The enlarged entrance foyer
24 June 2008
The enlarged entrance foyer
The renovated church
the new mural paining of Blessed Gérard in the hospital of Jerusalem
The altered passage
The renovated lounge
The renovated dining room
The enlarged kitchen
The enlarged pantry
The renovated laundry
The renovated mortuary
The new veranda
21 May 2008
enlarged patio
24 April 2008
Veranda
10 April 2008
Verandah
08 April 2008
Verandah
01 April 2008
Verandah
12 March 2008
view from the dining room into the kitchen
view from the kitchen into the dining room
kitchen
pantry
scullery
11 March 2008
patio
9 February 2008
Patio
6 February 2008
Patio
5 February 2008
Dining Room
Patio
3 February 2008
Our new mural painting of Blessed Gérard in the Hospital of Jerusalem is nearly complete
27 January 2008
Brandon Wiehahn busy painting Blessed Gérard in the Hospital of Jerusalem
The painting after day two
the renovated lounge viewed from Blessed Gérard's Church (the seating arrangement for our Sunday Services)
26 January 2008
Brandon Wiehahn, an artist from Durban, has started to paint a new mural of Blessed Gérard in the Hospital of Jerusalem.
16 January 2008
enlarged patio outside the dining room & lounge
10 January 2008
The patio outside the wards is back to normal
Main Passage
9 January 2008
outside the kitchen
air-conditioning units in the back of the building
20 December 2007
The extended patio outside the dining room and lounge
Main passage
Lounge
The extended kitchen
Laundry
Sluice Room
16 December 2007
passage
kitchen
laundry
14 December 2007
Passage
Dining room
Kitchen
Pantry
Scullery
Back passage
13 December 2007
Main passage
Dining room
Kitchen
Scullery
Laundry
11 December 2007
Main passage
Lounge
Dining room
back passage
10 December 2007
patio outside the dining room
Main passage
dining room
lounge
kitchen
scullery
back passage
sluice room
8 December 2007
Main passage
Back passage
Dining room
Lounge
Kitchen
Scullery
Sluice room
Laundry
6 December 2007
Main passage
Kitchen
Laundry
Mortuary
5 December 2007
Main passage
Lounge
Kitchen
Scullery
Pantry
4 December 2007
Entrance to the inpatient unit
Main passage
Back passage
Lounge with church in the background
Laundry
3 December 2007
Dining Room
Laundry
Back Passage
Air-conditioning
2 December 2007
Main Passage
Back Passage
Dining Room
Sluice Room
Laundry
1 December 2007
Passage
Dining Room
Lounge
Kitchen
Scullery
28 November 2007
Extended patio
Dining room
Scullery
Kitchen
Laundry
27 November 2007
Dining Room
Lounge
Main Passage
Kitchen
Pantry
Laundry
26 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: main passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Back passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Sluice room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Laundry
25 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Main passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Lounge
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Sluice room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Laundry
23 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Main passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Lounge
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen (the stove is still well protected)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery
21 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Main passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room (background) & Loung (foreground)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery (left) & Kitchen (right)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Back passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Laundry
19 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: main passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: back passage
18 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining Room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room (left) & Lounge (right)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room (front) & Lounge (back)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Back passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Laundry
15 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice (ground floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 2 (first floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 3 (second floor)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passages
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining Room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery
14 November 2007
Passages
Lounge
Veranda
Dining Room
Kitchen
Scullery
Pantry
Dirty laundry room
Laundry
Drying & Ironing Room
12 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passages
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Pantry
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining Room
10 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Laundry
8 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended veranda
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen
7 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice (ground floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 2 (1st floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 3 (2nd floor)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended patio
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room through kitchen hatch
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room (background) & lounge (foreground)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room (foreground) & lounge (background)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
6 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice passages
3 November 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining Room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Laundry
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage (a donated second hand dishwasher being assembled)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery
31 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room seen from the lounge
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
30 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Scullery
27 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen (left), pantry door (centre) & scullery (right)
26 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen,pantry & veranda (ground floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 2 (1st floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 3 (2nd floor)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended pantry and kitchen (outside)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen (inside)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
25 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen,pantry & veranda (ground floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 2 (1st floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 3 (2nd floor)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended pantry
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: dining room (foreground) & lounge (background)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
24 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
23 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice (ground floor) and Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 2 (1st floor)
22 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice (ground floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 2 (1st floor)
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home Extension No. 3 (2nd floor)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: View through the kitchen hatch into the dining room (foreground) and lounge (background)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen (left) and door into the extended pantry (right)
20 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: The extended kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: The new scullery
18 October 2007
New scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended kitchen (groundfloor, facebrick)
new store room (1st floor)
17 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: new scullery
15 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: new scullery
13 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: New scullery
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: The new kitchen floor being cast
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: lounge
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: veranda
11 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: The new scullery
10 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Pantry
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: new scullery
8 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
5 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Extended kitchen
3 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining room
2 October 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining Room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: new scullery
30 September 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: New extended veranda
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: extended Kitchen
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: New scullery
28 September 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Dining Room
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: Passage
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: New scullery
26 September 2007
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: The new extended kitchen (face brick)
Blessed Gérard's Hospice: The old kitchen (foreground) and the kitchen extension (background)
A former store room (left) and the old scullery (right) are joined now and become the new scullery
11 September 2007
The passage
8 September 2007
The floor slab is nearly ready to be cast. It will carry a new study room, play room, dining room and store room for Blessed Gérard's Children's Home (=Extension No. 2).
From left to right:
Ground floor: mortuary door, door into passage, laundry, pantry, kitchen, patio outside dining room and lounge.
First floor: New housekeeper's office (was sewing school store room before), floor slab for store room, dining room, play room and study room of Blessed Gérard's Children's Home.
6 September 2007
The floor slab above the laundry / kitchen / dining room and lounge area can soon be cast.
Blessed Gérard watching undistractedly how his Care Centre develops day by day
5 September 2007
The laundry / kitchen / dining room / lounge area
Blessed Gérard's Hospice passage
4 September 2007
The first floor slab in the kitchen / dining room / lounge section will soon be ready to be cast.
Just the back passage, sluice room, scullery and laundry need a bit more of preparation still.
3 September 2007
Laundry, Sluice Room, Scullery and Pantry
30 August 2007
The passage
The balance of the concrete is used for the beams at the lounge/dining room section
The kitchen / dining room / lounge section
29 August 2007
Passage and dining room
Concrete beams are cast to carry the floor slab above the lounge
28 August 2007
The lounge / dining room / kitchen area and passage being prepared to carry the floor slab for the 1st floor
27 August 2007
Blessed Gérard's Church will be the only part of the original building (opened in 1996) which will still be visible from outside.
All other parts of the building have been extended over the years (1st extension in 2000, 2nd extension in 2002)
The kitchen / dining room / lounge area on the ground floor being prepared for casting the floor slab for the 1st floor to accommodate a new bulk store room, dining room, play room and study room for Blessed Gérard's Children's Home
The old kitchen with its new extension (in front)
23 August 2007
Dining room and kitchen
The passage
The kitchen / dining room / lounge area
22 August 2007
Preparations for the beams to carry the floor slab on top of the kitchen/pantry, dining room and lounge
21 August 2007
The passage and dining room area
The first preparations to cast the floor slab for the 1st floor above kitchen, pantry, dining room and lounge have begun.
Blessed Gérard's mural still at the end of the passage
20 August 2007
The dining room / lounge area
18 August 2007
The lounge / dining room area
16 August 2007
The lounge / dining room area
The kitchen / pantry area
15 August 2007
The lounge and dining room section of Blessed Gérard's Hospice
The kitchen & pantry extensions
14 August 2007
The columns which will carry the first floor with a major extension to Blessed Gérard's Children's Home are being cast.
8 August 2007
The old pantry, kitchen and scullery ready to be extended
The new foundations are cast to carry a major extension to Blessed Gérard's Children's Home and a large bulk store room.
7 August 2007
There is little left of the old lounge, dining room, kitchen and pantry as stronger walls are needed to carry two more stories above.
6 August 2007
The old passage is still there ...
The old pantry and kitchen opened up to make space for their extension.
2 August 2007
The old pantry, kitchen and dining room
1 August 2007
Everything ready for making way for stronger foundations
The old kitchen and pantry will be extended.
31 July 2007
The old dining room and lounge area just before demolition
30 July 2007
The kitchen, dining room and lounge area ready to be demolished to be replaced by a new construction which is strong enough to carry two more stories on top.
26 July 2007
The demolition of the lounge & dining room is under way
25 July 2007
Farewell from our mural of Blessed Gérard. The passage will become lower, i.e. the mural will have to be redone - a painful concession to the changes.
Passage and dining room
24 July 2007
The passage and dining room
23 July 2007
The demolition of the lounge and dining room is in progress as the existing columns are not strong enough to carry two more stories on top.
19 July 2007
Demolition of the lounge and dining room has started outside ...
... and inside.
18 July 2007
Lounge and dining room even closer to demolition.
17 July 2007
Demolition of the lounge and dining room has started.
16 July 2007
The lounge and dining room are about to be demolished.
A temporary laundry has been established in Ward 8.
A temporary kitchen is about to be established in the former sewing school.
13 July 2007
The roof above the patio outside the lounge and dining room has been removed.
10 July 2007
The temporary passage at the back of the wards of Blessed Gérard's Hospice is taking shape.
9 July 2007
A temporary passage is about to be established outside the back of the wards, because the passage in Blessed Gérard's Hospice will be part of the construction site.
5 July 2007
The roof covering the patio outside the lounge is removed.
4 July 2007
The roof covering the patio outside the lounge and dining room is removed.
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