The Hincaster horse Path |
| Posted by Merlin (Merlin) on 6th November, 2008 |
A portfolio of photographs follows showing the before, during and hopefully in time the finished work. This work is being undertaken, not only by our own monthly working parties, but also by the much appreciated help from the Waterways Recovery Group (WRG). In addition we have been given a grant by Cumbria CC to cover the costs of employing a Master Dry Stone Wall Instructor to assist us all to learn some of the art of rerpairing dry stone walls and the repair of limestone faced bridges.
Clearing the west end of the Path
Our worthy Chairman Dave joins in.
Paul Shaw carts away the foliage on the tracked powered barrow, a godsend.
More rubbish!
Brian from BW sets to work with chainsaw on the higher part of the Path
The weed covered portal to the farmers accommodation bridge at the western end before work commenced
Now beginning to look better after the first working party
Getting access to the broken wall area
Trisha recovers fallen dry stone walling from the Path bed
The tree stump which caused the wall to collapse over many years
Richard clears the top of the wall area
Beryl giving the tree stump the full treatment
Hey presto; its gone. All this was completed on the first working party
At the second working party the first job was to recover the fallen coping stones from the Path bed and wall.
Going up!
Nearly there!
Then the dry stone wall could be rebuilt
.Getting higher.
And higher
Almost done.
The finished wall
Now the wall top could be used for access to the Bridge above
On top the east side of the Bridge parapet before work commenced, a sorry sight.
Preparations are underway to recover the stone
Repairs commence
Well on the way
The damaged south end of the west side of the Bridge
The west side of the Bridge was almost gone before we started work.
It had to be stripped back to allow work to commence under the watchful eye of our Dry Stone Wall Instructor Steve Allen.
Work progressing
More mortar arrives with Richard on the tracked barrow.
Then, up goes the necessary mortar mix to the team on top.
The very important 'chuck' wagon back at the bottom of the Path.
There was insufficient faced stone left at the Bridge so we obtained a further suitable local supply acceptable to English Heritage..
Besides mixing mortar we had to provide 'other' essential services.
Most the second weekend saw the watchful eye of a local resident
Some vegetation work at the Eastern Portal was also undertaken and this needed much discussion!
The Easter Portal steps were cleared yet again!
And the thick summer growth of weeds around the picnic area was cleared using our new powered equipment.
Last changed: 6th November, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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