This weeks working party was once again at Draycott, we had lots of volunteers turning up again to help in bright sunshine and warmth! This meant we where able to deploy three teams on different tasks. The first team set off to carry on the hedge laying, another successful days work with over 10 meters [...]
This week the Canal Societies working party group met at the Draycott stretch of the canal to continue the hedge cutting along the area that was previously laid over the last two years. We had three teams working on site, one team at the Hopwell Road end, clearing the scrub that has been threatening [...]
It has been brought to the attention of the Trust that the new owners of the Moon Hotel site have felled a number of trees along their boundary with the Derby Canal line and the Spondon Winding Hole in particular. This work was done without the prior knowledge of the Trust or, it appears, Derby [...]
The last working party of the Summer was held at Draycott on Sunday 27th July to clear the canal bed of Japanese Balsam that was beginning to block the flow of water that runs through this stretch. A 45 meter stretch had been badly affected by this invasive plant and had to be cleared before [...]
On Sunday 6th July members of the Derby and Sandicacre Canal Society responded to a public request to attend a footpath along the Canal path in Draycott that had become seriously overgrown over the fine summer months with various items. The pictures show a before and after situation – showing just how much scrub that had [...]
A cracking Sunday morning saw the team this week at Sandiacre , a cold start, but the sun soon came out and warmed us up us as we started work clearing the grass sides to both sides of the canal path, clearing the litter that had been dropped over the winter also cutting back any [...]
It is wonderful to see a recent work party featured in the Derby Telegraph complete with a photograph of Scott examining his handiwork on a stretch of hedge that he has just layered. In the background more volunteers are seen attempting, with little success, to burn the off-cuts. [button color="green" size="medium" link="http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Derby-Sandiacre-Canal-Trust-volunteers-beaver/story-20791650-detail/story.html" target="blank" ]Click to [...]
The first working party of the new year brought us a sharp frosty start, 12 volunteers turned out to brave the weather, but as the morning progressed the sun came out and shone on us. This weeks aims where to continue the good work on hedge laying from both sides, the two teams are getting [...]
Another fine, dry, but chilly Sunday morning found seven hardy souls working on the Draycott stretch, hedge laying and general tidying up. We had two teams laying, one team working from the east end and the other from the west end, working in pairs with the other three clearing up the off cuts from previous [...]
Delighted to receive the following feedback re our work parties: Just thought I would leave a note on my experience on the three working parties that I have "helped" on.... I can only say that there is no better way of getting out of the shopping/going to the family/doing that odd job around the house [...]
