Today was a completion of the work started a couple of weeks back, where we identified a section of path which had started to fall into Banquet House Clough, replacing a stile tread-board alnd some drainage work. Jak, Jerry, Graham and Angus headed out to complete these tasks which have been funded by Ripponden Parish council, a big thankyou to them.
The blue circles identify the location of the revetment and the stile.
Section of revetment secured and backfilled.
The finished job, looking up the clough.
The stile below the revetment also received attention, as the tread-board, whilst in good order, had become extremely slippery so Jak set-to with hammer and staples to give some grip to the surface. At the bottom of the path was a second stile which we had previously replaced but needed the tread-board replacing with a wider section.
We had used a length of decking from the original construction, but this had become slippery, and was a bit too narrow to safely cross the drainage channel we had to excavate on the field side of the stile.
Wider tread-board being fitted.
Back in 1970, the lower section of this path would have formed the boundary to the ill-fated, Krumlin festival, which occupied several fields along the side of the valley, see image below. For those interested in this event, there is an excellent book written by Ben Graham, entitled, "Pink Floyd are fogbound in Paris: The story of the 1970 Krumlin Festival".
