Today I heard the first clang of scaffolding poles being loaded into a lorry. After seven months of being covered in scaffold and netting the first corner of the County Hall was revealed today.

Scaffolding is now going up higher round the new build at the Old Gaol.

The view through to the County Hall scaffolding is no more. It would be good to have  an exhibition about what was found in the archaeological dig – particularly for local archaeologists and historians who were not allowed near.

A new pathway is being laid under the archway at Twickenham House …

to the Old Gaol the other side – for this is now all part of one complex.

Girders and steel ties lay ready to be used as the skeleton for new buildings.

Older buildings are being merely refurbished.

It will be interesting to see how the barred windows look when people live up there as luxury dwellers – not prisoners.

It was not easy for this lorry to reverse through the gate at Twickenham House. It came within inches of the houses opposite in East St Helen Street, then within inches of cars parked either side, and just fitted through the gates. But the driver managed it without injury as far as I am concerned.

That was last week, and since then a trench has been dug and services laid through to the new Old Gaol development. I can imagine the lights flickering and going dim all the way along East St Helen Street when the new Old Gaol restaurants are first opened.