We have had such a successful winter’s restoration that we were running out of materials. We started the May work party early to take several deliveries, then lined the next section of canal right up to the mooring wall next to Bridge 4. We successfully used cheaper wheeled instead of tracked dumpers, though one of […]
We still haven’t missed a day all winter! (though our volunteers got rather wet Monday and Tuesday). We’re now excavating spoil right up to Bridge 4, for use only a little further down, as shown below (thanks again to Steve Bonser). Roger Leishman’s last Work Party News can also be found below.
We successfully worked all 7 days of the March work party despite regular rain. Steve Bonser’s 3 pictures below were taken on the Sunday. I have also added one of my own from Wednesday – while driving the dumper back to base, I had to persuade 2 ducks out of the tyre-tracks, despite the water […]
I thought it might be too snowy and icy to work at the beginning of February – but we managed it, and here are Steve Bonser’s pictures to show it. The first 3 pictures were taken on Friday 1st Feb, the next 2 on Sunday 3rd by which time it was still slippery and cold […]
For January this was a relatively dry work party. While still sticky under foot, steady progress was made from Whitehouses towards Bridge 4, as can be seen in the pictures below. The first 2 are by Steve Bonser, the last by Tony Bardwell. Last winter this section was deep in rainwater.
Here are a couple of shots from Steve Bonser and Tony Bardwell showing our progress in December 2018. Steve’s picture shows a brighter Sunday when we were unrolling the bed-lining-roll – note the mud sticking inside the raised bucket of the dumper! Tony’s picture shows solid-blocking on the last day, Bridge 4 side of Whitehouses […]
The first shot below shows work in progress on the Bridge 4 side of Whitehouses, with Bridge 4 visible in the distance – and more work has been done since this was taken. The other 4 are a timeline of the same section just the other side of Whitehouses. All these are from Steve Bonser.
The pictures below show some of the successful results of the October 2018 work party, where great progress was made. Roger’s bi-monthly report newsletter is also below.
Good news – the first 4 pictures below show CRT’s dredging of the Wendover Canal on Friday 28/9/2018 near Stablebridge Road, Aston Clinton. This is in the unnavigable but in-water section of the arm, down which the water from Wendover must flow to reach the reservoirs, pump and main line.This appears to be much more […]
Further good restoration progress was made in September 2018. The first two pictures here (from Steve Bonser) show our new Assistant Restoration Director Tony Bardwell’s experiment in dropping the lining rolls down the side of the canal, without using the digger bucket to control the drop. Note that we are now working in front of […]