Steamy times in Granny Wood!
On a hot and humid day, Rich and the two Franks went to complete the cutting back and the securing of edges along the top section of the Granny Wood path (upper red circle on map) and to sort out an awkward junction at the bottom section (lower red circle).
Today's work was funded by donations to CROWS through Just Giving. Many thanks.
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| 1. Map: Location of worksites |
The Detail.
Three more lengths of revetment were needed to secure the edge of the path.
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| 2. Start of session: Frank and Frank positioning revetment board. |
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| 3. New meets old: Old steps, new revetment. |
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4. End result: Dappled sunlight on lengths of
new revetment. Tight joints? - never in doubt. |
As well as widening, the path also needed bramble management and overhead lopping..
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| 5. Steamy 'jungle': but now there's more light overhead! |
Then it was down to the bottom section of the path.
The first jobs were to clear overhanging branches, lop any encroaching brambles and scrape debris off a set of stone steps.
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| 6. Job about to start: those overhead branches will go! |
The main task, however, was to start the improvements to an unwaymarked and very eroded junction.
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| 7. Up the junction? |
Perspective in the above picture is tricky. The main path goes due north along the edge of Granny Wood. A path (just visible) branches off to the right (close to the tree) going over a jumble of roots and displaced stone slabs. The retaining wall (bottom right corner) has collapsed.
After clearing loose debris, we installed a waymark post and started to protect the corner against further erosion by rebuilding part of the low retaining wall.
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| 8. Post and wall: |
The waymark post is in place . . .
and, despite appearances,
it is vertical! Wall construction has started and the erosion prone banking is now stable.
Our next session, in a week or so, will see steps built (on extreme left of picture) with a side revetment before the 'wall' is completed.
