Further pedantic footnote: getting the mangled lock out of the door into this room involved extreme violence with a big hammer and sharp screwdriver, slightly damaged in the process, damn! to cut the head off a bent screw.
After that it was a doddle with pliers. Now the battered door-edges will reproach me until I do something about them and make them look falsely tidy. Some sort of gunge probably and a lick of paint.
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