Category Archives: Restoration

February 6-8 Mud, glorious mud. This winter is characterised by persistent rainfall. The current area of site is generally well drained, but that counts for nowt when plant tracks over it. Heavy rainfall overnight on […]

January 9-11 “Snow stopped play” (on Friday). Although other areas fared far worse, the effects of Storm Goretti brought us different conditions each day: Friday snow; Saturday frosty but bright; Sunday cold, damp and breezy. […]

December 5-7 Muddy. The weather lately has been making up for the dry summer but we finish the year with a flourish. The main activities for the December work party were towpath construction, channel profiling […]

November 7-9 Works to March next year are supported by a grant from the Shared Prosperity Fund which covers channel restoration, towpath restoration and the winter environmental programme. This month saw the start of towpath […]

October 2-5 Although uncomfortably wet and windy at times, we were spared the worst of Storm Amy and much was achieved. As last month, the main work areas were Phase 2 (joining on from the […]

September 4-7 New compound, new era A superbly productive work party, aided by a handful of volunteers attending on Thursday for preparations in the new compound – but all of that later. First, a location […]

August 1-4 We’ve moved! Over a work party extended to four days, the two main events were starting work in Phase 2 and relocating the compound. Phase 2 of the Crickheath South project is the […]