Today’s job for Andrew & Gareth gave us that “away from it all” feeling, as it started with a 45 minute uphill walk with timber & tools to the worksite at Green’s Clough high above Portsmouth. Fortunately Kasher & Catherine joined the carrying party before departing to their own job.
At a sharp uphill stretch at a junction in the clough, we needed to uncover and repair some overgrown steps and also construct some new steps where the path had started to fall away into the clough. The original plan was to put in some wooden steps, but so many large flat stones were dug up that we ended up installing some robust stone steps instead. We also started work to improve the crossing of the clough further upstream by widening the path.
We will need to return to this site to complete the work on these steps and revetments.
Today’s work was funded by Todmorden Town Council. Many thanks as always.
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| What we in CROWS call “a long carry”. |
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| Somewhere here are some steps. |
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| Some of the steps have been washed away. |
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| The old steps uncovered. |
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| And the new steps. |
