This Tuesday, in glorious sunshine and sizzling temperatures, a team of 14 NCVs met at the end of Angram reservoir dam. Their mission? To carry out footpath maintenance work, with footpath officer Peter Lambert, and historic building consolidation, with heritage officer Rob Light, at nearby Lodge village. Here's how things went.....
On arrival Tony went to recover a piece of balloon rubbish
- or was he just practising his yoga?
Graham was suitably dressed for the hot weather.
The team strode along the 1.25 mile track towards the old,
abandoned village of Lodge.
There they met up with Peter and his Land Rover full of tools.
At Lodge there were two jobs going on.
Harry, Angela and Andy C. focused on
lime mortaring the walls of one of the cottages.
Once that was done they soft capped it with turf.
Two carved stones - made by our very own students -
have been put outside the entrances to two of the cottages.
Nice carving lads!
Meanwhile eight NCVs thought about getting busy uncovering a
hidden cobbled path up to the cottage from the main track.
Ruth used a mattock on the clumps of rushes - not an easy task!
Terry and Sally got to work with spades to lift turf....
.....before working in a more forensic way with archaeological trowels....
....and brushes to reveal the stones below.
Further down the path a 'slip road' was discovered.
Graham, Tony and Andy soon had this sorted.
This side path was really well built.
At the top end of the path another extension was found.
Where is it all going to end????
Coffee time was taken both under the trees by those who were wilting...
and out in the open by the sun lovers.
By lunch time the path was well on the way
to being completely exposed,
Everyone opted for the shade of the trees to eat their lunch.
By two o'clock the path was being given a final brush.
What a great job folks!
A small team of three had joined with James and Peter
to do some footpath work. Installing a drainage pipe
is less glamorous perhaps, but necessary just the same.
And let's not forget the all important insertion of a
ring in the gate post to keep the gate closed!
The final job of the day was loading up the Land Rover
- just how many wheelbarrows can such a vehicle carry?
Graham was suitably dressed for the hot weather.
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