Work Parties - Photo Galleries
(WRG Canal Camp 2011 - Sawmills Gauging Narrows)
This photo gallery shows the work done by WRG volunteers in 2011, during the Cromford Canal Camp that ran 16-23 July. Pictures taken by George Rogers & Colin Hobbs.
Please note that the galleries are due to be updated in the near future to use a better viewing system.
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Volunteers have to fight their way through the undergrowth to the site compound
And this is why, the vegetation growth completely conceals the offside wall which was the target for the week's work
Further up, where we intended to start was slightly less overgrown, but the tree roots were bigger!!
However, with some willing volunteers the site rapidly begins to clear - this shot is taken only about an hour after we arrived on site!
Of course, no work site is complete without tea breaks!!
A team briefing? No, just some of the group enjoying watching the Hawk at work!
Tiforing begins to remove the tree roots that have grown into the wall - behind the route is FCCs own Eric Singleton, who had joined us on site for a day
The excavation is starting to reach the bottom, although they kept finding more and more 'interesting' stuff. Strangely it included a 1970s plastic toy
The wall starts to appear
At the opposite end to the previous photo, the wall is a lot more derelict and the greenery much more stubborn. Here Tina works to clear our start point for rebuilding
Meanwhile, John 'Hawk' Hawkins clears the top of the wall so that we can safely remove the coping stones, and also get to the tree roots to remove them
Not an archaelogical dig, volunteers are starting to dig down into the wall to find the base