Author Archive: Richard F

This work party featured a number of notable ‘firsts’ – the most important being the start of block laying in Phase 1A, and ground breaking in Phase 1B. Once more a large turnout of volunteers […]

The combination of a large turnout of volunteers and good weather permitted substantial progress to be made at both the Redwith and Pryces Bridge sites.  The destructive search, the first major task of the Phase […]

The Society marked the official launch of the Heritage Lottery Fund funded work on the canal by, appropriately, beginning substantive work on the Phase 1B channel. This work, together with further work on the Phase […]

This report covers two separate work parties spread over two weekends and eight days. All of the action was on Phase 1A and saw the base of the channel in first 25m from Pryces Bridge […]

A glance back through the reports of May work parties over the recent past shows two recurring themes –  a highly productive four days and unseasonably good weather. Thus it was no great surprise that […]

The April event attracted near record numbers of volunteers (16,23 and 18 for the respective days) who got through prodigious amounts of work spread on three separate sites. The main tasks over the three days […]

This may have been the first restoration work party of the year but it didn’t feel like it. The main reason for this, of course, was that the Society’s efforts over the winter had been […]

This winter, rather than hedge-laying, we are clearing and coppicing the hedges between bridges and 84 and 85, in preparation for further channel restoration. The ‘hedge’ here has not been laid for so long that […]

This may have been the last scheduled restoration work party this year but it distinctly lacked any ‘end of term’ feeling. One of the reasons for this was undoubtedly the boost to morale caused by […]

This was one of the most productive work parties to date on the current Phase 1A section. The three day effort saw the newt ponds, the stonework on the mooring wall, and the shaping of […]