HEBDEN BRIDGE

Hebden Bridge

A fine, calm and warm (!) day for Paul and Frank H to investigate two jobs in the Hebden Bridge area. 

1. Burlees Lane: stile repair

Start of session:

*This stile is on the footpath (Hebden Royd 015) that leads up from Burlees Cottages to Raw Lane.

*As the picture shows, the stile is distressed!

*The lower tread-board is missing.

*The right-hand upright is rotten so that once the cross-rails had been removed it collapsed, as shown, across the stile gap

*The structure to the left is a mess of rail fragment and tangled barbed wire (difficult to see in picture)

Some time later:

*A new side post firmly in place, a new tread-board fixed, cross-rails back in place, fence re-stapled and barbed wire re-strung . . . but with no barbs near the stile post!

*The perspective in the picture is deceptive. The new post is vertical and the cross-rails are horizontal, Some of the timbers (the straining post and the left-hand upright) had to be left in their original state . . . slightly out of true!

*The left-hand upright is adequate for the moment but may need attention in a year or two.   

This job was funded by local donations to CROWS. Many thanks.

2. Hurst Road: stile survey

Later in the day we checked out a stile on the footpath (Wadsworth 081) that goes steeply up from Bethel Terrace. No pictures, but a considerable amount of ground-testing and head-scratching to come up with a viable plan to improve what is a wobbly, high-step stile . . . more of the cunning detail next week!