jr2 wrote:
We will shortly be converting the kitchen room and dining room into one
room

requiring the removal of a load bearing single brick wall (3 Metres in
length)

the load being joists ... (bedroom joists) that run at right angles
across the

top of the brick wall ... obviously a lintel will be installed to
support the

You are talking abut an RSJ or some sort of purlin not a lintle.
Someone on here posted this page:
http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects...ring_walls.htm

It's certainly worth a look.

You will need to prop the ceilings on both sides with accrows or 3 x 2s
nailed to headers and footplates, whatever. Leave yourself enough space
to work under them.