Friday 29th July 2022

John Cooper and Geoff Newton. Took over another tub of water. With Geoff at the bottom John hauled out 14 loads of rocks left from Wednesday. Then John went down with drill and plug and feathers to create more rock. 10 loads sent up to the surface. Going in horizontally now. Roughly measured for a support beam to be fixed to the right hand wall. 2½ hours. John.

Wednesday 27th July 2022

John Cooper. Took over 4 bags of sand and a bag of cement. There are now 6 bags of sand and 1 ¾ bags of cement on site. Continued breaking up rock on the right hand side. There is now very little holding up the right hand end of the scaffold bars which support the roof. Need to fasten a support to the wall to help hold them up. Lots of rocks to haul out. Nice outward draught from way on. 1½ hours. John.