies are received from Eileen's Emporium.

I the mean time I decided to make rivet overlays for the top and bottom of each girder these being formed using 5mm X 0.3mm nickel silver. I used a GW rivet press to make the rivets, an interesting task with around 100 rivets per length. The three 46ft girders have been soldered together with a 4mm square piece of brass spacer in between. This spacer will have a piece of tube inserted into it and will form the fixing position over the top of the octagonal support columns.

The next task is to start on the short 19ft end girders and find a solution to enable fixing the completed unit to the shed wall.