The Canal Society held an additional working party this Monday to make best use of the dry weather. A team of 4 disposed of all the remaining off cuts left over from the Winter hedge laying. Work will now be left at this site until next year to allow the wildlife to settle in for [...]
One more final push at Sandiacre this week, the aim to clear the scrub cut away last week and to finish the agreed replacement of a fence line along the canal lock that is due to be dug out this year. 16 members turned out on a wonderfully Sunday morning to help in various aspects [...]
It must be the lure of the water that is soon to be coming back to the Derby and Sandiacre Canal that is attracting all the new members and the helpers that keep turning up on Sunday mornings to assist with the restoration of getting the canal back to its original former glory. This week [...]
At last, good weather for a working party! The team met at Draycott for the last time this Spring to complete as much of the remaining hedge laying as possible prior to the birds returning to nest. We have now cut and laid over 150 meters of the remaining 450 meters, so lots of work [...]
Sunday the 14th February, Happy Valentines Day, no major knock-on effect for the working party that was organised for Draycott this week. Another massive turn out enabled us to set two teams with chain-saws hedge laying and two support teams backing them up with scrub clearing. We are doing well so far, over 100 meters [...]
One week wet, another snow, today cold and wet, but people keep turning up to help out on the canal restoration, no need for the sun lotion yet. Once again we attended at Draycott to carry on the work of hedge laying and scrub clearance. This week we again managed to lay over 25 meters [...]
The Canal Society once again commenced our working parties for the year in early January. Our aim this winter is to lay as much of the remaining hedge at Draycott prior to the birds starting to nest once again, only a small amount of 450 meters, we are hoping to get this done over two [...]
Another year draws to an end, the last working party for 2015 took place at Draycott this Sunday. Three teams enabled us to start the major job of hedge laying the last 450 meters from the Hopwell road end, the first task is to clear all the brambles from many years to allow the trained [...]
Work has started on the proposed dig out of the lock at Sandiacre. Last week saw a small team in attendance to identify the location of the top stones. More work is to be completed this week with the soil samples being taken at various depths. Once again we benefited from talking to the local [...]
Do you have a log burner or stove? Do you fancy some free supplies to burn? This year we have started to cut another 450 meters of hedge at Draycott. This means that with even more support on this work we can clear a lot faster, the end result is a lot of wood that [...]
