A further stretch of piling was completed after two attempts had to be cancelled due to heavy rain and un safe ground conditions. Approx. 40 metres has now been completed.
complete this job.
Sunday saw the milestone opening of a key 160 metre section of the Lichfield Canal Heritage Towpath Trail at Gallows Reach.
This has been the culmination of much work by our hardworking volunteers,
Down at Fosseway our small team of dedicated volunteers have an esablished routine. First, the sheet steel piling is installed. Then a slab base is prepared for concreteing. A new slab is laid roughly one a week.
A really productive week at Fosseway, with piling sheets in place up to the end of the fence/start of the wood. The next step is to attach the top rail and retaining tie rods in order to align the tops.
The weekend of August 29/30 has been busy at Gallows Wharf with DofE volunteers and green and grounds giving the place a good tidy up and finishing fencing. We also took the opportunity, whilst the weather is still in our favour, to remove some more soil.
Following the recent unauthorised Traveller encampment on City Council owned open space at Netherstowe, the City Council, in partnership with LHCRT utilised soil excavated from site of the former canal along Tamworth Road...
During the Covid 19 pandemic shut down the normal Trust work parties were shut down, with the exception of a small Trust team who have carried out safety inspections and some necessary key and emergency works.
We're pleased that the path back to some kind of normality has now started. After carrying out an indepth risk assessment and following the Government's 'five steps to safer working together', some of our volunteers were able to start back on site during the second week of June.
The Fosseway section of our restoration is progressing rapidly. Most of the construction work within the ‘big pound’ adjacent to the disused railway embankment had been completed.
Down at our Fosseway site you may well have noticed that we are using a lot of sandbags as a method of constructing various banking requirements around the site. You will have seen that there are two types of bag, the plastic ones and the hessian ones,