We pass through Bab Taghout nearly every day on our way to shop and get our orange juice so we take great interest in the progress of the work. The new arch is complete although traffic is still unable to use it as they are working on the adjacent walls. The crumbling corner near by is now being rebuilt as a whole new bastion or rebutment. Shuttering is erected a block at a time and filled with earth which is then ramped down with a jack hammer and left to settle and then dry. It is then covered with a coating layer to smooth it out and then a final render.
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| The new arch is complete but work continues on the wall adjacent to Bab Taghout |
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| The new arch at Bab Taghout as it was in November |
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| Bab Taghout earlier last November when they had breached the wall but not started the new arch. |
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| The new corner bastion being erected near Bab Taghout. The earth is being placed between the shuttering and ramped by the hammer th the left. |
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| The same corner as it was in November |
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| Ramping the wall near Bab Taghout |
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| Showing cross section of wall between renovated sections near Bab Taghout |
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| The earth at the bottom of the picture (from the old wall) is what they will use to build the new wall. |
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