Luckily for us it was a fine day so a team consisting of Jerry, Angus, Graham, Andy and Jak were out at Nab End next to the disused quarry. Nab End is south of Mytholmroyd and east of Cragg Vale.
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| Location |
Initially we split into two groups. - Angus and Jak to work on repairing a stile and Jerry, Graham and Andy on deconstructing a decrepit ladder stile and constructing a new stile. Both sites were challenging in different ways, the repair stile was very wet and the new stile was very stony, being next to a spoil heap from the old quarry.
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| Very wet conditions for putting in a new step |
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| Stile repaired, with a lovely view towards Mytholmroyd |
The five of us continued with the work on digging out post holes and installing the new stile. We re-used some timber where possible. The ground was a serious challenge.
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| The old ladder stile - always much quicker to take a stile down than put one up! |
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| Starting to get the posts in position |
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| Checking the level |
We took a short break for lunch in the
Millennium sculpture garden which is located just beyond the old quarry and is a very peaceful, contemplative place to spend some time.
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Millennium sculpture garden
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| Millennium sculpture garden |
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Millennium sculpture garden
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Back at the stile, we finished off by putting in support posts to assist climbing the stile and by tidying up the fence. We managed to evade the rain so a good day all round.
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| Finishing off |
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| A happy crew! |
This work was funded by donations to CROWS. We are very grateful for all the support for our work.
