Womersleys have finished their contract to provide conservation training to Leeds City Council for the Kirkgate Conservation Area. On the last day, the 10^th December, Students from Leeds College of Building among others learnt about historic lime and gypsum floors, found in Yorkshire and earth flat roofs found in Erbil, Iraq, a settlement dating from 6000BC. The day finished with us preparing samples of all three build ups.

For three years the conservation training has been a delight to run, womersleys have provied training that has covered earth building, sash window repair, building and pointing with lime, cast and forged iron work, a lead day, rendering and plastering and brick and stone cleaning and repair.

Fired brick bedded on earth mortar and earth flat roofs found in Erbil, Iraq