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Elizabeth
House is Coming Home!
(with
thanks to Mike Copland)
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on photo for larger image
(11
September 2008) |
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Click
here to see the guided tour of the new Elizabeth House from the Maidenhead
Advertiser, thanks to Sonia Kapur |
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Over the past three months the builders have
been hard at work on building an extension to Elizabeth House,
Cookham's centre for the greyer haired amongst us. And, for the
past month or so, the entire Elizabeth House operation decamped to the
Parish Centre to allow the builders full access to complete the work. |
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Stripping
the dayroom down to the basics before redecorating
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Now we are ready to move back in and the
extended and generally improved building will start its new life next
Monday, 15th September. The key changes in the new look Elizabeth
House are a dining room which will double up as an activities and meeting
room and which is twice the size of the original dining room, a greatly
improved and more open reception area and a refurbished day room. |
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Drying
out the new dining and activities room
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We'll be posting some photos of the new
interior when we get back in. But here are a few 'work in
progress' shots. If anyone would like to call in to see what we have
done, we'd love to see you. And we're organising some events to
show our supporters - donors, volunteers and others - around over the next
month or two. |
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Dismantling
the back of the building where the new dining and activities room
will be
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We'll be posting some photos of the new
interior when we get back in. But here are a few 'work in
progress' shots. If anyone would like to call in to see what we have
done, we'd love to see you. And we're organising some events to
show our supporters - donors, volunteers and others - around over the next
month or two. |
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Putting
in the new dining and activities room roof
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There will be some further work in due
course, to improve the first floor of the building and we'll need some
extra funding for that. In the meantime, a massive thank you to
everyone who has helped us raise the £165,000 or so needed to complete
the first phase. It gives us a greatly improved centre for our
older residents (and they'll be an increasing proportion of the local
population in the coming years) and also provides an extended facility
in the heart of Cookham that will be available for us by the community as
a whole. |
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Site
manager Mike Overton and his team size up the new entrance to
Elizabeth House
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And our sincere thanks to our neighbours
who have put up with the disruption over the 'summer': we hope you'll
think it has been worthwhile!
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John
Bowley, one of the Elizabeth House trustees who had responsibility for
the building works, eyes up the site in week 1 with John Goldsmith,
managing director of the contractors, Berkshire Building Services
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