Todmorden: Centenary Way/Geology Trail, Tower Clough and Cornholme
Mick and Frank H out in these locations for a series of minor tasks.
1. Marker posts to avoid confusion where the Todmorden Centenary Way and the Geology Trail coincide.
Several marker posts (yellow-topped) for the Centenary Way were 'firmed-up', repositioned or installed to make the route clearer. Similarly a couple of marker posts (white-topped) for the Geology trail were re-embedded. Marker posts (blue-topped) for the bridleway were not touched! What inexperienced walkers make of this variety of colours is not known but presumably in thick mist any guiding post is better than no post!
Pictures of marker posts are not particularly exciting ... but ...
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| 1. Pick your ground and drive-in a pilot hole |
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| 2. Use the end of the bar to hammer the post into the ground. |
If you are wondering how a 2.0 m pole can be hammered-in so deeply to create a 'low' marker post, then the answer is simple .... cut it in half first!
2. Tower Clough
A check visit was made to see how the stream-edge revetment and path we constructed in Tower Clough had settled. Pleasingly, the overall structure was still 'rock-solid' although we made some cosmetic improvements to the path surface and measured-up for any future extension of the revetment.
3. Cornholme (Shore New Road)
A roadside seat part way up the Shore New Road hill is in poor condition - the unattached seat plank is worn and the backrest plank is missing.
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| The dilapidated seat! |
Fortunately the side pieces are sound and all the bolt holes, bar one, are clear and reusable. The plan is to fit a new seat and backrest as well as improving access from the road to the seat. We'll be back to this in a week or so.
