The plan was to give the hard working Broadway Volunteers a 10 days break over Christmas and the New Year, but a few of the die-hards were having none of it and decided to come in on Saturday. I got back from a family wedding in darkest Cornwall yesterday, and Jo kindly filed the following report with a couple of pictures:-
I don’t
know if you can post from deepest Cornwall, but there were 6 of us on site
today.
Robin and
Peter K were cleaning bricks
Vic did his
usual half day gardening, and dug out two concrete fence posts, formerly part
of the low wall that is being replaced by genuine Cotswold stone
Marguerite and Vic...... |
John
Blofield, who tied the banners back on and re-erected the Heras fence that had
blown down
Ron Taylor
and myself on the dumper.
Going to
start the dumper, I noticed that the cutting towards Springfield Lane was in
early bloom, with big yellow patches to the left and right all the way down to
the bridge. On closer inspection, these turned out to be about 20 Fairview
dumpy bags, that had been blown way down the site by the storm. We collected
them all, and put a small RSJ on top of the pile. The rest of the site seems to
have survived +/- OK, including the brickies’ shelter, still upright albeit a bit
askew.
The
combined efforts of Peter K and Ron finally got the dumper going, and Ron and I
went down to the Mythe pile, and retrieved a dumper load of mixed bricks –
there are none left on the surface to find now – two dumper loads of Cotswold stone, which we
took to Vic’s flower bed, and one load of abutment cap stones. We now have two
pallets of these. We then picked up Vic’s two concrete posts and took them down
the site to join the first two, and finally cleared the 3 dumpy bags he had
filled with flower bed debris.
Ron sorting the Cotswold Stone..... |
The signal
box site looks fine, with no damage. The brook was flowing well.
Marguerite
was busy today, with a pleasing number of visitors. We also chatted up two
potential new volunteers.
Jim H
called in, after a day ‘on the cushions’. We also received a delegation from
the Mid-Hants, who inspected our site before having a ride from Toddington.
See you
again soon,
Best
regards,
Jo
1 comment:
Well, well, well. Even over the Christmas holiday the lads and lasses of the Broadway station team come in to do a number of diffrent tasks. Just goes to show their true determination of getting the job done! Aaron
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