Down comes The Shed!

Doen at the Railway there is a Bothy.
I don't know exactly how this shed was used, I know the railway cat lived in there!!
I used it to shelter from the rain when I was gardening.  It had male lockers along two walls and there was tea making facilities, I presumed the railway workers had their lunch in there, although I never saw them, PJ and I called it the Bothy.
The Powers that Be decided in their wisdom to knock it down  - they have a portacabin to replace it.
This decision sent ripples among all the people connected to the site.  Why!  The Bothy was one of the original sheds!
Once the decision was made then everyone on (and off) site were notified to remove their belongings from the shed and so the waiting began ......

Many (many) months later, and after much pushing by PJ, the Tuesday Team were given the go ahead to 'pull it down' and so the saga began ......




'The Lads' started one Tuesday -  much mayhem ensued followed by a week to recover!!



The roof came down first, all the ashfelt had to be removed as it was earmarked for refurbishment.




The electricals and water pipes were all disconnected.

After tidying up at the end of the day, it didn't look too bad....



.... until you went into the Signal Box garden and looked back along the track to the visitor's garden ....

The next week we were all in the garden together.



The men pulling, hitting, sweeping and eventually they had it almost clear.
Me trying to ignore them and wishing for the birdsong back as I went about my gardening.






Here is the garden taken from inside the 'shed', just some lino tiles and a pile of rubbish.

The next week even that had gone, some to new homes - the kettle, tea making facilities and the cat - to a new hut, the roof wood - to our house to mend our garage, the engine parts - to the new shed, the scrap metal  - to the merchant.

Six months on and it's like a site in waiting - for a new 'shed'.